Revd Dr Michael Piret
Official Fellow
Dean of Divinity
Email:
remove.me.michael.piret@magd.ox.ac.uk
Tel: +44-(0)1865-276027
Academic Background
Michael Piret was educated at the State University College at Fredonia, New York, then at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, before coming to England in 1983, to study at Merton College, Oxford. He was subsequently Fulford Junior Research Fellow (in English Literature) at St Anne’s College, Oxford, prior to training for the Anglican priesthood at Edinburgh Theological College, which was also known as Coates Hall, in the Scottish Episcopal Church. His Oxford M.Litt. thesis was on the seventeenth-century poet George Herbert; his Michigan Ph.D. on the religious ideas of Charles Dickens. After ordination, he served a curacy in the Scottish Highlands, at Inverness Cathedral. In 1994 he returned to Oxford, this time to Magdalen College, where he has served ever since as Dean of Divinity, which is Magdalen’s delightful (if somewhat misleading) title for its pastor and Dean of Chapel.Selected Publications
'Ancient Inheritance, Modern Community: the Role of the Chaplain in an Oxford College'. This was presented to a conference on the Idea of a College, and is reprinted in 'Collegium: College and the Academic Community in the European and the American Tradition', eds. Mark O'Connor and Piotr Wilczek (Boston College and the University of Warsaw, 2011), pp. 135-144.