London

Paul J. Contino

paul.contino@pepperdine.edu

Distinguished Professor of Great Books
Humanities and Teacher Education Division, Seaver College

Paul J. Contino is Distinguished Professor of Great Books at Pepperdine
University, where he has taught since 2002 and twice been granted the
university’s Award for Teaching Excellence. He previously taught for twelve
years in Christ College, the Honors College of Valparaiso University. He
has written Dostoevsky’s Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the
Karamazovs (2021). While serving as Faculty in Residence, he looks
forward to teaching Great Books III and IV, and intends to connect class
readings to particular places in the great city of London. Professor Contino
and his wife, Professor Maire Mullins, have two adult daughters of whom
they are very proud.