John M. McClain spent his career as a Lecturer in the Humanities Program at the University of North Carolina, Asheville. He received his MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is a co-editor of The Asheville Reader: The Medieval and Renaissance World (Copley, 2003), and his publications include “A Christian Modernist and the Awe of Nature as Presented in Olivier Messiaen’s Opera, Saint François d’Assise,” in Finding Saint Francis in Literature and Art (Palgave, 2009).
Sacred Views of Saint Francis: The Sacro Monte di Orta