Franciscan School of Theology
Professor of Christian Spirituality
Core Doctoral Faculty Member

At GTU since 1983

S.T.D., Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
S.T.L. Pontifical Gregorian University
M.A. Franciscan School of Theology/GTU
B.A. University of San Francisco

Phone: 510/848-5232
E-mail: wshort@fst.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Medieval Christian Spirituality
• Hagiography
• Franciscan Spirituality

Selected Publications

• Poverty and Joy: The Franciscan Tradition (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1999; New York: Orbis Books, 1999).
• Co-editor with R. Armstrong and W. A. Hellmann, Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, 4 vols. (New York: New City Press, 1999-2002).
• The Franciscans (Collegeville, MN.: The Liturgical Press/Michael Glazier Books, 1989).
• "Spirituality at the Turn of the Last Millenium," Chicago Studies (Fall, 1998).
• English translation of Thoma of Celano, Vita sancti Francisci, for Francis of Assisi: Early Documents, Vol. I (New York: New City Press, 1999).
• Review of Thomas Merton Journals, Vol. 4, in America (Nov. 1997).