Pablo Irizar was born and raised in Mexico City. He holds a PhD in Philosophy (Paris) and a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies (Leuven) [summa cum laude]. He specializes in early Christianity, the thought of Augustine and Bernard of Clairvaux, philosophy of religion, systematic theology, and the Catholic intellectual tradition.
He currently serves as Adjunct Professor of Catholic Studies at the School of Religious Studies, as director of the Newman Centre of McGill University and as Visiting Professor of Classics and Philosophy at the Faculty of Polish and Classic Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
He has previously also lectured at Corpus Christi College and at St. Mark’s College at UBC, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy, and at KU Leuven, Belgium. In 2020, Dr. Irizar was awarded the Louvain Studies Theological Research Award for emerging scholars for an article entitled ‘A Quarantined Church?’
He has published extensively in international peer-reviewed academic journals including Louvain Studies, Studies in Spirituality, Augustinus, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie, Antigone, Ciudad de Dios, Crossings, Anselm Journal. He is also the author of Reading Augustine on Distance, Belonging, Isolation and the Quarantined Church of Today (London: Bloomsbury Academic Publishing, 2022) and co-editor of Religious Polemics and Encounters in Late Antiquity: Boundaries, Conversions and Persuasion (Leiden: Brill, 2021), The Passions in the Platonic Tradition, Patristics and Late Antiquity (Lublin: VOX PATRUM, 2022), and Augustine in the North American Patristics Society (Madrid: Augustinus, 2018).