Walter Jackson Ong, PhD (November 30, 1912 – August 12, 2003), was an American Jesuit priest, professor of English literature, cultural and religious historian and philosopher. His major interest was in exploring how the transition from orality to literacy influenced culture and changed human consciousness. In 1978 Ong served as elected president of the Modern Language Association of America.
Books
Frontiers in American Catholicism (New York: Macmillan, 1957). Ramus and Talon Inventory (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1958). Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1958). American Catholic Crossroads (New York: Macmillan, 1959). The Barbarian Within (New York: Macmillan, 1962). In the Human Grain (New York: Macmillan, 1967). Rhetoric, Romance, and Technology (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1971). Interfaces of the Word (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1977). Hopkins, the Self, and God (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1986). Faith and Contexts, 4 vols. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. (Atlanta: Scholars P, 1992-1999). Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2002) has been translated into 11 languages. An Ong Reader: Challenges for Further Inquiry. Ed. Thomas J. Farrell and Paul A. Soukup. …
