Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle (born October 4, 1943) is an American academic based in Canada. A 1979 Guggenheim Fellow, she specializes in religious rhetoric and has written several religious studies books.

Biography Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle was born on October 4, 1943, in Hackensack, New Jersey, to oil painter Marjorie J. O'Rourke ( McSorley) and to Paul O'Rourke, and raised in Middletown, Connecticut. She later worked as a research associate at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (1977-1978).

Boyle's academic specialty is religious rhetoric, particularly in the Middle Ages and Rennaissance. for a "study of the humanist nature of Erasmus's controversy with Luther". She later published the following books: Petrarch's Genius (1991), which its publisher said was the first book to depict Petrarch as a theologian; Divine Domesticity (1996), which focuses on the idea of the divine indwelling; Loyola's Acts (1997), which suggests that The Autobiography of St. Ignatius is epideictic; and Senses of Touch (1998), which explores the rhetorical nature of the human hand.

Outside of academia, Boyle worked briefly as a news editor for Toronto newspaper Daily Commercial News (1975-1976).