Dr. Gerard Wegeman

Gerard Wegemer is a professor in the English Department at the University of Dallas, and since 2000, the founding director of the Center for Thomas More Studies. (thomasmorestudies.org). He co-edited The Essential Works of Thomas More, published in 2020 by Yale University Press, with a supporting website at essentialmore.org.  He serves as an editor of Moreana, the international journal on Thomas More and his times, and helps organize a yearly conference on More.

Among his publications are Young Thomas More and the Arts of Liberty (Cambridge University Press, 2011, 2013), Thomas More’s Trial by Jury: A Procedural and Legal Review (Boydell Publishers, 2011, 2013), A Thomas More Source Book (Catholic University of America Press, 2004, 2020), Thomas More on Statesmanship (Catholic University of America Press, 1996, 1998), and Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage (30th anniversary edition 2025, Scepter Publishers).

Dr. Wegeman supervised the completion of online concordances indexing all of Thomas More’s works individually and cumulatively, and regularly teaches an interdisciplinary course on Thomas More, in addition to graduate courses on Shakespeare and on Early Modern England.