Shannon Pepe

Instructor of Literature

Shannon Pepe graduated from the University of Buffalo with a B.A. in English Literature in 2010, proceeded with graduate studies in English at the University of Vermont, and received her M.A. in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College in 2016.

After a semester of teaching freshman composition at the University of Vermont and six years of teaching literature at two independent schools—one a classical Christian school in Dallas, Texas—she was grateful to find a home at the Summit, where she now teaches sophomore, junior, and senior Literature. Originally a chemistry major, she found that she longed for a more human education. She first found one in the study of literature, but still had a sense that she was among several recent generations deprived of a cultural inheritance that prior ones had ceased to pass on—an inheritance both intellectual and religious. In seeking out this inheritance, she rediscovered her Catholic faith and fell in love with the liberal arts tradition. She has dedicated her career to studying and teaching the Great Books and cultivating in students a receptivity to truth, goodness, and beauty through dialectic.

Mrs. Pepe and her husband have two children, with a third arriving this spring.

Shannon Pepe’s writing has been published in VoegelinView (click here to read) and The Imaginative Conservative (click here to read).