Beyond Burnout Culture  
Featuring Jonathan Malesic, Ph.D. 
Author, The End of Burnout 

We work and work and work and do not get ahead. Worse, work can take over our lives. This is what happened to Jonathan Malesic, Ph.D., so he quit his job and sought out a better way to live. In this talk, he will share what he learned. Drawing on his book, The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives, Malesic proposes that we should ground our working lives in human dignity, compassion for workers and a greater emphasis on leisure as a meaningful activity. He will show how these ideals are rooted in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition and manifested in communities of Benedictine monks and religious sisters.  

About the Speaker 
Jonathan Malesic, Ph.D., is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Chronicle of Higher Education, America, Commonweal, Notre Dame Magazine, The Guardian, The Hedgehog Review, and elsewhere. His writing has been recognized as notable in The Best American Essays four times and in The Best American Food Writing. His latest book, The End of Burnout (University of California Press), was selected as a best book of 2022 by Amazon and the Next Big Idea Club. It is being translated into 10 languages. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious studies from the University of Virginia and teaches writing at Southern Methodist University. 

The Lin Great Speakers Series is presented to the public as a community service. The lectures are made possible by an endowment established in memory of Shu-Chi Lin by his widow, Mrs. Chang Le-Chiao Lin, and their son, Vincent Lin, Ph.D., a St. Mary’s alumnus and former faculty member.

For more information, contact the Center for Catholic Studies at centerforcatholicstudies@stmarytx.edu.