Walter J. Ong Society
Some Additional Resources
Walter J. Ong, S.J., Center for Language, Culture, and Media Studies
The Walter J. Ong, S.J., Center for Language, Culture, and Media Studies has a two-fold mission: to promote interdisciplinary research in the Humanities at Saint Louis University, and to make it possible for scholars to access and use the works of Fr. Ong. The Ong Center sponsors the annual Walter J. Ong Memorial Lecture and the Ong Center Fellowships to support Ong scholarship at Saint Louis University’s Pius XII Memorial Library. See details at the Ong Center website.
http://www.slu.edu/the-ong-center
Walter J. Ong, S.J. Bibliography: 1929-2006
Walter J. Ong, S. Walter J. Ong, S.J.: A Bibliography 1929-2006 (hereafter cited as WJOB) consists of 457 original publications of books, book chapters, articles, reviews, translations by Ong, poems, and limited-distribution items. With the addition of reprints, revisions, translations of Ong's works by others, and other items, WJOB contains 909 entries. Prepared for the Walter J. Ong, S.J., Center for Language and Culture at Saint Louis University, this bibliography constitutes the most complete and accurate register of his published works through 2006. J. Bibliography: 1929-2006
https://www.slu.edu/Documents/arts_sciences/english/Full_Ong_bib_complete_Oct2008.pdf
Ong Manuscripts
The Walter J. Ong, SJ Manuscript Collection documents the thought and work of one of the most important intellectuals and scholars of the twentieth century. Housed in the Saint Louis University Archives of Special Collections, it includes his academic files, personal correspondence, class and lecture notes, research materials, and related items; housed with Rare Books is his personal library of over 1,600 volumes, some with significant annotation. The manuscript collection also includes press copy typescripts of some of Fr. Ong's books, off prints (both his and others), a number of lecture typescripts (some of which have never been published in any form), some source material, audio recordings, and nearly 200 slides taken by Walter Ong as he traveled through Europe.
http://libraries.slu.edu/print/collections/ong
Media Ecology Association
The Media Ecology Association (MEA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the study, research, criticism, and application of media ecology in educational, industry, political, civic, social, cultural, and artistic contexts, and the open exchange of ideas, information, and research among the Association’smembers and the larger community. Walter Ong is among the key figures recognized as contributing to the development of media ecology.
http://www.media-ecology.org/index.html
Marshall McLuhan Site
A long-time friend and colleague of Walter Ong, Marshall McLuhan’s flamboyant and visionary exploration of media and their effects drew unprecedented attention to themes that overlap and interweave with the thought and work of Walter Ong.
Pathways Project
The work of John Miles Foley shares common roots with the work of Walter Ong, especially in the study of relationships between and among oral, written, and electronic cultures and their characteristic forms of expression. Foley’s Pathways Project is a compendium of Foley’s investigations that provide rich materials that complement these major themes in the work of Walter Ong.
American Teilhard Association
As a young Jesuit scholar researching in Europe, Walter Ong had the good fortune to live for a time in the same residence with the great paleontologist, philosopher, cosmologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. Ong’s own cosmological explorations resonate with as well as illustrate and apply Teilhard’s insights.