About
David Dault is a writer, media professional, and educator.
He is the host and executive producer of Things Not Seen: Conversations About Culture and Faith, an award-winning radio show and podcast. David began the show in Memphis in 2012, and later moved the broadcast to Chicago, where it airs weekly on WCPT. It is distributed nationally through the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), and has listeners around the nation and the world.
Along with Daniel P. Horan, Director for the Center for the Study of Spirituality at St. Mary’s College, and National Catholic Reporter national correspondent Heidi Schlumpf, David is the co-host of The Francis Effect, a popular podcast that features commentary on news and events from a Catholic perspective.
He is the co-founder of Sandburg Media, a consulting and production company that works with clients across the nation to develop and produce content for radio, streaming, and television. His work has won awards from the Religion News Association, the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, and the Religion Communicators Council. In 2015 he received an Emmy nomination for the television documentary Selma at 50: Still Marching.
David teaches in the Institute of Pastoral Studies at Loyola University of Chicago, where he is currently an assistant professor of Christian spirituality. His previous faculty appointments were at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, IL, where he taught in their Course of Study program for working pastors, and at Christian Brothers University in Memphis, where he served as an assistant professor of Catholic studies, as vice president and parliamentarian of the faculty assembly, and as the school’s presidential liaison to the Catholic Diocese of Memphis. He began his teaching career at American Baptist College in Nashville, where he served as chair of the department of theology and biblical studies.
In 2020 he was elected President of the Society for Comparative Research in Iconic and Performative Texts (SCRIPT), an international scholarly association affiliated with the American Academy of Religion and Society of Biblical Literature. In 2024 he also served as the President of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities Conference on Pastoral, Theological, and Ministerial Education.
David received his Ph.D. in religion from Vanderbilt University, and he holds an M.A in religion from Vanderbilt, as well as an M.A. in theological studies from Columbia Theological Seminary.
He lives with his family in Hyde Park, a neighborhood on the south side of Chicago.
