Dr. Helena M. Tomko is associate professor of literature in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. She studies the Catholic presence in mid-twentieth-century German literature and culture, in particular Theodor Haecker and other writers associated with the “inner exile” during the Third Reich. She also writes about Catholic fiction, with a current focus on sacramental humor in the mid-century Catholic novel. In 2007 she published Sacramental Realism: Gertrud von le Fort and German Catholic Literature in the Weimar Republic and Third Reich. Recent articles have appeared in venues including German Life and Letters, The German Quarterly, Religion and Literature, and Logos.