Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John’s College in Annapolis, where she teaches across the liberal arts. Her book Lost In Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life (2020) has been translated into Chinese, Farsi, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish, and is forthcoming in Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Catalan, and Vietnamese. In 2020 she received the Hiett Prize in the Humanities and founded the Catherine Project, an open liberal arts program for adults.

Hitz also writes for general audiences about the human questions at the core of revealed religion, as especially in her recent book, A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life (2023). Her essays have been published in Chronicle Review, Commonweal, First Things, New Statesman, Plough, Tablet (UK), and the Washington Post. In the academic year 2023-4, she is jointly affiliated in the Madison Program and in the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion. She is working on the philosophical distinction between knowledge and belief, in an effort to clarify and deepen the themes of Lost In Thought and their origins in her native field of scholarship, the philosophy of Plato and Aristotle.