Office: Bear Hall 273
Phone: (910) 962-7750
Email: pasulkad@uncw.edu
Web Site: http://people.uncw.edu/pasulkad

Degrees

• Ph.D.  Syracuse University
• M.A. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley
• B.A. University of California at Davis

Areas of Expertise

• Women and Religion
• Religion and Popular Culture
• American Religion
• Philosophy of Religion

Recent Publications

• "Pre-Modern Scriptures in Post-Modern Times:  an Analysis of the Revival Movement of Traditionald Reading Practices."  Postscripts:  the Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds.  (2008)
• "Purgatory in the Carolinas:  Catholic Devotional Practices in the Nineteenth Century."  Religion in the South Series, Ketucky University Press (2008)
• "A Communion of Little Saints:  Nineteenth-Century American Child Hagiographies."  Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion.  23.2 (2007) 51-67
• "The Cowboy and the Christian:  the Representation of Christian Pacifism in the Early Western."  Thinking About Religion:  The Journal of the North Carolina Religious Studies Association.  Volume 6 (2006)
• “An Ethics of Representation:  A Case of Redemptive Storytelling," Arts:  The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies 15.2 (Fall 2005).  
• "Passion Tickets Bear Mark of Beast! Religous Authority, Otherworld Realism, and Popular Film." Journal of Religion and Popular Culture.  Volume XI: (Fall, 2005)

Courses Taught

• PAR 125: Great Books of the Worlds' Religions
• PAR 225: Women and Religion
• PAR 400: Postmodernism and Religion
• PAR 495: Religion and Popular Culture
• PAR 495: Women in Early Christianity