Diana Pasulka, Associate Professor

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

Degrees

Areas of Expertise

Recent Publications

A Somber Pedagogy: the child Death Bed Scene in Early American Religious and Popular Literature, 1780-1920." Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, published by John Hopkins University Press.
"The Eagle and the Dove: Constructing Catholic Identity through Word and Image in Early American Catholic Popular Literature." Material Religion: the Journal of Arts, Objects and Belief. Berg publishing: November, 2008
"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)

FORTHCOMING:

Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory and the rise of the Gothic in American Catholic Popular Literature: 1820-1965; with Oxford University Press.

Courses Taught

Philosophy and Religion