Office: Bear Hall 273
Phone: (910) 962-7750
Email: pasulkad@uncw.edu
Web Site: http://people.uncw.edu/pasulkad
Teaching American History Grant: http://teachingamericanhistorync.org/
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
- Childhood Studies
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
- PAR 125: Great Books of the Worlds' Religions
- PAR 225: Women and Religion
- PAR 344: Religion and Popular Culture
- PAR 400: Postmodernism and Religion
- PAR 495: Women in Early Christianity
- PAR 499: Honors work in Religion
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