CARISSA TURNER SMITH P. O. Box 118087 Charleston Southern University Charleston, SC 29423 (843) 863-7773 •
[email protected] EMPLOYMENT Professor of English, Charleston Southern University, 2016-present and Writing Center Director, Charleston Southern University, 2017-present Associate Professor of English, Charleston Southern University, 2013-2016 Assistant Professor of English, Charleston Southern University, 2008-2013 Lecturer in English, Penn State University, 2007-2008 Teaching Assistant, Penn State University, 2001-2007 EDUCATION Ph.D. English, The Pennsylvania State University, 2007 M.A. English, The Pennsylvania State University, 2003 B.A. English with minor in Spanish, Summa Cum Laude, Wheaton College (IL), 2001 SCHOLARSHIP Book Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction (September 2019, Routledge) Journal Articles “‘We are none of us just one thing’: The Intersectionality and Intersubjectivity of Rachel Hartman’s Half- Dragon Saints.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, vol. 36, no. 2, 2017, pp. 401-422. “Relics and Intersubjectivity in the Harry Potter Series and The Castle Behind Thorns.” Literature and Theology, vol. 30, no. 2, 2016, pp. 215-232. “D. J. Waldie’s Holy Land: Redeeming the Spiritual Geography of Suburbia.” Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, vol. 63, no. 4, 2011, pp. 307-324. “‘Placing’ the Spiritual Metaphors of Contemporary Women Writers: Sue Monk Kidd and Kathleen Norris.” Literature and Belief, vol. 27, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1-28. “Women’s Spiritual Geographies of the African Diaspora: Paule Marshall’s Praisesong for the Widow.” African American Review, vol. 42, no. 3-4, 2008, pp. 715-729. Essays in Edited Collections “Postsecular Cosplay, Fundamentalism, and Martyrdom in Gene Luen Yang’s Boxers & Saints.” Teens and the New Religious Landscape: Essays on Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, edited by Jacob Stratman, McFarland, 2018.