Carissa Turner Smith
Professor of English and Director of the Writing Center
Norris Hall
P843-863-7773 / Ecsmith@csuniv.edu
CREDENTIALS
English, Wheaton College (BA)
English, Penn State University (MA)
English, Penn State University (PhD)
Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, Dr. Carissa Turner Smith is a Professor of English and director of the Writing Center at 午夜快播. Her training and primary teaching is in American literature, but she loves researching and writing about a variety of topics, including Christianity and literature, African-American literature, women and literature, children鈥檚 and YA literature, J.R.R. Tolkien, Herman Melville, Charles Chesnutt, cyborgs, time travel, and comics. She serves as vice president of the Conference on Christianity and Literature and Arts and Humanities associate editor for Christian Scholar鈥檚 Review. She is the author of Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction (Routledge, 2019). She loves hearing students’ stories and helping them find their place at 午夜快播 and beyond.
- PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
Book
Cyborg Saints: Religion and Posthumanism in Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction (September 2019, Routledge)Journal Articles
鈥溾�榃e are none of us just one thing鈥�: The Intersectionality and Intersubjectivity of Rachel Hartman鈥檚 Half-Dragon Saints.鈥� Tulsa Studies in Women鈥檚 Literature, vol. 36, no. 2, 2017, pp. 401-422.
鈥淩elics and Intersubjectivity in the Harry Potter Series and The Castle Behind Thorns.鈥� Literature and Theology, vol. 30, no. 2, 2016, pp. 215-232.
鈥淒. J. Waldie鈥檚 Holy Land: Redeeming the Spiritual Geography of Suburbia.鈥� Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature, vol. 63, no. 4, 2011, pp. 307-324.
鈥溾�楶lacing鈥� the Spiritual Metaphors of Contemporary Women Writers: Sue Monk Kidd and Kathleen Norris.鈥� Literature and Belief, vol. 27, no. 2, 2008, pp. 1-28.
鈥淲omen鈥檚 Spiritual Geographies of the African Diaspora: Paule Marshall鈥檚 Praisesong for the Widow.鈥� African American Review, vol. 42, no. 3-4, 2008, pp. 715-729.Essays in Edited Collections
鈥淧ostsecular Cosplay, Fundamentalism, and Martyrdom in Gene Luen Yang鈥檚 Boxers & Saints.鈥� Teens and the New Religious Landscape: Essays on Contemporary Young Adult Fiction, edited by Jacob Stratman, McFarland, 2018.
鈥淩eading in the Dark: The Unheimlich Underworld of Merrie Haskell鈥檚 The Princess Curse.鈥� The Gothic Fairy Tale in Young Adult Literature: Essays on Stories from Grimm to Gaiman, edited by Tanya Jones and Joseph Abbruscato, McFarland, 2014, pp. 181-200.
鈥淓mbodying the Postmetropolis in Catherine Fisher鈥檚 Incarceron and Sapphique.鈥� Brave New Teenagers: Dystopian Young Adult Fiction, edited by Balaka Basu, Katherine R. Broad, and Carrie Hintz, Children鈥檚 Literature and Culture Series, Routledge, 2013, pp. 51-65.Recent Conference Presentations
鈥淎rcadia, the App: Memory, Re-reading, and the Codex鈥�
Southeast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Summer 2019
鈥淐an These Dry Stones Live? Relics and Fossils in Melville鈥檚 Clarel鈥�
Conference on Christianity and Literature, Harvard Divinity School, Spring 2019
鈥淭he Time Travel of Liturgy in Connie Willis鈥檚 Doomsday Book鈥�
Southeast Conference on Christianity and Literature, Union University, Spring 2018
鈥淗oly Dog!: Adam Gidwitz鈥檚 The Inquisitor鈥檚 Tale and Posthuman Hagiography as an Alternative to Tolerance Discourse鈥�
American Literature Association, Boston, MA, Spring 2017
- MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS
Vice President, Conference on Christianity and Literature
Associate Editor for Arts and Humanities, Christian Scholar's Review