faculty
Carole Lynn Stewart is Assistant Professor of English. She received a B.A. (honors English) and a M.A. (literary theory) from the University of Calgary, and a Ph.D. (English/American literature) from the University of Victoria, where she was a SSHRC doctoral fellow and an interdisciplinary fellow at the Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. Her research is interdisciplinary, incorporating aspects of American and African American studies, literary and political theory, as well as history of religions.
She is currently completing a book manuscript on American civil religion and civil society in the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville and W. E. B. Du Bois. Her publications include an article on "American Civil Religion" in The Encyclopedia of Religion (Macmillan, 2005), and two articles on W. E. B. Du Bois: "Challenging Liberal Justice: The Talented Tenth Revisited," in Re-Cognizing W.E.B. Du Bois in the Twenty-First Century (Mercer UP, 2007), and "Civil Religion, Civil Society and the Performative Life and Work of W. E.B. Du Bois," in The Journal of Religion (University of Chicago, 2008, 88: 307-330).
Other recent publications include "The Shifting Nature of Reform Envisioned on the Mississippi Steamer: Exchanges, Masks and Charities in Herman Melville’s The Confidence Man," in New Territories, New Perspectives: The Religious Impact of the Louisiana Purchase, ed. Richard J. Callahan (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2008, 109-129), and "Slave to the Bottle and the Plough: The Inner and Outer Worlds of Freedom in George Moses Horton's Poetry," in Social History of Alcohol and Drugs 22/1 (Fall 2007): 45-64.
