Sharon Carson Professor of English and Religious Studies Ph.D. University of Washington Office: Merrifield 122D Phone: 701.777.2764 Email: sharon_carson@und.nodak.edu

Interests:  American Literature (fiction as social criticism; philosophy and literature; Pragmatism); African American Literature and Interdisciplinary Black Studies (Abolitionist era); Civil Rights era (Black Aesthetics Movement; political philosophy); Comparative Black Theologies (emphasis on Christian theology); Comparative Religions and Literatures; Bibles as Literature (Hebrew Bible (Tanakh), New Testament, narrative theory, redaction theory, hermeneutics, comparative frameworks); Jewish Theology and Jewish American literature; Literature of the American Left: socialist fiction; socialist theory and art; Audio Documentary (Public Humanities); Homeric Epic

Selected Research:

- Discussion and Resource Guide to accompany Race With History: Between

- Civil War and Civil Rights, a six-episode audio/radio documentary series produced by Creative Change Productions/Alan Lipke/Reality Works, and currently under national release by Public Radio International.  San Francisco: Creative Change Productions, 2004.      http://www.racewithistory.org/

- “Africana Constellations: African American Studies and Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”  Approaches To Teaching Uncle Tom’s Cabin.  Ammons, Elizabeth and Susan Belasco, eds.  New York: Modern Language Association Press, 2000.  162-171.

- “Dismantling the House of the Lord: Theology as Political Philosophy in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.”   Journal of Religious Thought.  Howard University, Summer-Fall, 1994,  Vol 51, Number 1, 53-66

- “Shaking the Foundation: Liberation Theology in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass.”  Religion and Literature   Summer 1992 Vol 24.2, 19-34. 

- Slavery.   (overview and introductory essay)  The African American Encyclopedia.  Ed.  R. Kent Rasmussen.  New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2001.  Vol. 8, 2300-2311. (reprinted from 1993 edition)

- Slave Religions  (overview essay) The African American Encyclopedia  Ed. R. Kent Rasmussen. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2001.   Vol. 8, 2292-2295. 

- [Black] Abolitionist Movement  (essay)  The African American Encyclopedia.  R, Kent Rasmussen. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2001.  Vol. 1, 7-11.

- The Souls of Black Folk (by W.E.B. Du Bois).  World Philosophers and Their Work.   Ed.  John K. Roth.  Pasadena: Salem Press, 2000.  531-534.

- The Church in African American Life   International Encyclopedia of Sociology.   Ed. Frank Magill.   London:  Fitzroy Dearborn Pubs, 1996.  (reprint)

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