Diana Walsh Pasulka is a writer and professor of religious studies at the

University of North Carolina Wilmington The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW or UNC Wilmington) is a public research university in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina System and enrolls 17,499 undergraduate and graduate students eac ...

and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.

Biography

Pasulka has a B.A. from

University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The inst ...

, an M.A. from Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. Her research focuses on religion and technology. Her books include ''American Cosmic'' and ''Heaven Can Wait''. Sean Illing at '' Vox'' described ''American Cosmic'' as not "so much about the truth of UFOs or aliens as it is about what the appeal of belief in those things says about our culture and the shifting roles of religion and technology in it. On the surface, it's a book about the popularity of belief in aliens, but it's really a deep look at how myths and religions are created in the first place and how human beings deal with unexplainable experiences."

Publications

Books

*''Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture''. Oxford University Press, 2014. . *''American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology''. Oxford University Press, 2019. .

Co-edited anthologies

*''Posthumanism: the Future of Homo Sapiens''. Schirmer, 2018. Edited by Pasulka and Michael Bess. . *''Believing in Bits: Digital Media and the Supernatural''. Oxford University Press, 2019. Edited by Pasulka and Simone Natale. .

References

External links

Pasulka's americancosmic.com site
* ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqBh7G4uDR8 Pasulka in conversation with Lex Fridmanat YouTube Living people University of North Carolina at Wilmington faculty American writers American women writers Religious studies scholars Syracuse University alumni Graduate Theological Union alumni University of California, Davis alumni Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) American women academics 21st-century American women {{US-writer-stub