Heath, Diana

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Professor, Philosophy and Religion , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

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pasulkad@uncw.edu

910.962.7750

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Selected Publications

Academic Article
- Review of Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race. By Mary Jane Rubenstein. University of Chicago Press, for The Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 2023-01-01
- Pentagon Report, UFO Narratives and Military Witness Testimonies. Religious Dispatches. 2021-07-01
- The Power of None, Spiritual but not Religious. TANK. 2020-03-01
- The Catholic Afterlife -- Routledge Companion to Death and Dying. New York: Routledge Press. 2017-05-01
- The Fairy Tale is True: Social Technologies of the Religious Supernatural in Film and New Media. The Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 2016-06-01
- A Somber Pedagogy: The Child Death Bed Scene in Early American Religious and Popular Literature, 1780-1920. Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. 2:171-197. 2009-05-01
- The Eagle and the Dove: constructing Catholic Identity through Word and Image -- Early American Catholic Popular Literature. Material Religion: the Journal of Arts, Objects and Belief. 4. 2008-11-01
- Pre-Modern Scriptures in Post-Modern Times: an Analysis of the Revival Movement of Traditionald Reading Practices. Equinox Publishing. 2008-01-01
- Purgatory in the Carolinas: Catholic Devotional Practices in the Nineteenth Century -- Southern Crossroads: Perspectives on Religion and Culture. University Press of Kentucky. 275-302. 2008-01-01
- A Communion of Little Saints: Nineteenth-Century American Child Hagiographies. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion. 23:51-67. 2007-01-01
- Pre-Modern Scriptures in Post-Modern Times: An Analysis of the Revival Movement of Traditional Reading Practices. Postscripts: The Journal of Sacred Texts and Contemporary Worlds. 2:295-315. 2007-01-01
- The Cowboy and the Christian: The Representation of Christian Pacifism in the Early Western. Thinking About Religion: The Jounal of North Carolina Religious Studies Association. 6. 2006-01-01
- An Ethics of Representation: A Case of Redemptive Storytelling. Arts: The Arts in Religious and Theological Studies. 15. 2005-10-01
- Passion Tickets Bear Mark of Beast! Religious Authority, Otherworld Realism, and Popular Film. Journal of Religion and Popular Culture. XI. 2005-10-01
Book
- Digital Media and the Supernatural.. Oxford University Press. 2018-01-01
- Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens -- Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks. Macmillan Reference USA. 2018-01-01
Chapter
- Choreographing Shadows: Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Orchestrate Ethical AI Image-Making -- Tradition Innovations in Arts, Design, and Media Higher Education. . 2023-11-01
- Controlling the Lore: UFO Folklore as the People’s Religion -- Folk Religion (Re) Considered. Routledge Press. 2023-01-01
- The Pre-History of the Post Human: Precedents of Posthuman Thought in the Western Tradition -- Posthumanism: Emerging Technologies and the Boundaries of Homo Sapiens. Macmillan Reference USA. 2018-01-01
- The Total Recall Effect: Techno-Human Hybridity and Degrees of the Posthuman -- Posthumanism: Emerging Technologies and the Boundaries of Homo Sapiens. Macmillan Reference USA. 2018-01-01
- From Purgatory to the UFO Phenomenon -- Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion series. " The Primer". MacMillan Press. 2016-08-01
- Virtual Religion: Popular Culture and the Digital World -- Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks: Religion series. “The Primer.”. MacMillan Press. 2016-01-01
- The Virtual Resurrection: Technology, Violence, and Interpretations of Death in a Southern University Classroom -- Teaching Death and Dying: Oxford University Press Teaching Religious Studies Series. Oxford University Press. 119-131. 2008-10-01
Document
- Encounters: Explorations with Non-Human Intelligences. St. Martin’s Press Essentials, Macmillan Press. 2023-11-01
- American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology. Oxford University Press. 2019-02-01
- Heaven Can Wait: Purgatory and the rise of the Gothic in American Catholic Popular Literature: 1820-1965. Oxford University Press. 2014-01-01

Presentations

Presentation
- Guest speaker on Colin McEnroe Show, Colin McEnroe Show, National Public Radio 2023-11-29
- Convergence of Four Research Traditions on the Topic of UAP, Sol Organization, Stanford University 2023-11-17
- Speaker on Denmark Public Radio, Radiovært på Danmarks Radio 2022-03-10
- Archives of the Impossible, Woodson Research Center at Rice University 2022-03-03
- UK podcast Unexplained, ITunes Best of 2016 2022-03-01
- “Myth and Technology, University of Colorado, Boulder 2022-02-15
- Encounters 2022-02-02
- Keynote Speaker: University of Southern Mississippi (in Hattiesburg, Philosophy & Religion Forum 2021-11-09
- Artificial Intelligence and Philosophy, Appalachian State University 2021-11-02
- Department of Anthropology and Group Occult Settlements, Symposium at the University of Chicago 2021-10-01
- Interview with UK Esquire, Interview with UK Esquire 2021-10-01
- Interview with NPR Retro Report, Interview with NPR Retro Report 2021-09-23
- CNN Documentary about UFOs/UAPs 2021-09-01
- Showtime UFOs 2021-08-05
- Common Threads West Michigan NPR , Common Threads West Michigan NPR 2021-07-25
- Interview with the Washington Post with Mike Rosenwald, Interview with the Washington Post with Mike Rosenwald 2021-03-18
- Interview with Pineapple Street Studios Jenelle Pifer (Jenelle is now at Serial, Interview with Pineapple Street Studios 2021-02-05
- Guest Speaker on Lex Fridman Podcast, Lex Fridman Podcast 2020-12-01
- Technology as Habitat, Guggenheim Museum New York City 2019-09-09
- American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology, American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology 2018-04-30
- Taking UFOs Seriously, that is, Religiously..., Ohio State University Center for the Study of Religion, presentation 2018-04-05
- The Belief-Effect of Media on Religion”, Gnostic America Conference 2018-03-01
- “Excerpts from American Cosmic”, Center for the Study of World Religion 2017-12-04
- Bodies of Light and Super Saints, Esalen Center for Theory and Research 2016-11-01
- Emergent Technologies and New Mythologies, IONS 2016-09-01
- The Fairy Tale is True: Social Technologies and Belief in the Supernatural, Rice University 2016-04-01
- The Further Reaches of the Imagination, Center for Theory and Research 2015-11-01
- Beyond the Spinning: Symposium on Religious Belief and the Supernatural, IONS 2015-09-01
- The Imaginal Symposium, Center for Theory and Research, Esalen 2014-10-01
- Religious Experience and UFO Belief, Society of Philosophy and Religion 2014-03-01
- , Ufology and Religion 2012-05-12
- "Blogging and Digital Media for Religious Studies" , American Academy of Religion Annual Conference 2010-10-31
- The Child Psychopomp: Precendents in Women's Literature and Popular Culture, American Academy of Religion Annual International Conference 2008-11-01
- Heaven Can Wait: The Emergence of American Purgatory , American Academy of Religion Annual International Conference 2007-11-01
- Cowboys and Christians: Christian Pacifism in the Early Western , North Carolina Religious Studies Association Annual Meeting 2005-10-01
- Sharing Their Stories: Women Working for Change, Exhibitor 2005-03-01
- Child Immortality in the Ninteenth Century, North Carolina Religious Studies Association Annual Meeting 2004-10-01
- Saint Clare on the Air: Mother Angelica and the Catholic Church , American Academy of Religion Regional Conference 2004-03-01
- The Space Between: Representations of Purgatory in American Popular Culture , American Academy of Religion Annual International Conference 2003-11-01
- Teach Me to Curse: Shakespeare's Women and Sacramental Language in Richard III, American Academy of Religion Regional Conference 2001-04-01
- Subjectivity in Amy Tam's Woman Warrior , American Philosophical Association Women in Philosophy 2001-03-01
- , Duke University Catholic Visual Culture