S. Bradley Shaw

Education

Ph.D., American Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1991

M.A., English Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,1986

B.A., English & Religion, Greenville College, 1983

Recent Presentations and Publications

• “Reel Presence: Intersections between Faith & Film.” Editor, special theme issue of Christian Scholar's Review. Summer 2011.
• “Gospel Spooks: The Cinematic Southern Gothic from To Kill a Mockingbird to Get Low.” Transcendence: Dark and Light--Cinema Studies Conference, Los Angeles Film Studies Center, April 1, 2011.
• “Baptizing Boo: Religion in the Cinematic Southern Gothic.” Mississippi Quarterly. Summer 2010: 444-447.
• “Food for Thought: Some Faith & Learning Basic Recipes.” Fall Faculty Fellowship. Greenville College. August, 14, 2009.
• “Leaps and Faith.” Chapel Address. Greenville College. March 2, 2009.
• “3:00 a.m. Questions: Balancing Teaching, Research, and the Demands of Family Life.” CCCU New Faculty Workshop. Azusa Pacific University. June 6, 2007.
• “Perilous Passages in Romantic Self-Authorship: Genre and Gender in the American Slave Narrative Tradition. Invited lecture. Gordon College. April 19, 2006.
• “Mary Louise Booth and Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Fashionable Fiction.” Modern Language Association. Washington, DC, December 28, 2005.
• “Religion and the Cinematic Southern Gothic From Boo Radley to Sling Blade.” Nordic Association for American Studies. Växjö University, Sweden, May 26, 2005.
• “Horton Foote, Robert Duvall and Religious Dimensions of the Cinematic Southern Gothic.” French Association for American Studies. University of Lille, France, May 24, 2005.
• “Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Sentimental Cure for the Problematic Puritan Origins of the American Self.” Irish Association for American Studies. University of Cork, April 22, 2005.
• “The Displaced Person in a Gray Flannel Suit: O’Connor’s A Good Man Is Hard to Find 50 Years Later.” British Association for American Studies. Cambridge University, England, April 14, 2005.
• “Southern Re-Renaissance: Contemporary Fiction of the American South.” The American Studies Association of Norway. Oslo, September 24, 2004.

Related Experiences

• Humanities Editor, Christian Scholar’s Review. 2004-2010
• English Program Review Consultant, Blackburn College, Spring 2010
• Participant, Slave Narrative Faculty Seminar, Gilder/Lehrman Institute of American History, Yale University, June 2008
• Faculty Mentor and Invited Speaker, CCCU New Faculty Workshop, Azusa Pacific University, June 2007
• Fulbright Scholar, University of Bergen, Norway, 2004-2005
• Pew Summer Research Seminar, Gordon College, June 1998
• Pew/Reinhard Research Fellowship, Greenville College, 1998-1999
• Fulbright Scholar, University of Bergen, Norway, 1997-1998
• Assistant Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar: “Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Antebellum American Culture,” Newberry Library, June-July, 1995