Ostwalt received his Ph.D. from Duke University in Religion and Culture and teaches and writes on American religion and culture. Ostwalt's publications include articles on American religion, literature, and film and the following books: After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser (Bucknell University Press, 1990), Screening the Sacred: Religion, Myth, and Ideology in Popular American Film (Westview Press, 1995-co-edited with Joel Martin), Love Valley: An American Utopia (Popular Press, 1998), and Screening the Sacred: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination (Trinity Press International, 2003). He, his wife, Mary, and daughter, Heather live in and hike through
the North Carolina mountains. |
