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Instructor
English/Religious Studies
Ph.D.—University of South Carolina
Expected Summer 2007
Research areas: Primary: Renaissance—The Bible and
Culture, Shakespeare’s English Histories, Donne, Crashaw and
Milton. Secondary: 20th Century Southern American—
O’Connor, Faulkner and Hurston.
Dissertation: “The State of Grace: John Donne and the
Politicization of the Sunday Sermon in Jacobean England”
Education
Th.D. (Candidate)—Boston University School of Theology
(On Leave) Research area: Liturgics/Homiletics.
S.T.M.—Yale University—Divinity School—2002
Religion and Literature
Research areas: Anglican theology, Homiletics, Liturgics and
Prophetic speech.
M.Div.—Yale University—Divinity School—2000
Concentration: Hebrew Bible/Old Testament and Church
History.
A.B.—Hamline University—1997-Cum Laude—Religious Studies
Concentration: Biblical Studies and History and Culture of
Religion.
Certificate-- University of Cambridge/St. Catherine’s College-2003
Shakespeare Summer School—Histories and Problem Plays
Oklahoma State University
Texas Wesleyan College
Publications and Conference Presentations
2006—“The Devil Drives a Big V-8/Cruising the Road to Perdition I Wrecked the Chrysler at the Crossroads of Evil and Divine while I was Drunk on Mobility and, Forsaking Place, I Succumbed to the Temptation of the Automobile and Ran Over Jesus in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor or Damn, That was Good BBQ”—“In the City/On the Road” an International 20th Century Conference at the University of South Carolina.
2005—Biblical/Courtly Eroticism And The Poetics of Impossible Love: Astrophel and Stella as Sidney’s Biblical Song of Solomon, 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies--Kalamazoo/Western Michigan State University.
2004—“Flannery O’Connor and the Mystery of Grace”-lecture presented to Engl 285 students Spring 2004 under the direction of Dr. Judith James.
2004—“Advancing the Visual Argument: Visual Texts Beyond English 101”-First Year English Colloquium—University of South Carolina.
2004—“Bridging Texts for the Visual Learner”- Building Bridges National Graduate Conference-Texas Tech University.
2004—“Shall We Gather At The River: Identity and The Sacramental Tensions in Crossing Over in Augustine's Christian Baptism and O'Connor's The River”- (Dis)Locating Identity in the 20th Century International Conference-University of South Carolina.
2000—Chapter contribution to Ruth, Lester and Saterlee, Craig, Creative Preaching on the Sacraments, Discipleship Resources, Nashville, TN 2000.
1997—Fourteenth Annual Conference and Seminar on Contemporary Religious Thought (Review: Levenson, Jon D., The Death and Resurrection of the Beloved Son, Yale Press, New Haven, CT 1997).
1979—Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Conference—Words and Photographs United—professional seminar.
Castleberry has taught English 101 (Composition), English 102 (Composition and Literature), English 285 (Topics in American Literature), English 270 (World Literature), English 283 (Themes in British Writing), English 288 (English Literature I), English 427 (Southern Literature), Religion 340 (God and the Gods), Religion 111 (Biblical History and Literature) and Religion 371 (Visions of the Apocalypse)
Castleberry has also worked as a Journalist and Photojournalist for The Corpus Christi Caller-Times-Corpus Christi, TX, Lexington Herald Leader-Lexington, KY, The Eagle-Bryan, TX, St.Louis Globe-Democrat / Evening News, St.Louis, MO, Tulsa Daily World, Tulsa, OK., United Press The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, United Press International, St.Louis/Dallas/Oklahoma City The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, OH, The Frederick Daily Leader, Frederick, OK, and as a freelance journalist based in Houston, TX, for The New York Times, Sports Illustrated, The Associated Press, Time Magazine, USA Today/Weekend and Newsweek.
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