D.W. PASULKA

D.W, Pasulka, PhD is a Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. Her research examines miraculous events within Catholic history to new religious movements. Recent books include American Cosmic: Religion, UFOs, and Technology (Oxford University Press 2019) and The Resurrected: Spiritual Initiations in the 21st Century (forthcoming with St. Martins’ Essentials). She is widely published, recently in Tank, Vox,Vice, and is a featured speaker at conferences, on podcasts, radio, and television. Memorable engagements include the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, a keynote speech at Rice University, and regular presentations at Esalen’s Center for Theory and Research. She is lead investigator on an ongoing study of Catholic manuscripts about saints, levitation, and bilocation, in partnership with the Vatican Secret Archive and the Vatican Space Observatory. Her book American Cosmic has garnered critical acclaim with the field of religious studies.