CAROL ZALESKI

Carol Zaleski is the Professor of World Religions. She received her B.A. from Wesleyan University and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the Study of Religion from Harvard University, and has been teaching philosophy of religion, world religions and Christian thought at Smith College since 1989.

She is the author of Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times, and The Life of the World to Come (both Oxford University Press), and co-author with Philip Zaleski of Prayer: A History (Houghton Mifflin), The Book of Heaven (Oxford), and The Book of Hell (forthcoming, Oxford).  She is currently working on a book about monasticism, and collaborating with Philip Zaleski on a study of the Inklings--C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Williams, and their circle.  She is a columnist and editor-at-large for Christian Century, and has contributed articles and reviews to First Things, The New York Times Book Review, America, Parabola, Second Spring, The Journal of Religion, and The Journal of the History of Ideas.

In addition to team-taught courses in world religions and Christian studies, she regularly teaches Philosophy of Religion, The Catholic Philosophical Tradition, Psychology of Religion, The Inklings, William James, Belief in God, and Immortality.

Phone: 413-585-3643

Building: 138 Elm Street # 5

E-mail: czaleski@email.smith.edu