Dr. Mary McCampbell is Associate Professor of Humanities at Lee University where she teaches courses in postmodern theory and fiction, African American literature, and cultural studies. She founded the Racial Justice Advocacy group at Lee and currently chairs the Faculty & Staff Cultural Diversity Committee. A native Tennessean, she completed her doctorate at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK); her research focused on the relationship between contemporary fiction, late capitalist culture, and the religious impulse, topics all featured in her forthcoming book, Postmodern Prophetic: The Religious Impulse in Contemporary Fiction. She was the Summer 2014 Writer-in-Residence at L'Abri Fellowship in Greatham, England and a 2018 Winter/Spring Scholar-in-Residence at Regent College, Vancouver.