Shanny Luft

BIO

Shanny Luft received his M.A. in Religion and Culture from Boston University and his Ph.D. in Religion in America from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He taught at UNC-Chapel Hill, Meredith College, and the College of Wooster before coming to UWSP in 2009 with his wife and two children.

Luft’s research interests include religion and popular culture, new religious movements, and American evangelicalism and fundamentalism. He is currently writing a book about evangelical attitudes toward the film industry in the early twentieth century.

TEACHING HONORS

• University of Wisconsin System Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW-Madison (2011-2012)

PUBLICATIONS

“Hardcore Christian Gamers,” in Playing With Religion in Video Games, edited by Heidi Campbell and Greg Grieve, Indiana University Press, 2014.

LAST BOOK READ

“The Secret History of Wonder Woman” by Jill Lepore

QUOTE

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.” – John Shedd