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Paula M. Kane

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Paula Kane holds the John and Lucine O’Brien Marous Chair in Contemporary Catholic Studies at the University of Pittsburgh with a joint appointment in the Department of History. She researches and teaches American religious history with a specialization in modern Catholicism. Previous faculty appointments include Princeton University, Clark University, and Texas A&M University. She is the author of Sister Thorn and Catholic Mysticism in Modern America (2013) and Separatism & Subculture: Boston Catholicism 1900-1920 (1994). She is co-editor of Catholic Gender Identities in America (2001), a documentary collection of unpublished sources about how religions have shaped notions of masculinity and femininity in the 19th and 20th centuries. Kane has also written numerous book chapters on Catholicism and art, film, and sacred architecture. She has participated in numerous collaborative research projects, including the Luce Foundation/Cushwa Center project on Twentieth-Century Catholicism, and the film history project that culminated in the book, Catholicism in the Movies (2007). Professor Kane is active in the Pennsylvania/Ohio region as a lecturer on religious topics, and has been an invited lecturer at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Duquesne University, Mercyhurst University, Seton Hill College, John Carroll University, and at WQED-TV, and WQED public radio (now WESA). She serves on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals, including American Catholic Studies. She is a Penguins hockey fan and reads as many mystery novels as time allows.
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