Dustin Faulstick, Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer
About Me
Dustin Faulstick is a Senior Lecturer in the Lewis Honors College. He has a Ph.D. in English from Ohio University and an MTS from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology. He has taught classes in literature, religion, culture, and writing. His scholarship considers US literature in relation to biblical intertextuality and critical reflections on the American Dream, and his essays have appeared in New Ohio Review, Studies in American Naturalism, Literature and Belief, Edith Wharton Review, and Religion and the Arts. He is working on a book about Ecclesiastes and early-twentieth-century US literature.
How to Honor the Balance
My brother-in-law’s family gifted me a piano over the summer, and I’ve been having a fun time trying to learn how to play.
In my sports and culture class, we consider fandom. While many fans think primarily about winning, I advocate for the value in celebrating the way human bodies—bodies informed by their human minds with their human stresses, joys, and vulnerabilities—can move together in space, regardless of whether those bodies and minds win a game. Trying to resist the cultural obsession with winning could help us to balance our desire to live good lives with our own obsessions over grades, money, followers, productivity, algorithms, and metrics.
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- Sports and Culture
- Religion and Literature
- Paying Attention
Research
My scholarship considers US literature in relation to biblical intertextuality and critical reflections on the American Dream. Here are some examples of my work:
“The Preacher Thought as I Think”: Wolf Larsen, Humphrey Van Weyden, and Jack London’s Ecclesiastes
Protest or Process: Theodicy Responses to Elie Wiesel's The Trial of God