Dr. Mary McCampbell is an author, educator, and speaker whose publications span the worlds of literature, film, and popular music. This interdisciplinary focus is also present in her book, Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves: How Art Shapes Empathy (Fortress, 2022). You can find her public-facing writing in outlets such as Image Journal, The Curator, The Other Journal, Relevant, Christianity Today, and her biweekly Substack newsletter, The Empathetic Imagination. Her academic publications include chapters or articles on contemporary fiction and popular culture in Isn’t it Ironic? Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture, ASAP Journal, Spiritual Identities: Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination, and Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays.

Mary was one of the organizers of Calvin University’s Festival of Faith and Music from 2009 to 2017, and she frequently speaks and teaches on the theological significance of popular music, film, and fiction. She was the Summer 2014 Writer-in-Residence at L’Abri Fellowship in Greatham, England, and a 2018 Scholar-in-Residence at Regent College.

MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS

• “Consumer in a Coma: Douglas Coupland’s Rewriting of the Contemporary Apocalypse” – Article
• “ ‘Paradigms are Dissolving Left and Right:’ Baudrillard’s Anti-apocalypse and Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor” – Article
• GOD IS NOWHERE; GOD IS NOW HERE: The Co-existence of Hope and Evil in Douglas Coupland’s Hey Nostradamus! – Article
• The Real Life Douglas Coupland – Article
• "Imagining our Neighbours as Ourselves" - Book
• Jesmyn Ward - New Critical Essays "A Prophetic Tension: Bearing Witness Against Black Nihilism in Jesmyn Ward’s Men We Reaped" - Chapter
• Isn't it Ironic? Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture "New Irony and Old Sincerity: How the Metamodern and the Post-secular Meet in Indie Rock"- Chapter