Yolanda Pierce
Elmer G. Homrighausen Associate Professor of African American Religion and Literature and Liaison with the Princeton University Afro-American Studies Program
Department of History
10 Tennent Hall
Phone: 609.497.3667
Fax: 609.497.7829
Email: yolanda.pierce@ptsem.edu

Yolanda Pierce is the Elmer G. Homrighausen Associate Professor of African American Religion and Literature at Princeton Theological Seminary, and Liaison with the Princeton University Afro-American Studies Program. Pierce earned her M.A. in English and African American Studies and her Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. A member of an Assemblies of God church, she serves on the executive committee for the Society of Literature and Religion and is a member of the Modern Language Association and the American Academy of Religion. Her area of research lies in African American literature and culture (spiritual and slave narratives, memoirs and autobiographies, and religious writing), religious studies (Black church traditions, womanist theology, and contemporary Black thought), and nineteenth-century American literature (race, religion, and early American culture). She teaches courses in African American religious history, womanist theology, and literature and religion.

“Her Refusal to Be Re(Caste): Annie Burton’s Narrative of Resistance,” in The Southern Literary Journal (Spring 2004)
 Hell without Fires: Slavery, Christianity, and the Antebellum Spiritual Narrative in The History of African American Religion Series (University of Florida Press, February 2005)
“Redeeming Bondage: Captivity Narratives and Spiritual Autobiographies in the Slave Narrative Tradition,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Slave Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2007)