College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Phone: (626) 815-2085
Email: clambert@apu.edu
Office Location: 164 Ronald

Carole Lambert, Ph.D., is Professor of English and Director of Research at Azusa Pacific University. She received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research in Brussels, Belgium, as well as four National Endowment for the Humanities grants. She is the author of The Empty Cross: Medieval Hopes, Modern Futility in the Theater of Maurice Maeterlink, Paul Claudel, August Strindberg, and George Kaiser (Garland, 1990) and co-editor with William D. Brewer of Essays on the Modern Identity (Peter Lang, 2000). Lambert has recently published Is God Man’s Friend? Theodicy and Friendship in Elie Wiesel’s Novels (Peter Lang, 2006).

Ph.D. - Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1986
M.A. - French, University of Pittsburgh, 1969
B.A. - French and German, Carlow College, 1967

Publications
Is God Man’s Friend? Theodicy and Friendship in Elie Wiesel’s Novels (Peter Lang, 2006).

The Empty Cross: Medieval Hopes, Modern Futility in the Theater of Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul Claudel, August Strindberg, and Georg Kaiser (Garland, 1990).

Essays on the Modern Identity, co-edited with William D. Brewer (Peter Lang, 2000).

“Postmodern Biography: Lively Hypotheses and Dead Certainties.” Biography 18.4 (Fall 1995): 305-27.

Chase A. Sawtell Inspirational Teaching Award
Sears-Roebuck Foundation Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award
Fulbright Fellowship
Dean’s Accomplished Scholar Awards
Faculty Research Council Grants
National Endowment for the Humanities Grants

Comparative literature
Writing
Ethics
Holocaust literature
Undergraduate research