stephanie a. smith

curriculum vitae

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3602 N.W. 53rd terrace, gainesville fl 32606

(352) 375-7152

email: ssmith@ufl.edu

http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/ssmith

Professional Experience

        Professor of English, University of Florida, 2007-present

        Associate Professor, University of Florida, 1995-2007

Assistant Professor, University of Florida, 1990--1995

Teaching Associate, Women's Studies, U.C. Berkeley, 1989

Teaching Assistant, English Dept., U.C. Berkeley, 1987-1989

Assistant Editor, Western Imprints, 1982-1985


Intern, Godine Publications, 1982

Education

Ph.D., English, University of California, Berkeley, 1990.

B.A., summa cum laude, Boston University, 1981.

Grants

NEH Summer Seminar Fellowship, UCLA 1998

Cottages at Hedgebrook Creative Writing Residency, 1996

UF Division of Sponsored Research Summer Grants, 1991, '92, '97

Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, 1986

Draper Fellowship, Boston University, 1981

Publications

Conceived By Liberty:Maternal Figures and Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cornell University Press, 1995)

Household Words: bloomer, sucker, scab, bombsell, nigger, cyber. (Minnesota, 2006)

essays
        
        “A Very Ambiguous Citizen: Samuel “Chip” Delany” (review essay, American Literary History 19.2             Summer 2007)

        “Harriet Jacobs: A Case History of Authentication” for the Cambridge Companion to the Slave                 Narrative ed. Audrey Fisch, (2007)

        “Fashion” in American  History through Literature, 1870–1920, eds.Tom Quirk and Gary
        Scharnhorst (Scribner’s Press, 2006).
        
        “The Sea: Melville and Moby Dick” in A Companion to American Fiction 1780-1865 ed. Shirley Samuels. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
        
        "Genetics" in Glossalalia ed. Julian Wolfreys. New York: Routledge, 2003.

        "Scab" in Keywords, (Oct. 2003)

           "suckers" in differences: a journal of feminist cultural studies ( "Eating   Disorders" Fall, 1998)

"Amelia Jenks Bloomer and Bloomerism" in Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth Century Women Writers (2007).


"The Tender of Memory: Restructuring Value in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" in Harriet Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: New Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press (November, 1995).

"Morphing, Materialism and the Marketing of Xenogenesis inGenders, No. 18, Winter, 1993; reprinted in Matriart, Women's Art Resource Center, Toronto, 1994.

"Heart Attacks: Frederick Douglass's Strategic Sentimentality" inCriticism, Vol. XXXIV, No. 2 (Spring 1992; reprinted in Reading with a Difference: Gender, Race, and Cultural Identity, ed. Arthur F. Marotti, Renata R. Mautner Wasserman, Jo Dulan and Suchitra Mathur {Detroit: Wayne State, Spring 1993}; reprinted in Essays on Frederick Douglass, ed. Henry Louis Gates, {Amistad, forthcoming}).

"The Delicate Organisms and Theoretic Tricks of Henry James" inAmerican Literature 62, No. 4 (Dec. 1990); reprinted in Major Literary Characters: Isabel Archer, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House 1992).

novels (list of short stories available on request)

Other Nature (New York: St. Martin's/TOR 1995).

The Boy-Who-Was-Thrown-Away (New York: Atheneum/Macmillan Publishing Company, 1987. New York: DAW Publications, 1989.)

Snow-Eyes (New York: Atheneum/Macmillan Publishing Company,1985. New York: DAW Publications, 1988.)

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book reviews

Of Strange Dislocations: Childhood and the Idea of Human Interiority (1780-1930) by Carolyn Steedman (Harvard, 1995) for Criticism (winter 1997)

"What are Gender, History?" in Novel , Winter 1994 (of Marianne DeKoven's Rich and Strange: Gender, History, Modernism {Princeton, 1991} and Ina Ferris's The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender,History and the Waverley Novels {Cornell 1991}).

Of The Culture of Sentiment, ed. Shirley Samuels (Oxford, 1993) inThe Women's Review of Books (July, 1993).

Of Versions of Pygmalion, J. Hillis Miller (Harvard, 1990) in American Literature (June, 1992).

Lectures

"Whitewalls: Racial Velocities of Desire" at the MLA, Washington D.C., Dec. 26-31, 1996.

"Screw Intimacy" at the Association for the Psychonalysis of Culture and Society at George Washington University, November 7-10, 1996; also at theScience and Literature Conference (SLS), Atlanta, Georgia, October 14-17, 1996

Fiction reading from More Than Kin (new novel) at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, March 18-21, 1995, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

"sucking/out/rage" at the Association for the Psychonalysis of Culture and Society: Psychoanalysis and Postcolonialsm: Nation, Identity, Self at George Washington University, October 12-14 and at the MMLA, St. Louis, November 2-4, 1995.

"'Vixen of Contradictions': Liberal Politics and the Regeneration of The ScarletLetter at the MLA, Nineteenth-Century American division, Toronto, December 1993.

"Morphing, Materialism and the Marketing of Xenogenesis at the Passions/Persons/Powers conference, U.C. Berkeley, April 30-May 2, 1992; atThe 1992 Conference of the Society for Science and Literature at The Georgia Institute of Technology, October 8-11, 1992, Atlanta; at Consol(e)ing

Passions: Television, Video and Feminism at USC, April 1-4, 1993.

Fiction reading from Other Nature, at the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, March 18-21, 1993, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

"Delirious Juice in Whitman's and Bradbury's I Sing the Body Electric " at the University of Florida, Music Department, October 14, 1992.

"Cherishing Mother: Conceptual Creativity and American Literature" at the University of Florida, Women's Studies Colloquium, October 31, 1990.

"Vocal Crevices and Loopholes of Retreat: The Transformative Reversals of Harriet Jacobs and Frederick Douglass" at Building Bridges: Race, Class and Gender in Feminisms Across the Disciplines at U.C. Berkeley, Oct. 5-7, 1990.

"Making Dirt Pies, Killing Flies and Oversetting the Teapot: Fuller, Emerson and the Nativity of American Literature" at the Works-in-Progress Colloquium, U.C. Berkeley, Nov. 1989.

"The Strings of Spider Woman's Web: Dissonance and Harmony in Leslie Marmon Silko'sCeremony " at the MMLA, November, 1989.

"Constructing Alternative Relations in Created Universes or Alice Claims the Looking Glass" at Feminism as a Catalyst: Bridging the Discourses of the

Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences, University of Maryland, May 1989. Response to Teresa de Lauretis' "Eccentric Subjects: Feminist Theory and Historical Consciousness" at the Bain Institute, U.C. Berkeley, April 1989.

"Crystal Monstrosities and Justified Magic: Reproduction and The Bride of The Venetian Glass Nephew" at Culture-Industry, Cornell, April 1987.

Honors

Undergraduate Research Support Award, UF, 1998

Teaching Improvement Award for Excellence in Teaching (UF, 1995-6)

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award (U.C. Berkeley, 1990).

Phi Beta Kappa (Junior Year, Boston University, 1979).

Service

Advisory Board, Feminist Studies, University of Maryland

UF Administration: Ruth O. McQuown Fellowship for Graduate Studies Committee, 1995-7

UF English:

Graduate Studies Committee, Chair of Graduate Student Placement, 1995-97;

Information Technology Advisory , 1995-97;

Faculty advisor to English Graduate Association, 1995-6.

Lectures Committee 1994-96;

Undergraduate Studies Committee, Curriculum: 1991-95;

Search Committee, 1991-94;

General Education Committee, 1992-93.

UF Women's Studies:

Executive Steering Committee, 1997-99

Advisory, 1996 and Job Search Committee

Faculty/Graduate Student Seminar Committee 1993-95;

Executive Steering Committee 1992-3; Advisory Council, 1991-2.

other:

Steering Committee, Building Bridges: Race, Class and Gender in Feminisms

Across the Disciplines (U.C. Berkeley)

Graduate Student Advisor to Beatrice Bain Research Group on

Women and Gender, U.C. Berkeley (1989-91).

professional membership MLA, ASA, SLS, SSNL, SFWA