Stephanie Smith
Associate Professor
Stephanie Smith took her PhD from Berkeley (1990). Prior to UF, she free-lanced, worked as an editor for Western Imprints, as an assistant at Glamour and Mademoiselle magazines, at David Godine in Boston, and at Representations and is presently a consultant for Feminist Studies. A novelist, she is the author of: Other Nature (1995), The-Boy-Who-Was-Thrown-Away (1987) and Snow-Eyes (1985) and has won fiction residencies at Hedgebrook and Norcroft.
Examining the intersection of science, literature, politics, race and gender, her essays appear in such journals as differences, Criticism, Genders, American Literature and American Literary History. A 1998 Visiting NEH Scholar at UCLA, she is the author of Conceived By Liberty: Maternal Figures and 19th-Century American Literature (Cornell 1995.) Excerpts from her new book, Household Words: bloomers, sucker, bombshell, scab, nigger, cyber (University of Minnesota 2006) appeared in Body Politcs and the Fictional Double and The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing. Her essay “Genetics” appears in Glossalalia: An Alphabet of Critical Keywords (University of Edinburgh Press, 2003). Currently, she has several essays forthcoming in ALH, The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and Feminist Studies, and is at work on a new book about modernism and the publishing industry in the United States.
Contact and Further Information
- office: Turlington Hall 4348
- voice: (352) 392-6650, ext. 253
- fax: (352) 392-0860
- email: <ssmith@english.ufl.edu>