Department of English and Modern Languages

Farmville, Virginia 23909

Phone:  434-395-2797

E-Mail:  ssmith@longwood.edu

http://www.longwood.edu/staff/ssmith

Education

Ph.D. (Renaissance studies) 2001, Yale University.  

M.A. (comparative literature) 1993, Purdue University.

B.A. (English), cum laude, with distinction, 1990, Boston University.

Experience

Longwood University, Department of English and Modern Languages, Farmville, Virginia.

Assistant Professor of English, 2003-present.  Courses taught:  ENGL 150 (Writing and Research), ENGL 223 (British Literature II), ENGL 461/562 (Senior Seminar in Literary Criticism and Theory).

Georgia Southern University, Department of Literature and Philosophy, Statesboro, Georgia.
Assistant Professor of English, 2001-2003.  Associate Graduate School Faculty, 2002-2003.  Courses taught:  ENGL 4335 (Shakespeare’s Comedies and Histories), ENGL 4435 (Major Authors: Shakespeare), ENGL 4335 (Shakespeare), ENGL 2111HA (World Literature I Honors), ENGL 2111 (World Literature I), ENGL 6631 (Shakespeare Seminar), ENGL 2131 (Introduction to Literary Studies), and ENGL 3121 (British Literature I).

St. Mary's College of Maryland, Department of English, St. Mary's City, Maryland.
Adjunct Instructor, 1999-2000; Visiting Instructor, 2000-2001. Courses taught: English 102 (Composition), English 106 (Introduction to Literature), English 305 (Renaissance Literature), and English 355 (Studies in British Literature: The Petrarchan Tradition).

Marymount University, Department of English, Arlington, Virginia.
Adjunct Instructor, 1999. Course taught: English 102 (Advanced Composition).

Yale University, Department of English and Program in the Humanities, New Haven, Connecticut.
Teaching Fellow, 1996-1997. Course assistant for: English 200a (Shakespeare's Comedies and Romances) and Humanities 256b (Ideas and Forms of the Renaissance).

Yale Center for Parliamentary History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Graduate Research Intern, 1995-1998.

Choate Rosemary Hall, Department of English, Wallingford, Connecticut.
Senior Teacher, summers of 1994 and 1995. Courses taught: English 42 (Shakespeare's Comedies), English 014 (Writing About Literature), English 011 (Sentence, Paragraph, Essay), and English 030 (Journalism in the Electronic Age).

Purdue University, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, West Lafayette, Indiana.
Teaching Assistant, 1991-1993. Courses taught: German 101 and 102.

Boston University/Princeton University Press.
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Boston, Massachusetts.
Research Assistant, 1987-1990; Editorial Assistant, 1990-1991.

Honors and Awards

Georgia Southern University Instructional Development Grant, $3,000, 2003.

Georgia Southern University Instructional Development Grant, $900 to purchase Shakespeare videos for Zach Henderson Library, 2002.

Georgia Southern University Faculty Welfare Committee, $1,000 grant for professional travel, 2002.

Yale University Dissertation Fellowship, 1998-1999

Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 1993-1996.

Boston University Distinguished Book Prize, 1992 (for Albert Einstein/Mileva Maric: The Love Letters).

First place award, Purdue Literary Awards, foreign language literature category, 1992.

Boston University, University Scholarship, 1986-1990.

Languages

Native English speaker; read German, Latin, Italian, and French.

Professional Memberships

Modern Language Association of America

Renaissance Society of America

Shakespeare Association of America.

Publications

"Thomas North" and "Thomas Heywood."   In Dictionary of British Classicists.  London:  Thoemson, 2003.  At press.

"Thomas Granger." In Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 281, British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1600, Second Series. Edited by Edward Malone. Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003. Pp. 105-117.

"Henry Peacham." In Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 236, British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500-1600, First Series. Edited by Edward Malone. Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2001. Pp. 188-201.

Proceedings in the Opening Session of the Long Parliament (editorial assistant), vols. 1-3. Edited by Maija Jansson. University of Rochester Press, 2000-2003. (Volumes 4-6 at press).

"Pity and the Polis." In Rhetoric, the Polis, and the Global Village. Edited by C. Jan Swearingen. Erlbaum, 1999. Pp. 65-74.

The Norton Shakespeare Workshop CD-Rom (research assistant). Edited by Mark Rose. W. W. Norton, 1997.

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein. Volumes 3 (Writings: 1909-1911) and 5 (Correspondence: 1902-1914) (editorial assistant). Edited by Martin J. Klein, A. J. Kox, Jürgen Renn, Robert Schulmann. Princeton University Press, 1993.

"New Critic, Old Poems." Review of Cleanth Brooks, Historical Evidence and the Reading of Seventeenth-Century Poetry, in Essays in Criticism 43 (1993): 247-252.

Albert Einstein/Mileva Maric: The Love Letters (translator). Introduction by Robert Schulmann and Jürgen Renn. Princeton University Press, 1992.

Conference Papers

"Visualizing Measure for Measure."  Popular Culture Association in the South Annual Conference, Jacksonville, Florida, 3 October 2003.

"George W's Agincourt:  Or, Shakespeare Embedded in Iraq."  Popular Culture Association in the South Annual Conference, Jacksonville, Florida, 4 October 2003.  (Speaker and panel chair.)

"Shakespeare on Poets and Poetry."  Georgia Poetry Society quarterly meeting.  Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, Georgia, 20 April 2002.  (Featured Speaker.)

"Law, Rhetoric, and Theater in the Trial of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford."  "Of Seditions and Troubles": Representing Treason and Sedition, 1400-1700.  University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 23 March 2002.

"Pity and Piety in Titus Andronicus."  Icons of Change:  Eighth Citadel Conference on English Literature.  Charleston, South Carolina, 9 February 2002.

"Shakespeare in the Classroom."  Arlington County Public Schools Teachers as Readers Group, Arlington, Virginia, 19 January 2001.  (Invited lecture.)

"The Ambivalence of Mercy in Shakespearean Drama." Modern Language Association of America Conference, Washington, D.C., 27 December 2000.

"The Quality of Mercy in Shakespearean Tragedy." 14th Medieval-Renaissance Conference, University of Virginia's College at Wise, Wise, Virginia, 22 September 2000.

"The argumentum ad misericordiam on the Shakespearean Stage." West Virginia Shakespeare and Renaissance Association Annual Meeting, Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, West Virginia, 16 April 1999.

"The Ambivalence of Mercy in Early Modern Rhetoric." Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies Annual Conference, Newport, Rhode Island, 20 November 1998.

"Pity and the Polis." Rhetoric Society of America, Thirtieth Anniversary Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 6 June 1998.

"The Problem of Mercy." Yale Medieval and Renaissance Colloquium, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 1 April 1998.

Works in Progress

Sinon's Borrowed Tears:  Shakespeare and the Theater of Pity.

The Garden of Eloquence, by Henry Peacham.  An annotated, modern-spelling edition.