Assistant Professor of English
Email: shanna.l.smith@jsums.edu
Phone: 601.979.5870
Office Location: Dollye M.E, Robinson Liberal Arts Building, 4th floor, Office #416
DEGREES
Ph.D. The University of Maryland, College Park, American Studies, 2014
M.A. The University of Kentucky, Secondary English Education, 1993
B.A. Kentucky State University, English, 1991
RESEARCH INTERESTS
African American Literature & Culture, Ethnography/Oral History
COURSES TAUGHT
ENG 104
ENG 105
Survey of Black Writers I
Black Women Writers, Short Story
Literature & Society
Professional Writing
Advanced Grammar & Composition
Survey of Contemporary Post-Race Literature, graduate-level
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
College Language Association
Association for the Study of African American Life & History
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
“Close Quarters”, Black Lives Still Matter. Abiodun Oyewole, Ed. New York: 2LeafPress (forthcoming 2017)
"Rooted”, “How I Became Superwoman” Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets, Bianca Lynne Spriggs and Jeremy Paden, Ed. ( 2017)
“(In)Visible Messages: Patriarchy in Tyler Perry’s Madea Films”. Shorter, Shavonne and Shanna L. Smith. Brian Johnson, Ed. The Problematic Tyler Perry. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.
“Tribute to Maya Angelou”, The Black Scholar. http://www.theblackscholar.org/ October 2014.
“(Being) Neighborly: Performance in Seen it All and Done the Rest”, Foster-Singletary, T. and Francis-Samuels, A., Eds. In Search of Free Womanhood: The Critical Response to Pearl Cleage. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2012. 49-61