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Contact

Email: shanna.l.smith@jsums.edu

Phone: 601.979.5870

Office Location: Dollye M.E, Robinson Liberal Arts Building, Office 416

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Shanna L. Smith, PhD

Assistant Professor of English

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Biography

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Education

  • 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

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.

Courses Taught

  • Composition I
  • Composition II
  • 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
  • Professionalization of the English Major, Graduate-Level