{"id":1983,"date":"2017-04-26T15:21:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T15:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/?page_id=1983"},"modified":"2018-07-03T12:20:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-03T12:20:36","slug":"shanna-l-smith","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/2008-2\/shanna-l-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanna L. Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"JSU_Smith_237x237\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1984\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/files\/2017\/04\/JSU_Smith_237x237-300x300.jpg\" title=\"\" width=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/files\/2017\/04\/JSU_Smith_237x237-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/files\/2017\/04\/JSU_Smith_237x237-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/files\/2017\/04\/JSU_Smith_237x237-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/files\/2017\/04\/JSU_Smith_237x237.jpg 496w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Assistant Professor of English<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEmail: <a href=\"mailto:shanna.l.smith@jsums.edu\" target=\"_blank\">shanna.l.smith@jsums.edu<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPhone: 601.979.5870\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tOffice Location: Dollye M.E, Robinson Liberal Arts Building, 4<sup>th<\/sup> floor, Office #416\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDEGREES&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPh.D. The University of Maryland, College Park, American Studies, 2014\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tM.A. The University of Kentucky, Secondary English Education, 1993\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tB.A. Kentucky State University, English, 1991\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRESEARCH INTERESTS\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAfrican American Literature &amp; Culture, Ethnography\/Oral History\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCOURSES TAUGHT\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tENG 104\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tENG 105\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSurvey of Black Writers I\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBlack Women Writers, Short Story\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tLiterature &amp; Society\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tProfessional Writing\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAdvanced Grammar &amp; Composition\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSurvey of Contemporary Post-Race Literature, graduate-level\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tPROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tCollege Language Association\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAssociation for the Study of African American Life &amp; History\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRECENT PUBLICATIONS\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in\">\n\t&ldquo;Close Quarters&rdquo;,&nbsp;<em>Black Lives Still Matter<\/em>. Abiodun Oyewole, Ed. New York: 2LeafPress (forthcoming 2017)\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in\">\n\t&quot;Rooted&rdquo;, &ldquo;How I Became Superwoman&rdquo;&nbsp;<em>Black Bone: 25 Years of the Affrilachian Poets<\/em>, Bianca Lynne Spriggs and Jeremy Paden, Ed. ( 2017)\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in\">\n\t&ldquo;(In)Visible Messages: Patriarchy in Tyler Perry&rsquo;s Madea Films&rdquo;.&nbsp; Shorter, Shavonne and Shanna L. Smith.&nbsp; Brian Johnson, Ed.&nbsp;<em>The Problematic Tyler Perry<\/em>.&nbsp; New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2016.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in\">\n\t&ldquo;Tribute to Maya Angelou&rdquo;,&nbsp;<em>The Black Scholar<\/em>.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblackscholar.org\/\">http:\/\/www.theblackscholar.org\/<\/a>&nbsp;October 2014.\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in\">\n\t&ldquo;(Being) Neighborly: Performance in&nbsp;<em>Seen it All and Done the Rest&rdquo;<\/em><u>,<\/u>&nbsp;Foster-Singletary, T. and Francis-Samuels, A., Eds<em>. In Search of Free Womanhood: The Critical Response to Pearl Cleage<\/em>. North Carolina: McFarland &amp; Company, 2012. 49-61<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assistant Professor of English &nbsp; Email: shanna.l.smith@jsums.edu Phone: 601.979.5870 Office Location: Dollye M.E, Robinson Liberal Arts Building, 4th floor, Office #416 &nbsp; DEGREES&nbsp; 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 &nbsp; RESEARCH INTERESTS African American Literature &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":2008,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1983\/revisions\/2387"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}