People
Faculty
Whitney Womack Smith
Titles
- Associate Professor
- Affiliate in Women’s Studies
- Affiliate in Black World Studies
Education
- Ph.D., British and American Literature, Purdue University, 1999
- M.A., English, University of Missouri-Columbia
- B.A., English, University of Missouri-Columbia
Teaching Interests
- Composition
- British and American literature
- Women’s literature
- Women’s Studies
Research Interests
- Transatlantic Studies
- Nineteenth-century women’s fiction
- Feminist theory
Selected Publications
- “Revising Lady Bountiful: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Elizabeth Gaskell, and the Figure of the Woman Reformer.” Transatlantic Stowe. Ed. Emily Todd, Denise Kohn, and Sarah Meer. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006.
- “Reforming Women’s Reform Literature: Rebecca Harding Davis’ Rewriting of the Industrial Novel.” Our Sister’s Keepers: Theories of Poverty Relief in the Work of Nineteenth Century American Women Writers. Ed. Debra Bernardi and Jill Bergman. University of Alabama Press, 2005.
- “Beyond ‘Jiggle TV’: Charlie’s Angels at 25.” Disco Divas: Women, Gender and Popular Culture in the 1970s. Ed. Sherrie Inness. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
- “Lady Margaret Sackville.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Edwardian Women Poets. Vol. 240. Ed. William B. Thesing. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 232-39.
- “Elizabeth Siddal.” Dictionary of Victorian Women Poets. Vol. 199. Ed. William B. Thesing. Detroit: Gale, 1998. 269-77.
- Assistant Editor, De Gustibus: A Festschrift for Alain Renoir. Ed. John Miles Foley. New York: Garland Press, 1992.
Web Publications
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“By the Sweat of Their Brow,” November 2004
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/amatas/english/05november08.htm
Work in Progress
Whitney Womack Smith is currently working on research into Harriet Beecher Stowe’s travels abroad to promote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.