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Administrative Duties: Director of Writing
Contact Info: 718-405-3317, barbara.smith@mountsaintvincent.edu
Dr. Barbara Smith’s professional and academic interests include the teaching of writing, rhetoric, literature, and women’s studies. She has served as the director of writing for ten years and has written and edited three books and several articles on writing, teaching, and seventeenth-century literature.
Recent Publications:
Smith, B., and U. Appelt, eds., 2001. Write or be written: Early modern women poets and cultural constraints. Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2001.
Smith, B., 1999. Teaching writing process to enhance learning, in Developing presentation skills: A guide to effective instruction,” eds. Kathleen Schmalz and Arlene Moliterno. Needham: Allyn & Bacon, 2000.
Smith, B., and A. Robertson, eds. 1999. Teaching in the 21st century: Adapting writing pedagogies to the college curriculum. New York: Garland [Falmer] Press, 1999.
Smith, B. 1995. The women of Ben Jonson’s poetry: Female representation in the non-dramatic verse. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995.
Smith, B. 1993. Why I teach Shakespeare. The Shakespeare Newsletter, eds., John Mahon and Thomas Pendleton XLIII:3 No. 218, 51, 55.
Courses Taught:
Composition Workshop ENGL 114
Writing for College (ENGL 115)
Visions and Values (ENGL 109)
Women’s Lives, Women’s Voices (INTG
418)
Advanced Writing: Narrative (ENGL 217)
Advanced Writing: Nonfiction (ENGL 219)
Language and the Individual in Society (ENGL
296)
Advanced Writing: Argument (ENGL 304)
Senior Writing Studio (ENGL 449)
Education:
M.A., Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony
Brook
B.S., Southern Connecticut State University