| Faith Smith
Associate Professor Ph.D., Duke University Rabb 116 office hours: on leave 2008-09 fsmith @ brandeis.edu 781-736-2094 |
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Research Interests
Intellectual and Literary History of the Caribbean, particularly Anglophone; Popular Culture; Gender and Sexuality; African Diaspora aesthetics; African American Literature; Postcolonial Literature.
Selected Publications
Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late 19th-Century Caribbean, University of Virginia Press, 2002.
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: the Black Experience in the Americas. 2nd ed. 6 vols. New York: Macmillan Reference, USA, 2006. Editor-in-Chief Colin Palmer. Associate Editors Lisa Gail Collins, Marcyliena Morgan, Faith Smith, James Sweet, and Robert Reid-Pharr.
Guest Editor, Small Axe 7 (March 2000). Special issue on "Genders and Sexualities."
“Can Anything Good Come Out of Cedros? Nation Language in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad.” Shibboleths: Journal of Comparative Theory 1, 2 (January 2007). (www.shibboleths.net)
"Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad." In Caribbean Romances: the Politics of Regional Representation. Ed. Belinda Edmondson, University Press of Virginia, 1999, pp. 163-82.
"Coming Home to the Real Thing: Gender and Intellectual Life in the Anglophone Caribbean." South Atlantic Quarterly 93, 4 (Fall 1994): 895-923.
Articles and reviews in Small Axe, Callaloo, Research in African Literature, Journal of American Ethnic History, Jounal of Latin American Anthropology, Trinidad and Tobago Review.
Current Projects
Member editorial collective, Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism
Advisory Editor, Journal of West Indian Literature
Advisory Editor, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
Book manuscript: "Whose Modern? Caribbean Cultural and Intellectual Formation, 1880-1915"
Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Circum-Caribbean” is an anthology of new essays that takes the pulse of the intense, often hysterical registers of regional and diasporic discussions that are currently occurring about sexual identities and practices in the region.
Awards
Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, National Humanities Center, North Carolina for 2002-03
Selected Courses Taught
19th-Century African American Literature: Texts and Contexts (ENG 16a)
Making Modern Subjects: Caribbean/Latin America/USA 1850-1950 (ENG 138a)
Reading the Black Transnation (ENG 237a)
Migrating Bodies, Migrating Texts (ENG 127b)Novel and Film of the African Diaspora (AAAS 134B)
Caribbean Women and Globalization: Sexuality, Citizenship, Work (AAAS 125B)
Feminist Theories in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective (WMGS 105)
this page updated August 21, 2008