Faculty Guide

Title

Associate Professor of African and Afro-American Studies and English

African and Afro-American Studies
English
Women's and Gender Studies

Expertise

Professor Smith teaches courses in Anglophone Caribbean literature, African-American Literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, literary method, and Caribbean women and globalization.

Profile

Research interests: intellectual history of the nineteenth-century Caribbean; gender, sexuality, and national sovereignty in the late 20th century. She is editing a collection of essays on sexuality and citizenship in the Caribbean.

Awards and Honors

Center for German and European Studies Course Development Grant (2011)

Academic Year 2008-09 Fellow in Residence, W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University (2008)

Theodore and Jane Norman Fund (2008)

Fellow, National Endowment of the Humanities (2005)

Dean's Office grant for Team-teaching: developed and taught course on the Caribbean with Angela Perez in Spring (2004)

Dean's Office grant for developing AAAS interdisciplinary course (2004)

National Humanities Center Fellowship (2002 - 2003)

Andrew Mellon Foundation Fellow of the Huntington Library (San Marino, California) (1998)

Marva and Sheva Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (internal) (1998 - 1999)

Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, Rutgers University (1997 - 1998)

Mazer Award, Brandeis University (1996)

Jane's Awards (internal; Latin American and Latino Studies) (1995 - 2002)

Courses Taught

AAAS	79b	Afro-American Literature of the Twentieth Century
AAAS	125b	Caribbean Women and Globalization: Sexuality, Citizenship, Work
AAAS	132b	Introduction to African Literature
AAAS	133b	The Literature of the Caribbean
AAAS	134b	Novel and Film of the African Diaspora
ENG	1a	Introduction to Literary Studies
ENG	77a	Screening the Tropics
ENG	80a	Black Looks: The Promise and Perils of Photography
ENG	107a	Women Writing Desire: Caribbean Fiction and Film
ENG	127b	Migrating Bodies, Migrating Texts
ENG	138a	Making Modern Subjects: Empire, Citizenship, Intimacy
ENG	237a	Reading the Black Transnation
ENG	267a	Imagining Freedom in the Caribbean
WMGS	105b	Feminist Theories in Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspective

Scholarship

Smith, Faith Lois. "“Between Stephen Lloyd and Estaban Yo-eed: Locating Jamaica Through Cuba.”." Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 20. 1 (2012) (2013): 22-38.

Smith, Faith Lois. "“Caribbean Writers and the Public Sphere.”." Rev. of Caribbean Literature and the Public Sphere: From the Plantation to the Postcolonial, by Raphael Dalleo. S/X Salon 28 May, 2012: http://smallaxe.net/wordpress3/reviews/2012/05/28/caribbean-writers-and-the-public-sphere/.

Smith, Faith Lois. "“Literary Periodization: Reading the Nineteenth Century,”." Teaching Anglophone Caribbean Literature. 2012 ed. Ed. Supriya Nair. New York:, 2013. 233-254.

Smith, Faith Lois. "Review Forum." Rev. of Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class, by Belinda Edmondson. Interventions vol. 13, 4 february 2012: 666-669.

Smith, Faith Lois, ed. Sex and the Citizen: Interrogating the Caribbean (Charlottesville:UVA Press, 2011.. 2011 ed. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Smith, Faith Lois. "“Caribbean Literature and Sexuality”." The Routledge Companion to Anglophone CAribbean Literature. 2011 ed. Ed. Michael A. Bucknor and Alison Donnell. London: Routledge, 2011. 403-411.

Smith, Faith Lois. "“Only His Hat is Left”? Re-Situating Not-Yet Narratives.”." Small Axe 15, 2. 35 (2011): 197-208.

Smith, Faith Lois. "“Of Laughter and Kola Nuts: Or What Does Africa Have to do with the African Diaspora?”." Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland.. 2010 ed. vol. 2010 Ed. Judith A. Byfield, La Ray Denzer, and Anthea Morrison. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010. 21-37.

Smith, Faith Lois. "“Seeing with New Eyes: New Editions of Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Caribbean Literary Texts.”." Journal of West Indian Literature 19. 1 (2010): 106-112.

Smith, Faith Lois. "¿Can Anything Good Come Out of Cedros? Nation Language in Nineteenth-Century Trinidad.¿." Shibboleths: Journal of Comparative Theory 1, 2. January 2007 (2007)

Smith, Faith Lois. "¿Crosses/Crossroads/Crossings.¿ Book Discussion: M. Jacqui Alexander¿s Pedagogies of Crossing.." small axe vol. 24 October 2007: 130-138.

Editor-in-Chief Colin Palmer. Associate Editors Lisa Gail Collins, Marcyliena Morgan, Faith Smith, James Sweet, and Robert Reid-Pharr., ed. Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in America. 2nd ed. New York: Macmillan Reference, 2005.

Smith, Faith Lois. Creole Recitations: John Jacob Thomas and Colonial Formation in the Late Nineteenth-Century Caribbean. University of Virginia Press, 2002.

Smith, Faith Lois. "You Know You're West Indian If: Codes of Authenticity in Colin Channer's Waiting In Vain." Small Axe 10. (2001): 41-59.

Smith, Faith Lois Guest Editor. "Small Axe 7: Special Issue on Genders and Sexualities." (2000).

Smith, Faith Lois. "Beautiful Indians, Troublesome Negroes, and Nice White Men: Caribbean Romances and the Invention of Trinidad." Caribbean Romances: The Politics of Regional Representation. Ed. Belinda Edmondson. University Press of Virginia, 1999

Smith, Faith Lois. "Coming Home to the Real Thing: Gender and Intellectual Life in the Anglophone Caribbean." South Atlantic Quarterly 93 (Fall 1994) 93. (1994).