Eric D. Smith

Assistant Professor
Twentieth-Century Anglophone Literature
Office: Morton Hall, Room 233
Phone: (256) 824-2377
Email: eric.smith@uah.edu

PhD, University of Florida
MA, Mississippi State University
BS, Athens State University

Dr. Smith’s teaching and research interests include Anglophone Postcolonial and Modern/Postmodern British literatures with particular emphasis upon the novel form. He has published more than a dozen essays and articles in scholarly journals and encyclopedias including Genre, Modern Fiction Studies, Critique, James Joyce Quarterly, Journal of Narrative Theory, ARIEL, and Journal of Commonwealth Literature. His 2001 MFS article “A Slow and Dark Birth: Aesthetic Maturation and the Entelechic Narrative in James Joyce’s Ulysses” was selected in 2004 for inclusion in James Joyce’s Ulysses, a volume in the Modern Critical Interpretations series edited by Harold Bloom.


Dr. Smith’s most recent publications include the following:

• “‘The Only Way Out is Through’: Space, Narrative, and Utopia in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture (forthcoming)

• “‘Ambiguity at its Best’: Historicizing G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature (forthcoming)

• “Robert Antoni.” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Literature. Ed. John Clement Ball (forthcoming)               

• “‘Caught Straddling a Border’: A Novelistic Reading of Amitav Ghosh’s In an Antique Land.” JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 37 (2007): 447-72.

• “A Voyage to Future Pasts: The Vengeance of Other Time in Ronald Wright’s A Scientific Romance.” Critique 48 (2006): 58-70.

• Rev. of Twenty-First Joyce, eds. Ellen Carol Jones and Morris Beja. South Atlantic Review 71 (2006): 173-76.

• “The Ghost Machine: Spiritualism, Anachronism, and Alterior Acoustics in Erna Brodber’s Louisiana.” The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies 12 (2005): 84-99.
  
  
• “Robert Antoni” Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Ed. M. Keith Booker et.al. Greenwood, 2005.

Current works in progress:

• “‘A Presage of Horror’: Cacotopia, the Paris Commune, and Stoker’s Dracula” 

• “New Maps of Hope: Postcolonial Science Fictions”
  A book project examining the recent formal convergence of the postcolonial novel and narrative SF.