Assistant Professor
232D Morton Hall
(256)824-2377
eric.smith@uah.edu

Education:
PhD- University of Florida
MA - Mississippi State University
BA - Athens State University

Areas of Specialization/Interests:
Postcolonial Studies, Modern and Postmodern British Literature, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies

Current Projects:
-Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope (book under contract with Palgrave Macmillan)

-"Lessons from Elsewhere; or, Rethinking Democracy and Public Education in Lois Lowry's The Giver" (with Philip Kovacs)

-"'The Art of the Possible': Global Modernism as Badiouian Event"

Recent Publications:

-“‘Fictions Where a Man Could Live’: Worldlessness, Utopia, and the Void in Salman Rushdie’s Grimus.” Twentieth-Century Literature (Forthcoming)

-“‘A Presage of Horror’: Cacotopia, the Paris Commune, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts 52 (2010): 71-90.

-“‘The Only Way Out is Through’: Space, Narrative, and Utopia in Nalo Hopkinson’s Midnight Robber.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 42 (2009): 135-163.

-“‘Ambiguity at its Best’: Historicizing G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 40 (2009): 111-134.

-“‘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.