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 finished his Ph.D. in English at the University of Florida, his MA in English at Mississippi State, and his BS in Language Arts at Athens State, where he taught last year.

Eric Smith’s teaching and research interests include Anglophone Postcolonial and Twentieth-century British literatures with emphasis upon the Irish, Caribbean, and sub-continental Indian novel. Dr. Smith has published widely on writers like James Joyce, Robert Antoni, and Ronald Wright in journals including Modern Fiction Studies, Critique, James Joyce Quarterly, Joyce Studies Annual, Papers on Joyce, ARIEL, and Journal of Commonwealth Literature. His 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 current research agenda includes an examination of anachronism, acoustics, and agency in Jamaican novelist Erna Brodber’s Louisiana; an investigation of the submerged dialogue with Indian nationalist discourse in G.V. Desani’s All About H. Hatterr; and a novelistic reading of Amitav Ghosh’s genre-defying In an Antique Land.