Dr. Eric Smith Professor, English Contact 1310 Ben Graves DriveMorton HallRoom 263Huntsville, AL 35899 Campus Map 256.824.2374eric.smith@uah.edu Biography Curriculum Vitae Education Ph.D., English, University of Florida, 2004 M.A., English, Mississippi State University, 2000 B.A., English, Athens State University, 1997 Expertise Postcolonial Studies Modern and Postmodern British Literature Critical Theory Cultural Studies Recent Publications “Seeds of Destruction: Naturalism, Hysteria, and the Beautiful Soul in Lewis Nkosi’s Mating Birds.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 7.2 (2020): 158-75. “Universal Love and Planetary Ontology: Beyond the Postcolonial in Vandana Singh’s Of Love and Other Monsters.” Science Fiction Studies (Forthcoming) “This Grave New World: Biopolitics and the Vampire Dystopia in Daybreakers” The Minnesota Review (Forthcoming) “States of Nostalgia in the Genre of the Future: Panem, Globalization, and Utopia in The Hunger Games Trilogy.” With Kylie J. Korsnack. Genre Settings: Spatiality and Popular Fiction. Ed. Lisa Fletcher. New York: Palgrave (forthcoming). “Feeling the 60s in the Age of Reagan: Failure, Repetition, and History in Eddie and the Cruisers.” Literature / Film Quarterly 43.1 (2015): 46-63. “Bacchanal or Missa Solemnis? Shame, Symmetry, and Late Style in Robert Antoni’s Carnival.” The Journal of West Indian Literature 22.1 (2013): 7-32. “‘Fictions Where a Man Could Live’: Worldlessness, Utopia, and the Void in Salman Rushdie’s Grimus.” Twentieth-Century Literature 58.2 (2012): 267-95. Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.