Dr. Eric Smith

Professor, English

Contact

1310 Ben Graves Drive
Morton Hall
Room 263
Huntsville, AL 35899
Campus Map

256.824.2374
eric.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.