The department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGS) is composed of administrators, a Program Advisory Committee (PAC) and Teaching Faculty.

WGS Administrators oversee planning, programming, and day-to-day operations.

The WGS Program Advisory Committee (PAC) is made up of faculty and staff who consult on curricular matters, choose scholarship and award winners, and advise on vision and programming.

The WGS Teaching Faculty includes numerous faculty members (from several colleges at UAH) who teach classes designated as Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies courses.

 

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

  • Figuring the Contemporary in U.S. Popular Cinema: Genre, History, Event. London, UK: Bloomsbury [Forthcoming] 

  • Postcolonial Naturalism: Periodization, World-Literature, and the Anglophone Novel. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool UP, 2023. 

  • Globalization, Utopia, and Postcolonial Science Fiction: New Maps of Hope. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.