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Erin A. Smith Education
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Grants and Fellowships Fellow, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC, 2002-03 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, summer 2002 Louisville Institute Summer Stipend, summer 2002 Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, 1991-96 Academic Honors and Awards Best Paper Prize, Religion and American Culture Caucus of the American Studies Association, 2004 Anthony Award Finalist (best critical or scholarly work about mysteries), 2001 Teacher of the Year, School of General Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, 1998-99 Women’s Studies Graduate Scholar, Duke University, 1994-97 Rhodes Scholarship nominee for Illinois, 1991 Alumni Distinguished Scholarship (full merit scholarship), Michigan State University, 1987-91 National Merit Scholarship, 1987-91 Phi Beta Kappa, 1989 Publications: Work-in-Progress What Would Jesus Read?: Scenes of Religious Reading and Writing in 20th-Century America, book ms. Books Hard-Boiled: Working-Class Readers and Pulp Magazines. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2000. Articles and Essays “The Religious Book Club: Print Culture, Consumerism and the Spiritual Life of American Protestants Between the Wars.” Religion and the Culture of Print in America. Ed. Charles L. Cohen and Paul S. Boyer. Madison, WI: U of Wisconsin P, 2008. 217-42. "'What Would Jesus Do?': The Social Gospel and the Literary Marketplace," Book History 10 (2007): 193-221. “’Jesus, My Pal’: Reading and Religion in Middlebrow America,” Canadian Review of American Studies 37.2 (2007): 147-81. ”Melodrama, Popular Religion, and Literary Value: The Case of Harold Bell Wright,” American Literary History 17.2 (summer 2005): 217-43. “’Both a woman and a complete professional’: Women Readers and Women’s Hard-boiled Detective Fiction.” Reading Sites: Social Difference and Reader Response. Ed. Patrocinio P. Schweickart and Elizabeth A. Flynn. New York: Modern Language Association P, 2004. 189-220. “Some Thoughts on Privilege, Oppression, and the World in the Classroom.” Radical Teacher 68 (2003): 23-26. "'The ragtag and bobtail of the fiction parade': Pulp Magazine Fiction and the
Literary Marketplace." Scorned Literature: Essays on the History and Criticism of
Popular Mass-Produced Fiction in America. Ed. Lydia Schurman and Deidre Johnson.
Greenwood P, 2001. 123-45. Book and Exhibition Reviews *Rev. of Everything Was Better in America: Print Culture in the Great Depression by David Welky. Journal of American History, forthcoming. Rev. of Cruising Modernism: Class and Sexuality in American Literature and Social Thought by Michael Trask. Journal of the History of Sexuality 15.1 (Jan. 2006): 151-56. Rev. of In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes, Skyscraper by Faith Baldwin, and The Girls in 3-B by Valerie Taylor. Femspec 7.1 (fall 2006). Rev. of Having a Good Cry: Effeminate Feelings and Pop-Culture Forms by Robyn R. Warhol. Femspec 6.2 (spring 2006). Rev. of Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in America by David Paul Nord. American Periodicals 16.1 (2006): 115-17. Rev. of The Street Was Mine: White Masculinity in Hardboiled Fiction and Film Noir by Megan E. Abbott. Studies in the Novel 37.2 (summer 2005): 235-37. Rev. of Girls and Literacy in America: Historical Perspectives to the Present ed. by Jane Greer. SHARP News 13.4 (Autumn 2004), 7. Rev. of Religion and the American Nation: Historiography and History by John F. Wilson. H-AmRel@h-net.msu.edu (July 2004). Rev. of Welcome to the Dreamhouse: Popular Media and Postwar Suburbs by Lynn Spigel. American Quarterly 54.2 (June 2002): 359-67. Rev. of The Politics of Women's Studies: Testimony from 30 Founding Mothers, ed. by Florence Howe. Femspec 3.2 (spring 2002): 114-17. Rev. of Creating the Modern Man: American Magazines and Consumer Culture, 1900-1950
by Tom Pendergast. Journal of American History (December 2001):
1128-29. Articles in Reference Volumes *"Religion and Popular Print Culture." U.S. Popular Print Culture, 1860-1920. Ed. Christine Bold. New York: Oxford UP, forthcoming. *”Pulp Fiction.” Dictionary of American History Dynamic Reference. Ed. Gary Cross, Robert Maddox, and William Pencak. New York: Scribner’s, forthcoming. ”Christian Fiction.” Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests. 6th ed. By Diana Tixier Herald. Ed. Wayne A. Wiegand. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006. 465-73. ”Crime.” Genreflecting: A Guide to Reading Interests. 6th ed. By Diana Tixier Herald. Ed. Wayne A. Wiegand. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2006. 137-45. “Genre Reading.” Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America. Ed. Gary S. Cross. New York: Scribner’s, 2004. Vol. I, 391-95. "Book Clubs." Encyclopedia of American Studies. Ed. George Kurian. New
York: Grolier, 2001. 249-52. Conference Papers *"American Popular Books and Religious Identity Narratives: The Case of Late Great Planet Earth." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, 3 Nov. 2008. "Translating/Exporting 'The American Way': Religious Self-Help Literature and Cold-War Containment." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Annual Meeting. Oxford, UK, 27 June 2008. "'The Cult of Reassurance': Religious Self-Help Literature in the Cold-War United States." Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL, 27 Dec. 2007. "Books for the Seeker: Liberal Religion and the Literary Marketplace in the 1990s." American Studies Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA, 14 Oct. 2007. "'The Fourth Great Awakening' and the Literary Marketplace: Religious Readers and Periodicals in Cold-War America." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MN, 14 July 2007. "Liberal Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and the World: Reading 'America's Preacher' at Home and Abroad." American Studies Annual Meeting. Oakland, CA, 11 Oct. 2006. ”Reading The Da Vinci Code: Heresy, Conspiracy and the Sacred Feminine.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC, 3 Nov. 2005. ”’What Would Jesus Do?’ Reading and Religion in Turn-of-the-Century America.” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing Annual Meeting. Halifax, NS, 16 July 2005. “Readers and Heretics: The New Gnosticism and Spiritual Community.” American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA, 11 Nov. 2004. “The Religious Book Club: Print Culture, Consumerism and the Spiritual Life of American Protestants Between the Wars.” Religion and the Culture of Print in America. Madison, WI, 10 Sept. 2004. "Religious Renaissance and the Literary Marketplace: the 1920s." American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Hartford, CT, 17 Oct. 2003. "Jesus and the Middlebrow: Reader Letters to Bruce Barton." Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing Annual Meeting. Claremont, CA, 11 July 2003. Chair and commentator. “’Certain Dangerous Tendencies’: Nineteenth-Century American Working-Class Culture.” Modern Language Association Annual Meeting. New York, NY, 28 Dec. 2002 "Muscular Christianity, Commerce, and Literary Value: The Case of Harold Bell Wright." American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. Toronto, ON, 23 Nov. 2002. Chair and panel organizer. "Education Without Borders: Building Academy/Community Partnerships." American Studies Association Annual Meeting. Houston, TX, 15 Nov. 2002. "'The Decade of the Soul': Spirituality, Self-Help, and the
Literary Marketplace in the 1990s." American Studies Association Annual
Meeting. Washington, D.C., 9 Nov. 2001. "What Would Jesus Read?: Popular Books and Religious Readers in Contemporary America." Literature, Book History, and the Anxiety of Disciplinarity: A Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation. Ben-Gurion University, Beersheva, Israel, 3 July 2008. "Reading, Heresy, and the Culture Wars: The New Gnosticism and Spiritual Community." English and Religion Depts., Arizona State University. Tempe, AZ, 8 Mar. 2006. "Mass-market Print Culture." The Book in America: Economic Aspects of the Material Text lecture series. University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA, 3 Mar. 2006. “Reading and Religion: Twentieth-Century American Religious Bestsellers.” Duke Institute for Learning in Retirement Lecture Series. Durham, NC, 28 Jan. 2003. "Gender and Education." American Association of University Women, Dallas chapter. Dallas, TX, 18 Feb. 2002. "Gender in the Mean Streets." Bouchercon 2001 presentation. Washington D.C., 1 Nov. 2001. Book signing. Barnes & Noble. Richardson, TX, 5 Aug. 2000.
Teaching Interests American Literature and Culture Educational Equity Programming / Experience Discussion Facilitator. "Respect," GLSEN Greenhill School Teacher Training. Dallas, TX, 22 Aug. 2003. Discussion Group Leader. "What Difference Does Difference Make?" Duke University 1997 Symposium on Diversity. Durham, NC, 28 Feb. - 1 Mar. 1997. Discussion Facilitator. "Changing the Scene: Teaching and Learning in Multicultural Classrooms," Duke University. Durham, NC, 28-29 Mar. 1996. Graduate Assistant. "Lessons from the Majority: Women's Studies for Higher Education," Appalachian State University. Boone, NC, 6-7 Oct. 1994. Working Group. "Gender, Body, Self," Duke University. Durham, NC, summer 1993. Professional Service To the Profession Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing liaison to the American Studies Association, 2008 - NEH Review Panelist, “Humanities Projects in the Media” and “America’s Media Makers,” 2002, 2008 NEH Summer Stipend Review Panelist, 2002, 2003, 2006 Fellowship Application Reviewer, National Humanities Center, 2003, 2004, 2005 Representative, American Studies Association Women’s Committee, 1999-2002 (Chair 2001-02) Organizer/Facilitator for the Dallas Area Social History Circle (DASH), 2001-02 Advisory Editor, St. James Encyclopedia of 20th-Century Popular Culture (2000) Chair, American Studies Association Wise-Susman Prize Committee, 1999 Manuscript Reviewer for American Quarterly, American Studies, Book History, Gender & Society, Library Quarterly, Oxford UP, SUNY P, U of Illinois P, U of Kansas P, U of Wisconsin P To the University UTD Committee on Diversity and Equity, 2006- (Vice-Chair 2007- ) UTD Galerstein Women’s Center Advisory Board, 2005- UTD McDermott Scholars Faculty Fellow, 2000- Tenure Review Committee, Sheryl Skaggs, School of Economic, Political, and Policy Sciences, UTD, 2008 Pre-Tenure Review Committee, Danielle Lavin-Loucks, School of Social Sciences, UTD, 2005 Pre-Tenure Review Committee, Melinda Kane, School of Social Sciences, UTD, 2004 Tenure Committee, Adrienne McLean, School of Arts & Humanities, UTD, 2003 Hiring Committee, UTD Women’s Volleyball Coach, 2003 UTD Core Committee for the Support of Women and Minorities, 2000-02 UTD Academic Senate, 2000-01 UTD Committee on Educational Policy, 1998-2000 Planning Committee, 2nd and 3rd Annual North Texas United Nations Conference on the Status of Women, UTD, 1998 and 1999 Women’s Studies Graduate Curriculum Review Committee, Duke University, 1992-93 Literature Program Representative, Graduate & Professional Student Council, Duke University, 1991-92 College of Arts and Letters Educational Policies
Committee, Michigan State University, 1990-91 Memberships
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