Sharon Smith

CV

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Education

Ph.D. in English literature with Gender and Women’s Studies certificate, University of Illinois at Chicago (Chicago, Illinois)

M.A. in English literature, University of Georgia (Athens, Georgia)

B.A. in English, Augsburg College (Minneapolis, Minnesota)

Academic Interests

British literature and culture of the long eighteenth century, women's writing, satire, literary theory and the Western.

Awards and Honors

South Dakota State University Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring, 2020-2021

Professional Memberships

Modern Language Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
British Women Writers Association

Area(s) of Research

Selected Publications:

"Fierce Allegories: Teaching Anne Finch's Fables in a Course on Satire." ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, vol. 13, no. 2, 2023, https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol13/iss2/5/.

"Black Lives, White Witnesses: An Argument for a Presentist Approach to Teaching Aphra Behn's Oroonoko." ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, vol. 13, no. 1, 2023, https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol13/iss1/8.

"The Pleasures of Satire in the Fables of Anne Finch." British Women Satirists in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Amanda Hiner and Elizabeth Tasker-Davis (Cambridge University Press, 2022), 98-112.

“Elizabeth Gunning, The Farmer’s Boy”; “Elizabeth Gunning, The War-Office”; and “Margaret Minifie or Susannah Gunning, The Union.” The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, edited by April London (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

“Of Partners and Posses: Masculine Camaraderie in the Modern Western/Action Film.” Co-authored with Jason McEntee. The Twenty-First-Century Western: New Riders of the Cinematic Stage, edited by Douglas Brode and Shea T. Brode (Lexington, 2019), 171-184.

“‘I Cannot Harm Thee Now’: The Ethic of Satire in Anna Barbauld’s Mock-Heroic Poetry.” European Romantic Review 26, no. 5 (2015): 551-573.

“Defoe’s The Complete English Tradesman and the Prostitute Narrative: Minding the Shop in Mrs. Elizabeth Wisebourn, Sally Salisbury, and Roxana.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 15, no. 2 (2015): 27-57.

“Juba’s ‘Black Face’/Lady Delacour’s ‘Mask’: Plotting Domesticity in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda.” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 54, no. 1 (2013): 71-90.

“The Good Effects of a Whimsical Study: Romance and Women’s Learning in Charlotte Lennox’s The Female Quixote.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 18, no. 2 (2006): 203-228.