David L Smith
John W Chandler,
Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century
Professor of EnglishE-mail: David.L.Smith@williams.edu
Phone: (413) 597-2547
EDUCATION:
BA: New College, Florida, 1974; PhD: U of Chicago, 1980.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Introduction to Afro-American Writing; Southern Fiction/ Southern Fictions;
The Black Arts Movement, Culture, Criticism, Praxis; Nature Writing.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Edited: The Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 1995;
Poems
(D.L. Crockett-Smith): Cowboy Amok, (1987); Civil Rites, (1996); Articles:
:Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse: in Mark Twain: A Collection
of Critical Essays; "Black Arts Movement and Its Critics," in
The American Literary History Reader, (1995); "Afterword," to
Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain (Oxford, 1996).
PROGRAM CONNECTIONS:
Afro-American Studies.
PRIMARY FIELDS OF INTEREST:
Race and Culture, Black Arts Movement, Mark Twain, Wendell Berry.
OTHER INTERESTS:
Music, Comic Books, Marxist Theory, NatureWriters