Judy R. Smith joined the Kenyon faculty in 1979. She teaches a broad range of classes in American literature and culture as well as classes in women's and gender studies. Her courses are regularly cross-listed in American Studies. Her scholarly interests include Hawthorne and Melville, American Victorian Literature and Culture, American Indian Literature and Culture, and the modernist art movements of the 1920s era. She has served the College as chair of the English department, as chair of the Academic Standards Committee, and as member of the Faculty Affairs Committee and the Curricular Policy Committee.

Areas of Expertise

American literature, American studies, women's and gender studies

Education

Ph.D Indiana University
M.A. Indiana University
B.A. Connecticut College

Courses Taught

English 270 American Fiction
English 382 Jazz Age
English 383 American Indian Literature
English 384 Twentieth-Century American Self-Representations
English 372 Gilded Age
English 497 Honors Seminar
WMNS 333 Language, Gender and Power