Whitney Womack Smith

Education

• Ph.D. British and American Literature, Purdue University (1999)
• M.A. English, University of Missouri-Columbia (1993)
• B.A. English, University of Missouri-Columbia (1991)

Teaching Interests

• 19th-Century Women's Literature 
• Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Feminist Literary Theory
• Composition

Research Interests

• 19th-Century Transatlantic Literary Studies
• American Women Writers, particularly Harriet Beecher Stowe  and Rebecca Harding Davis
• Fame and Celebrity in the 19th Century

Selected Publications

Edited Volumes

• Representing Rural Women, co-edited with Margaret Thomas-Evans. Lexington Press, 2019. 
• Race and Transatlantic Identities, co-edited with Elizabeth Kenney and Sirpa Salenius. Routledge, 2017. 

Articles/Chapters

• "Transformative Change at Miami University's Regional Campuses" co-authored with Cathy Bishop-Clark, Moira Casey, and Marianne Cotugno. Academic Labor Beyond the College Classroom: Working for Our Values. Ed. Kirsti Cole and Holly Hassel. Routledge, 2019.
• "Codes of Kinship: Rural Poverty and Female Resilience in Winter's Bone" co-authored with H. Louise Davis. Representing Rural Women. Ed. Margaret Thomas-Evans and Whitney Womack Smith. Lexington Press, 2019. 99-110.
• "‘Blind Tom' Abroad: Race, Disability, and Transatlantic Representations of Thomas Wiggins." Journal of Transatlantic Studies. 14.2 (2016): 164-75. 
• "Nontraditional Honors," co-authored with Janice Kinghorn. Lead essay in special issue on "Honors and the Nontraditional Student." Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 14.1 (2013): 15-22.
• "Stowe, Gaskell, and the Woman Reformer." Transatlantic Stowe. Ed. Emily Todd, Denise Kohn, and Sarah Meer. University of Iowa Press, 2006. 89-110.
• "Reforming Women's Reform Literature: Rebecca Harding Davis's Rewriting of the Industrial Novel." Our Sisters' Keepers: Theories of Poverty Relief in the Work of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers. Ed. Debra Bernardi and Jill Bergman. University of Alabama Press, 2005. 105-31. 

Awards and Grants

• Cincy Magazine, Outstanding Educator Award, 2019
• Faculty Achievement in Advising Award, Miami Regionals, 2017
• YWCA Hamilton Outstanding Woman of Achievement for Higher Education, 2014
• Excellence in Service Award, Miami University Hamilton, 2011
• Celebration of Teaching Award, Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities, 2004
• Excellence in Full-Time Teaching Award, Miami University Hamilton, 2004

Work in Progress

Whitney Womack Smith is currently working on an edited volume emerging from the Transatlantic Women III conference in Dublin, Ireland.