
Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Writing
Languages, Literatures, and Writing, English
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)
Courses Taught
- ENG 111: Rhetoric and Composition
- ENG 124: Introduction to Fiction
- ENG 220: Literature and Film
- ENG 232: Women Writers
- EGS 495: Capstone in English Studies
Research Interests
- 19th-Century Literature and Culture
- Women's Writing
- Transatlantic Studies
- Issues in Higher Education
Selected Publications
Books
- Representing Rural Women. Ed. with Margaret Thomas-Evans Lexington Press, 2019.
- Race and Transatlantic Identities. Ed. Elizabeth Kenney and Sirpa Salenius. Routledge, 2017.
Articles/Chapters
- “Transformative Change at Miami University's Regional Campuses.” 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.” 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. Reprinted in Race and Transatlantic Identities. Routledge, 2017.
- “Nontraditional Honors.” 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
- Distinguished Service Award, Miami University, 2022
- Prodesse Quam Conspici Award for Servant Leadership, Miami University, 2022
- Outstanding Educator Award, Cincy Magazine, 2019
- Faculty Achievement in Academic 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 Teaching Award, Miami University Hamilton, 2004