Jennifer Smith
Professor of Spanish; Associate Dean for Research, Budget, and Personnel
Office: Faner 3032
Phone: (618) 536-5571
Email: smithjen@siu.edu
CV
Dr. Jennifer Smith received her Ph.D. in Hispanic Literature from Indiana University. Her main area of research is late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Iberian literature and culture, with a special focus on medical discourses on gender and sexuality and their dialog with literary works. Her research also explores questions of race and class. She has published four books: Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-siècle Spain (Vanderbilt UP, 2021, author), Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change (Bucknell UP, 2018, editor), Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Fin-de-Siècle Spanish Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2017, co-editor with Lisa Nalbone), and Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Insolación (Cervantes & Co., 2011, editor). She has also authored numerous articles and book chapters.
Recent Books
Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-siècle Spain. Vanderbilt UP, June 2021. https://www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/9780826501868/women-mysticism-and-hysteria-in-fin-de-siecle-spain/
Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change: Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder. Bucknell UP, 2018. https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/modern-spanish-women-as-agents-of-change/9781684480326
Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Fin-de-Siècle Spanish Literature and Culture. Routledge, 2017. (co-editor with Lisa Nalbone)
https://www.routledge.com/Intersections-of-Race-Class-Gender-and-Nation-in-Fin-de-siecle-Spanish/Smith-Nalbone/p/book/9780367346614
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Academia.edu: https://siu.academia.edu/JenniferSmith
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