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Whitney Womack-Smith

Biography

Whitney Womack Smith studies and teaches nineteenth-century literature, women’s writing, and transatlantic studies. She has been recognized with awards for teaching, service, advising, and leadership, including ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University’s Distinguished Service Award and the YWCA Hamilton's Outstanding Woman of Achievement Award. She serves as the President of ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University's Iota of Ohio chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.

Education and Background

• 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 ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú 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, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University, 2022
• Prodesse Quam Conspici Award for Servant ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉúhip, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University, 2022
• Outstanding Educator Award, Cincy Magazine, 2019
• Faculty Achievement in Academic Advising Award, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú Regionals, 2017
• YWCA Hamilton Outstanding Woman of Achievement for Higher Education, 2014
• Excellence in Service Award, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Hamilton, 2011
• Celebration of Teaching Award, Greater Cincinnati Consortium of Colleges and Universities, 2004
• Excellence in Teaching Award, ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú University Hamilton, 2004