|
LEONORA SMITH
Associate Professor
Writing, Rhetoric, and American Cultures
517/353-1996 (office); 517/353-5250 (fax)
teaching interests: imagination and invention in writing, writing and
women's issues, American women's poetry and fiction, writing and issues of
access, social reform, and community outreach
course: WRA 140 Writing: Women in America; WS 201: Introduction to Women's Studies
Smith has a dual PhD in English (College of Arts & Letters) and in Curriculum (College of Education) from MSU, with an emphasis on research in the teaching of writing at the college level and above. She has been awarded creative writing grants from the Michigan Council for the Arts (fiction); the Virginia Studio Center; the Atlantic Center for the Arts; the Banff Centre for the Arts; and from MSU. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Contemporary Michigan Poetry, Alaska Quarterly Review, Exquisite Corpse, and Nimrod. A collection of her poetry, Spatial Relations, was published in 2001 (Michigan State University Press). She won the 2002 Gwendolyn Brooks poetry prize (Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature) for “Purple,” written with support from her 2001 IRGP grant.
Smith's research interests in theoretical issues related to writing are rooted in her own practice as a writer, teacher, and editor: curricula and educational theory in rhetoric and writing; American poetry; American women writers. She has worked as a free-lance writer for government and industry (print and film); as editor of Muses (the alumni magazine of the College of Arts & Letters); and as associate editor for Years Press. She is on the editorial board of Fourth Genre.
Smith has been involved in many campus writing initiatives, including Project Write, the Writing Center, and the FIPSE project for writing in the sciences. Her scholarly work on the teaching of writing has appeared in English Journal, Writers in the Classroom, and Writers Groups; Smith has given many papers (CCCC, AWP, NCTE) on writing. She teaches the Tier 1 course Writing: Women in America; her students participate in the New York Times Readership Program. She is currently teaching AL 308 Invention in Writing. She has taught Introduction to Women’s Studies and graduate courses for public school teachers, including courses in philosophy of education and creativity in education. Her teaching experience includes seminars, courses and workshops in college and in the community: fiction and poetry writing, workplace writing, life writing and writing from dream imagery. She will be teaching AL 355 Writing for Publication Workshop in Fall 2003.
|
