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Philip Smith

Chair, liberal arts

Education

  • Ph.D., English, Loughborough University
  • M.A., modern and contemporary writing, Loughborough University
  • B.A., English, Loughborough University

Credentials

  • Associate chair of liberal arts and professor of English, 2019–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
    Part of a three-person leadership team overseeing 68 faculty. Responsible for recruitment, faculty appraisals, mentoring colleagues, onboarding new hires, scheduling classes, quarterly teaching workshops, syllabus alignment, and policy implementation. 2/2/2 course load teaching Composition, Creative Writing, and English Literature classes online asynchronous, virtual, on ground, and hybrid. Department liaison for SCADpro, SCAD's research and business partnership division. Voting member of the curriculum council. Lead role in curriculum development including overseeing new class proposals and identifying courses for revision and retirement. Involved in Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation.
  • Editor in chief, 2020–present, Literature Compass
    Responsible for recruiting section editors, making the final editorial decision on each submission, setting editorial policy, and representing the journal to external and internal stakeholders.
  • Assistant professor, 2016–19, University of the Bahamas Nassau, Bahamas
    4/4 course load teaching Composition and Rhetoric, Popular Fiction, Introduction to Film, Special Topics in English Literature, Introduction to the Graphic Novel, and Children's Literature asynchronous and on ground. Served on the research and publication support, Tamarind student journal, Lucayos journal, Community Read, Bahamas Literature festival, UB Acting Club, and ethics committees. Launched, taught, and successfully raised funds for the ongoing Shakespeare Behind Bars project at the Correctional Facility at Fox Hill.

Organizations

  • Editorial board member, International Journal of Bahamian Studies
  • Treasurer and Executive Committee Member, the Comics Studies Society
  • Asian Shakespeare Association
  • Children's Literature Association
  • Comics Study Society
  • Modern Languages Association
  • Shakespeare Association of America

Publications and presentations

Books

  • Printing Terror: American Horror Comics as Cold War Commentary and Critique, Manchester University Press, 2021.
  • Shakespeare in Singapore, Routledge, 2020.
  • Reading Art Spiegelman, Routledge, 2015.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  • "The Empty Stage in Edward Hopper's Early Sunday Morning, Girlie Show, and Two Comedians," European Journal of American Studies, 16.1, 2021.
  • "The Holocaust and the Shadow Text of Anna and the Swallow Man," Holocaust and Genocide Studies, 35.1, 2021.
  • "Shakespeare Criticism and Performance in Children's Literature: In Summer Light and Becca Fair and Foul," Jeunesse, 12.2, 2020.
  • "Paddington Bear and the Erasure of Difference," Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 41.1, 2020.
  • "Security and Identity in Jewish Utopias of the Late Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries," Utopian Studies, 30.3, 2019.
  • "Where There Is Life: Science Fiction in Singapore," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2019.
  • "'Getting Arno': The New Yorker cartoon caption competition," Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2019.
  • "The American Yeoman in Andy Weir's The Martian," Science Fiction Studies, 183, 2019.

Conference papers

  • "The Arcade as Liminal Space," presented at Marvel Comics' Children's Literature Association, June 10, 2021.
  • "Asian Shakespeare Performance in Colonial Singapore," presented at Asian Shakespeare Association, Seoul, Nov. 5, 2020.
  • "Early Holocaust Narratives in Comics," presented at Comics Studies Society, Toronto, Ontario, July 26, 2019.
  • "Th' infernal journey: Sandro Botticelli's Illustrations to the Divine Comedy as Graphic Narrative," presented at Southeastern Medieval Association, Nassau, Bahamas, Nov. 9, 2018.
  • "The Pinup, the Monster, and the War," presented at Comics Studies Society, Urbana-Champaign, Ill., Sept. 9, 2018.
  • "Horst Rosenthal's Picture Book Testimony," presented at Graphic Realities conference, Giessen, Germany, Feb. 23, 2018.
  • "Thieves–Who Are They?" presented at Our Prisoners conference, University of the Bahamas, Nassau, Oct. 4, 2017.
  • "Macbeth and the Hurricane," presented at Caribbean Studies Association, July 15, 2017.
  • "Un Livre Pour Enfants' Rosenthal’s Mickey au Camp de Gurs as picture book," presented at Canadian Society for the Study of Comics, Toronto, Ontario, May 11, 2017.