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Smith co-edits works, publishes chapter, and presents paper

Nov 8, 2024


Dr. Caitlin Smith, assistant professor of English, has co-edited with Jan Stievermann and Eddie Glaude Jr. two final manuscripts accepted for publication in spring 2025 by Oxford University Press.

They include:
  • “James W.C. Pennington: Essays Towards Rediscovering an African-American Intellectual,â€� which includes this chapter authored by Smith: “James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Christianity, and African-American Skepticism.â€�
  • “The Fugitive Blacksmith and Other Essential Writings of James W.C. Pennington,â€� critical edition, for which Smith and Glaude also wrote the critical introduction.
Additionally, Smith published a chapter titled “Skepticism in Melville’s Late Poetry� in “The Routledge Companion to Herman Melville,� edited by Cody Marrs and Brian Yothers, which will be available this winter by Routledge Press.

Smith also presented a paper titled “‘The history of nations is the history of individuals:’ James W.C. Pennington’s Vision of Black Self-Culture� at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Conference, Oct. 17-20, at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.