Doctor Valerie Smith, who has worked at Quinnipiac since 2001, is the Chair of the Department of English. Her areas of expertise include composition and rhetoric, creative nonfiction, twentieth-century American literature with a specialty in twentieth-century travel narratives, women’s literature, ethnic American literature, and postcolonial literature. Her work is informed by cultural studies, feminist/gender theory, new historicism, and postcolonial theory as well as by her interests in ethnography and philosophy.
Education
- BA, Wesleyan University
- MA, University of Connecticut
- PHD, University of Connecticut
Organization
- English
Office Location
- College of Arts & Sciences 1 312
Mail Drop
- CL-AC1