Interdisciplinary Humanities: The Dynamic Relationship between Teaching &

Research

Amy C. Smith Associate Professor of English

Don & Diane Shaver Distinguished Faculty Fellow

Five Intersections of Teaching & Scholarship

1. Advanced and graduate courses inspired by scholarly projects

2. Honors theses and undergraduate research linked to scholarly

pursuits

3. Course design and revisions, assignment creation, and learning

activities in response to the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

(SoTL)

4. The invention of scholarly projects out of classroom teaching

5. SoTL projects based on course and assignment design

Mentored Undergraduate Research Projects Shifting representations of nature in Romantic and Victorian poetry: spirituality and science

• Fully-funded PhD student at LSU, plans to publish article based on thesis

Tennyson’s “Ulysses” and “The Lotos-Eaters” as expressions of Victorian heroism

• Grant recipient, funded study abroad in Victorian studies, two presentations at conferences, graduate school applications in process

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man: the role of music and spirituality in African American identity construction

• Undergraduate research conference presentation, graduate school applications in process

African-American Literature and Music: Invisible Man• Graduate school admission, decision about which graduate programs to pursue

Myth in Modern Poetry• Graduate school admission, undergraduate research conference presentation, publication of

poetry, teaching experience