Biography and education
Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
M.A., English, University of Texas, Austin
B.A., English, Pomona College
M.A., English, University of Texas, Austin
B.A., English, Pomona College
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured grants
- Smith, Victoria L. Alkek Research Grant, Texas State, Texas State University. (Funded: 2006). Grant.

Featured scholarly/creative works
- Smith, V. L. (2015). “Highways of Desolation: The Road and Trash in Boys Don’t Cry and Monster.” South Central Review, 32(2), 131–150.
- Smith, V. L. (2011). “Our Serial Killers, Our Superheroes, and Ourselves: Showtime’s Dexter.” QRVF: Quarterly Review of Film and Video, (28.4), 390–400.
- Smith, V. L. (2006). “Ransacking the Language”: Finding the Missing Goods in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando”. Journal of Modern Literature., (29), 57–75.
- Smith, V. L. (1999). “A Story beside(s) Itself: The Language of Loss in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood.” PMLA, (114), 194–206.
- Smith, V. L. (2018). “The Heterotopias of Todd Haynes: Creating Space for Same Sex Desire in Carol.” Film Criticism, 42(1). https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/fc.13761232.0042.102
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: Signma Tau Delta Outstanding Professor. 2016
- Award / Honor Recipient: Liberal Arts Dean’s Award in Teaching. 2014
- Award / Honor Nominee: English Dept. Nominee Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching. 2014
- Award / Honor Recipient: Sigma Tau Delta Outstanding Professor. 2013
- Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi National College Honor Society “Favorite Professor”. 2013

Featured service activities
- Member
Advanced Studies Committee
- Co-Chair
Honor Code Council
- Member
Liberal Arts Curriculum Committee
- Member
U.S. Women Writers Search Committee
- Chair
Department of Englsih
- Chair
Faculty of Instruction Committee