Faculty Profiles

Dr. Victoria L Smith

Ph.D., History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
M.A., English, University of Texas, Austin
B.A., English, Pomona College

PhD in History of Consciousness

Univ of California, Santa Cruz, 1994

MA in English

University of Texas at Austin, 1987

BA in English

Pomona College, 1982

Smith, Victoria L. Alkek Research Grant, Texas State, Texas State University. (Funded: 2006). Grant.

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

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