Scholarly and Creative Works
2018
- 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
2015
- 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.
2013
- Smith, V. L. (2013, May 8). Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship [Review of Dark Borders: Film Noir and American Citizenship, by J. Auerbach]. QRVF: Quarterly Review of Film and Video.
2011
- 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. (2011). Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf [Review of Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, by G. McIntire]. Modern Fiction Studies.
- Smith, V. L. (2011). Improper Modernism: Djuna Barnes’s Bewildering Corpus [Review of Improper Modernism: Djuna Barnes’s Bewildering Corpus, by D. Caselli]. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers.
2008
- Smith, V. L. (2008). “Generative Melancholy: Women’s Loss and Literary Representation.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, (41.4), 93–110.
2006
- Smith, V. L. (2006). “Ransacking the Language”: Finding the Missing Goods in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando”. Journal of Modern Literature., (29), 57–75.
2005
- Smith, V. L., & Jarratt, S. (2005). “Women, Gender, Writing, Rhetoric: A Selected Bibliography.” Peitho: Newsletter of Women Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, (9), 1–7.
2002
- Smith, V. L. (2002). “The Attack of the Fifty Foot Women or How (White, Anglo-American) Feminism Went From Jouissance to Melancholy.” Gender Forum: An Internet Platform for Gender and Women’s Studies, (1). Retrieved from http://www.genderforum.uni-koeln.de
1999
- Smith, V. L. (1999). “A Story beside(s) Itself: The Language of Loss in Djuna Barnes’s Nightwood.” PMLA, (114), 194–206.
1997
- Smith, V. L. (1997). “Starting From Snatch: The Seduction of Performance in Bertha Harris’s Lover.” Genders, (25), 68–94.