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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