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Curriculum Vitae

Name

• Dr. Jeffrey A. Smith

Department

• Department of English and American Studies
  Faculty of Arts
  Masaryk University
  Arna Nováka 1
  602 00 Brno, Czech Republic
  

Employment - Position

• Assistant Professor

Education and Academic Qualifications

• 2006: Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
• 1993: Master of Fine Arts, School of Theater, Film and Television, University of California at Los Angeles
• 1981: M.A., English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
• 1980: B.A. with High Distinction, English (minors: Humanities, German), Valparaiso University

Employment

• 2012-2013: Department of English and American Studies, University of Ostrava (Fulbright Lecturer)
• 2007: Department of Arts, Language and Literature, American University in Bulgaria (Fulbright Lecturer)
• 1999-2011: Center for Management Communication, University of Southern California (Assistant Professor, Senior Lecturer, Coordinator of Advanced Writing)
• 1987-1999: The Writing Programs, University of California at Los Angeles (Lecturer)
• 1990-1991: Magnolia Playhouse, North Hollywood, CA (Writer and Director in Residence)
• 1986-1987: Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University, Ohio (Instructor)
• 1985-1987: Canal Café Theatre, London, UK (Writer and Director in Residence)
• 1983-1984: Film Studies program, University of Chicago Extension (Instructor)
• 1981-1982: Department of English, University of Illinois at Chicago (Instructor)
• 1975-1984: Waukegan News-Sun, CBS-TV News and others (Reporter, Editor, Consultant)

Selected Courses and Teaching Activities

• Conspiracy and Paranoia in American Fiction and Culture
• Anglo-American Political Fiction, Film and Television
• Conspiracy and Paranoia in American Fiction and Culture
• Regional Cultures of North America
• American Literature: Beginnings to 1865
• Origins of American Races and Cultures
• Contemporary Issues in US and UK Culture and Politics
• Literature in Performance
• Shakespeare and American Literature
• Literary and Cultural Theory
• The Profession of English
• Bachelor's Thesis Seminars (supervisor)
  
  AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES:
• Cultural Geographies of the United States
• Shakespeare for Actors
• Introduction to the Study of Literature
• American Literature and Film of the Cold War
• The American Presidency in Literature, Film and Television
• Cultural Studies: Goals and Methods
• Popular Arts and Culture of the 1960s
• Mass Media and Popular Culture
• Media and Communication Studies
• The Films of Charlie Chaplin
• Great Film Comedies
• Communication Strategy in Management
• International Business Communication
• Specialized Writing (various disciplines)
• Thesis supervision: theses in literature, American Studies, cultural studies

Selected Lectures and Conference Participation

• INVITED LECTURES:
• "What Does Donald Trump Mean for Americanists?" Department of American Studies, University of Regensburg, Germany, June 2016.
• "Macbeth, or 'The Scottish Play': Legends, Lore, and Performance." Shakespeare Ostrava 2016 festival and Ostravská univerzita v Ostrave, April 2016.
• "The American Counterculture in Context." National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, April 2015.
• "Rhetoric and Ethics in Film and Literature." National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, April 2015.
• "Prophecies of Race War in American Popular Literature." Kruh moderních filologu (Czech Modern Language Association), Ostravská univerzita v Ostrave, April 2014.
• "Teaching Shakespeare in Secondary Schools." Department of English and American Studies, Ostravská univerzita v Ostrave, June 2013.
• “The ‘Cold Civil War’ in Contemporary America.” Kruh moderních filologu (Czech Modern Language Association), Ostravská univerzita v Ostrave, May 2013.
• “Race, Religion, and the American Presidency.” Keynote address, Fourth Annual Conference on Anglophone Studies, Univerzita Tomáše Bati ve Zlíne, September 2012.
• “Lessons from America’s Previous Minority Presidents.” Visiting Fellows’ Seminar, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University, October 2008.
• “Extra-Ordinary Physiques: Changing Images of the Presidency in the 1960s.” American Corner, University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria, May 2007.
• “The Rhetoric of Cultural Studies.” Department of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington at Tacoma, March 2006.
• “Can Popular Film and Television be Socially Critical?” Keynote address, Christ College Forum on Film and Society, Valparaiso University, October 1989.
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  CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PANELS:
• “How Attractive is European Education?” (panel chair). International Fulbright Conference Berlin Seminar, Berlin, March 2013.
• “Citizenship in Secret: Hidden Sites and the Contradictions of Black and White Nationalism.” Sites of Citizenship conference, King’s College, University of London, June 2011.
• “Secret Undergrounds: Black and White Responses to Racial Violence in Sutton Griggs and Thomas Dixon, Jr.” Modern Language Association, December 2009.
• “Cultural Studies and its Implications for Business, Law, and the Social Sciences.” Research Salon series, USC Center for Excellence in Research, October 2007.
• “Lords (and Ladies) of Misrule: Andrew Jackson and his Comic Doubles.” Modern Language Association / American Humor Studies Association, December 2004.
• “Models and Methods for In-class Group Projects.” Transforming Curricula for Today’s Students conference, University of Southern California Center for Excellence in Teaching and Center for Scholarly Technology, May 2003.
• Teaching Politically Without Political Correctness. Workshop organized with Gerald Graff and Donald Lazere, Conference on College Composition and Communication, April 1998.
• “Vietnam, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Space.” Modern Language Association, December 1990.
• “Caught in a Cul-de-Sac: The Institutionalizing of Film Studies.” Modern Language Association, December 1990.
• “The ‘MLA-izing’ of Composition: Teaching at Risk” (panel chair). Conference on College Composition and Communication, March 1990.
• “Tragi-Comic, Bitter and Sweet: Notes on British Theater.” Popular Culture Association, March 1987.
• “S.D.I. and Popular Culture.” Popular Culture Association of America, March 1987.
• “The Integrative Roles of Popular Culture” (panelist). Intercampus Conference on Integrative Studies, Bowling Green State University, 1986.
• “Saint Chuck: A Report on a Canon-ization in Progress” [on animator Chuck Jones and Warner Brothers cartoons]. Midwest Popular Culture Association, October 1986.
• “Psychology, Social Thought, and Chaplin: Notes on Modern Times.” Society for Cinema Studies, April 1984.

Fellowships and Scholarships

• 2012-2013: Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, the Czech Republic
• 2008: Visiting Research Fellowship, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University
• 2006-2007: Fulbright Teaching Fellowship, Bulgaria
• 1984-1985: Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship, the United Kingdom
• 1985: Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst summer scholarship, Germany
• 1981-1984: Department of English Full Tuition Fellowship, University of Chicago
• 1980-1981: Patricia Erdoss Maxwell Fellowship in English, University of Chicago

University Activities

• Artistic Director, The Gypsywood Players

Selected Activities Outside University

• Visiting Fellows’ Seminar, Rothermere American Institute, Oxford University
• Fulbright International Summer Institute, Bulgaria
• Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Non-Tenure-Track Faculty, University of Southern California
• Pew Charitable Trusts Working Group on Religion and Civic Culture, University of Southern California
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar on Global Security and Arms Control, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California at Santa Cruz
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Internationaler Ferienkurs, Philipps-Universität Marburg
• Fulbright, Marshall, and Mitchell Fellowship screening committees
• Editorial Advisory Board, College English (journal)

Awards for Writing and Teaching

• Editor’s Pick, Choice Magazine (for The Presidents We Imagine), 2009
• Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award 2006 finalist, University of Southern California Parents’ Association
• University of California – Los Angeles Intersorority Council Citation for Teaching Excellence
• National Society for Collegiate Journalists First Place for Editorial/Opinion Writing, and Literary Magazine of the Year
• Indiana Collegiate Press Association First Place for Essay Writing, and Literary Magazine of the Year

Major Publications

• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. “Where Genius dies” : The Debate over “Literary Deliquency” in the Early United States. In Crhová, Marie; Weiss, Michaela. Silesian Studies In English 2021. Proceedings of the 6th international conference of English and American studies, 9th-10th September 2021. Opava: Silesian University in Opava, 2023, s. 129-146. ISBN 978-80-7510-556-1. SILSE Proceedings info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. "Perpetual Scriptures" in Nineteenth-Century America : Literary, Religious and Political Quests for Textual Authority. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023, 304 s. Not specified. ISBN 978-1-5013-9895-7. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781501398988. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. “Just Folks?” : Jack Downing, The West Wing, and the Yankee Struggle for “Real America.”. In Cobb, Thomas; Akroyd, Olga. Presidents and Place : America’s Favorite Sons. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2023, s. 49-68. Not specified. ISBN 978-1-6669-1372-9. Publisher's listing info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Perpetual Scriptures : Quests for Textual Authority In Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. 2023. info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. The Essential Implausible : Implied Settings and Requisite Characters in Narrative Construction. In Hradec Králové Anglophone Conference 2023, 23-24 March 2023. 2023. info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. When Environmentalists Go Bad : The Racist Implications of Anti-Industrial Philosophy. In Perspectives on Ethnicity and the Environment in American Studies, 24th International Colloquium of American Studies & Biennial Conference of the Czech and Slovak Association for American Studies, October 5-6, 2023, University of Ostrava, Czechia. 2023. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. We Too Must Write Bibles : The Search for American Prophets and Sacred Scriptures in the EarIy United States. In Invited public lecture, lnstitute of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philosophy and Science, Silesian University in Opava. 2021. info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Fighting Heresy with Facts : The Spiritual Journalism of Harriet Beecher Stowe. In In/Outside the Frame Conference, 15th International Cultural Studies Conference & 4th International Conference on Linguistics and Language Teaching and Learning, 5th-6th November 2020, University of Pardubice, Pardubice. 2020. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Jack in the Churchyard : News and the Making of Walt Whitman’s Poetry. In 11th Brno International Conference of English, American and Canadian Studies : "Breaking the Boundaries : In Between Texts, Cultures and Conventions", 12–14 February, 2020, Brno, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University. 2020. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Things Appearing, Every Day: Walt Whitman and the Ubiquity of News. ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture. Washington State, USA: Washington State University, 2020, roč. 66, č. 1, s. 1-45. ISSN 0093-8297. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/esq.2020.0002. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Lincoln's Miniature Bible : Performing Sacred History in the Gettysburg Address. Brno Studies in English. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2019, roč. 45, č. 1, s. 171-189. ISSN 0524-6881. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.5817/BSE2019-1-11. Smith, "Lincoln's Miniature Bible" (Brno Studies in English) info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. The First American "Superspy" : Secret Agency and the Black Nation in Martin R. Delany's Blake. Online. In Crhová, Marie; Weiss, Michaela. Silesian Studies in English 2018 : Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of English and American Studies. Opava: Silesian University in Opava Faculty of Philosophy and Science Institute of Foreign Languages, 2019, s. 157-166. ISBN 978-80-7510-398-7. Silesian Studies in English 2018 info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Confidential Councils : Secrecy, Authority and Legitimacy in Early American Black Nationalism. In Secrets : 22nd International Colloquium of American Studies, September 12-14, 2019 Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia. 2019. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Love Letters. Brno: Brno English Speaking Theatre, 2018. info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. What Does Donald Trump Mean for Americanists? In Lehrstuhl for Amerikanistik Veranstaltungsankundigung, University of Regensburg. 2016. info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Macbeth, or "The Scottish Play" : Legends, Lore, and Performance. In Shakespeare Ostrava 2016 Festival, 28.4.2016, Ostrava. 2016. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. These Desponding Days : Emerson and America's Crisis of Textual Authority. Litteraria Pragensia. Praha: Ústav anglofonních literatur a kultur FF UK, 2014, roč. 24, č. 48, s. 79-93. ISSN 0862-8424. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. "What Works": Instrumentalism, Ideology, and Nostalgia in Post-Cold War Culture. In Blouin, Michael. The Silence of Fallout: Nuclear Criticism in a Post-Cold War World. Newcastle on Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, s. 16-44. ISBN 1-4438-4479-9. URL URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. The Chosen and The Choice: Race, Religion, and The 2012 US Presidential Campaign. In Bell, GJ; Nemcokova, K; Wojcik, B. From Theory to Practice 2012: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference On Anglophone Studies. 1st ed. Zlín: Tomáš Baťa University Zlín, 2013, s. 159-178. ISBN 978-80-7454-276-3. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. The Presidents We Imagine: Two Centuries of White House Fictions on the Page, on the Stage, Onscreen, and Online. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2009. ISBN 0-299-23184-4. URL URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Lords (and Ladies) of Misrule: Carnival, Satire and Doubling in the Age of Andrew Jackson. Studies in American Humor. Penn State University Press: American Humor Studies Association, 2005, s. 52-82. ISSN 0095-280X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac.22.1.85.16644. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Missing a Beat: Story-Making and the Absent President on September 11. European Journal of American Culture. 2003, roč. 22, č. 2, s. 85-102. ISSN 1758-9118. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac.22.1.85.16644. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. The L.A. Riots: A Case Study of Debate Across the Political Spectrum. In Laurence Behrens. Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum. 7. vyd. New York: Longman, 2000. ISBN 0-321-02397-8. info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Students' goals, gatekeeping, and some questions of ethics. College English. URBANA: NATL COUNCIL TEACHERS ENGLISH, 1997, roč. 59, č. 3, s. 299-320. ISSN 0010-0994. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/378379. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Why College? College English. 1996. ISSN 0010-0994. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. AGAINST ILLEGERACY - TOWARD A NEW PEDAGOGY OF CIVIC UNDERSTANDING. College Composition and Communication. URBANA: NATL COUNC TEACH ENG, 1994, roč. 45, č. 2, s. 200-219. ISSN 0010-096X. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/359006. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. BLOOM,ALLAN, ROSE,MIKE, AND GOODMAN,PAUL - IN SEARCH OF A LOST PEDAGOGICAL SYNTHESIS. College English. URBANA: NATL COUNCIL TEACHERS ENGLISH, 1993, roč. 55, č. 7, s. 721-744. ISSN 0010-0994. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/378427. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Unthinking the Unthinkable: Nuclear Weapons and Western Culture. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-253-35353-X. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Cultural Literacy and the Academic 'Left,' with Afterword. National Forum. Phi Kappa Phi, 1989, roč. 1989, Summer, s. 19-21. info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Cultural Literacy and the Academic ‘Left’. Profession. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1988, roč. 1988, s. 25-28. ISSN 0740-6959. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Reagan, Star Wars, and American Culture. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Chicago, IL, 1987, s. 19-25. ISSN 0096-3402. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00963402.1987.11459469. URL info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. 'His Girl Friday' in the Cell: A Case Study of Theatre-to-Film Adaptation. Literature/Film Quarterly. Salisbury, MD: Salisbury State University, 1985, roč. 13, č. 2, s. 72-76. ISSN 0090-4260. info
• SMITH, Jeffrey Alan. Careening through Kubrick's Space. Chicago Review. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago, 1981, roč. 33/1981, č. 1, s. 62-74. ISSN 0009-3696. URL info

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