Nov 08, 2024
Dr. Caitlin Smith, assistant professor of English, has co-edited with Jan Stievermann and Eddie Glaude Jr. two final manuscripts accepted for publication in spring 2025 by Oxford University Press.
They include:
- βJames W.C. Pennington: Essays Towards Rediscovering an African-American Intellectual,β which includes this chapter authored by Smith: βJames W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Christianity, and African-American Skepticism.β
- βThe Fugitive Blacksmith and Other Essential Writings of James W.C. Pennington,β critical edition, for which Smith and Glaude also wrote the critical introduction.
Additionally, Smith published a chapter titled βSkepticism in Melvilleβs Late Poetryβ in βThe Routledge Companion to Herman Melville,β edited by Cody Marrs and Brian Yothers, which will be available this winter by Routledge Press.
Smith also presented a paper titled ββThe history of nations is the history of individuals:β James W.C. Penningtonβs Vision of Black Self-Cultureβ at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Conference, Oct. 17-20, at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.