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
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