Grace Elizabeth (Betty) Smith
CONTACT INFORMATION
Grace Elizabeth Smith
Office: 214-818-1340
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1996–present Associate Professor of English and Composition, Criswell College, Dallas, TX
1991–1996 Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
EDUCATION
1998 Ph.D., University of North Texas, Denton, TX
1993 M.A., English, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
1991 B.A., English, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, TX, Magna Cum Laude
Graduate course work includes three doctoral seminars in Literature
Reading knowledge of Spanish, French, and Latin
SCHOLARSHIP
The Gift, the Grief and the Glory, published in 2005.
“‘Chiefly About War Matters’: Hawthorne’s Swift Judgment of Lincoln” published in June 2002 issue of American Transcendental Quarterly.
The Opened Letter: Rereading Hawthorne, doctoral dissertation, published and copyrighted in December 1998, on narration in the newly published Nathaniel Hawthorne Letters.
Articles submitted for publication and those about to be submitted:
“The Artistic Jeremiad”
“The Nature of Faith”
“Ambiguity in the Prefaces: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Master Deceiver”
Led Christian philosophy seminars
Spoke at motivational conferences
SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES OF SERVICE
To the College:
Academic Cabinet
Faculty Handbook Revision Committee
Student Development Committee
Worship Leadership planning Committee
SACS Evaluation Committee
Library Committee
Committee on Faculty
To the Community:
Mississippi Foster Care Review Board
Edited and published weekly church newsletter
Wrote a column for a weekly newspaper
TEACHING
Grammar and Composition
Basic Grammar
Technical Writing
Classic Learning Core – World Literature
Writing and Literature to International Students
TASP Remedial English
Freshman English Writing - the documented essay and writing as response to literature
Literature of the Western World
Theology and Literature
Advanced Composition & Technical Writing
AWARDS
Criswell College: Sabbatical, 2006-2007
UNT Classic Learning Core Grant for the Improvement of Post Secondary Education, 1994
English Departmental Scholarship for partial payment of tuition and waiver of out-of-state tuition, TWU, 1989
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
National Council of Teachers of English
Modern Language Association