Grace Elizabeth Smith

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• Grace Elizabeth Smith

Professor of English and Composition

Contact Information

Office:  214.818.1340
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Employment History

• 2012-Present Professor of English and Composition, Criswell College, Dallas, TX
• 1996-2012 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