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English Department Faculty

Dr. R. Mark Smith

Professor and Department Head

Office: WH 210

Phone:  333-7348

Email:  marksmit@valdosta.edu

Dr. Smith's Homepage

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FALL 2008 SCHEDULE

ENGL 3020-A M W F 12:00 - 12:50 P.M. WH 254

OFFICE HOURS: MON - FRI 11:00 A.M.- 12:00 P.M. AND BY APPOINTMENT

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  • PhD, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1992

  • Author of scholarly articles on teaching irony in the writing class and on the history of Cajun/English dialect in South Louisiana and a review article on a bibliography of Southern American English.

  • Scholarly papers on Mark Twain, Jonathan Edwards, and Nathaniel Hawthorne as well as the teaching of developmental writing, writing groups, literature in the writing classroom, and the morality/literacy contrast in Emerson.

  • Areas of interest: rhetoric and composition theory; nineteenth-century American literature.