Rate My Professor Jennifer Smith

Smith has published extensively on these themes, with a focus on the Spanish feminist author Emilia Pardo Bazán. Her authored monograph is Women, Mysticism, and Hysteria in Fin-de-Siècle Spain (Vanderbilt University Press, 2021). She has edited or co-edited key collections: Modern Spanish Women as Agents of Change: Essays in Honor of Maryellen Bieder (Bucknell University Press, 2018), Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Nation in Fin-de-Siècle Spanish Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2017, with Lisa Nalbone), and Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Insolación (Cervantes & Co., 2011). Notable articles include "La violencia de género en dos cuentos de Emilia Pardo Bazán" (2009), "Cultural Capital and Social Class in Emilia Pardo Bazán's La mujer española and Insolación" (2016), "The Wet Nurse and the Subversion of the Ángel del hogar in Medical and Literary Texts from Late Nineteenth-Century Spain" (2010), and "Women and the Deployment of Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century Spain" (2006). Over twenty such publications underscore her influence in reshaping understandings of gender dynamics and social constructs in nineteenth-century Spanish literature. Her administrative roles further demonstrate her commitment to fostering research and scholarship within the College of Liberal Arts.