Ph.D. English, State University of New York, Buffalo, 2001
M.A. Political Philosophy, University of Georgia, 1991
B.A. Political Science, Purdue University, 1988
Books
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed, a novel. Sandstone Press, UK, June 2014.
A Quail Is a Pretty Bird. Manuscript of a book of short fiction, under consideration at various journals/reviews/magazines.
Articles/Book Chapters
“Michael Bogdanov: An International Director’s The Winter’s Tale at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.” Chicago Shakespeare Theater: Suiting the Action To the Word, ed. Regina Buccola and Peter Kanelos, Northern Illinois University Press, 2013.
“Sack Drama: The Return of Falstaff in Henry V.” A Touch More Rare: Harry Berger, Jr., and the Arts of Interpretation, ed. Nina Levine and David Lee Miller, Fordham University Press, 2009. Pages 45-57.
The Shakespeare Encyclopedia, entries on Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Henry V, King John, Henry VIII, The Merry Wives of Windsor, General Introduction to The History Plays. Global Book Publishing, Sydney, Australia, 2009. Pages 62-83, 116-119.
“‘O for a muse of fire’: Henry V and Plotted Self-Exculpation.” Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 36, 2008), 182-206.
“T. S. Eliot’s Impudence: Hamlet, Objective Correlative, and Formulation.” Criticism 49.2 (Spring 2008), 215-239.
“’the double variacioun of wordly blisse and transmutacioun’: Shakespeare’s Return to Ovid in Troilus and Cressida.” Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History (Third Series, Vol. 5, May 2008), 293-312.
“Romancing the Chronicles: 1 Henry IV and the Rewriting of Medieval History.” Quidditas (Vol. 27, 2006), 34-50. Published as the 2005 Allen D. Breck Award Winner.
Book Reviews
Shakespeare Studies (Vol. 38, 2011). Jennifer Summit, Memory’s Library: Medieval Books in Early Modern England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Journal of British Studies (Vol. 49, No. 2, April 2010). Stewart Mottram, Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 2008.
Renaissance Quarterly (Vol. 59, No. 2, Summer 2006). William M. Hamlin, Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare’s England. London and New York: Palgrave, 2005.
The 16th Century Journal (Vol. XXXVII, No. 4, Winter 2006). Ken MacMillan and Jennifer Abeles, Eds. John Dee: The Limits of the British Empire. New York: Praeger, 2005.
The 16th Century Journal (Vol. XXXVII, No. 2, Summer 2006). Ton Hoenselaars, ed. Shakespeare’s History Plays: Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Arthuriana (Vol. 14 No. 2, Summer 2004). Liam O. Purdon, The Wakefield Master’s Dramatic Art: A Drama of Spiritual Understanding. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003.
Arthuriana (Vol. 13 No. 3, Fall 2003). Frances A. Underhill, For Her Good Estate: The Life of Elizabeth de Burgh. The New Middle Ages Series. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999.
Short Fiction
“The Confectioner.” First Intensity, #19, Fall 2004.
ԲܰԳ.” The Cimarron Review, Spring 2004, issue 147.
“Two Brothers.” South Dakota Review, Winter 2003 (Vol. 41 #4).
Poetry
“Cܳٳ.” Beloit Poetry Journal, Summer 2004 (Vol. 54 #4), 35-45.
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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Ph.D.; M.A. English, The Ohio State University, 1997
B.A. English, University of Connecticut, 1986
“’Love Letters:’ Narrating Critical Theory in the First-Year Writing Class.” Open Words 7.1 (Spring 2013): 21-40. Electronic.
“Politicizing the Personal: Frederick Douglass, Richard Writing, and Some Thoughts on the Limits of Critical Literacy.” College English 68.4 (March 2006): 356-81. Print.
Teaching Argument in the Composition Classroom: Background Readings. Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2002.
“Reading ‘Whiteness’ in English Studies.” College English 63.1 (September 2000). 9-37. Print.
Native of Stamford, CT. Father of one son, Tyler Steinkamp.
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BA Taylor University, MA Miami University, MFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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Critical Writing
on Madison McCartha's Freakophone World
"Vision as palimpsest: on Johannes Göransson’s translations of Ann Jäderlund"
on Andra Rotaru's Lemur
"I Cannot Resist the Terror"
Poetry Collections
Womonster, 2020, Tarpaulin Sky
Louise and Louise and Louise, 2016, The Lettered Streets Press
Skin Horse, 2012, Action Books
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Ph.D. in Curriculum Theory and Research
University of Wisconsin - Madison
M.Ed. in Interdisciplinary Studies
National-Louis University
B.A. in English
Indiana University - Bloomington
Zemelman, S., and Smith, K. (2016). Growing L2P 2.0 into a project that can have impact beyond the
classroom. Letters to the Next President 2.0, Date Published: June 3, 2016.
Smith, K., and Dover, A. G. (2015). [Review of the book Educating about social issues in the 20th
and 21st centuries: Critical pedagogues and their pedagogical theories, volume 4.] Teachers College
Record, Date Published: October 22, 2015 ID Number: 18185, Date
Accessed: 1/12/2016 11:40:01 AM
Dover, A. G., Schultz, B. D., Smith, K., & Duggan, T. J. (2015). Embracing the controversy: edTPA,
corporate influence, and the cooptation of teacher education. Teachers College Record, Date
Published: September 14, 2015. ID Number: 18109, Date Accessed:
9/15/2015 6:43:02 AM
Dover, A. G., Schultz, B. D., Smith, K., & Duggan, T. J. (2015). Who’s preparing our candidates?
edTPA, localized knowledge and the outsourcing of teacher evaluation. The Teachers College
Record, Date Published: March 30, 2015. ID Number: 17914, Date
Accessed: 1/12/2016 11:06:42 AM
Smith, K., and McKnight, K. (2009). Remembering to laugh and explore: Improvisational activities
for literacy teaching in urban classrooms. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 10(12).
Retrieved April 27, 2010 from .
Smith, K. (2008). Becoming an "honours student": The interplay of literacies and identities in a high-track
class. Journal of Curriculum Studies, 40 (4), 481-507.
A 20-year veteran of high school teaching, Dr. Smith taught English, as well as history and German, before coming to NEIU in 2003. In addition to her work at the university, she is a dancer and choreographer who has been nominated for a Broadway World choreography award for regional non-equity theater.
HONORS
- Recipient of two NEIU Faculty Excellence Awards, 2018 and 2016
- Federal Education, Innovation, and Research Grant Award, 2018
- National Writing Project SEED College, Career and Community-Ready Writers Grant Awards 2017 and 2018
- Director, Illinois Writing Project and active in the National Writing Project Network
- NEIU Travel Grant Award Winner
- Illinois State Board of Education “Those Who Excel: Award of Merit” (as a member of the Freshman Studies Team)
- American Federation of Teachers Robert G. Porter Scholar
- Pi Lambda Theta Graduate Student Scholar
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