Martha Nell Smith, Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Lecture

Please join us for "The Humanities Are Not a Luxury: A Manifesto for the Twenty-First Century" (or. . .better thinking through poetry), our colleague Martha Nell Smith's Distinguished Scholar-Teacher lecture this Thursday, September 30, 4 p.m., Ulrich Recital Hall, Tawes, reception to follow. The lecture is a reflection on what the teaching, research, and writing in the humanities means for education, for democracy, and what might be some implications for the future. The humanities are vital for the university and for society, and the lecture and reception this week are occasion to celebrate, muse upon, and own that fact.

Martha Nell Smith is Professor of English and Founding Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), as well as of the Dickinson Electronic Archives. The author of 5 books and more than 50 articles, Smith co-edited Emily Dickinson’s Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry with one of her former graduate students. A feminist, textual, and queer theory scholar, Smith has won numerous awards from NEH, ACLS, the Mellon Foundation, and FIPSE, and is a leader in innovations in academic publishing.