Smith Named Distinguished-Scholar Teacher

University Provost Nariman Farvardin has selected Martha Nell Smith as a 2010-2011 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher.

Martha Nell Smith has been named one of five Distinguished Scholar-Teachers at the University of Maryland for 2010-2011. Senior Academic Vice President and University Provost Nariman Farvardin cited Smith's innovative approaches to scholarship and teaching as "models of what a professor at a fine research university should be."

Farvardin writes, "The Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Program honors members of our faculty who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement along with equally outstanding accomplishments as teachers.  This program recognizes faculty members who have led the way in scholarship and teaching and who have brought passion for learning to their colleagues and students."

Smith joins an impressive cadre of Distinguished Scholar-Teachers from the Department of English: Jackson Bryer, Jane Donawerth, Linda Kauffman, Robert Levine, and David Wyatt.

An internationally recognized expert on Emily Dickinson, Smith is author of Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Dickinson (Paris Press, 1998), Comic Power in Emily Dickinson (Texas, 1993), and Rowing in Eden (Texas, 1992). She is editor, with Mary Loeffelholz, of the Companion to Emily Dickinson (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008) and, most recently, with Lara Vetter, the editor of Emily Dickinson's Correspondences: A Born-Digital Textual Inquiry (University of Virginia Rotunda Press, 2008). Smith founded and continues to edit the Dickinson Electronic Archives and is the founding director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities.

Read the announcement and an encomium for Dr. Smith in Between the Columns, the university newsletter.