Associate Professor of English
Office Location: HE 407
Phone Number: (262) 472-5046
Email Address: smithj@uww.edu

Degrees:                                                                                                                                                                                             B.A., 1967, University of California-Berkeley, English                                                                                                                          Ph.D., 1983, University of Wisconsin-Madison, English

Areas of Teaching:                                                                                                                                                                           Sixteenth-Century British Literature, Literary Theory, Animal Studies, Representations of Consciousness

Courses Taught:                                                                                                                                                                               Shakespeare, Senior Seminar, World of Ideas, Critical Writing in the Field of English

Publications:                                                                                                                                                                                      Rev. of Rat by Jonathan Burt. Anthrozoos: Journal of the International Society for Anthrozoology. Forthcoming.                            "'Dog Experiences Best Day Ever' or the Problem of Getting the Animal into the Text." Tierisches, allzu Tierisches: Beitrage zur Kulturgeschichte. Ed. Dorothee Brantz and Christof Mauch. Paderborn: Schoningh, 2008.                                                               "Viewing" the Body: Toward a Discourse of Rabbit Death." Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion. 9.2 (2005): 184-201.       "Sensory Experience as Consciousness in Literary Representations of Animal Minds." In Catherine Rainwater and Mary Pollack, Eds, Figuring Animals Essays on Animal Images in Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillian, 2004. 232-246.                                                                                                                                                                                               "Beyond {Yi Fu Tuan's] Dominance and Affection: Living with Rabbits in a Post-Humanist Households." Society and Animals 11.3 (2003): 181-197.
Rev. of Animal (Foci), by Erica Fudge. Anthrozoos: Journal of the Internation Society for Anthrozoology 16.2 (2003): 197-200.    "Resisting Metaphor: John Hawkes's Sweet William: A Memoir of Old Horse." Papers in Language and Literature 38.4 (Fall 2002): 413-428.                                                                                                                                                                                    "Conference Report." Society and Animals 9.3 (2001): 293-297.                                                                                                      "An Image of a Preacher in Late Fifteenth-Century England: The 1498 Woodcut Portrait of Bishop John Alcock," Viator 21 (1990): 301-22.
"The Poet Laureate as University Professor: John Skeleton's Woodcut Portrait." In Renaissance Studies: Intertext and Context, ed. M.C. Horowitz. University of Illinois Press, 1988: 159-83.                                                                                                             Presentation Scenes in Early English Printed books: Caxton, de Worde, Pynson." Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 61 (1986): 322-43.

Awards:                                                                                                                                                                                              Faculty Research Grant. University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. May 2006. For travel to Smathers Research Library, University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida.                                                                                                                                                                German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Honorarium ($1200) for Conference Participation. May 2005.                                    University of Wisconsin System Fellow in the Humanities. Center for Twentieth Century Studies in the College of Letters and Science. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. 1999-2000 (My application was accepted, but I was unable to attend full time.)      NEH Summer Institute Grant. Advanced Archival Sciences. Newberry Library, Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, Illinois. July 9-August 17, 1990.                                                                                                                                                                       NEH Travel to Collections Grant. January 1990.                                                                                                                                  W.M. Keck Foundation Fellowship, Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. June 1989.                                                 Institute for Research in the Humanities, Madison, Wisconsin. 1989-1990.                                                                                        Wisconsin State Research Grant, January 1-15, 1989.