Philip E. Smith
Associate Professor of English
412-624-6520
psmith@pitt.edu
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Philip E. Smith works primarily on 19th- and 20th-century literary and culture studies involving Oscar Wilde, literature and science, science fiction, drama, and the institution of English teaching. He contributed to and edited Approaches to Teaching the Works of Oscar Wilde (MLA 2008). He is co-author and co-editor of Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making (Oxford U.P. 1989); he has published articles on Wilde, on Pitt's culture studies curriculum, and on figures such as August Wilson, Ursula Le Guin, Robert Heinlein, Constance Naden, and Charles Olson. With Joseph Bristow (UCLA), He is at work on an edition of the unpublished noteboooks of Oscar Wilde.
Teaching
Graduate Courses
- Oscar Wilde and the 1890's
- Utopian and Dystopian Literature
Undergraduate Courses
- Introduction to Critical Reading
- Shakespeare
- Science Fiction
- Ballads and Blues
- Senior Seminar
Other Duties & Service
- Member, Literature Committee, Graduate Addmissions Committee
