Department of English

Susan Harris Smith

Slu Smith

Professor of English

412-624-6560

shs1@pitt.edu

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Susan Harris Smith teaches dramatic literature and turn-of-the-century American Cultural studies.

Research and Publications

Her publications include:

  • Plays in American Periodicals: Dis/Contented Citizens
    (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007)
  • The American 1890's; A Cultural Reader. Melanie Dawson, co-editor. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2000)
  • American Drama: The Bastard Art
    (Cambridge University Press, 1997)
  • Masks in Modern Drama
    (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984)

Honors and Awards:

  • Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award (2002)

Teaching

Graduate Courses

  • American Literature at Century's End
  • Dramatizing American Women
  • Disciplining American Drama
  • American Drama
  • Theories of Modern Drama

Undergraduate Courses

  • Senior Seminar
  • Junior Seminar
  • Contemporary Drama
  • American Drama
  • Emergence of Modern America, 1864-1914
  • Makers of Modern Drama
  • Highbrow/Lowbrow/Then & Now
  • American Literary Traditions
  • Shakespeare
  • The Modernist Tradition
  • Comedy
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