Justin Smith
English Graduate Assistant
4 Burrowes Building, Cubicle GMailroom: 430 Burrowes Building
State College , PA 16802
Email:
jas1377@psu.edu
Office Hours:
- Spring 2020: Not teaching
Curriculum Vitae
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- Ph.D., African-American Literature, Pennsylvania State University (in progress)
- M.A., African-American Literature, Pennsylvania State University
- B.A., English, Creative Writing, Political Science (minor), Canisius College (Buffalo, NY), Magna Cum Laude, All College Honors, GPA 3.90
Professional Bio
Justin Smith is a second-year M.A. in English Literature. His area of interest is early 20th-century African American literature and the ways in which political identity and solidarity manifest themselves in literary texts (broadly conceived) with an emphasis on critical race theory as well as on liberation and utopia within the black radical tradition.