Nov 08, 2024

Dr. Caitlin Smith, assistant professor of English, has co-edited with Jan Stievermann and Eddie Glaude Jr. two final manuscripts accepted for publication in spring 2025 by Oxford University Press.

They include:

• “James W.C. Pennington: Essays Towards Rediscovering an African-American Intellectual,” which includes this chapter authored by Smith: “James W.C. Pennington, Black Reformed Christianity, and African-American Skepticism.”
• “The Fugitive Blacksmith and Other Essential Writings of James W.C. Pennington,” critical edition, for which Smith and Glaude also wrote the critical introduction.

Additionally, Smith published a chapter titled “Skepticism in Melville’s Late Poetry” in “The Routledge Companion to Herman Melville,” edited by Cody Marrs and Brian Yothers, which will be available this winter by Routledge Press.

Smith also presented a paper titled “‘The history of nations is the history of individuals:’ James W.C. Pennington’s Vision of Black Self-Culture” at the Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers Conference, Oct. 17-20, at Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.