Faculty in English
Jad Smith
- Associate Professor of English
PhD, Carnegie Mellon University
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Jad Smith is Associate Professor of British Literature and Cultural Studies, and Director of Graduate Studies in English at Eastern Illinois University. Among others, his publications include "Charity Education and the Spectacle of 'Christian Entertainment'" in The Culture of the Gift in Eighteenth-Century England (2009); "Custom, Association, and the Mixed Mode: Locke's Early Theory of Cultural Reproduction" in ELH 73.4 (2006); and "How Fanny Comes to Know: Sensation, Sexuality, and the Epistemology of the Closet in Cleland's Memoirs" in Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 44.2-3 (2002). His book manuscript, "Childhood and Moral Reform in the Age of Locke," explores the relationship of childhood and culture in early eighteenth-century knowledge economies linked to projects of social reform. He teaches seminars titled Enlightenment Sexualities, The Long Eighteenth Century, and Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama in Performance.
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