1. Lauren Smith
2442 Densmore Drive
Toledo, OH 43606
Lauren.Smith4@utoledo.edu
(419) 754-4920
Education
• ABD, Doctor of Philosophy in English: University of Miami; Coral Gables, FL; October 2007
• Master of Arts in English: Simmons College; Boston, MA; May 2002
• Bachelor of Arts in Writing, Literature, and Publishing: Emerson College; Boston, MA; May 1996
Teaching Appointments
• Adjunct: University of Toledo; Toledo, OH; 8/07 to 5/09
• Instructor: Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth; Easton, PA; Summer 2007
• Instructor: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI); Coral Gables, FL; Summer 2007
• Teaching Assistant: University of Miami; Coral Gables, FL; 8/06-5/07
• Adjunct: Nova Southeastern University; Miami, FL; Summer 2005
• Adjunct: Simmons College; Boston, MA; 8/02-5/03
• Adjunct: Wheelock College; Boston, MA; 8/00-5/03
Courses Taught
Critical Thinking and Composition
• Readings Conference I (HON1010): University of Toledo; Fall 2008
• Readings Conference II (HON1020): University of Toledo; Spring 2008, Spring 2009
• College Composition (ENG1110): University of Toledo; Fall 2007
• Whodunit?: Mystery and Suspense in Literature and Film (WHOD): Center for Talented Youth;
Summer 2007
• Advanced Academic Writing for Transfer Students (ENG208): University of Miami; Spring 2007
• Basic Writing (COMP 1000): Nova Southeastern University; Summer 2005
• Critical Writing and Reading (English 111): Wheelock College; Fall 2000, Spring 2001, Spring
2002, Spring 2003
• Culture Matters (MCC): Simmons College; Fall 2002, Spring 2003
• Principles of Writing and Reading (English 110): Wheelock College; Fall 2001, Fall 2002
• Basic Writing Skills (English 100): Wheelock College; Spring 2001, Fall 2001
Creative Writing
• Creative Nonfiction Writing (English 105): Simmons College; Spring 2003
Literature
• Verses Interrupt Us: Poetic Engagements with Love: OLLI; Summer 2007
• World Literary Masterpieces II (ENG202R): University of Miami; Fall 2006
• World Literature II (LITR 2031): Nova Southeastern University; Summer 2005

2. Related Teaching Experience
• Private Tutor: Miami, FL; Fall 2006 to Spring 2007
I provided individual subject help to students attending Belen Jesuit Preparatory School.
• Writing Specialist: Emmanuel College; Boston, MA; 09/02-12/02
I worked as a writing specialist in the Academic Resource Center at Emmanuel College, where
I helped students to develop, to revise, and to polish their written work.
• Teaching Assistant: Simmons College; Boston, MA;01/02-05/02
I assisted the professor who taught English 193: Women in Literature. The course was
designed primarily for non-majors, and it explored the ways throughout literary history that
women write and have been written.
Peer-Reviewed Publications and Papers Read
“Kimonos and Cashmere: Tasteful Inquiry in Memoir.” The Writer’s Chronicle.
Forthcoming, 2010.
“Small Talk.” New Madrid: Journal of Contemporary Literature 4.1 (Winter 2009): 18-27.
“Queering the Silver Fork: (Ad)dressing Erotic Loss in Catherine Gore’s Pin Money.”
Speaking with Authority: The 15th Annual British Women Writers Conference
University of Kentucky-Lexington, April 12-15, 2007
“A Haunted World of Goods: Femininity, Mortality, and Economics in Ann Radcliffe’s
The Romance of the Forest.”
The Sign of Angellica: Writing Women, Subversive Texts Conference
Aphra Behn Society Meeting, Daytona Beach, Florida, October 28-30, 2005
“A Man Can Make a Friend of Her: Congruities of Gender and Class in Middlemarch.”
George Eliot and Provincial Life Conference
University of California-Los Angeles, May 14-16, 2004
University Service
• Faculty Mentor: Honors Students Creative Writing Group. University of Toledo; Toledo, OH;
Spring 2008 to Spring 2009
• Organizer: “Gender Across the Disciplines: The First Annual University of Miami Graduate
Student Conference on Gender and Sexuality.” Coral Gables, FL; April 14, 2006
• Coordinator: Academic Paper Contest, 2006 Citizens Board Research and Creativity Forum at
the University of Miami. Coral Gables, FL; 2006
• Member: Planning Committee, Multidisciplinary Core Course. Simmons College; Boston, MA;
Academic Year 2002-2003
Grants and Awards
• Acceptance: Bennington Writing Seminars, Spring 2009
• Acceptance: Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Summer 2007
• Fiction Runner-up: The Toledo City Paper Poetry and Fiction Contest 2007
• University of Miami Doctoral Fellowship: 2003 to 2006
• Simmons Merit Grant for Graduate Study: 1999, 2002
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3. References
Dr. Phillip Lopate Bernard Cooper
402 Sackett Street 1276 Sunny Oaks Circle
Brooklyn, NY 11231 Altadena, CA 91001
plopate@aol.com (626) 696-3367
bcooper635@aol.com
Dr. Thomas Barden Dr. Tassie Gwilliam
Professor Associate Professor
Honors Department, University of Toledo English Department, University of Miami
2801 West Bancroft Street 408 Ashe Administration Building
Toledo, OH 43606 1252 Memorial Drive
(419) 530-6033 Coral Gables, FL 33146
thomas.barden@utoledo.edu (305) 284-4468
t.gwilliam@miami.edu
Dr. Mary Grover Dr. Lowry Pei
Ph.D. Lecturer Professor
College Writing Programs, UC Berkeley English Department, Simmons College
112 Wheeler Hall #2500 300 The Fenway
Berkeley, CA 94720-2500 Boston, MA 02115
(510) 879-7147 (617) 521-2216
marymgrover@gmail.com lowry.pei@simmons.edu
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