Caroline J. Smith

Caroline J. Smith is an associate professor in the University Writing Program. At George Washington, she has taught a variety of first-year writing seminars. Her classes have focused on the topics of visual culture, women’s writing, and popular culture. Dr. Smith received her MA and PhD from the University of Delaware and her undergraduate degree from Moravian College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where she majored in English and minored in Art History. At Delaware, she taught classes in both the English Department and the Women and Gender Studies Program; she also received her Museum Studies certificate while there. Dr. Smith completed her dissertation project on chick lit which was later published as Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit (2007) by Routledge Press. She has also published work on Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. Her research interests include women’s fiction and popular culture productions. Her current project, “Season to Taste: Rewriting Kitchen Space in Contemporary Women’s Food Memoirs,” examines the work of contemporary female food memoirists for the way in which these women construct their identities in relation to the kitchen. Additionally, she is co-editing an anthology about the contemporary heroine in popular culture. While at George Washington, she has been involved with the larger campus community. She has served as a faculty guide for on campus students, and she has participated in the university’s bi-annual Writing and Research Conference.

Dr. Smith is an affiliated faculty member of the Global Food Institute at GW.