Overview
Smith's research has been concerned with literary theory, poetry and poetics, ideas of value and judgment, and intellectual controversies over science and knowledge. Her current work focuses on developments in cognitive science and the philosophy of biology, intellectual issues involving science and religion, and the historical, intellectual and institutional relations between the sciences and the humanities.
Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English
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2011 - Present
Literature,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor Emeritus of Literature
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2011 - Present
Literature,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Scholarly Works
ANTIREPRESENTATIONALISM BEFORE AND AFTER RORTY
Conference Common Knowledge · January 1, 2022 Full text CitePoetry as Fiction
Book section · January 1, 2022 Any theory of poetry inevitably, though not always explicitly, presupposes a theory of language. Although the making of distinctions, definitions, and classifications will occupy a good deal of the discussion throughout, it should become clear that the aut ... Full text CitePerplexing realities: Practicing relativism in the anthropocene
Book section · December 28, 2020 CiteEducation
Brandeis University ·
1965
Ph.D.
Brandeis University ·
1955
M.A.
Brandeis University ·
1954
B.A.