Judy R. Smith joined the Kenyon faculty in 1979. She teaches a broad range of classes in American literature and culture as well as classes in women's and gender studies. Her courses are regularly cross-listed in American Studies. Her scholarly interests include Hawthorne and Melville, American Victorian Literature and Culture, American Indian Literature and Culture, and the modernist art movements of the 1920s era.
Judy has served the College as chair of the English department, as chair of the Academic Standards Committee and as member of the Faculty Affairs Committee and the Curricular Policy Committee.
Education
1979 — Doctor of Philosophy from Indiana Univ Bloomington
1975 — Master of Arts from Indiana Univ Bloomington
1973 — Bachelor of Arts from Connecticut College, Phi Beta Kappa