Smith, Barbara Herrnstein
SMITH, Barbara Herrnstein
SMITH, Barbara Herrnstein. Also writes as Barbara Herrnstein. American, b. 1932. Genres: Literary criticism and history. Career: Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1987-. Instructor, Dept. of English and American Literature, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1960-61; Member of faculty, Literature Division, Bennington College, Vermont, 1961-73; Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1974-87. President, MLA, 1988; Northrop Frye Chair in Literary Theory, University of Toronto, Spring 1990; Director, Duke University, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory, 1991-; Fellow National Humanities Center, Fall 1992; Fellow, Davis Center, Princeton, Spring, 1993. Publications: (ed. as Barbara Herrnstein) Discussions of Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1964; Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End, 1968; (ed.) William Shakespeare: Sonnets, 1969; On the Margins of Discourse: The Relation of Literature to Language, 1978; Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory, 1988; (co-ed.) The Politics of Liberal Education, 1991; (co-ed.) Mathematics, Science and Postclassical Theory, 1996; Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy, 1997. Address: Box 90015, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]