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Sidonie Smith

b. 1944

Professor of English, women's and gender studies

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About Sidonie Smith

Born 1944. Sidonie Smith is a philologist, scholar of English and university teacher.

Sidonie Smith is the Lorna G. Goodison Distinguished University Professor Emerita of English and Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She is known for her work on autobiography studies, narrative and human rights, feminist theories, and women’s studies in literature.

Education Smith earned her undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan in April 1966 and her master’s degree in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan in December 1966. In 1971, she received her doctorate in English Literature from Case Western Reserve University.

Career Smith taught at the University of Arizona from 1973 until 1983. From 1983-1996 she worked at Binghamton University, where she served as interim dean from 1987 until 1990. Smith moved to the University of Michigan in 1996 where she was a full professor in the women's studies program. In 2017 she was named the Lorna G. Goodison Distinguished University Professor of English and Women’s Studies.

Selected publications

Smith, Sidonie (1993). Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

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