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Samuel Smith at the Joshua Tree, 2006
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Welcome
Welcome to my new, improved, and much more exciting homepage! I teach courses in Shakespeare, Milton, and Early Modern British Literature, as well as the General Education Core course, Created and Called for Community. I earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Delaware, but I’ve also participated in two Folger Shakespeare Institute Seminars (“Milton and Scripture,” with Mary Ann Radzinowicz, and “Petitioners, Preachers, and Prophets in the Age of Charles I,” with Esther Cope) and an NEH Summer Seminar on “Renaissance and Reformation in Tudor-Stuart England” (University of Chicago, with Richard Strier). I have received the Robert and Marilyn Smith Award for Outstanding Teaching at Messiah and an Excellence in Teaching Award. My current research interests include Milton, Early Modern Britain, Ecological issues, and the impact of summer stream currents on tubing long stretches of Stony Creek.
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Biography
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A native central Pennsylvanian, I spend much of my leisure time fathering two beautiful daughters, hiking in the Appalachian mountains, playing blues guitar, hanging out in pubs with friends, corresponding with geographically distant friends, mixing music discs for she who most deserves them, and reading theology and biblical studies. Well, and of course I spend hours doing personal devotions. This has enabled me to develop the most definitive Christian theology yet conceived, which will be released approximately one month after my death. Please be patient and do not pray for my untimely demise just to get your hands on this world-changing treatise.
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Every now and then I visit my second home, Scotland, where I hike the mountains of Glencoe, admire the stonecarvings of Gardner Molloy, and occasionally hobnob with Glaswegian pedestrians who write entertaining fiction. I’ve slowly been working on my magnum opus, “An Evangelical Christian’s Guide to Pubs in Scotland.” In this volume I use my vast experience quaffing the darkest British ales available to provide the most detailed and exquisite accounts of how each brew tastes, enabling any Evangelical Christian trekking through Scotland to fully experience the texture and flavor of, say, a Samuel Smith’s Oatmeal Stout or an Orkney Island Dark, without actually having to imbibe an alcoholic beverage! I’ve done all the work for you—you’ll consider me your best friend when your tour of Scotland is over.
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For those few (but fit!) of you who like poetry, check out the links to some verse I’ve published; for that greater majority of you who love to read class syllabi, I’ve supplied something to satisfy you as well. For the most unusual among you, I’ve actually included a few critical essays: have fun! Read as much Shakespeare and Saramago as you can get your hands on. I’m also working on those lists for recommended reading—“under construction,” so please be patient in waiting for those to appear. This will include a “favorite links” file so you can browse all my best-loved righter-than-right political sites, as well as the very best homepages on Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. They are, after all, the primary reason I’m doing all of this. |
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(717) 766-2511, ext. 7052 |
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Messiah College
Department of English
P.O. Box 3017
Grantham, PA 17027 |
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(717) 796-4790 |
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ssmith@messiah.edu |
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