Barbara Tannert-Smith

Meet Professor Smith

Years at Knox: 1997 to present

Education

M.F.A., 1992, University of Massachusetts.
B.A., 1987, University of Massachusetts.

Teaching Interests

Children's Literature; Adolescent Literature; Landscape and Literature; Maurice Sendak; Environmental Humanities; Art and Anthropocene; Ecocriticism; Eco-Gothic; Fairy Tale and Fantasy; Visual Narrative; The Ghost Story; Abolitionist Symbology in Quilt, Craft and Pictures; Creative Writing

Selected Professional Accomplishments

Publications (since tenure in 2011) 

1) Articles

“Primate Visionary: Peter Dickinson’s Eva and the Environmental Uncanny.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly 48:1 (Summer 2023): 80-100.

“And Now This Story Is Ours”: Fairy Tale and Collage in Trung Le Nguyen’s The Magic Fish.” Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature 61: 1 (2023): 22-29.

"The Garden Frightens Me": Trauma, Recovery, and the Environmental Uncanny in Meg Rosoff's How I Live Now.” Children's Literature 51: 2 (2023): 76-99.

“‘Like a Spotlight Was Trained on Me’: Breaking Dawn and the Twilight of Capitalism.” International Research in Children’s Literature 15:2 (2022): 191–203.

2) Nonfiction (since tenure in 2011)

"Night of the Banana." Mothers Always Write (Summer 2019)

"According to Eleanor Roosevelt." Rose and Thorn (Winter 2012)

Presentations

"The Mother/Daughter Plot Enters the Twilight Zone." Paper, Children's Literature Association Conference, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2010.

"I Am Outcast: Trauma and Repetition in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak." Children‘s Literature Association Conference, Charlotte, North Carolina, 2009.

Campus & Community Involvement

College Conduct Council.
Student Life Committee.