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ANGELA MARIE SMITH

(she/her)

Associate Professor

English

Orcid identifier0009-0004-5962-4202
  • Associate Professor
    English
  • Associate Professor
    Gender Studies

BIO

Angela Marie Smith is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies (School for Cultural and Social Transformation) and English (College of Humanities). She is also the director of Disability Studies at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on cultural representations of disability in popular and social media, especially in primarily visual media such as movies and TV shows. She is the author of Hideous Progeny: Disability and Eugenics in Classic Horror Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2012). She has also published in journals Literature and Medicine, Post Script, and Antipodes and in the edited collections The Matter of Disability (2019), Monsters: A Companion (2020), Embodying Contagion (2021), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect (2022), and The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (2023).

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS

  • Associate Professor
    English1 Jul 2012 - present
  • Associate Professor
    Gender Studies22 Sep 2017 - present

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director of Disability Studies
    University of Utah, Salt Lake City, United States2018 - present

DEGREES

  • MA, English
    Massey University, New Zealand
  • PhD, English
    University of Minnesota