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Kary Smout, Associate Professor 

Coordinator of the Writing Program and Director of the Writing Center

Department of English 
Washington and Lee University 

Lexington, VA 24450 

Payne Hall 31

(540) 458-8979

Education

B.A., Brigham Young University, 1985
M.A., Duke University, 1986

Ph.D., Duke University, 1991

Research Interests

Rhetoric and Culture; Writing Instruction; the Politics of Higher Education; Native American Literature; Southern American Literature; Western American Literature

Teaching

English 101—Expository Writing
English 105—Composition and Literature 

English 201—Advanced Expository Writing 

English 253—Southern American Literature 

English 299—Seminar for Prospective Majors

English 380—Advanced Seminar

English 413—Senior Research and Writing

Seminar Topics

The Southern Short Story 
The Problem of Value in 19th-Century American Literature 

Native American Literature 

Western American Literature

Cultural Conflicts in the American West

 

Work in Progress

Writing Good English Sentences.

"Don't Tread on Me: Crossing Boundaries in the Liberal Arts."  Teaching Writing in the Liberal Arts: Pedagogy and Politics.  Eds. Joanna Castner and James A. Inman.  Cresskill, NJ.:Hampton Press, forthcoming.

Selected Publications

The Creation/Evolution Controversy: a Battle for Cultural Power. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 

"An Interview with Charles Bazerman." Composition Studies 23 (1995): 21-36. (Co-authored with T. Hugh Crawford.) 

"Attacking (Southern) Creationists." Religion in the Contemporary South: Diversity, Community, and Identity.  Eds. O. Kendall White, Jr. and Daryl White.  Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 28.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. 59-66. 

"Senkyoshigo: A Missionary English of Japan." American Speech 63 (1988): 137-49. 

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