Professor Angela Smith

Emeritus Professor

English Studies University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA

Professor Angela Smith

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About me

About me

B.A., M.A. (Birmingham), M.Litt. (Cambridge) Chair of the Europe and South Asia panel of judges for the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2006 and 2007

Research

Research interests in Modernism and Empire, and in colonial and postcolonial literature. Articles and chapters on Aboriginal writing, Mansfield, Lessing, Ngugi, Dangarembga, Mauritian writing, Jack Mapanje. Editor, with introduction and notes, of Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics (1997); editor, with introduction and notes, of Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories, Oxford University Press World's Classics. Author of East African Writing in English (1989); Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf: A Public of Two (1999); and Katherine Mansfield: a Literary Life (2000). Work in progress: study of cultural nationalism in a group of early twentieth-century writers and painters including J D Fergusson, Katherine Mansfield, Emily Carr and Margaret Preston.

Outputs (3)

Outputs

Book Review

Smith A (2009) Australians in Italy: Contemporary Lives and Impressions. Review of: Australians in Italy: Contemporary Lives and Impressions. Ed. F. W. Kent, Ros Pesman, and Cynthia Troup. Clayton, VIC: Monash U eP, 2008. 248 pp.. Australian Historical Studies, 40 (2), pp. 266-267.


Book Review

Smith A (2008) Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. Review of: Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. By Emma Mason. Horndon: Northcote House, 2006. xi + 148 pp.. Literature and Theology, 22 (3), pp. 376-378. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frn033