| Name: |
David L. Smith |
| Title: |
Associate Professor |
| Area: |
German |
| Phone: |
252-328-5524 |
| Fax: |
252-328-6233 |
| E-mail: |
smithdav@ecu.edu |
| Office: |
Austin 329 |
| Address: |
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353 |
| Links: |
ECU German Page |
BACKGROUND
B.A. German, The Citadel
M.A. German Literature, UNC Chapel Hill
Ph.D. German Literature, UNC Chapel Hill
AREAS OF INTEREST
Language and the Nation
Literary and Cultural Theory
German for Business
Gender Studies
Orality and Literacy
Prof. Smith's background in German includes studies at four institutions of higher learning (two German and two American); a Fulbright grant to study the Lutheran Church's support of East German dissidents during the 1980s; customer service experience in a Black Forest hotel; and shift-work in an aluminum factory in the Rhine-Ruhr industrial region. Originally from South Carolina, Prof. Smith joined ECU's faculty in August 2005. Though he remains fascinated by contemporary and twentieth-century German literature, Prof. Smith specializes in Early Modern and Enlightenment culture and thought.
For more information, please visit him at
http://www.ecu.edu/german/Smith.cfm
