Leanne E. Smith joined the faculty in Spring 2007. As a student, she received the Robert H. Wright Alumni Leadership Award and several honors from the English department: Outstanding Graduate Student, the John D. and Dorothy C. Ebbs Fellowship, Outstanding Senior, the Russell Christman Memorial Scholarship, and the Gravely Foundation Award. She was president of the ECU Poetry Forum, English Graduate Student Organization, and ECU Folk & Country Dancers; Production Editor for The Wisteria Review; a DJ/newscaster at WZMB 91.3 FM; and an Orientation Assistant. Before returning to ECU, she was a journalist/photographer with a local-news weekly. As Class Notes Editor for East: The Magazine of East Carolina University, she compiled alumni notes and obituaries. Academically, she is a generalist. She enjoys fashion, water, and gender in literature; French language, literature, and culture; Shakespeare comedies; Britcoms and classic TV and films; international food; American history; photography; and folk music, dance, lore, and culture. She is a freelance writer, editor, and photographer. She is Associate Director of the ECU Poetry Forum and Faculty Advisor for the ECU Folk & Country Dancers. In the community, she is active in the Folk Arts Society of Greenville and the Green Grass Cloggers. Her photos appeared as the cover images for several issues of Tar River Poetry. She is also in Goucher College's MFA in Creative Nonfiction program.
Degrees
B.A. East Carolina University
M.A. East Carolina University
Primary Areas of Research/Teaching
Flannery O'Connor Short Stories
Nonfiction and Media Writing
NC Literature and Culture
Courses Taught
1200: Composition
1100: Composition
Selected Publications and Presentations
"Head-to-Toe: Deliberate Dressing and Accentuated Accessories in Flannery O'Connor's 'Revelation,' 'A Late Encounter with the Enemy,' and 'Everything That Rises Must Converge.'" Flannery O'Connor Review. 6 (2008): 40-55.
East Carolina University: Off The Record. College Prowler. 2007/2008.
"Belly Dance." (poem) Jareeda. July/August 2008.
"North Carolina Wine: A Growing Business." The IBX Newsletter: Your Inner Banks News Source. Issue: "Wineries and Vineyards of the Inner Banks." Fall 2007.
"The Doctor of Dogfish." East: the Magazine of East Carolina University. Winter 2008: 26-27.
"Teaching Students to Serve." East: the Magazine of East Carolina University. Fall 2007: 22-24.
Website Links
Graduation Address 2006
"The Poet of Coastal Carolina"
A Snipet of "Sadie" from STYLE
Pirate Palate: A Collection of Recipes & Reminiscences
First Semester Farrago: An Anthology of Literacy Narratives
