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Professor Smith's research concerns 20th-century and contemporary developments – and related controversies – in literary and cultural theory, philosophy of science, epistemology, social studies of science, language theory, theories of human behavior and cognition, relations between the sciences and the humanities, and relations between science and religion.
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Before coming to Brown in 2003, Smith taught literature and literary theory at Bennington College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Duke University, where she is currently also Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory. Her publications include Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End (1968), an edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1969), On the Margins of Discourse: the Relation of Literature to Language (1978), Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory (1988), Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy (1997), Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human (2006), Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion (2009). In 1988, she was elected president of the Modern Language Association. Smith is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and an honorary fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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BARBARA HERRNSTEIN SMITH, Ph.D. Brandeis University 1965B.A. Brandeis University, 1954 http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Barbara_Herrnstein_Smith Collaborators at other institutions: Are you Barbara Herrnstein Smith? Click here to edit your research profile. |
