Barbara Herrnstein Smith Explained

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Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Birth Place:Bronx, New York
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:City College of New York, Harvard, Brandeis University
Period:1968–
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    Barbara Herrnstein Smith (born 1932) is an American literary critic and theorist, best known for her work Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. She is currently the Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University, and also Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University.

    Biography

    Smith briefly studied at City College of New York,[1] studying biology, experimental psychology, and philosophy. She then earned her B.A. (summa cum laude) in 1954 and her Ph.D. from Brandeis University. Brandeis University reports Smith earned her doctorate in 1965,[2] and Duke University reports she earned her doctorate in 1963.[3]

    From 1961 to 1973, Smith taught at Bennington College. She accepted a faculty position at the University of Pennsylvania in 1973. In 1987 she joined the Duke University faculty, and also joined Brown University in 2003.

    Smith has also occupied numerous short-term and honorary posts. She was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

    Scholarship and work

    Smith is a well-known writer, most particularly for her 1988 work on critical theory, Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. In this work, she attempts to situate the various liberal, conservative, and other views of "values" within her "metametatheory" of contingencies, an economics-influenced theoretical approach. She uses her theory to address literary, aesthetic, and other types of values, attempting to discern whether any objective standards may be applied.

    Other works include Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End, Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy, and an edition of Shakespeare's sonnets; she has published numerous books and articles on language, literature, and critical theory.

    In recent years she has been doing considerable work on science and the humanities, including Scandalous Knowledge and her 2006 Terry lectures at Yale, Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion.

    Published works

    Awards and recognitions

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    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Klingenstein. Suzanne. Literature Scholars in the United States. 1 March 2009. Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Jewish Women's Archive. 21 July 2014.
    2. Web site: . Distinguished Alumni. Department of English. Brandeis University. 20 July 2014.
    3. Web site: Barbara H. Smith. Program in Literature: People. Duke University. . 20 July 2014.
    4. Web site: Publications of Barbara H. Smith. Program in Literature: People. Duke University. . 20 July 2014.
    5. Web site: Discussions of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Biblio.com. . 20 July 2014.
    6. Web site: . The Christian Gauss Award winner. The Phi Beta Kappa Society. 20 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140726120854/http://www.pbk.org/infoview/PBK_Infoview.aspx?t=&id=56. 26 July 2014. dead.
    7. Web site: All Fellows. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. . 20 July 2014.
    8. Web site: CASBS Fellows . CASBS at Stanford University . Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University . 20 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140727032623/https://casbs-test.stanford.edu/casbs-fellows . 27 July 2014 .
    9. Web site: Smith, Barbara Herrnstein . Institute for Advanced Study . 20 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160308015738/https://www.ias.edu/people/cos/users/bsmith01 . 8 March 2016 .
    10. Web site: . The One Hundred Twenty-Four Presidents. MLA. The Modern Language Association. 20 July 2014. 17 January 2014.
    11. Web site: . Best Special Issue. The Council of Editors of Learned Journals. 20 July 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140730045845/http://www.celj.org/best_special_issue. 30 July 2014.
    12. Web site: . Fellows of the National Humanities Center, P–Z . National Humanities Center . 20 July 2014 . July 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130618074233/http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/fellowships/ffellows3.htm . 18 June 2013 .
    13. Web site: . Past Fellows. the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. Princeton University. 20 July 2014.
    14. Web site: Barbara Herrnstein Smith . The Bellagio Center . The Rockefeller Foundation . 20 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140811191525/http://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/bellagio-center/conferences-and-residencies/10027 . 11 August 2014 .
    15. Web site: . Chapter S. Book of Members. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 20 July 2014.
    16. Web site: . Fellows . AAAS MemberCentral . American Association for the Advancement of Science . 20 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140727124856/http://membercentral.aaas.org/fellows . 27 July 2014 .
    17. Web site: Barbara Herrnstein Smith 2006 . Dwight H. Terry Lectureship | Past Lectureships . Yale University . 20 July 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140728225140/http://www.yale.edu/terrylecture/smith.html . 28 July 2014 .

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