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Caroline J. Smith is an Associate Professor in the University Writing Program at George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences. She holds an affiliated faculty role at the Global Food Institute. Her research focuses on women’s literature, popular culture, and contemporary food memoirs, particularly exploring identity construction through kitchen spaces. She earned her PhD and MA from the University of Delaware and a BA from Moravian College in English and Art History.
Dr. Smith’s teaching spans first-year writing seminars, with emphases on visual culture, women’s writing, and popular culture. Her published work includes Cosmopolitan Culture and Consumerism in Chick Lit (2007) and articles on Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. She co-edits an anthology on the contemporary heroine in popular culture and actively contributes to campus initiatives like the Writing and Research Conference.
Her current research project, “Season to Taste,” examines food memoirists’ use of kitchen spaces to define identity. Though primarily a humanities scholar, her publication list includes interdisciplinary work in dermatology, genetics, and public health, reflecting a broad engagement with cultural and scientific discourse.
