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Dr. Deanna Smid is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Brandon University. Her research focuses on sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature, with particular emphasis on music therapy in Shakespeare’s plays, emblem books, Renaissance bees as symbols of climate change, and intersections between Christianity and literature. She teaches courses such as English 147: Literary Traditions, English 281: Science Fiction, and English 454: The Birds and the Bees: Animals in Early English Literature.
Her research program includes major grants like the SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2019) for studying bees as climate change symbols and the SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2013) exploring early modern musical and literary therapy. She has presented widely on topics like Margaret Cavendish’s bee imagery and Renaissance musical symbolism, including at the Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (2018), which she organized.
Dr. Smid’s work bridges historical and contemporary concerns, linking early modern ecological thought to modern environmental crises. Her publications analyze intersections between literature, science, and religion, with recent focus areas including apiculture symbolism, Shakespearean soundscapes, and emblematic visual culture.
