ANGELA MARIE SMITH portrait
  • Associate Professor, Gender Studies
  • Associate Professor, English

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy, English, University of Minnesota
  • Master of Arts, English, Massey University, New Zealand

Biography

Angela Smith is an Associate Professor in Gender Studies (School for Cultural and Social Transformation) and English (College of Humanities). She is also the director of Disability Studies at the University of Utah. Her research focuses on cultural representations of disability in popular and social media, especially in primarily visual media such as movies and TV shows. She is the author of Hideous Progeny: Disability and Eugenics in Classic Horror Cinema (Columbia University Press, 2012). She has also published in journals Literature and Medicine, Post Script, and Antipodes and in the edited collections The Matter of Disability (2019), Monsters: A Companion (2020), Embodying Contagion (2021), The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect (2022), and The Evolution of Horror in the 21st Century (2023).

Selected Works