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
- "An Affectionate Epidemic: Disability Goes Viral on Social Media." In Embodying Contagion: The Viropolitics of Horror and Desire in Contemporary Discourse. Eds. Sandra Becker, Megen de Bruin-Molé, and Sara Polak, University of Wales Press, 2021, 85-106. Published, 04/2021.
- "Walk This Way: Frankenstein’s Monster, Disability Simulation, and Zombie Ambulation." Literature and Medicine, vol. 36 (December 2018): 412-438. Published, 12/2018.
- Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, and Classic Horror Cinema. Published, 01/2012.