Cortney Smith

  • Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication

Areas of Study

Education

  • PhD, Indiana University, 2016
  • MA, University of Arkansas, 2008
  • BA, University of Arkansas, 2006

Biography

Cortney Smith is a cultural critic who examines issues of hegemony and marginalized discourse in public address, social movements, and popular culture. Her courses are devoted to understanding the role of public speaking in cultivating citizenship.

Currently, she is working on a project that interrogates the possibility of Native American art (films, novels, even graphic T-shirts) to not only critique deeply held myths about Native cultures and identities, but also to complicate those myths’ existing narratives by presenting alternative perspectives.

She is a fan of PBS and especially enjoys watching the Great British Bake Off.

Fall 2022

Decolonizing Cinema: Native Americans in Film — FYSP 047
Rhetoric and Social Protest — WRCM 210
Tutoring Lab — WRCM 402

Spring 2023

Speaking and Writing — WRCM 110
Indigenous Rhetorics: Native American Narratives of Survivance — WRCM 310

Notes

Cortney Smith's Essay Featured

May 22, 2020

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Cortney Smith's co-authored essay published in Quarterly Journal of Speech was featured in Communication Currents, the National Communication Association’s online periodical for timely scholarship.

Cortney Smith Co-Authors Essay

January 21, 2020

Visiting Assistant Professor of Writing and Communication Cortney Smith's co-authored essay, "What to do when you’re raped’: Indigenous women critiquing and coping through a rhetoric of survivance," was published in the Quarterly Journal of Speech, the flagship journal for rhetoric and communication.

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