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Dr Carrie Smith
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I am part of the School's English Literature research section. My research focuses on literary manuscripts and Ted Hughes. My published work on Ted Hughes focuses on questions of authenticity and voice in his poetry readings and recordings using original interviews and research undertaken in the BBC Written archive. I have also published on Hughes’s creative partnership with American artist Leonard Baskin. I am currently preparing a monograph Poetry in the Making: Ted Hughes and the Art of Writing making extensive use of the writer’s literary archives. I have also co-edited a collection titled The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation (Ashgate, 2013) which draws together archivists and literary scholars to think through the multifaceted nature of archival study.
I am happy to supervise PhDs in the following areas: manuscript and archival study, material culture, Ted Hughes, 1950s/60s British poetry, modernism, Virgina Woolf.
Cyhoeddiad
2024
- Smith, C. 2024. “[N]o branch, no leaf, no fruit”: writing about infertility and assisted reproduction in the poetry of Monica Youn’s Blackacre (2016) and Allison Cobb’s Green-Wood (2010). Contemporary Women's Writing 18 (10.1093/cww/vpae017)
2022
- Smith, C. 2022. ‘“I imagine that a man might not praise it as much”: Reception of “Three Women” and Plath’s BBC-recorded poetry. In: Helle, A., Golden, A. and O'Brien, M. eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 243-254.
2021
- Smith, C. 2021. The page is printed: Ted Hughes's creative process. Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
2019
- Smith, C. 2019. ‘What am I?’: Locating the indeterminate voices of Ted Hughes’s animal poems. In: Ryan, D., Spenser, J. and Edwards, K. eds. Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern. Perspectives on the Non-human in Literature and Culture Routledge
2018
- Smith, C. 2018. Spectral Ophelia: Reading manuscript cancellations contextually in Ted Hughes’s Cave Birds. In: Roberts, N., Wormald, M. and Gifford, T. eds. Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-214., (10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_12)
- Smith, C. 2018. Ted Hughes and voice. In: Gifford, T. ed. Ted Hughes in Context. Literature in Context Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 93-102.
2016
- Smith, C. 2016. Inscription and erasure: mining for Welsh Dahl in the archive. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected. Cardiff: University of Wales Press
2015
- Smith, C. 2015. Paul Bentley. Ted Hughes, class and violence [Book Review]. Review of English Studies 66(276), pp. 801-803. (10.1093/res/hgv002)
2013
- Smith, C. 2013. 'The Ted Hughesness of Ted Hughes': the construction of a 'voice' in Ted Hughes readings and recordings. In: Wormald, M., Roberts, N. and Gifford, T. eds. Ted Hughes: from Cambridge to collected. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 205-220.
- Smith, C. and Stead, L. eds. 2013. The boundaries of the literary archive. Farnham: Ashgate.
- Smith, C. 2013. Illustration and Ekphrasis: the working drafts of Ted Hughes's Cave Birds. In: Smith, C. and Stead, L. eds. The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 123-128.
Adrannau llyfrau
- Smith, C. 2022. ‘“I imagine that a man might not praise it as much”: Reception of “Three Women” and Plath’s BBC-recorded poetry. In: Helle, A., Golden, A. and O'Brien, M. eds. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 243-254.
- Smith, C. 2019. ‘What am I?’: Locating the indeterminate voices of Ted Hughes’s animal poems. In: Ryan, D., Spenser, J. and Edwards, K. eds. Reading Literary Animals: Medieval to Modern. Perspectives on the Non-human in Literature and Culture Routledge
- Smith, C. 2018. Spectral Ophelia: Reading manuscript cancellations contextually in Ted Hughes’s Cave Birds. In: Roberts, N., Wormald, M. and Gifford, T. eds. Ted Hughes, Nature and Culture. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 195-214., (10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_12)
- Smith, C. 2018. Ted Hughes and voice. In: Gifford, T. ed. Ted Hughes in Context. Literature in Context Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 93-102.
- Smith, C. 2016. Inscription and erasure: mining for Welsh Dahl in the archive. In: Walford Davies, D. ed. Roald Dahl: Wales of the Unexpected. Cardiff: University of Wales Press
- Smith, C. 2013. 'The Ted Hughesness of Ted Hughes': the construction of a 'voice' in Ted Hughes readings and recordings. In: Wormald, M., Roberts, N. and Gifford, T. eds. Ted Hughes: from Cambridge to collected. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 205-220.
- Smith, C. 2013. Illustration and Ekphrasis: the working drafts of Ted Hughes's Cave Birds. In: Smith, C. and Stead, L. eds. The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 123-128.
Erthyglau
- Smith, C. 2024. “[N]o branch, no leaf, no fruit”: writing about infertility and assisted reproduction in the poetry of Monica Youn’s Blackacre (2016) and Allison Cobb’s Green-Wood (2010). Contemporary Women's Writing 18 (10.1093/cww/vpae017)
- Smith, C. 2015. Paul Bentley. Ted Hughes, class and violence [Book Review]. Review of English Studies 66(276), pp. 801-803. (10.1093/res/hgv002)
Llyfrau
- Smith, C. 2021. The page is printed: Ted Hughes's creative process. Liverpool English Texts and Studies. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
- Smith, C. and Stead, L. eds. 2013. The boundaries of the literary archive. Farnham: Ashgate.
Ymchwil
My research focuses on literary manuscripts. My published work on Ted Hughes focuses on questions of authenticity and voice in his poetry readings and recordings using original interviews and research undertaken in the BBC Written archive. I have also published on Hughes’s creative partnership with American artist Leonard Baskin. I am currently preparing a monograph Poetry in the Making: Ted Hughes and the Art of Writing that makes extensive use of the writer’s literary archives. It explores Hughes’s composition techniques throughout his career, arguing that his self-conscious experimentation with the processes by which he wrote profoundly affected both the style and subject matter of his work. I have also co-edited a collection titled The Boundaries of the Literary Archive: Reclamation and Representation (Ashgate, 2013) that draws together archivists and literary scholars to think through the multifaceted nature of archival study.
Research interests
- modern literary manuscripts
- poetic process and development in manuscripts drafts
- Ted Hughes
- voice and regional accents in 20th century BBC radio broadcasting
- the creative process of ekphrasis
- archival study
- archives and memory
Selected conference papers
‘A different kind of roots and branches: resisting the patriarchal family tree, alternative female inheritances in Orlando’, International Virginia Woolf conference, Leeds Trinity University, 16th-20th June 2016.
‘Concealing and revealing: Mining for Welsh Dahl in the Archive’, Roald Dahl Centenary Conference, Cardiff University, 16th-18th June 2016.
‘Chasing ‘Skylarks’: an archival exploration of the early drafts’, Ted Hughes: Dream as Deep as England, Sheffield University, 9th-12th September 2015.
‘The Composition footprint of “The Hawk in the Rain”’, Ted Hughes Society Conference, Pembroke College, Cambridge, 14th-15th September 2012.
‘Audio recordings and the “myth” of Ted Hughes’, Paper for international 5 yearly conference “Ted Hughes: from Cambridge to ‘Collected’”, Cambridge University, 15th -18th September 2010.
‘“His real authentic voice... the entire Ted Hughesness of Ted Hughes”: The impact of Ted Hughes’spoetry recordings on perception of his Poetic Voice’. Paper for international conference “Poetry and Voice, a creative and critical conference” at University of Chichester, June 25th-June 27th 2010.
Invited talks
GENESIS conference, Finnish Literature Society (SKS), Helsinki, 7th-9th June 2017
Addysgu
At undergraduate level I have taught the following option modules:
- Poetry in the Making: Modern Literary Manuscripts
- Modernist Fictions
- The Post-1945 American Novel
- The Twentieth CenturyNovel in the British Isles
- Introduction to the Novel and Poetry
- Star Cross'd Lovers: The Politics of Desire
At Masters Level I have taught:
- Modernisms
- Woolf and Her Female Contemporaries
- Woolf's Modernism
I am happy to supervise PhDs in the following areas: manuscript and archival study, material culture, Ted Hughes, 1950s/60s British poetry, modernism, Virgina Woolf.
Bywgraffiad
I joined Cardiff University as a Lecturer in English Literature in September 2013, after receiving my PhD (2013) from the University of Exeter.
I co-founded the Ted Hughes Society Journal and currently sit on its Editorial Board. I am also on the Advisory Board of Wales Art Review
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
Cymrodyr, Academi Addysg Uwch
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
I am happy to supervise PhDs in the following areas:
- Manuscript and archival study
- Material culture
- Ted Hughes
- 1950s/60s British poetry
- Modernism
- Virgina Woolf
Previous supervision
Amber Jenkins, ‘From Pen to Print: Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press and the Art of Literary Composition’, Lead supervisor 12 months maternity cover, 2015-2016, University of Cardiff.
Contact Details
+44 29208 70317
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