J.A.T. Smith
Biography
J. A. T. Smith is Associate Professor of English, Associate Director for the Center for Faith and Learning, and founder and Coordinator of Digital Humanities, at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. She earned her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and both her MA and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Smith is also currently serving as the Media Officer for the Medieval Association of the Pacific and as a Visiting Sabbatical Research Fellow at the Benson Center for Western Civilization at CU Boulder. In her research, Professor Smith works on the intersection of language and learning in late medieval England with an emphasis on the theological writings of the reformist educator, Bishop Reginald Pecock. She most recently published The Book of Faith: A Modern English Translation (UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020). This research contributes to a deeper historical and theological understanding of the universal Christian educational imperative implicit in the language of the New Testament commandment to "love your neighbor as yourself."
Education
- PhD, Medieval English Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, 2012
- PhC, Medieval English Literature, University of California, Los Angeles, 2009
- MA, Medieval Rhetoric, Middle English, Old English, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
- BA, English, University of California, Berkeley, 2003
Topics
- Digital Pedagogy
- Middle English Literature
- Philology
- Reginald Pecock
- Vernacular Theology
Courses
- Introduction to Digital Humanities
- Arthurian Literature
- Shakespeare
- The Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis (GE)
- Western Cultures (GE)