Lisa Smith

Biography

Lisa Smith earned her PhD in early American literature at the University of Delaware. She taught at the University of Delaware and now teaches a variety of courses in early American literature and writing at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Her courses focus on the First Great Awakening, gender and spirituality in early American writings, and spiritual autobiography. Dr. Smith has published an academic monograph on how the First Great Awakening appeared in colonial American newspapers, a book on the eighteenth-century revivalist George Whitefield, a book on Jesus as the Bridegroom of the church, and a book on lesser-known women in the Bible. Dr. Smith also has presented at Comic-Con International.

Education

• PhD in English, University of Delaware
• MA in English, University of Delaware
• BA in English and Psychology, University of Delaware