Michael Gorra came to Smith in 1985, and teaches classes on the 19th- and 20th-century novel. He is now working on The Storytellers, a comparative study of 19th-century short fiction, from Goethe to ...

Blair Bentley is an integrative biologist focusing on the impacts of climate change on wildlife populations, with a focus on marine systems. His research intersects the disciplines of ecophysiology, ...

But there are ways we can take inspiration from nature.” For Lama, that inspiration comes from studying the “climate ...

Gillian Murray Kendall loves to teach Renaissance literature, particularly Shakespeare and other Renaissance dramatists. She is the editor of and contributor to a volume of essays, Shakespearean Power ...

“There are ebbs and flows to friendships, but Smith is the common thread that connects us,” she said. Being back affirmed ...

Intended for high school seniors, this annual event will highlight opportunities offered by Smith College for African American, Asian American, Latin American, Native American, and/or first-generation ...

The Student Financial Services Call Center (413-585-2530) will be open to take your calls Monday–Friday, 10 a.m.–noon and 1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. (Eastern). Smith College welcomes and supports qualified ...

Ada Limón is the current Poet Laureate of The United States, and the author of six acclaimed books of poetry, including The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) which won the National Book Critics ...

Among democratic countries around the world, the United States is an outlier when it comes to guaranteeing rights for individuals based on sex or gender. This means that in America, women do not have ...

When Christine McCarthy ’77 was 9 years old, she had to write a report on her hero. Her choice: Amelia Earhart. “I idolized her because she did adventurous things men did and broke barriers,” McCarthy ...

In her new book, Posthuman Bliss? The Failed Promise of Transhumanism, Susan B. Levin, Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, offers what Bruce Jennings of Vanderbilt ...

As a first-year Smith student, Tigress Osborn ’96 attended a Cromwell Day workshop on fat acceptance. “I wasn’t that fat, but I had a strong identity as a fat girl,” she says. “I was being told all ...