Mark Trevor Smith
Professor
When Dr. Mark Trevor Smith arrived on campus in 1983, none of his students had been born after 1983. Yesterday, most of his students had been born after 1983. He received his Ph.D. at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook (1982), after his M.A. from the
University of Miami (1978) and his A.B. from Yale (1968). Dr. Smith studies
William Blake, who will take you further than any other writer will, from
both ends: the beginnings of literature in oral tradition and the ends of
literature in computers:
www.williamblake.net. Dr. Smith’s
book on
the coincidence of opposites as treated by several writers has been
stolen from the library, but lives on the internet. He is most proud of his
invention of ENG 200: Introduction to Literature, which features enrichment
from film, paintings, music, and other media. He confesses, and struggles
against, one day at a time, an addiction to chess. The happiest moment of
his life (so far) was the birth of his daughter at the same time that Neil
Armstrong blasted off from earth for the moon. “If the fool would persist in
his folly he would become wise.”
Pummill 205A
836-4801
MarkTrevorSmith@MissouriState.edu
