I received my BA in print journalism and literature from American University and my MA and PhD in English from Rice University, where I specialized in Victorian literature and culture, book history, and children’s literature. I joined the English Department at the University of Connecticut in 2012.
My research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century childhood, as children experienced it and as it is represented in literature and culture for both children and adults. My first monograph – Between Generations: Collaborative Authorship in the Golden Age of Children’s Literature – was published in 2017 by the University Press of Mississippi and won the 2017 ChLA Book Award. You also can find my work in Dickens Studies Annual, Children’s Literature, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, The Journal of Juvenilia Studies, and Victorian Poetry.
I serve as book review co-editor for The Lion and the Unicorn, and I am a cohost of The Children’s Table podcast with my inimitable colleagues Katharine Capshaw and Anna Mae Duane.
Victoria Ford Smith 