Instructor: Dr. Mark Trevor Smith

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.”