David L. Smith
Associate Professor
German
252-328-5524 (phone)
252-328-6233 (fax)
smithdav@ecu.edu
Bate 3324A (Office)
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
German
252-328-5524 (phone)
252-328-6233 (fax)
smithdav@ecu.edu
Bate 3324A (Office)
Dept. Foreign Languages & Literatures
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC 27858-4353
- Director, MA International Studies
Background
- B.A. German, The Citadel
- M.A. German Literature, UNC Chapel Hill
- Ph.D. German Literature, UNC Chapel Hill
Areas of Interest
- Language and the Nation
- Literary and Cultural Theory
- German for Business
- Gender Studies
- Orality and Literacy
Prof. Smith’s background in German includes studies at four institutions of higher learning (two German and two American); a Fulbright grant to study the Lutheran Church’s support of East German dissidents during the 1980s; customer service experience in a Black Forest hotel; and shift-work in an aluminum factory in the Rhine-Ruhr industrial region. Originally from South Carolina, Prof. Smith joined ECU’s faculty in August 2005. Though he remains fascinated by contemporary and twentieth-century German literature, Prof. Smith specializes in Early Modern and Enlightenment culture and thought.