University of Calgary
Tania Smith
- Associate Professor
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Research Interests
Currently Teaching
| W2024 - COMS 463 - Digital Rhetoric | |||||||||||||||||
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| F2024 - COMS 363 - Professional and Technical Communication | |||||||||||||||||
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| W2025 - COMS 369 - Rhetorical Communication | |||||||||||||||||
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Publications
Book
- Smith, Tania. Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650-1800: A Critical Anthology Leiden: Brill, 2020. 698. Print.
- Smith, Tania. Professional and technical communication: Analyzing website rhetoric and usability, 2nd ed. Kendall Hunt, 2019. 314. Print.
- Smith, Tania, Rabbitte, C and Robinson, S.. Curricular Peer Mentoring: A Handbook for Undergraduate Peer Mentors Serving and Learning in Courses Trafford, 2009. 140. Print.
Conference
- Smith, Tania. The Shifting Rhetoric of Thyroid Treatment: Patient Symptoms and Lab Values 2023.
- Smith, Tania. Rhetorical theory and usability theory in the analysis of websites 2017.
Conference Proceedings
- Smith, Tania. The rhetoric of website design professionals’ online portfolios 2015.
Edited Book
- Smith, Tania (ed). Undergraduate Curricular Peer Mentoring Programs: Perspectives on Innovation by Faculty, Staff and Students Lanham: Lexington Books, 2012. 292. Print.
Journal Articles - Peer Reviewed
- Smith, Tania. "Miller, C. R. & Kelly, A. R. (Ed.). (2017). Emerging genres in new media environments. Palgrave Macmillan/ Springer.". Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie 30. (2021): 323-327. Print.
- Smith, Tania. "Rhetorical strategies of the postsecondary community service-learning movement in Canada". Partnerships: A Journal of Service-Learning & Civic Engagement 1.2 (2010). Print.
- Smith, Tania. "Rhetorical criticism, history and theory and the institutionalization of community service learning in higher education". Rhetor: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric 3. (2009): 1-36. Print.
- Smith, Tania. "Elizabeth Montagu’s study of Cicero’s life: the formation of an eighteenth-century woman’s rhetorical identity". Rhetorica 26.2 (2008): 165-187. Print.
- Smith, Tania. "Integrating undergraduate peer assistants into liberal arts courses: A pilot study". Innovative Higher Education 33.1 (2008): 49-63. Print.
- Smith, Tania. "Learning conversational rhetoric in eighteenth-century Britain: Hester Thrale Piozzi and her mentors". Rhetor: Journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric 2.1 (2007): 1-32. Print.
Forthcoming
- Smith, T. S. (forthcoming). Dorothy Noake, The Life and Adventres of the Marchoness Urbino (1735). In The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, Ed. April London.
- Smith, T. S. (forthcoming). The History of Clorana, the Beautiful Arcadian, or Virtue Triumphant (1737). In The Cambridge Guide to the Eighteenth-Century Novel, 1660-1820, Ed. April London.
Graduate theses supervised
- Lisa Hanslip. The Ideologies of ‘I Do’: Commodification, Consumption, and Identity in the Wedding Industry. PhD, 2020. https://prism.ucalgary.ca/items/c041738b-7493-4eea-a4c6-cbf23b7a75cb
- Ronald Prescod. The endurance of the Frankenstein myth: A History of ideas. MA, 2016. https://prism.ucalgary.ca/items/a55cc114-aa9e-4722-9ebc-0c806e04824e
- Ashley Jette. Beating a dead elephant: The Republican party’s struggle to appeal to a modern American voter base. MA, 2015. https://prism.ucalgary.ca/items/fc4937cc-a20c-472c-9909-9ca519997462
- Heather Maitland, Toward Student Empowerment: A Foucauldian Analysis of the Communicative Practices of Academic Advisors and New Canadian Immigrant Students, MCS, 2010.
- Peggy Chan, The Influence of Safety Professionals on Organizational Safety Culture and its Change. MCS, 2010.
- Chelsea Sambells, Persuasion in the Battle of Britain (1940-1941): The Effectiveness of Allied and Axis Speeches. MA. 2009.
Teaching interests and methods
Courses in health, science and media; rhetorical communication; professional and technical communication; rhetoric and popular culture, rhetoric and public discourse; senior seminar in communications; ethics and ethos in communication; honours seminar, and communication research methods; interdisciplinary research methods.
Education
2002 – Ph.D. in English (Rhetoric & Composition). The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
1995 – M.A. English, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
1994 – B.A. English with Honors, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
Academic Associations
- President (2015-2019), RhetCanada: Canadian Society for the Study of Rhetoric. https://rhetcanada.org
- Member: International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR)
- Past Member: Canadian Association for the Study of Discourse and Writing (CASDW)
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees
- PhD - English (Rhetoric & Composition)
Ohio State University, 2002 - MA - English
University of Alberta, 1995 - BA (Hons) - English
University of Alberta, 1994
Awards
- 2011 - Student’s Union Quality Money - University of Calgary Student's Union
- 2010 - Sustainability Excellence Award - University of Calgary Office of Sustainability
- 2010 - U of C Teaching Innovation Award in Service-Learning and Student Engagement - Centre for Community Engaged Learning, Student and Enrolment Services
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