{"id":2,"date":"2015-04-10T20:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T20:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T21:14:48","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Deanna Smid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2015\/04\/Rijksmuseum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2015\/04\/Rijksmuseum-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Rijksmuseum\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-17 alignleft\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2015\/04\/Rijksmuseum-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2015\/04\/Rijksmuseum.jpg 513w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Research and Teaching Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature, particularly music therapy in Shakespeare&#8217;s plays; emblem books; imagination; bees in the Renaissance; Christianity and literature; eighteenth-century literature; science fiction<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span>Ph.D., English &amp; Cultural Studies, McMaster University, 2010. \u201c\u2018The World in Man\u2019s Heart\u2019: The Faculty of Imagination in Early Modern English Literature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Courses<\/strong><br \/>\nClick on the course title for more information or a draft reading list:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/english\/2021\/06\/09\/30-147-literary-traditions\/\">English 147: Literary Traditions<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/english\/2021\/06\/09\/30-281-science-fiction\/\">English 281: Science Fiction<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/english\/2017\/02\/17\/30-331-life-without-shakespeare\/\">English\/Drama 331: Life Without Shakespeare<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/english\/2017\/02\/17\/30-339-shakespeare-i\/\"><span>English\/Drama 339: Shakespeare I<\/span><span><\/span><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/english\/2021\/06\/09\/30-340-shakespeare-ii\/\">English\/Drama 340: Shakespeare II<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/english\/2016\/02\/01\/30-362-between-revolutions-restoration-and-eighteenth-century-english-literature\/\"><span>English 356:\u00a0<\/span>Between Revolutions: Restoration and 18th-century literature<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/english\/2017\/02\/17\/30-360-age-of-beheadings\/\">English 360: Age of Beheadings<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/english\/2018\/02\/12\/30-4xx-the-birds-and-the-bees-animals-in-early-english-literature\/\"><span>English 454: The Birds and the Bees: Animals in Early English Literature<br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/2015\/11\/26\/english-381-16th-century-literature\/\"><span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/brandonu-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com\/primo-explore\/search?query=any,contains,the%20imagination%20in%20early%20modern%20literature&amp;tab=blended&amp;search_scope=Blended&amp;sortby=date&amp;vid=01BRA&amp;facet=frbrgroupid,include,3581265132&amp;mode=Basic&amp;offset=0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2022\/11\/Imagination-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"294\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-154 size-full\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/book\/10.1007\/978-3-032-15846-8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2026\/03\/revisiting-revising-and-regenreing-John-Day-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-155 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2026\/03\/revisiting-revising-and-regenreing-John-Day-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2026\/03\/revisiting-revising-and-regenreing-John-Day-725x1024.jpg 725w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2026\/03\/revisiting-revising-and-regenreing-John-Day-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2026\/03\/revisiting-revising-and-regenreing-John-Day-640x904.jpg 640w, https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/files\/2026\/03\/revisiting-revising-and-regenreing-John-Day.jpg 827w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research and Teaching Interests Sixteenth and seventeenth-century English literature, particularly music therapy in Shakespeare&#8217;s plays; emblem books; imagination; bees in the Renaissance; Christianity and literature; eighteenth-century literature; science fiction Education Ph.D., English &amp; Cultural Studies, McMaster University, 2010. \u201c\u2018The World in Man\u2019s Heart\u2019: The Faculty of Imagination in Early Modern English Literature.\u201d \u00a0 Courses Click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.brandonu.ca\/smidd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}