Brady Smith

Brady Smith was raised in Iowa and attended Boston College before serving in the Peace Corps in the Republic of Cape Verde from 2006-2008. He has been at the University of Chicago since the fall of 2008.

African literatures and literatures of the environment; comparative literature; Anglophone and Lusophone postcolonial theory; ecocriticism; the novel; urban studies; and the history of children's literature.

African Studies Workshop

 "Other Atlantics: Cape Verde, Chiquinho, and the Black Atlantic World," Comparative Literature Studies 49.2 (2012): 246-265.

• "Literatures of the Environment," Department of Environmental Studies, University of Chicago, Winter 2015
• "The Wretched of the Earth," Department of English, University of Chicago, Fall 2014
• "First-Year Composition," Department of English, North Central College, Fall 2014
• "Contemporary African Fiction," Department of English, University of Chicago, Fall 2012
• "Empire and After," First-Year Seminar, Department of Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall 2011.