Dr. Lyle H. Smith, Jr., has been a Professor of English Literature at Biola since 1978.

Degrees

• Ph.D., The Elizabethan English Debate Dialogue: Puritan Satire in the Anti-Clerical Tradition, University of Minnesota
• M.A., English Literature, University of Minnesota
• B.A., English, University of Minnesota

Publications

• Contributor to _Perspectives: A Guide to Teaching Shadow and Light: Literature and the Life of Faith,_ed. Darryl Tippens and Stephen Weathers. Abilene, Texas: ACU Press, 1999.
• Contributor to The C. S. Lewis Reader’s Encyclopedia, ed. Jeffrey Schultz and John G. West, Jr. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 1998.
• “Metaphors of Deep Heaven: the Platonic Context of C.S. Lewis’s Interplanetary Trilogy,” The Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society, Vol. 21, Number 4, Winter 1997-98.
• “Reading ‘something’ in ‘Tintern Abbey,’” in Christianity and Literature, Spring-Summer 1996 (Vol. 45, No. 3-4).
• "C.S. Lewis and the Making of Metaphor," in Word and Story in C.S. Lewis, ed. Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 1991, 11-28.
• "The Argument of 'Sunday Morning'," College Literature, Vol. 13, 1986.
• "What Fielding Missed: Forster's 'Special Effects" in "A Passage to India," Studia Mystica, Vol. VIII, No. 3, Fall 1985.
• "Beyond the Romantic Sublime: Gerard Manley Hopkins," Renascence, Vol. XXXIX, No. 3, Spring, 1982.
• "Volk, Jew and Devil: Ironic Inversion in Günter Grass's Dog Years," Studies in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. III, No. 1, 1979.
• Review of "Wordsworth's 'Natural Methodism'" by Richard Brantley (New Haven, 1975) in Christian Scholar's Review V:4, 1976, 397-398.

Resources

Biola Faculty Page

Smith's CV Document