Callie Smith

Educator

Callie Smith earned her doctorate in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in May 2023. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Central Arkansas, and a BA in English Secondary Education from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.  

She is an editor for Viewfinder, a museum education journal focused on social justice published by the National Art Education Association.  

Callie is also a poet and a researcher. Her poems have been published by Notre Dame Review, Grist, RHINO, Sugar House Review, Blue Earth Review, Quarterly West, and Santa Clara Review, among others. She is a podcast host for the Animal Studies Channel of the New Books Network, the largest open-access collection of author interviews about new scholarly books.

Callie loves teaching and learning in the Hilliard’s galleries. She looks forward to working with students and faculty on the UL campus and with the wider Lafayette community.