Caleb Smith is professor of English and American Studies at Yale University and the author of The Oracle and the Curse (2013) and The Prison and the American Imagination (2009).

His edition of Austin Reed’s 1858 prison memoir, The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict, appeared from Random House in 2016.

Smith has written about contemporary media and the arts for Avidly, Bomb, Paper Monument, Yale Review, and other venues. He is a contributing editor at Los Angeles Review of Books and a co-editor of No Crisis, an LARB special series on the state of criticism in the twenty-first century.

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email: caleb.smith@yale.edu
twitter: @calebsmith203

post: PO Box 208302, New Haven, CT 06520

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