IMPORTANT UPDATE -
This website is currently under reconstruction for the Spring 2023 semester and some links or information may or may not be up-to-date. You can always ask -- or check back soon. Most information here will also be included in iLearn, the official online component for all classes going forward.
Questions always answered at:
Mr. Smith - asmith@tntech.edu
or andrew@professorandrewsmith.com
Mr. Smith is an experienced, award-winning instructor who is committed to the scholastic success & creative expression of all students enrolled in his courses.
This site details course policies & teaching philosophies.
Our common goals encourage reading, writing, learning, watching, listening, & collaborating in the context of an enjoyable & engaging college classroom environment.
Tenured Senior Instructor in the Department of English at Tennessee Tech
Theologian, Poet, Blogger, DJ, Editor, Activist!
Author of Don't Touch Your Face: poems from a pandemic (2021)
Former Preacher & Lay Pastor, Blue Spring Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) (2016-2020)
Former Faculty Head of the Treehouse Living & Learning Village (2011-2020)
Some links (at the drop-down menu above) may not be up-to-date: if you have a question, please ask!
Bachelor of Arts in English, Wayne State University, 1994;
Master of Arts in English, Middle Tennessee State University, 1999;
Master of Theological Studies, Vanderbilt Divinity School, May 2015 (with a certificate in Religion in the Arts and Contemporary Culture);
(also attended: Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio 1986-87, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado 1991)
Campus Mailing address:
c/o English Department, PO Box 5053
Cookeville, TN 38505
Office Location: Henderson Hall 218B
andrew@professorandrewsmith.com or asmith@tntech.edu