Molly Easo Smith
Indian academic
Molly Easo Smith (born 1958 in Chennai, India) is an Indian-American professor and scholar of Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, and academic administrator.
Biography
Born in Chennai in India, Dr. Smith graduated from Ethiraj College for Women and Madras Christian College in the University of Madras, with BA and MA degrees in English, respectively, and from Auburn University with a PhD in English Literature in 1988. In 1991, she was awarded a grant by the American Council of Learned Societies to conduct research on Renaissance drama, a topic on which she later wrote two books and several articles. Her research and teaching interests include the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Shakespeare, Women in Drama, and the development of theatre. She has held faculty posts at a number of colleges, including Ithaca College, St. Louis University, the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, and Stephen F. Austin State University.
She served as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University from 2002 to 2006. While at Seton Hall, she received a vote of no confidence from a minority of the college of arts and sciences faculty after releasing a Seton Hall professor from administrative duties.
President of Manhattanville College
From 2006 to 2008, she served as the provost of Wheaton College in Massachusetts and served as the eleventh President of Manhattanville College from 2009 to 2011.
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