@inbook{smoot_2000, title={Simone Weil and Mikhail Bakhtin look at the classics: Alterity as aesthetic principle in Homer's Illiad and Virgil's Aeneid}, booktitle={Identity and alterity in literature, 18th-20th century. Vol. I. Comparative Literature on the threshold of the 21st century: Proceedings of the Greek General and Comparative Literature Association. 2nd International Congress; Athens 8-11 November 1998}, author={Smoot, J. J.}, editor={E. Politou-Marmannoi and Deniss, S.Editors}, year={2000}, pages={125–133} }
 @article{smoot_2000, title={The postmodern assault on the canon: classical answers to contemporary dilemmas}, volume={24}, DOI={10.1353/com.2000.0002}, abstractNote={If we accept the simple premise that what we read influences who we are, then curricular matters in general and the concept of a canon in particular have profound political implications. Almost any dictator seeks to restrict what his subjects read, to control the flow of information, ideas, and philosophies. A free society, then, sustains itself by fostering an expansive and open canon. The idea of a literary canon itself suggests standards, the upholding or at least the respect for excellence in writing, creative expression, and dynamic ideas. The elasticity of this canon insures freedom, the ventilation of opposing ideas, and the development of new ways of thinking. James Madison makes a similar argument in Federalist Paper No. 10 to support, not the idea of an open canon, but democratic government and the need for factions in a free society. Ironically today the notion of a canon is under attack from the very institution that in the past has been its primary incubator, the academy. Even more ironic, the canon is often under siege in the name ofmulticulturalism, which at its best should promote respect for all cultures and awareness of cultural differences. What passes for multiculturalism today, however, is sometimes a relentless assault on Western civilization. John Ellis, in Literature Lost: Social Agendas and the Corruption of the Humanities, sees the race-gender-class critics, as he calls them, actually increasing divisiveness in postmodern society by focusing on the victim/victimizer paradigm. Ellis holds that such critics also harm literary study by selecting texts based on their ability to support particular social and political aims. So concerned was Ellis that literature was being neglected in favor of political and social agendas that he and others formed the Association ofLiterary Scholars and Critics (ALSC), an international group, in 1994. While the ALSCs main purpose is to provide a forum for study and exchange for all those who value good literature (its members include classicists, literature professors and teachers of all types, creative writers, critics, editors, and people from other professions who simply have a love of the Word), the group also is concerned with fostering a climate in which good literature can flourish. For this reason, the ALSC has taken a closer look at what is actually being taught in the name of multiculturalism. The results, far from the respect for all cultures that one might have expected, are often deeply disturbing. One of the ways the ALSC, which is mainly composed of US members, discerns the effect of some elements of multicultural studies is to ask its members to look at something so simple and seemingly benign as standards used to certify secondary school teachers in the fifty US states. While the ALSC saw much to praise, citing the California English language arts standards draft report as a particularly fine example of an}, number={2000}, journal={Comparatist}, author={Smoot, J. J.}, year={2000}, pages={30–38} }
 @inbook{smoot_2000, title={Toward imporved English language arts standard for K-12: what a college professor wishes her students had read}, booktitle={What's at stake in the K-12 standards wars: A primer for educational policy makers}, publisher={New York: P. Lang}, author={Smoot, J. J.}, year={2000}, pages={259–277} }
 @inbook{smoot_1998, title={Freedom and feminism against a naturalistic world order: The life and works of Dolores Medio}, booktitle={Estudios en honor de Janet Perez: El sujeto femenino en escritoras hispanicas}, publisher={Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica}, author={Smoot, J. J.}, editor={S. Cavallo, L. Martinez and Preble-Nieme, O.Editors}, year={1998}, pages={257–269} }
 @article{smoot_1997, title={Fulbrighters and other unlikely heroes: Translating of cultural texts between China and the United States}, volume={2}, number={1}, journal={Synthesis (Bucharest, Romania)}, author={Smoot, J. J.}, year={1997}, pages={209–221} }