Jon Marc Smith

Jon Marc Smith is Senior Lecturer of English at Texas State University.

With Katie Kapurch, he co-authored BLACKBIRD: HOW BLACK MUSICIANS SANG THE BEATLES INTO BEING -- AND SANG BACK TO THEM EVER AFTER. The book is supported by a major award from the National Endowment for the Humanities and was published by Penn State University Press in 2023.

Former publications include scholarship on race and gender in popular music, literature, and film, and a novel, MAKE THEM CRY, co-authored with Smith Henderson.