Paul Smith (born 1954 in
Eastleigh, England) is an academic and
cultural critic. He holds a B.A. in Modern and Medieval Languages from the
University of Cambridge and a Ph.D in
American Studies from the University of Kent. He is currently Professor of
Cultural Studies
Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field that examines the political dynamics of contemporary culture (including popular culture) and its historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers generally investigate how cultural practices re ...
a
George Mason Universityin Fairfax, Virginia, United States. His work covers many of the central themes of cultural studies, including
feminism and
gender studies,
film studies,
globalization and
Marxist
Marxism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing to Far-left politics, far-left method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a Materialism, materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand S ...
cultural criticism. He is elected Vice-President of the Cultural Studies Association and was president of the
Marxist Literary Group
The Marxist Literary Group (MLG) is an affiliate of the Modern Language Association centered on scholarly discussion of the contributions of Marxism and the Marxist tradition in the humanities and related disciplines. It holds an annual summer inst ...
from 1988-1997.
Bibliography
*''Pound Revised'' (1983)
*''Men in Feminism'', edited with Alice Jardine (1987)
* ''Discerning the Subject'' (1988)
*''Clint Eastwood: A Cultural Production'' (1993)
*''Madonnarama: On ‘Sex’ and Popular Culture'', edited with Lisa Frank (1993)
*''The Enigmatic Body: Selected Writings of
'' (1995)
*''Boys: Masculinities in Contemporary Culture'', editor (1996)
* ''Millennial Dreams: Contemporary Culture and Capital in the North'' (1997)
*''Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy'' (2007)
*''The Renewal of Cultural Studies'', editor (2011)
External links
Personal website
Interview with Jeffery Williams
Cultural academics
English Marxist writers
British expatriate academics in the United States
1954 births
George Mason University faculty
Living people
English expatriates in the United States
People from Eastleigh
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