Paul Julian Smith

Paul Julian Smith is a university professor specializing in Spanish and Mexican cinema and television. He is also a film critic.

He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Hispanic studies at the Graduate Center of City University of New York.[1][2]

He is a regular contributor on Spanish-language film for the British Film Institute magazine Sight & Sound[3] and was a columnist for Film Quarterly[4]

Career

Smith was the Professor of Spanish at Cambridge University between 1991 until September 2010.[5]

He was elected a fellow of The British Academy in 2008.[6]

In 2010 he joined the CUNY Graduate Center as Distinguished Professor.[7]

Notable works include Writing in the Margin,[8] the first systematic application of poststructuralist critical theory to literature of the Spanish Golden Age, The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture,[9] a study the Spanish urban space, and a biography of Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar[10]

References
  1. "Paul Julian Smith". cuny.edu. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
  2. "Smith, Paul Julian". worldcat.org. Retrieved December 17, 2016.
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  5. "Former members of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese".
  6. "Six University scholars elected to British Academy | University of Cambridge". 2008-07-18.
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  8. Smith, Paul Julian (1988). Writing in the Margin: Spanish Literature of the Golden Age. ISBN 9780198158479.
  9. Smith, Paul Julian (2000). The Moderns: Time, Space, and Subjectivity in Contemporary Spanish Culture (Oxford Hispanic Studies). ISBN 9780198160007.
  10. Smith, Paul Julian (2000). Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar. ISBN 9781859843048.
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