Paul Smith (born 1954 in Eastleigh, England) is an academic and

cultural critic A cultural critic is a critic of a given culture, usually as a whole. Cultural criticism has significant overlap with social and cultural theory. While such criticism is simply part of the self-consciousness of the culture, the social positions o ...

. He holds a B.A. in Modern and Medieval Languages from the

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and a Ph.D in

American Studies American studies or American civilization is an interdisciplinarity, interdisciplinary field of scholarship that examines American literature, History of the United States, history, Society of the United States, society, and Culture of the Unit ...

from the University of Kent. He is currently Professor of

Cultural Studies Cultural studies is an academic field that explores the dynamics of contemporary culture (including the politics of popular culture) and its social and historical foundations. Cultural studies researchers investigate how cultural practices rel ...

a
George Mason University
in Fairfax, Virginia, United States. His work covers many of the central themes of cultural studies, including

feminism Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

and

gender studies Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. The field n ...

film studies Film studies is an academic discipline that deals with various film theory, theoretical, history of film, historical, and film criticism, critical approaches to film, cinema as an art form and a medium. It is sometimes subsumed within media stud ...

globalization Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the economies, markets, societies, and cultures of different countries worldwide. This is made possible by the reduction of barriers to international trade, th ...

and

Marxist Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis. It uses a dialectical and materialist interpretation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to analyse class relations, social conflic ...

cultural criticism. He is elected vice-president of the Cultural Studies Association and was president of the Marxist Literary Group 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 Jean-Louis Schefer'' (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)

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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 {{England-bio-stub