About
Dr James L. Smith is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the
School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, working on the 2019-23
Ports, Past and Present project. His work is at the intersection of the blue, environmental, spatial and digital humanities. His first monograph is
Water in Medieval Intellectual Culture: Case-Studies from Twelfth-Century Monasticism (Brepols, 2018). James is the editor of
The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits (punctum books, 2017), and co-editor of the Open Library of the Humanities collection
New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies (2019). His current book project has the working title of
Deep Maps of Lough Derg.
Education
PhD, History (Medieval and Early Modern Studies), University of Western Australia, August 2014
BA, Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Political Science and International Relations, University of Western Australia, 2007
Honours (Medieval and Early Modern Studies), First Class (1A), 2008
Thesis: ‘Water as Medieval Intellectual Entity: Case Studies in Twelfth-Century Western Monasticism’, University of Western AustraliaWork Shared in CORE
Books
Articles
- Rural Waterscape and Emotional Sectarianism in Accounts of Lough Derg, County Donegal
- The 1795 Disaster: Casualties of the Spiritual Waterscape of Lough Derg, County Donegal
- EcoGothic, Ecohorror and Apocalyptic Entanglement in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Tales of the Black Freighter
- Interrogating Green Space in Medieval Monasticism: Position, Powers and Politics
- Medieval Water Studies: Past, Present and Promise
- Medieval Water Energies: Philosophical, Hydro-Social, and Intellectual
- Disturbing the Ant-Hill: Misanthropy and Cosmic Indifference in Clark Ashton Smith’s Medieval Averoigne
- Brendan meets Columbus: A more commodious islescape
- I, River?: New materialism, riparian non-human agency and the scale of democratic reform
- Philosophia Divitur: The Ecodiagrammatic Patterns of the Pierpont Morgan, M. 982 Leaf
- “So the satiated man hungers, the drunken thirsts” The Medieval Rhetorical Topos of Spiritual Nutrition
- Europe’s confused transmutation: the realignment of moral cartography in Juan de la Cosa’s Mappa Mundi (1500)
- Premodern Streams of Thought in Twenty-First-Century Water Management
- New Bachelards?: Reveries, Elements and Twenty-First Century Materialisms
Book chapters
Conference proceedings
Theses
Projects
Ports, Past and Present Ports, Past and Present: Cultural Crossings between Ireland and Wales is a joint initiative with UCC and Wexford County Council in Ireland, and in Wales with Aberystwyth University and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The project is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Cooperation programme and is led by UCC.
Digital Derg: A Deep Map Digital Derg is an Irish Research Council-funded project initiated at Trinity College Dublin under the title ‘Deep Mapping the Spiritual Waterscape of Ireland’s Lakes: The Case of Lough Derg, County Donegal’. Click
here for a project blog detailing the ongoing development of the project.
