Dr Russell Smith
BA, BA (Hons), PhD (Adelaide)
Lecturer in English
College of Arts and Social Sciences
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+61 2 6125 8472
Areas of expertise
- British And Irish Literature 200503
- Literary Theory 200525
- Cultural Theory 200204
- Australian Literature (Excl. Aboriginal And Torres Strait Islander Literature) 200502
- Art Criticism 190101
- Art Theory 190103
Research interests
Modernist literature, especially Samuel Beckett. Literary theory, especially theories of affect, emotion & subjectivity. Contemporary visual art. Contemporary Australian writing. Graphic novels.
Biography
I completed a PhD on Samuel Beckett at the University of Adelaide in 2001, and
taught at the University of Adelaide and University of South Australia before moving
to Canberra in 2003.
Researcher's projects
I am currently working on a book titled Beckett's Sensibility, a study of the relation between thought and feeling, reason and emotion in the post-war writing of Samuel Beckett.
Publications
- Ruston, S & Smith, R 2019, 'Introduction', Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 47, no. 3, pp. 237-242.
- Smith, R 2019, 'Frankenstein in the automatic factory', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 41, no. 3, pp. 303-319.
- Smith, R 2017, 'Radical Sensibility in 'The End'', Journal of Beckett Studies, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 69-86pp.
- Smith, R 2017, '"It was Things Made Me Weep": Involuntary Memory in First Love', Samuel Beckett Today-Aujourd'hui, vol. 29, pp. 104-116pp.
- Smith, R 2017, 'Walking ... Stumbling ... Falling ... Lying Down: Beckettian Operations in the Art of John Barbour and Ugo Rondinone', in Robert Reginio, David Houston Jones and Katherine Weiss (ed.), Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art, Columbia University Press, United States, pp. 183-212.
- Smith, R 2016, 'Book Review: David Tucker, Samuel Beckett and Arnold Geulincx: Tracing a Literary Fantasia. London: Continuum, 2012', The Beckett Circle, no. Autumn 2016, pp. 1-6pp.
- Smith, R 2016, 'Global Modernity, Anthropogenic Extinction, and the Future of Sexual Difference: From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Julia Leigh's The Hunter', Affirmations: of the modern, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 106-126.
- Smith, R 2016, '"Uproar, bulk, rage, suffocation, effort unceasing, frenzied and vain": Beckett's Transports of Rage', Journal of Medical Humanities, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 137-147.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2015, Australian Humanities Review, Issue 58, May 2015.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2014, Australian Humanities Review, Issue 57, November 2014.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2014, Australian Humanities Review, Issue 56, May 2014.
- Smith, R 2013, 'Childhood and Portora', in Anthony Uhlmann (ed.), Samuel Beckett in Context, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, pp. 7-18.
- Smith, R 2013, 'Event, Contingency, Repetition: Donnie Darko vs Eternal Sunshine', Double Dialogues, vol. 16, no. Spring, p. 8.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2013, Australian Humanities Review 55 (Nov 2013)
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2013, Australian Humanities Review 54 (May 2013)
- Curthoys, N, Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2013, Australian Humanities Review, Issue 55, November 2013.
- Rooney, M, Smith, R & Curthoys, N 2013, 'Editor's introduction to Australian Humanities Review, Issue 54, May 2013', Australian Humanities Review, no. 54, pp. 5pp.
- Smith, R 2012, 'Review: Beckett and Phenomenology, edited by Ulrika Maude and Matthew Feldman (London: Continuum, 2009', Journal of Beckett Studies, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 125-130.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R 2012, 'Editor's introduction to Australian Humanities Review, Issue 53, November 2012', Australian Humanities Review, no. 53, pp. online.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2012, Australian Humanities Review 53 (Nov 2012)
- Mishra, S & Smith, R 2012, 'Editor's introduction to Australian Humanities Review, Issue 52, May 2012', Australian Humanities Review, no. 52, pp. Online.
- Mishra, S & Smith, R, eds, 2012, Australian Humanities Review 52: Minor Histories of the Pacific (May 2012)
- Rooney, M & Smith, R 2011, 'Editor's introduction to Australian Humanities Review, Issue 51, November 2011', Australian Humanities Review, no. 51, pp. 1-2.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2011, Australian Humanities Review 51 (Nov 2011)
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2011, Australian Humanities Review 50 (May 2011)
- Smith, R 2010, 'Authenticity, Dante and True Love in Samuel Beckett's How It Is', in Jan Lloyd Jones and Julian Lamb (ed.), Art & Authenticity, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 147-155.
- Smith, R 2010, 'It's nothing: Beckett and Anxiety', in Daniela Caselli (ed.), Beckett and Nothing: Trying to understand Beckett, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York, pp. 192-212.
- Smith, R 2010, 'The Spatial Poetics of Computer Games and the Mapping of Australian Space', in Jennifer Rutherford & Barbara Holloway (ed.), Halfway House: The Poetics of Australian Spaces, University of Western Australia Publishing, Crawley, Western Australia, pp. 345-365.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R 2010, 'Introduction: Common Readers and Cultural Critics', Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (JASAL) Special Issue, pp.1-6.
- Smith, R & Rooney, M, eds, 2010, JASAL Special Issue: Common Readers and Cultural Critics.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2010, Australian Humanities Review 49 (Nov 2010)
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2010, Australian Humanities Review 48 (May 2010)
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, 2010, 'Editors' Introduction', Australian Humanities Review 48 (May 2010), pp. 5-8.
- Smith, R & Ackerley, C 2009, 'Samuel Beckett's Reception in Australia and New Zealand', in Mark Nixon and Matthew Feldman (ed.), The International Reception of Samuel Beckett, Continuum Publishing Company, London, United Kingdom, pp. 108-128.
- Smith, R 2009, 'The Literary Destruction of Canberra: Utopia, Apocalypse and the National Capital', Australian Literary Studies (ALS), vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 78-94.
- Smith, R 2009, 'Review: Daniela Caselli, Beckett's Dantes: Intertexuality in the Fiction and Criticism, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006', Journal of Beckett Studies, vol. 17, no. 1-2, pp. 221-225.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2009, Australian Humanities Review 47 (November 2009)
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2009, Australian Humanities Review 46 (May 2009)
- Smith, R, ed., 2008, Beckett and Ethics, Continuum Publishing Company, London, United Kingdom.
- Smith, R 2008, 'Introduction: Beckett's Ethical Undoing', in Russell Smith (ed.), Beckett and Ethics, Continuum Publishing Company, London, United Kingdom, pp. 1-20.
- Smith, R 2008, 'Bearing Witness in How It Is', in M Okamuro,, N mori, B Clement, S Houppermans, A Moorjani, A Uhlmann (ed.), Borderless Beckett / Beckett sans frontiers, Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui, Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam, pp. 351-360.
- Smith, R 2008, 'Book Review: Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans and Bruno clement eds', Samuel Beckett Today-Aujourd'hui, vol. 14, no. After Beckett/D'apres Beckett, pp. 259-260.
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2008, Australian Humanities Review 45 (Nov 2008)
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- Rooney, M & Smith, R, eds, 2008, Australian Humanities Review 44 (March 2008)
- Rooney, M & Smith, R, 2008, 'Editors' Introduction', Australian Humanities Review 44 (March 2008)
- Smith, R 2007, ''The acute and increasing anxiety of the relation itself': Beckett, the Author-Function, and the Ethics of Enunciation', in Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon (ed.), Samuel Beckett "All Sturm and no Drang" Beckett and Romanticism Beckett at Reading 2006, Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam, New York, pp. 341-354.
- Smith, R 2007, 'Web publishing: A Critical Evaluation', in Lucy Neave, James Connor & Amanda Crawford (ed.), Arts of Publication: Scholarly Publishing in Australia and Beyond, Australian Scholarly Publishing Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 68-90.
- Smith, R 2007, 'Endgame's Remainders', in Mark S. Byron (ed.), Samuel Beckett's Endgame, Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 99-120.
- Smith, R 2007, Book Reviews: Interzone: Media Arts in Australia (D. Tofts); Prefiguring Cyberculture: An Intellectual History (D. Tofts, A. Jonson and A. Cavallaro (eds))., Art Monthly Australia.
- Smith, R 2006, 'The Art of Antony Hamilton and Nicholas Folland as Spatial History', Southerly, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 40-55.
- Smith, R 2005, Adam Geczy I Hate Australia, pp. 188pp.
- Smith, R 2005, World Famous in New Zealand, pp. 189pp.
- Smith, R 2005, 'Seven Words for Hard Times (A Glossary for John Barbour)', in James Bennett (ed.), Crescent Moon: Islamic Art and Civilisation in Southeast Asia, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 34-41.
- Smith, R 2005, Shaun Kirby Cousin Beast, pp. 249pp.
- Smith, R 2005, Summer of Silver, pp. 65-67.
- Smith, R 2004, The Passenger David McDowell: Photo and Video Works, p. 47.
- Smith, R 2004, Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Insight Publications, Victoria, Australia.
- Smith, R 2004, Tracey Moffatt: The International Look, pp. 36-38pp.
- Smith, R 2004, Perceptual Difference: Welcome illusions, pp. 27pp.
- Smith, R 2004, 'Beckett's Endlessness: Rewriting Modernity and the Postmodern Sublime', in Anthony Uhlmann, Sjef Houppermans, Bruno Clement (ed.), After Beckett, Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam - New York, NY, pp. 405-420.
- Smith, R 2004, 'This is tomorrow Experimenta in Melbourne and Primavera in Sydney', Art Monthly Australia (AMA), vol. 168, pp. 37-41.
- Smith, R 2004, Nicholas Folland.
- Smith, R 2004, Bill Henson: Three Decades of Photography, pp. 46-48pp.
- Smith, R 2004, Artificially Reconstructed Habitats, pp. 45pp.
- Smith, R & Tutton, S 2004, Introduction: New Media Art in Australia and Asia, MESH#17: New Media Art in Australia and Asia, pp. 28-29.
- Smith, R & Tutton, S, eds, 2004, MESH 17 New Media Art in Australia and Asia, 17.
- Smith, R 2004, From Zombies to Cyborgs: Why is Stelarc one of Australia's most important contemporary artists?, tba, pp. 26-29.
- Smith, R 2003, 'The opposite of nostalgia: POL: Portrait of a generation and Lewis Morley: Myself and eye at the National Portrait Gallery', Art Monthly Australia (AMA), vol. 161, pp. 3-6.
- Smith, R 2003, Gary Hill + Bruce Nauman, p. 34.
- Smith, R & Hoskin, T 2003, The gallery as squatspace, pp. 31pp.
- Smith, R 2003, Primavera 2003.
- Smith, R 2003, Clocked Out Duo: How the balloon taught the piano to play, pp. 28pp.
- Smith, R 2003, Art and the Museum Visitor, pp. 18-19pp.
- Smith, R 2002, '"Someone" (The Other Beckett)', in Daniela Caselli, Steven Connor, Laura Salisbury (ed.), Other Becketts, Journal of Beckett Studies, Florida USA.
- Smith, R 2001, The Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships 2002, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia.
- Smith, R 2001, '"Someone" (The Other Beckett)', Journal of Beckett Studies, vol. 10, no. 1 and 2, pp. 1-16.
- Smith, R 2001, Stain, Altitude vol 1
