David A. Smyth | |
Birth Date: | 5 January 1954 |
Nationality: | British |
Thesis Title: | A Study of the Major Fiction of Kulāp Sāipradit (pseud. 'Sībūraphā') |
Thesis Url: | https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/160275809.pdf |
Thesis Year: | 1988 |
Doctoral Advisor: | Manas Chitakasem(Thai: มานัส จิตตเกษม) |
Workplaces: | School of Oriental and African Studies |
David A. Smyth (; born 5 January 1954) is a British scholar notable for his expertise in the field of Thai studies.
Smyth first studied Thai at the School of Oriental and African Studies, as part of an undergraduate degree in South East Asian Studies. One of his tutors there was E. H. S. Simmonds.
He lived in Thailand from the mid 1970s until the early 1980s, teaching English first at Thammasat University and then at Srinakharinwirot University.
He received his Ph.D. from SOAS in 1988. His doctoral dissertation was a study of the literary works of Kulap Saipradit.
For a number of years, he was a lecturer in Thai and Cambodian at SOAS.