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 the 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]
Smith was the Professor of Spanish at Cambridge University between 1991 and 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 of Spanish urban space; and a biography of Spanish film director Pedro Almodóvar, Desire Unlimited: The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar[10]