Dr James Smithies
Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities
CEISMIC Digital Archive Project Manager
Contact Details
Phone: +64 3 364 2896
Internal Phone: 6896
james.smithies@canterbury.ac.nz
Blog: www.jamessmithies.org
Twitter: @jamessmithies
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/james-smithies/13/152/926
Postal address:
English Programme
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch, New Zealand
Physical address:
Room 314, English/Education Building
Office Hours:
TBA
Research
James completed a Ph.D. in the history of New Zealand literary-cultural criticism in 2002, and has worked as technical writer, senior business analyst and IT project manager. His research focuses on the history of literature, technology and ideas. His current research project explores the literature, culture and technology of nineteenth century New Zealand. He is involved in several digital humanities initiatives, including the CEISMIC Digital Archive, and designer and editor of www.humanitiesmachine.org.nz and http://academicami.org.
Publications
Thesis
‘Imagining New Zealand: Literary Critique and Cultural Redefinition, 1940-1980′, University of Canterbury, 2002. UC Digital Repository.
Journal Articles
‘John A. Lee, 1891-1982′, Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers', NZETC, Victoria University, Wellington, 2009.
‘The Trans-Tasman Cable, the Australasian Bridgehead and Imperial History', History Compass, Volume 6, Issue 3, 2008, 691-711.
‘New Zealand Literary Critique 1940-1984', Thesis Eleven, 92:1, February 2008, pp.87-107.
‘Return Migration, the Mechanical Age and ‘The Book of the Machines': Samuel Butler in Canterbury Settlement 1860-1864'. Journal of Victorian Culture, 12:2, Autumn 2007, pp.203-224.
‘Finding the True Voice of Feeling: Kendrick Smithyman and New Criticism in New Zealand 1961-1963', The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol.42, No.1, March 2007, pp.59-78.
‘The History of Technology and the History of New Zealand', Journal of New Zealand Studies, Nos. 4/5, October 2005-October 2006, pp.111-128.
‘An Antimodern Manque: Monte Holcroft and the Deepening Stream', New Zealand Journal of History, Vol. 40, No.2, October 2006, pp.171-193.
‘Modernism or Exile? E. H. McCormick and Letters and Art in New Zealand', The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39:3, September 2004, pp.93-106.
Encyclopedia Articles
‘Invention of the Telegraph', World History Encyclopedia, Era 7: The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914, ed, James H. Overfield (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/reader.aspx?isbn=9781851099757&id=A1730C-10093). May 2011.
‘World Telegraph Networks', World History Encyclopedia, Era 7: The Age of Revolutions, 1750-1914, ed, James H. Overfield (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. http://ebooks.abc-clio.com/reader.aspx?isbn=9781851099757&id=A1730C-10093). May 2011.
‘Rewi Alley', The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary, ed, Robert Clark, Emory Elliot and Janet Todd, The Literary Dictionary Company, January 2007.
‘Julius Vogel', The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary, ed, Robert Clark, Emory Elliot and Janet Todd, The Literary Dictionary Company, April 2006.
‘William Pember Reeves', The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary, ed, Robert Clark, Emory Elliot and Janet Todd, The Literary Dictionary Company, April 2006.
‘Stevan Eldred-Grigg', The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary, ed, Robert Clark, Emory Elliot and Janet Todd, The Literary Dictionary Company, April 2006.
‘M.H. Holcroft', The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary, ed, Robert Clark, Emory Elliot and Janet Todd, The Literary Dictionary Company, August 2004.
‘John A. Lee', The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary, ed, Robert Clark, Emory Elliot and Janet Todd, The Literary Dictionary Company, August 2004.