Conferences and Publications
Conferences
I read my paper, 'Marx's Reading of Shylock: A Radical Transformation of Hegel's Geist,' at the Arts Faculty Postgraduate Seminar at the University of Warwick on 24 November, 2010.
I read my paper "Flavius’ Womanly Weeping: Mutual Recognition in Timon of Athens" at the Shakespeare and Early Modern Emotion Conference at the University of Hull in June, 2011.
I read my paper, 'Marx's Reading of Shylock: A Radical Transformation of Hegel's Geist,' in the Shakespeare as Intertext Seminar at the World Shakspeare Congress 2011 in Prague. My attendance at and travel to this conference was funded by a grant from the Humanities Research Fund, a grant from The International Shakespeare Association and a grant from the Department of English at Warwick.
I read my paper, 'Capitalism as Tragedy; Marx's use of Shakespeare's Timon of Athens in his Economic Writings', at the Cambridge Shakespeare Conference titled, Shakespeare; Sources and Adaptation, at the University of Cambridge on 9 - 11 September, 2011.
I read my paper, “The relationship between surface and depth in Shakespeare’s plays as seen through Karl Marx’s reading of them,” at the British Shakespeare Associaton 10th Anniversary Conference at the University of Lancaster on 24 - 26 February, 2012.
I read my paper, "Marx's reading of King John and the development of the word 'commodity' in the early modern period" at the the Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting in Boston on 5-7 April, 2012.
I read my paper, The Roots of Critical Theory/Frankfurt School in Shakespeare’s Influence on Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud at the International Critical Theory Conference in Rome on 7-9 May, 2012.
I read my paper, "The Shakespearean Roots of Marx’s Aesthetic" at the Marx and the Aesthetic Conference in Amsterdam on 10 - 13 May, 2012.
I read my paper, "Das Motiv der Kästchenwahl:The basis for a psychoanalytic literary theory of comedy" at the Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society Conference at Middlesex University on 9 June, 2012.
I read my paper titled, "The role of the dialectic in the influence of Shakespeare’s plays on Marxism, psychoanalysis and Critical Theory" at the Postgraduate Symposium; University of Warwick, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies on 27 June, 2012.
Publications
Literary Criticism/ Critical Theory:
Choosing the Wrong Casket: Ideology and Inaccuracy in Translation. Asymptote, Fall 2011. http://www.asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Criticism&id=24&curr_index=2
Shakespeare, Marx and Theatre: An Interview with Dominic Dromgoole.Blogging Shakespeare, Jan 2012 http://bloggingshakespeare.com/shakespeare-marx-and-theatre-an-interview-with-dominic-dromgoole
Shakespeare, Marx and the Tickling Commodity. Blogging Shakespeare, 15 Oct, 2011. http://bloggingshakespeare.com/all-the-worlds-a-stage-no-13-in-series
A Life with Shakespeare. Shakespearean Marx/Marxist Shakespeare. Blogging Shakespeare. 25 Aug, 2011. http://bloggingshakespeare.com/all-the-worlds-a-stage-no-7-in-series
I have had a few papers/articles published in other fields in which I work. They are listed below:
Smith, Christian. American Capitalism Contributes to Gang-Related Juvenile Crime. Juvenile Crime; Opposing Viewpoints. Ed. Auriana Ojeda. San Diego: Greenhaven Press. 2002.
Smith, Christian. Mandatory School Uniform Policies: Laying the Groundwork for Fascism. Turning the Tide; Journal of Anti-Racist Activism, Research and Education. 11. 2. Summer 1998.
Smith, Christian. When the Actor Quits: The Truman Show as a Tale about Reification. Change-Links. August 1998.
Smith, Christian. The Theories of Alienation and Reification of Karl Marx: A Foundation for a Radical Therapy. Masters Thesis in Psychology. California State University, Los Angeles. 1996.
