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Biography

J. E. Smyth is a historian and critic.

B.A. Wellesley College, 1999; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. Yale University, 2000-2005.

'"What in heaven鈥檚 name brought you to England?"

"My health. I came to England for the waters."

"Waters-- what waters? We're in the middle of the Midlands."

"I was misinformed."'

 

Contact Information

Books

• (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024). Theatre Library Association Richard Wall Memorial Award finalist.
• , by Jane Allen, ed. and with introduction (New York: Penguin/Random House, 2019).
• (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Theatre Library Association Richard Wall Special Jury Prize; Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Media and Cultural Studies finalist.
• (London: British Film Institute/Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
• (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2014). Theatre Library Association Richard Wall Memorial Award finalist.
• , ed. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
• , preface by Thomas Schatz (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009). Association of American Publishers PROSE Award for Media and Cultural Studies.
• (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006; 2009). International Association of Media Historians' Prize in Media and History; Theatre Library Association Richard Wall Memorial Award finalist.

Selected recent articles, reviews and video essays since 2017

• 'Theatres of Feminism and Cinema's Vanished Ladies', Screen 67:3 (autumn 2026).
• Times Literary Supplement (November 14, 2025).
• , Times Literary Supplement (August 1, 2025).

• ' "No Manners at All and Always Seeing Things': The Return of Hitchcock's Vanished Englishwomen in The 39 Steps and The Lady Vanishes'. In Re-viewing Hitchcock, ed. Robert Kapsis (London: Bloomsbury, 2025).

• , Times Literary Supplement (July 10, 2025). [review of Grace Pervades, Theatre Royal, Bath]

• , Times Literary Supplement (June 5, 2025).
• 'Women of the West: A Feminist Approach to High Noon', for High Noon, Eureka Entertainment (2025).
• ', Modern Language Review, 120: 1 (Jan. 2025): 17-37.
• , Times Literary Supplement (25 October 2024).
• , Times Literary Supplement (4 October 2024).
• , Times Literary Supplement (28 June 2024).
• , Times Literary Supplement (19 January 2024).
• , Times Literary Supplement (12 January 2024).
• 'Lost Lady/The Lady Vanishes: A Historian's Whodunnit', Cineaste (summer 2023), 34-39.
• 'Im Westen Nichts Neues', Cineaste (spring 2023), 51-53.
• 'The Unmaking of the English Working-Class Actor', Cineaste (fall 2022), 4-9.
• 'The Avenging Goddess of Screenwriters', Los Angeles Review of Books (18 November 2022).
• 'L'Evenement', Cineaste (fall 2022), 43-45.
• 'The Heresy of Truth: An Interview with Paul Verhoeven', Cineaste (winter 2021), 34-7.
• 'Benedetta', 小颈苍别补蝉迟别 (winter 2021), 42-43.
• 'The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of: The Dark History Behind The Maltese Falcon', Cineaste (fall 2021), 4-9.
• 'Gunda', Cineaste (fall 2021), 44-46.
• 'Barbara McLean', for The Gunfighter, The Criterion Collection (2020).
• 'Harriet Parsons', American National Biography (2020).
• 'Outgrowing Little Women', Cineaste (spring 2020), 8-13.
• 'Ida Lupino's America: Just a Big Family of Little Failures', Cineaste (winter 2020), 12-15, 78.
• 'The Heiress', Cineaste (fall 2019), 54-56.
• 'Kay Brown', American National Biography (2019).
• 'Mary C. McCall Jr.', American National Biography (2018).
• 'Babylon Revisited', Cineaste (spring 2018), 4-9.
• 'The Anatomy of the Prick Flick', Cineaste (fall 2017), 20-24.
• 'The First Woman President of the Screen Writers Guild', Written By (September-October 2017), 38-42, 63.
• 'Marsha Hunt: American Girl, Un-American Woman', Sight & Sound (17 October 2017).
• 'Barbara McLean: Editing, Authorship and the Equal Right to Be the Best', Cineaste (spring 2017), 20-23.
• 'When a Woman Called the Shots at the Screen Writers Guild', womenandhollywood.com (14 March 2017).

Undergraduate Teaching (student access via Moodle)

• The Formation of American Culture, 1876-1929 (HI282)
• The Formation of American Culture, 1929-2000 (HI2A8)
• The American West (HI3K8)
• The Historical Film (HI33Y)
• The Invention of the American Indian (HI2G9)

Postgraduate Teaching

• PhD supervision in global film and media, 19th and 20th-century US literature, cultural history and historiography

News and Press:

interview

praise for Mary C. McCall Jr.

praise for Mary C. McCall Jr: The Rise and Fall of Hollywood's Most Powerful Screenwriter

, Los Angeles Review of Books

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