James L. Smith

James Smith is a PhD candidate from the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Western Australia. His current doctoral research explores fluid dynamism as a theme of intellection and imagination in the twelfth century. His project, with the working title of 'Composing Abstract Hydrologies: Aqueous Structures of Intellection and Imagination in High Medieval Western Christendom', is in its third year. His broader interests are medieval philosophy, intellectual history and literary criticism.

James is a cheerful complicator, irredeemable irreducer, eclectic edificator, prolix prognosticator, and simpleton scrivener. He enjoys long walks on the beach, dinner with friends and combining things that were not designed to combine into ridiculous, unstable and improbably amalgams. When they fall apart, he likes the smashing sound they make.