- Tim Smith-Laing
Arts critic and writer.
I review books and art regularly for The Daily Telegraph and Apollo: The International Art Magazine, where I am also a regular features contributor. My poetry and essays have appeared in The Junket. I am currently working on a book about Lady Luck, from Ancient Greece to quantum physics. To read some of my work, please see thejunket.org/contributors/tim-smith-laing/ and www.apollo-magazine.com/author/tim-smith-laing/
Until 2014, I was a lecturer in English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford, where I specialised in introductory courses on literary theory and linguistics, along with higher level undergraduate teaching on Shakespeare and sixteenth-century English literature. I also taught papers on tragedy and epic to joint honours students in Classics and English.
I took my BA in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 2007, then moved to Oxford after a year abroad to take my MSt. in early modern English, graduating in 2009. Specialising in the classical inheritances of English renaissance drama, I moved onto my DPhil the same year, supervised by Professor Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College), Dr. Helen Barr (Lady Margaret Hall), and Dr. Rhodri Lewis (St. Hugh's College).
My doctoral thesis, 'Variorum vitae: Theseus and the arts of mythography in medieval and early modern Europe' (completed October 2013), used the figure of Theseus as a case-study in the place of Greek mythology in literary and cultural history, circa 1300-1600. Examining a range of important mythographical works by authors including Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and William Shakespeare, this study reconstructs the backgrounds to their uses of mythology, seeking out the hermeneutics medieval and early modern audiences would have brought to their work.
I review books and art regularly for The Daily Telegraph and Apollo: The International Art Magazine, where I am also a regular features contributor. My poetry and essays have appeared in The Junket. I am currently working on a book about Lady Luck, from Ancient Greece to quantum physics. To read some of my work, please see thejunket.org/contributors/tim-smith-laing/ and www.apollo-magazine.com/author/tim-smith-laing/
Until 2014, I was a lecturer in English Literature at Jesus College, Oxford, where I specialised in introductory courses on literary theory and linguistics, along with higher level undergraduate teaching on Shakespeare and sixteenth-century English literature. I also taught papers on tragedy and epic to joint honours students in Classics and English.
I took my BA in English at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 2007, then moved to Oxford after a year abroad to take my MSt. in early modern English, graduating in 2009. Specialising in the classical inheritances of English renaissance drama, I moved onto my DPhil the same year, supervised by Professor Laurie Maguire (Magdalen College), Dr. Helen Barr (Lady Margaret Hall), and Dr. Rhodri Lewis (St. Hugh's College).
My doctoral thesis, 'Variorum vitae: Theseus and the arts of mythography in medieval and early modern Europe' (completed October 2013), used the figure of Theseus as a case-study in the place of Greek mythology in literary and cultural history, circa 1300-1600. Examining a range of important mythographical works by authors including Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, and William Shakespeare, this study reconstructs the backgrounds to their uses of mythology, seeking out the hermeneutics medieval and early modern audiences would have brought to their work.
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