2026
Challenging the Notion of Crisis in Education: Reclaiming Agency and Intent
Michael Thomas Smith · Routledge · Routledge International Studies in the Philosophy of Education
Academic
My scholarship moves among literature, film and media studies, cultural theory, linguistics, disability studies, and education. Much of my work is concerned with the relationship between representation, technology, institutions, and the ways people understand the worlds they inhabit.
Book
Articles & Chapters
2025
Michel Houellebecq, Plagiarism, and the Falsity of the Self
French Forum 50.2 (2025): 19–34.
2023
2021
2021
2020
Not Privy to The Conversation: Harry Caul as a Peripheral Character in Coppola's Film
CineAction (2020).
2019
A Stationary Stroll through Hong Kong: An Exploration of the Flâneur in a Groundless City
Yonsei Journal of International Studies 11.2 (2019).
2017
2017
Storytelling as Transdisciplinarity: An Experiment in First-Year Composition and Communication
In Educational Technology and Narrative: Story and Instructional Design, pp. 103–112.
2017
Our Journey into Learning Innovation and Competency-Based Education
Purdue Polytechnic Institute Summit (2017).
2017
Integrating Liberal Education Perspectives in a Transdisciplinary Design Studio
Purdue Polytechnic Institute Summit (2017).
2016
2016
The Postmodernism of Postmodernism: It's a "Funny" Story
Филолог 13.13 (2016): 455–466.
2016
Stanley Kubrick's Wet Dream: A Reading of Bodily Fluids in Dr. Strangelove
Cinematic Codes Review 1.1 (2016): 91–109.
2014
2013
2013
A Theoretical Analysis of the Phonology of Classic Rock Lyrics
SONUS 33.2 (2013): 21–30.
2012
Notes on Buster Keaton
Kinema: A Journal for Film and Audiovisual Media 38 (2012): 91–102.
2012
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