About
Dr James Louis Smith is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the
School of English and Digital Humanities at University College Cork, working on the 2019-23
Ports, Past and Present project. His work is at the intersection of the blue, environmental, spatial and digital humanities. His first monograph is
Water in Medieval Intellectual Culture: Case-Studies from Twelfth-Century Monasticism (Brepols, 2018). James is the editor of
The Passenger: Medieval Texts and Transits (punctum books, 2017), and co-editor of the Open Library of the Humanities collections
New Approaches to Medieval Water Studies (2019) and
Medieval Minds and Matter (2022). His current book project has the working title of
Deep Maps and Blue Humanities.
Projects
Ports, Past and Present
Ports, Past and Present: Cultural Crossings between Ireland and Wales is a joint initiative with UCC and Wexford County Council in Ireland, and in Wales with Aberystwyth University and the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. The project is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through the Ireland Wales Cooperation programme and is led by UCC.
Digital Derg: A Deep Map
Digital Derg is an Irish Research Council-funded project initiated at Trinity College Dublin under the title ‘Deep Mapping the Spiritual Waterscape of Ireland’s Lakes: The Case of Lough Derg, County Donegal’. Click
here for a project blog detailing the ongoing development of the project.
