Chris Smith

CHRIS SMITH is a Vancouver-based writer and photographer whose credits range from Rolling Stone, Billboard, and MTV to the University of Chicago Magazine and the Journal of Visual Anthropology. In addition to music and film journalism, he has worked as a combat correspondent, a festival producer, a travel writer, an anthropologist, a wildlife photographer, and a musician. His undergraduate studies at Columbia University and graduate work at the University of Chicago and the University of Virginia focused on narrative anthropology, transient culture, identity formation, spatiotemporal perception, liminality and mediation, mythology and folkore, media representation, and trope theory. He currently teaches cultural criticism at the University of British Columbia.