Bethany Smith | Actor Writer Model Voice | London UK

Bethany Smith

Location: London

A broadly educated individual, and graduate of King’s College London, and Berkeley, University of California, I have studied such subjects as Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Mechanics, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind, Politics, World History, Logic and Ethics, Literature and Psychology, German, Advanced Poetry, and Fundamentals of Acting. I have a passion for poetry and scientific journalism, as well as metaphysics, philosophy of physics and philosophy of space and time. My favourite modules so far have included: my dissertation on the philosophy of time, Literature and Psychology and Philosophy of Physics II: Quantum Mechanics. My undergraduate dissertation focused on the intersection of the psychology, philosophy and physics of time, and I hope to develop my research interests at the nexus of philosophy of physics, psychology, and neuroscience in my Masters degree at UCL.

Supervised by Professor Neil Vickers (co-director of the Centre for the Humanities and Health), my undergraduate dissertation centres around the philosophy, psychology and physics of time, with some phenomenology, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, and recently won POLIS’ Matei Gheorghiu Prize in Philosophy 2024. I presented my research at the London Universities Philosophy Conference (at UCL) in March 2024, and part of my dissertation is soon to be published in POLIS Vol. 2. — Philosophers of London in Solidarity. I have also had work published on Freud’s death drive in Wild Court (an international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London), as well as a paper on Sartre's ‘Nausea’ in UCL’s Phi Magazine (Φ) quarterly, and an essay ‘The Digitalisation of Time — neuronal violence and the loss duration in Han’s ‘Burnout Society’’ forthcoming in Bentham Digest (UCL’s philosophy journal). I have also had selected poetry published in multiple publications, at King's College London, UCL and in international poetry journals.

I edited a documentary for BBC 3 as Assistant Writer and signed with Vision Models London after appearing in VOGUE Italia photographed by Luce Lapadula in 2019. I have appeared in a number of short films and theatre productions, and have had a wide variety of work published in academic journals and magazines.

For model booking please contact Vision Models London

www.visionmodels.co.uk/women/future-faces/774-bethany-smith

or contact me via Instagram @bethany_maike

To work with me as a freelance writer, please email me at bethany.smith6@icloud.com

University College London (UCL) - MA Philosophy (2023-24)

Berkeley, University of California - BA Liberal Arts (Semester 2) (2022)

Literature and Psychology 16 grade points (A+)

Philosophy of Mind 89.33% (B+)

Modes of Writing: Writing Fiction and Poetry 91.5% (A-)

Fundamentals of Acting II 97% (A)

Cumulative GPA 3.733

Average grade (Year 2 Semester 2) 93.3% (A grade) (10 - 15% class rank percentage)

King’s College London - BA Liberal Arts with a Major in English and a Minor in Philosophy (2020-2023) — First Class Honours

Year 3:

Philosophy of Physics II: Quantum Mechanics 66

Topics in Philosophy of Science: Biology 68

Topics in Metaphysics 67

Advanced Poetry Workshop 75

Vernacular Theory 69

Translation Across Disciplines 78

Dissertation 72

(supervised by Prof. Neil Vickers,

co-director of the Centre for the

Humanities and Health)

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Overall Degree Classification 70 (First Class Honours)

Year 2 (Semester 1):

Philosophy and Film 64

Language on the Edge 68

The Shocks of the New: Modernist Poetry and Prose 70

Space, Power, Agency 66

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Average grade 67

Year 1:

Introducing Literary Theories 74

Introduction to Philosophy (Logic and Ethics) 64

Lives of London 66

Writing Liberal Arts 67

Politics in Theory and Practice 66

World History 1870s-2000s (Note: double module) 71

German Stage 1 77

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Average grade (Year 1) 70 First

Stage

Theatre In The Square | Tartuffe | 2018
Julius Caesar | UCL Shakespeare Society | 2024

Academic Journal Publications and Academic Awards

Winner of POLIS’ Matei Gheorghiu Prize in Philosophy 2024; speaker at the London Universities Philosophy Conference (at UCL) (March 2024)

Publication in journal POLIS Vol.2 2024 — Philosophers of London in Solidarity

Forthcoming publication 'The Digitalisation of Time — neuronal violence and the loss of duration in Han’s ‘Burnout Society’ (2015) (Han 2015; Ehrenberg 2010)' in Bentham Digest 2024 — UCL’s Philosophy Magazine

Poem ‘The Glass Plane’ published in first edition of The Writers’ Block ‘Outlines’ — termly magazine of UCL Writers’ Society (March 2024)

First chapter of dissertation and selected poetry published in UCL’s Phi Magazine (Φ) quarterly — "The Paradox of Man - authenticity and adaptation in Sartre's ‘Nausea'" (March 2024)

Essay published in Wild Court (international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London) (July 2023) — The Death and Disentanglement of Time: the death-drive and the drive to self-indetermination in Sylvia Plath’s ‘Ariel’

Performed in Julius Caesar with UCL Shakespeare Society (Dec 2023)

Poetry published in King’s College London Creative Writing Society ‘Desire’ Anthology (2023)

Writing Awards

Bridgewater Hall’s ‘Writing About Music’ Competition (Judged by Anne Fine) – Prize Winner (1st) | 2013
Barnet Borough Arts Council Open Poetry Competition – Prize Winner (3rd) | 2011

Copywriting

Press Release | Delta PR | 2019