Department of English
207 Lind Hall
207 Church Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-625-3363

College of Liberal Arts Voices from the Gaps

John Mowitt

 

Professor

Departments of English and Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature
University of Minnesota
105B Folwell Hall, 9 Pleasant Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612)624-9387
mowit001@umn.edu

Special Interests

  • Metacriticism
  • Cultural studies and popular practices (film, music and literature)

Background

  • Education
    University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. (Comparative Literature)
    Florida International University, B.A. (Philosophy)
  • Job History
    Professor, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature and English, University of Minnesota,
    Associate Professor, Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature and English, University of Minnesota, 1991-
    Assistant Professor of Humanities and English, University of Minnesota, 1985-91
    Visiting Lecturer, University of Amsterdam, fall 1987
    Assistant Professor of Humanities, University of Minnesota, 1982-84

Publications

  • Books
    • Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking (in page proofs) (Durham: Duke U*P, 2002) 250 pp. (Refereed).
    • Text: The Genealogy of an Antidisciplinary Object. Durham: Duke University Press, 1992.
  • Recent Articles
    • "Stumbling on Analysis: Psychoanalysis and Everyday Life," Cultural Critique, 33 pp. ms. (forthcoming)
    • "What is a Text Today?" PMLA, 11 pp. ms. (forthcoming)
    • "Cultural Studies in Theory," Interrogating Cultural Studies, eds. Paul Bowman and Mark Little. Lond: Pluto P., 19 pp. ms. (forthcoming)
    • "Trauma Envy," Cultural critique 46 (winter 2000): 272-297.
    • "Strangers in Analysis: Nationalism and the Talking Cure." Parallax 8 (July-September 1998): 45-61. (Refereed).
    • "Queer Resistance: Foucault and The Unnamable." Symplokô 4:1, forthcoming.
    • "Algerian Nation: Fanon's Fetish." Cultural Critique. Forthcoming.
    • "Sembene Ousmane's Xala: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages." Camera Obscura 31 (1995): 73-94.
    • "What Is Called Critical Thinking." Critique 1 (1992):3-11.
    • "Performance Theory as the Work of Laurie Anderson." Discourse 12:2 (1990) 48-65.
    • "The Essay as Instance of Social Character of Experience." Prose Studies. 12:3 (1989): 274-84.
    • "The Resistance in Theory." Introduction to Discerning the Subject by Paul Smith. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988. ix-xxiii.
    • "The Sound of Music in the Era of Its Electronic Reproducibility." Music and Society: The Politics of Composition, Performance, and Reception. Ed. Richard Leppert and Susan McClary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 173-97.
  • Other Articles
    • Other essays in Substance, Criticism, and boundary 2