BIOBIBLIOGRAPHY ........................... Chicago/ *USA 1942 1963, B.A. Michigan State University M.A.; Ph.D. 1968 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago Professor Mitchell served as Chair of the English Department (1988-91), and has been the editor of Critical Inquiry since 1978. He taught in the English Department of Ohio State University from 1968-77 before moving to Chicago. BOOK PUBLICATIONS ........................... "The Last Dinosaur Book. The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon" (Chicago, 1998) - "Picture Theory" (Chicago, 1994) - "Iconology" (Chicago, 1986) - "Blake's Composite Art" (Princeton, 1977) ARTICLES ........................... Art in America, October, Art Bulletin, London Review of Books, Boston Review, Times Literary Supplement, Artforum, Cahiers de l'art moderne, Krisis, Representations, Raritan Review, AfterImage, Salmagundi, Works & Days, New Literary History, ELH, South Atlantic Quarterly, Studies in Romanticism, Eighteenth Century Studies, Trafic, Interfaces, Transition, The Chronicle of Higher Education COLLECTIONS OF ESSAYS ........................... "Landscape and Power" (1994) - "Art and the Public Sphere" (1993) - "Against Theory" (1985) - "The Politics of Interpretation" (1983) - "On Narrative" (1981) - "The Language of Images" (1980); all publ. by University of Chicago Press TEACHING & LECTURES ........................... Professor at the School of Criticism and Theory (Northwestern, 1983; Dartmouth, 1990). Lectured at universities and art museums throughout the U. S., Europe and the Far East. Recent special teaching assignments include a Mellon Faculty Seminar at Tulane University, a seminar on Romanticism at Beijing Foreign Studies University, an NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers at the University of Chicago, a post as Canterbury Visiting Fellow at Canterbury University/NZ, a visiting professorship at the Institute for Art History, Aarhus, and two visiting professorships at the Institute for Fine Arts and English Department at New York University (1998, 2000). The South African Council for Scientific Development sponsored his lectures in Capetown, Durban, and Johannesburg (Summer 1997). Duke University invited him to give the Benenson Lectures in Art History (Spring 2000). In the Spring of 2002 he was awarded the Berlin Prize Fellowship to the American Academy in Berlin, and in the Fall of 2002 he will give the Alfonso Reyes Lectures in Mexico City. Currently, Professor Mitchell is working on three books: "What Do Pictures Want? Essays on the Lives of Images"; "Media Aesthetics: Essays on the Medium as Habitat"; and "Totemism, Fetishism, Idolatry: Images and Others". (bibliography 2002) |
