W. J. T. Mitchell

ISBN 978-0-226-69593-8

Image Science: Iconology, Visual Culture and Media Aesthetics. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2015. ISBN   978-0-226-23133-4

Seeing Through Race. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2012. ISBN   9780674059818

Cloning Terror: The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2011. ISBN   978-0-226-53259-2

With Mark B. N. Hansen. Critical Terms for Media Studies. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2010. ISBN   978-0-226-53254-7

What Do Pictures Want?: The Lives and Loves of Images. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2005. ISBN   978-0-226-53245-5

The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 1998. ISBN   978-0-226-53204-2

Picture Theory: Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1994. ISBN   978-0-226-53232-5

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986. pbk. ISBN   978-0-226-53229-5

Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985. pbk. ISBN   978-0-226-53227-1

The Politics of Interpretation. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983. ISBN   978-0-226-53219-6

On Narrative. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981. ISBN   978-0-226-53217-2 review: JSTOR   676084 from American Anthropologist

The Language of Images. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980. pbk. ISBN   978-0-226-53215-8

Blake's Composite Art: A Study of the Illuminated Poetry. Princeton: Princeton UP. 232 pp. 112 plates, 1978.

Essays and other short works

• Bhabha, Homi, and W. J. T. Mitchell. "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation." Critical Inquiry 31, no. 2 (Winter, 2005): 365–529.
• Mitchell, W. J. T. "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation." Critical Inquiry 31, no. 2 (Winter, 2005): 365–370.
• "Secular Divination: Edward Said's Humanism." Critical Inquiry 31, no. 2 (Winter, 2005): 462–471.
• "The Future of Criticism-A Critical Inquiry Symposium." Critical Inquiry 30, no. 2 (Winter, 2004): 324–483.
• "Romanticism and the Life of Things: Fossils, Totems, and Images." in Things., Edited by Bill Brown. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2004.
• "The Commitment to Form; Or, Still Crazy After all these Years." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 118, no. 2 (Mar, 2003): 321–325.
• "Remembering Edward Said." Chronicle of Higher Education 50, no. 7 (Oct 10, 2003): B10-B11.
• "The Serpent in the Wilderness: Space, Place, and Landscape in the Eighteenth Century." in Acts of Narrative., Edited by Carol Jacobs, Henry Sussman. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2003.
• "The Work of Art in the Age of Biocybernetic Reproduction." Modernism/Modernity 10, no. 3 (Sept, 2003): 481–500.
• "Showing Seeing: A Critique of Visual Culture". In: Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey (eds.), Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies. Clark Art Institute and Yale University Press, 2002: 231–250.
• "911: Criticism and Crisis." Critical Inquiry 28, no. 2 (Winter, 2002): 567–572.
• "The Surplus Value of Images." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 35, no. 3 (Sept, 2002): 1-23.
• "Romanticism and the Life of Things: Fossils, Totems, and Images." Critical Inquiry 28, no. 1 (Autumn, 2001): 167–184.
• "Seeing Disability." Public Culture 13, no. 3 [35] (Fall, 2001): 391–397.
• "Holy Landscape: Israel, Palestine, and the American Wilderness." Critical Inquiry 26, no. 2 (Winter, 2000): 193–223.
• "La Plus-Value Des Images." Etudes Littéraires 32–33, no. 3-1 (Autumn-2001 Winter, 2000): 201–225.
• "The Panic of the Visual: A Conversation with Edward W. Said." in Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking Truth to Power., Edited by Paul A. Bové. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2000.
• "The Panic of the Visual: A Conversation with Edward W. Said." Boundary 2: An International Journal of Literature and Culture 25, no. 2 (Summer, 1998): 11–33.
• "The Romantic Education of W. J. T. Mitchell." in U of Maryland, College Park, MD Pagination: 34 Paragraphs., Edited by Wang, Orrin N. C. (ed.), The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997.
• "The Violence of Public Art: Do the Right Thing." in Spike Lee's do the Right Thing., Edited by Mark A. Reid. Cambridge, England: Cambridge UP, 1997.
• "Chaosthetics: Blake's Sense of Form." Huntington Library Quarterly: Studies in English and American History and Literature 58, no. 3-4 (1996): 441–458.
• "Visible Language: Blake's Wond'Rous Art of Writing." in William Blake., Edited by David Punter. New York: St. Martin's, 1996.
• "What do Pictures really Want?" October 77, (Summer, 1996): 71–82.
• "Why Comparisons are Odious." World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma 70, no. 2 (Spring, 1996): 321–324.
• Amrine, Frederick, Martha Banta, Antoine Compagnon, Heather Dubrow, James D. Fernández, Sue Houchins, and W. J. T. Mitchell, et al. "The Status of Evidence: A Roundtable." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 111, no. 1 (Jan, 1996): 21–31.
• "Postcolonial Culture, Postimperial Criticism." in The Post-Colonial Studies Reader., Edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 1995.
• "Narrative, Memory, and Slavery." in Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning: The Page, the Image, and the Body., Edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell, Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan P, 1994.
• "Ekphrasis and the Other." South Atlantic Quarterly 91, no. 3 (Summer, 1992): 695–719.
• "Postcolonial Culture, Postimperial Criticism." Transition 56, (1992): 11–19.
• "Iconology and Ideology: Panofsky, Althusser, and the Scene of Recognition." in Image and Ideology in Modern/Postmodern Discourse., Edited by David B. Downing, Susan Bazargan. Albany: State U of New York P, 1991.
• "Against Comparison: Teaching Literature and the Visual Arts." in Teaching Literature and Other Arts., Edited by Jean-Pierre Barricelli, Joseph Gibaldi and Estella Lauter. New York: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1990.
• "Influence, Autobiography, and Literary History: Rousseau's Confessions and Wordsworth's the Prelude." ELH 57, no. 3 (Fall, 1990): 643–664.
• "Essays Toward a New Art History." Critical Inquiry 15, no. 2 (Winter, 1989): 226–406.
• "Image and Text in Songs." in Approaches to Teaching Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience., Edited by Robert F. Gleckner, Mark L. Greenberg. New York: Mod. Lang. Assn. of Amer., 1989.
• "Space, Ideology, and Literary Representation." Poetics Today 10, no. 1 (Spring, 1989): 91-102.
• "Tableau and Taboo: The Resistance to Vision in Literary Discourse." CEA Critic: An Official Journal of the College English Association 51, no. 1 (Fall, 1988): 4-10.
• "Wittgenstein's Imagery and what it Tells Us." New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 19, no. 2 (Winter, 1988): 361–370.
• "How Good is Nelson Goodman?" Poetics Today 7, no. 1 (1986): 111–115.
• "Visible Language: Blake's Wond'Rous Art of Writing." in Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism., Edited by Morris Eaves, Michael Fischer. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1986.
• "The Politics of Genre: Space and Time in Lessing's Laocoon." Representations 6, (Spring, 1984): 98-115.
• "What is an Image?" New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 15, no. 3 (Spring, 1984): 503–537.
• "Metamorphoses of the Vortex: Hogarth, Turner, and Blake." in Articulate Images: The Sister Arts from Hogarth to Tennyson., Edited by Richard Wendorf. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1983.
• "Critical Inquiry and the Ideology of Pluralism." Critical Inquiry 8, no. 4 (Summer, 1982): 609–618.
• "Dangerous Blake." Studies in Romanticism 21, no. 3 (Fall, 1982): 410–416.
• "How Original was Blake?" Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 14, (-1981, 1980): 116–120.
• "The Language of Images." Critical Inquiry 6, no. 3 (Spring, 1980): 359–567.
• "On Narrative." Critical Inquiry 7, no. 1 (Fall, 1980): 1–236.
• "Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General Theory." Critical Inquiry: A Voice for Reasoned Inquiry into Significant Creations of the Human Spirit 6, (1980): 539–567.
• "Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General Theory." Critical Inquiry 6, no. 3 (Spring, 1980): 539–567.
• "Critical Inquiry After Sheldon Sacks." Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association 12, no. 1 (Spring, 1979): 32–36.
• "On Sheldon Sacks." Critical Inquiry 6, no. 2 (Winter, 1979): 181–229.
• "Style as Epistemology: Blake and the Movement Toward Abstraction in Romantic Art." Studies in Romanticism 16, (1977): 145–164.
• Mitchell, W. J. T., and Gerald Graff. "Intellectual Politics and the Malaise of the Seventies." Salmagundi 47–48, (1980): 67–77.
• Mitchell, W. J. T., and Paul Hernadi. "On Narrative."
• Mitchell, W. J. T., and Winfried Menninghaus. "Angelus Novus: Perspectives on Walter Benjamin." Critical Inquiry 25, no. 2 (Winter, 1999).
• Mitchell, W. J. T., Louis A. Renza, and (reply). "Going Too Far with the Sister Arts." in Space, Time, Image, Sign: Essays on Literature and the Visual Arts., Edited by James A. W. Heffernan. New York: Peter Lang, 1987.
• Mitchell, W. J. T., and Gabriele Schabacher. "Der Mehrwert Von Bildern." in Die Addresse Des Mediums., Edited by Stefan Andriopoulos, Gabriele Schabacher, Eckhard Schumacher, Bernhard Dotzler, Erhard Schüttpelz and Georg Stanitzek. Cologne, Germany: DuMont, 2001.
• Mitchell, W. J. T., and Nadine Strossen. "A Resounding Rock in Flight." Chronicle of Higher Education 47, no. 12 (Nov 17, 2000): B4.
• Mitchell, W. J. T., and Ilse Utz. "Postkoloniale Kultur, Postimperiale Kritik." Neue Rundschau 107, no. 1 (1996): 20–25.
• Mitchell, W. J. T., Orrin N. C. Wang, and (interview and gloss). "An Interview with Orrin N. C. Wang." in U of Maryland, College Park, MD Pagination: 22 Paragraphs., Edited by Wang, Orrin N. C. (ed.), The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997.
• Surette, Leon, and W. J. T. Mitchell. "Rational Form in Literature." Critical Inquiry 7, no. 3 (Spring, 1981): 612–621.

See also

• List of thinkers influenced by deconstruction

References

1. W. J. T. Mitchell (March 31, 2020). "A Change of Leadership".
2. "James Russell Lowell Prize Winners". Modern Language Association. Retrieved 2 February 2011.
3. "Iconology Today". Cultural Technologies. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
4. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
5. "Three Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Division of the Humanities".
6. "The Trolls of Academe: Making Safe Spaces into Brave Spaces". Los Angeles Review of Books . 2018-01-05. Retrieved 2023-11-15.
7. "W. J. T. Mitchell". Canary Mission . Retrieved 2023-11-15.

External links

• W.J.T. Mitchell's University of Chicago faculty page

W. J. T. Mitchell
Born	(1942-03-24) March 24, 1942 (age 83) Anaheim, California
Occupations	Art historian, university professor
Known for	Development of a picture theory within the field of visual culture and digital media research
Academic background
Education	Michigan State University Johns Hopkins University

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