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{{short description|American academic (born 1942)}}
'''William John Thomas Mitchell''' (born March 24, 1942) — known as '''W.J.T. Mitchell''' — is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the [[University of Chicago]]. He is also the editor of ''[[Critical Inquiry]]'', and contributes to the journal [[October (journal)|''October'']].▼
{{Infobox academic
| name = W. J. T. Mitchell
| birth_date = March 24, 1942
| birth_place = [[Anaheim]], [[California]]
| nationality = American
| occupation = [[Art historian]], [[university professor]]
| known_for = Development of a picture theory within the field of visual culture and digital media research
| education = [[Michigan State University]]<br />[[Johns Hopkins University]]
| workplaces = [[University of Chicago]]
| main_interests = [[Visual culture]], [[media influence|media theory]]
}}
▲'''William John Thomas Mitchell''' (born March 24, 1942)
In 2014, Mitchell was elected to the [[American Philosophical Society]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=APS Member History|url=https://search.amphilsoc.org/memhist/search?creator=W.+J.+T.+Mitchell&title=&subject=&subdiv=&mem=&year=&year-max=&dead=&keyword=&smode=advanced|access-date=2021-03-03|website=search.amphilsoc.org}}</ref> He was elected to the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://humanities.uchicago.edu/articles/2017/04/three-faculty-elected-american-academy-arts-and-sciences|title=Three Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Division of the Humanities}}</ref>
Mitchell has been noted as a supporter of the [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions|BDS campaign]] by [[Canary Mission]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-01-05 |title=The Trolls of Academe: Making Safe Spaces into Brave Spaces |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-trolls-of-academe-making-safe-spaces-into-brave-spaces/ |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=[[Los Angeles Review of Books]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=W. J. T. Mitchell |url=https://canarymission.org/professor/WJT_Mitchell |access-date=2023-11-15 |website=[[Canary Mission]]}}</ref>
==Bibliography==
===Books===
*''Mental Traveler: A Father, a Son, and a Journey through Schizophrenia''. Chicago, IL: U of Chicago P, 2020. {{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}}
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*''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: {{
*''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===
*[[Homi K. Bhabha|Bhabha, Homi]], and W. J. T. Mitchell. "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation." Critical Inquiry 31, no. 2 (Winter, 2005):
*Mitchell, W. J. T. "Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation." Critical Inquiry 31, no. 2 (Winter, 2005):
*"Secular Divination: Edward Said's Humanism." Critical Inquiry 31, no. 2 (Winter, 2005):
*"The Future of Criticism-A Critical Inquiry Symposium." Critical Inquiry 30, no. 2 (Winter, 2004):
*"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):
*"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):
*"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:
*"911: Criticism and Crisis." Critical Inquiry 28, no. 2 (Winter, 2002):
*"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):
*"Seeing Disability." Public Culture 13, no. 3 [35] (Fall, 2001):
*"Holy Landscape: Israel, Palestine, and the American Wilderness." Critical Inquiry 26, no. 2 (Winter, 2000):
*"La Plus-Value Des Images." Etudes Littéraires
*"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):
*"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 Dinosaur1997.
*"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):
*"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):
*"Why Comparisons are Odious." World Literature Today: A Literary Quarterly of the University of Oklahoma 70, no. 2 (Spring, 1996):
*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):
*"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):
*"Postcolonial Culture, Postimperial Criticism." Transition 56, (1992):
*"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):
*"Essays Toward a New Art History." Critical Inquiry 15, no. 2 (Winter, 1989):
*"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):
*"How Good is Nelson Goodman?" Poetics Today 7, no. 1 (1986):
*"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):
*"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):
*"Dangerous Blake." Studies in Romanticism 21, no. 3 (Fall, 1982):
*"How Original was Blake?" Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly 14, (-1981, 1980):
*"The Language of Images." Critical Inquiry 6, no. 3 (Spring, 1980):
*"On Narrative." Critical Inquiry 7, no. 1 (Fall, 1980):
*"Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General Theory." Critical Inquiry: A Voice for Reasoned Inquiry into Significant Creations of the Human Spirit 6, (1980):
*"Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General Theory." Critical Inquiry 6, no. 3 (Spring, 1980):
*"Critical Inquiry After Sheldon Sacks." Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association 12, no. 1 (Spring, 1979):
*"On Sheldon Sacks." Critical Inquiry 6, no. 2 (Winter, 1979):
*"Style as Epistemology: Blake and the Movement Toward Abstraction in Romantic Art." Studies in Romanticism 16, (1977):
*Mitchell, W. J. T., and Gerald Graff. "Intellectual Politics and the Malaise of the Seventies." Salmagundi
*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).
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*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):
*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 Dinosaur1997.
*Surette, Leon, and W. J. T. Mitchell. "Rational Form in Literature." Critical Inquiry 7, no. 3 (Spring, 1981):
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