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Books authored or edited
Special Issues edited
Other Issues of Critical Inquiry enlarged and re-issued as books 
Articles (also some selected reviews and interviews)
Works in Progress

Books authored or edited (published by the University of Chicago Press unless otherwise noted):
 

Blake's Composite Art (Princeton, 1977).

The Language of Images, ed. (1980).

On Narrative (1981); Japanese translation.

The Politics of Interpretation, ed. (1983).

Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism, ed. (1985).

Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology (Chicago, 1986).  Japanese translation. Korean-
     language edition, Sizirak Publishing Company, forthcoming 2004.
 

Landscape and Power, ed. (Chicago, 1994); 2nd edition, revised and enlarged, with
     a new preface, 2001.

Art and the Public Sphere, ed. (Chicago, 1994).

Picture Theory (Chicago, 1994).

The Last Dinosaur Book: The Life and Times of a Cultural Icon (Chicago, 1998).

What Do Pictures Want? Essays on the Lives and Loves of Images, (Chicago, 2005).

Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation with Homi Bhabha, (Chicago, 2005).

The Late Derrida with Arnold Davidson, (Chicago, forthcoming 2007).
    
 

Special Issues edited:
 

"Pluralism and Its Discontents," Critical Inquiry 9:3 (Spring 1986).

"The New Art History," Critical Inquiry (Winter 1989).

"Public Art," Critical Inquiry (Summer 1990).

"Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation," Critical Inquiry (Winter 2005).

"The Late Derrida," Critical Inquiry (Winter 2007).

Other Issues of Critical Inquiry enlarged and re-issued as books during Professor Mitchell's editorship:

 

On Metaphor, (1979) ed. Sheldon Sacks

Writing and Sexual Difference, (1982) ed. Elizabeth Abel

Canons, (1984) ed. Robert von Hallberg

'Race,' Writing, and Difference, (1985) ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Bakhtin, (1986) ed. Gary Saul Morson

Politics and Poetic Value, (1987) ed. Robert von Hallberg

The Trial(s) of Psychoanalysis, (1988) ed. Francoise Meltzer

Literature and Social Practice, (1989) ed. Philippe Desan, Priscilla Parkhurst
     Ferguson, and Wendy Griswold 

Questions of Evidence, (1994) ed. James Chandler, Arnold Davidson, and Harry
     Harootunian

Identities, (1995) ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Front Lines/Border Posts, (1997) ed. Homi Bhabha

Intimacy, (2000) ed. Lauren Berlant

Things, (2004) ed. Bill Brown
 

Articles (also some selected reviews and interviews):
 

"Poetic and Pictorial Imagination in Blake's Book of Urizen," Eighteenth Century
     Studies 3:1 (Fall 1969), 83-107.  Revised and reprinted in The Visionary Hand,
     ed Robert Essick (Los Angeles, 1973).
 

"Blake's Composite Art," in Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic, ed. David Erdman and
     John Grant (Princeton, 1970), 57-81.
 

"Style and Iconography in the Illustrations of Blake's Milton," Blake Studies VI
     (Fall, 1973), 47-72.
 

"Blake's Radical Comedy:  Dramatic Structure as Meaning," in Blake's Sublime Allegory
     ed. Stuart Curran and Joseph Wittreich, Jr.(Madison: University of Wisconsin
     Press, 1973), 281-307.
 

"Blake's Vision of the Last Judgment," special supplement to Blake Newsletter
     (Fall, 1975), 16 pages with 6 illustrations.
 

"Style as Epistemology: Blake and the Movement toward Abstraction in Romantic
     Art," Studies in Romanticism 16:2 (Spring, 1977), 145-64.
 

"Language and Vision in the Eighteenth Century: Ronald Paulson's Emblem and
     Expression," review essay, Modern Language Notes 91:6 (December, 1976),
     1627-1634.
 

"Critical Inquiry after Sheldon Sacks," Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language
     Association (Spring, 1979), 32-36.
 

"Intellectual Politics and the Malaise of the Seventies: A Reply to Gerald Graff,"
     Salmagundi No. 47-48 (Winter-Spring, 1980), 57-77.
 

"Spatial Form in Literature: Toward a General Theory," Critical Inquiry 6:3 (Spring,
     1980), 539-567.
 

"Diagrammatology," Critical Inquiry 7:2 (Spring, 1981).
 

"A Dangerous Blake," Studies in Romanticism 21 (Fall, 1982) 410-416.
 

"Metamorphoses of the Vortex:  Hogarth, Blake, and Turner," in Articulate Images
     ed. Richard Wendorf (University of Minnesota Press, 1983).
 

"What Is an Image?" New Literary History 15:3 (Spring, 1984); German translation
     in Bildlichkeit (Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt, 1990), 17-68.
 

"Visible Language: Blake's Wond'rous Art of Writing," in Romanticism and Contemporary
     Criticism ed. Morris Eaves and Michael Fischer (Cornell University Press, 1986);
     reprinted in Blake, ed. David Punter (London: Macmillan, 1996).
 

"The Politics of Genre:  Space and Time in Lessing's Laocoon," Representations 6:1
     (Spring, 1984).
 

"The Golden Age of Criticism," London Review of Books, June 21, 1987, tr. into Dutch
     in Krisis 37 (Fall, 1989), reprinted in Writing Outside the Book: Contemporary
     Essays on Literary Periodicals, ed. David Carter (Sydney, Australia, 1991), and
     in collection of critical essays from Croom Helm Publishers.
 

"Pragmatic Theory," introduction to Against Theory (1985). 
 

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Three Theories of Value,"  Raritan 6:2
     (Fall, 1986).
 

"Going Too Far with the Sister Arts," in Space, Time, Image, Sign, ed. James
     Heffernan (Peter Lang,1987).
 

"Wittgenstein's Imagery and What It Tells Us," New Literary History 19:
 

"Pluralism as Dogmatism," Critical Inquiry 12:3 (Spring, 1986).
 

Interview with Kate Hartley, editor of Antithesis, literary magazine of the University
     of Melbourne, May 12, 1987.
 

"Iconology and Ideology: Panofsky, Althusser, and the Scene of Recognition,"
     Works and Days 11/12 (Spring-Fall, 1988).  Reprinted in Image and Ideology:
     Modern/Postmodern Discourse, ed. David B. Downing and Susan Bazargan
     (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991).  Revised as epilogue to Reframing the
     Renaissance: Visual Culture in Europe and Latin America, 1450-1650, ed.
     Claire Farago (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991).
 

"Tableau and Taboo: the Resistance to Vision in Literary Study," College English
     Association Critic

"Post-Colonial Culture/Post-Imperial Criticism," Chronicle of Higher Education
     April 19, 1989
 

"Space, Ideology, and Literary Representation," Poetics Today 10:1 (Spring 1989).
 

"Against Comparison: Teaching Literature and the Visual Arts," Teaching
     Literature and the Other Arts, ed. Jean-Pierre Barricelli, Joseph Gibaldi,
     and Estelle Lauter (Modern Language Association, 1990).

"Ut Pictura Theoria: Abstract Painting and the Repression of Language," Critical Inquiry
     15:2 (Winter, 1989).

"The Ethics of Form in the Photographic Essay," AfterImage 16:6 (January, 1989).
     Revised as "The Photographic Essay: Four Case Studies," chapter 9 of Picture
     Theory (1994).  Reprinted in Ways of Reading: An Anthology for Writers, ed. David
     Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky (Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martinís, 1999),
     521-563.

"Representation," in Critical Terms for Literary Study, ed. Frank Lentricchia and
     Thomas McLaughlin (Chicago, 1990). German translation in "Was heisst
     'Darstellen,'" ed. Christiaan L. Hart Nibbrig (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 1994).
 

"The Violence of Public Art: Do the Right Thing," Critical Inquiry 16:4 (Summer,
     1990); reprinted in Views: The Journal of Photography in New England
     12-4/13-1 (Winter 1992); in Spike Leeís Do the Right Thing, ed. Mark Reid
     (Cambridge University Press, 1997); in So Rich a Tapestry: The Sister Arts
     and Cultural Studies (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1995); in
     Beauty is Nowhere: Ethical Issues in Art and Design, ed. Richard Roth and
     Susan King Roth (Amsterdam: G&B Arts International, 1998), and in several
     other anthologies.
 

"Seeing Do the Right Thing, a response to Jerome Christensen's 'Spike Lee,
     Corporate Populist'", in ; Critical Inquiry 17:3 (Spring, 1991), 583-608.
 

"Influence, Autobiography, and Literary History: Rousseau's Confessions and
     Wordsworth's The Prelude," ELH (Fall, 1990).
 

"Looking at Animals Looking: Art, Illusion and Power," in Aesthetic Illusion, ed. Fred
     Burwick and Walter Pape (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1990).
 

"Realism, Irrealism, and Ideology: A Critique of Nelson Goodman," Journal of Aesthetic
     Education, special issue on Goodman.
 

"The Historian as Icarus: A review of Martin Jay's Downcast Eyes," Art Forum 1993.
 

"Narrative, Memory, and Slavery," in Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning,     ed. Margaret J. M. Ezell and Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe (Ann Arbor: University     of Michigan Press, 1994), 199-222.
 

"In the Wilderness" a review of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism, London
     Review of Books 1993.
 

"Translator Translated: W. J. T. Mitchell Talks with Homi Bhabha," Artforum (March
     1995), 80-83, 110, 113.
 

"Imperial Landscape," in Landscape and Power ed. W. J. T. Mitchell (Chicago:
     University of Chicago Press, 1994); Japanese translation in 10+1 No. 9,
     Fukei/Landscape (Spring 1997), 149-69.
 

"Imagery" and "Iconology," articles for new edition of Princeton Encyclopedia
     of Poetry and Poetics.
 

"From CNN to JFK," AfterImage (May 1992); French translation by Julien Deleuze,
     "De CNN a JFK," Trafic 7 (Ete 1993), 46-61.
 

"Why Comparisons Are Odious," World Literature Today 70:2 (Spring 1996), 321-324.
 

"The Pictorial Turn," ArtForum, March 1992, pp. 89ff.  German translation appears as
     first chapter in Privileg Blick: Kritik der visuellen Kulturen, ed. Christian Kravagna
     (Berlin: Edition ID-Archiv, 1997), 15-40.  A retrospective on this article appears
     in Artforumís "10-20-30" series surveying the first 30 years of its history, March
     2002. See www.artforum.com.
 

Response to Jean Klucinska's critique of Picture Theory in Études littéraires, around
     1996-1997.
 

"What Is Visual Culture?" in Meaning in the Visual Arts:  Essays in Honor of Erwin
     Panofsky's 100th Birthday, ed. Irving Lavin (Princeton University Press, 1995)
 

"Nature for Sale: Gombrich and the Rise of Landscape," in The Consumption of
     Culture, ed. Ann Bermingham and John Brewer (NY: Routledge, 1997), pp.?
 

"Beyond Comparison: Picture, Text, and Method," in Interfaces: Image/Texte/Langage
     5:1994 (Universite de Bourgogne), 13-38.  Spanish translation as "Mas Alla de la
     Comparacion: Imagen, Texto y Metodo," in Literatura y Pintura ed. Antonio
     Monegal (Madrid: Arco/Libros, 2000), 222-254.
 

"Interdisciplinarity and Visual Culture," Art Bulletin 77:4 (December, 1995), 540-44.
     German translation forthcoming in Diskurse der Fotografie (Fotokritik am Ende
     des fotografischen Zeitalters, Bd. 2) (Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag).
 

"Word and Image," in Critical Terms for Art History ed. Robert Nelson and Richard
     Shiff (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 47-57.  Danish translation
     as "Ord, billede og rummet imellem" ("Word, Image, and the Space Between")
     in Passepartout Nr. 6, 3. Argang, 1995.
 

"What Do Pictures Really Want?" October 77 (Summer, 1996).  Longer version
     ("What Do Pictures Want?" in collection entitled In Visible Touch: Modernism and
     Masculinity ed. Terry Smith (Power Institute Publications, Sydney, Australia,
     1997) reprinted by University of Chicago Press, 1998.  Dutch translation as lead
     article in De Witte Raaf (The White Raven), the Dutch-speaking bimonthly
     art journal, May-June, 1997.  See also "Was Wollen Bilder?" an interview with
     Georg Schoellhammer in Springerin Band IV, Heft 2/98, 18-21 reprinted in
     anthology entitled Widerstande: Interviews und Aufsatze aus der Zeitschrift
     springerin 1995-1999 (Vienna/Bolzano: Folio Verlag, 1999).
 

"Schapiro's Legacy," a review of Meyer Schapiro's Theory and Philosophy of Art, in
    Art in America (1995), 29-31.
 

"The Last Formalist, or, W. J. T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur: An Interview with
     Orrin Wang" in Romantic Praxis, on line journal, June 1997:
     http://www.rc.umd.edu/praxis/mitchell/mitch-cover.html.
 

"Chaosthetics: Blake's Sense of Form," Huntington Library Quarterly (Spring, 1997).
 

"Vim and Rigor," (a retrospective on Nelson Goodman).  Artforum, May 1999, 17-19.
     "Uber die Evolution von Bildern," translated by Reiner Ansen, in Blick, ed. Hans
     Belting and Dietmar Kamper (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 1999), 43-54.  English version
     scheduled for publication in proceedings of Natureís Treasurehouses, a
     conference at the British Museum of Natural History held in May of 1999.
 

Interview on The Last Dinosaur Book with The Front Table, newsletter of the
     Seminary Coop Bookstore, Chicago, IL (May 1999), 14-17, 66-69.  See also
     http://www.semcoop.com/
 

"The Work of Art in the Age of Biocybernetic Reproduction," ArtLink 22:1 (March
     2002) 10-17; Portuguese translation by Ana Soares forthcoming in the
     Proceedings of the XXIInd Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-
     American Studies.
 

"The Surplus Value of Images," English version forthcoming in Mosaic 35:3
     (September 2002).  French translation, "La Plus-Value des Images," by Paul
     Batik in Etudes Litteraires 33:1 (Automne 2000-Hiver 2001), 201-25.  Danish
     translation, "Billeders mervaerdi," in Passepartout 15:8 (2000) 275-303. German
     translation by Gabriele Schabacher, "Der Mehrwert von Bildern," in Die Addresse
     des Mediums, ed. Stefan Andriopoulos, Gabriele Schabacher, and Eckhard
     Schumacher (Cologne: Dumont, 2001), 158-184.
 

"Utopian Gestures: The Poetics of Sign Language," preface to The Poetics of Vision,
     Performance, and the Body: Exploring American Sign Language Literature, ed.
     uman, forthcoming, University of California Press.
 

"Dinosaurs and Culture," in From Energy to Information, ed. Linda Henderson and
     Bruce Clarke (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming fall 2002).
 

"Essays into the Imagetext: An Interview with W. J. T. Mitchell," Christine Wiesenthal
     and Brad Bucknell, Mosaic 33/2 (June 2000), 1-23.  Available on line at
     http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/mosaic/backlist/

     2000/june/mitchell.htm
 

"Art and the Word: Visual Literacy and Visual Culture," interview with Karen Raney,
     Middlesex University and the Arts Council of England, April 7, 2000.
 

"Seeing Disability," Public Culture 13:3 (Fall 2001) 391-97.
 

"Offending Images," in Unsettling "Sensation": Arts-Policy Lessons from the Brooklyn
     Museum of Art Controversy, ed. Lawrence Rothfield. (New Brunswick: Rutgers
     University Press, 2001), 115-33.  German translation by Margit Pumpel,
     "Anstoszige Bilder," in Bilder-Verbot und Verlangen in Kunst und Musik ed.
     Christian Scheib and Sabine Sanio (Saarbrucken, Austria: Pfau, 2001), 91-8.
 

"Romanticism and the Life of Things: Fossils, Totems, and Images," in special issue
     "Things," ed. Bill Brown, Critical Inquiry 27:1 (Fall 2001), 167-84.
 

"Museums and Other Monsters," Bulletin of the Smart Museum of Art, vol. 12 (2001),
     9-16.
 

"The End of American Photography: Robert Frank as National Medium"  Joanna
     Hofleitner, "Das Ende der amerikanischen Fotografie: Robert Frank als nationales
     Medium," in Image:/Images: positionen zur zeitgenossischen fotografie ed.
     Tamara Horokova and Ewald Maurer (Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2002), 189-204. 
 

"Showing Seeing: A Critique of Visual Culture," in Art History, Aesthetics, and Visual
     Studies, ed. Michael Ann Holly and Keith Moxey (Williamstown, MA: Clark
     Institute of Art, 2002), 231-250; simultaneous publication in The Journal of
     Visual Culture 1:2 (Summer 2002); also requested for inclusion in the second
     edition of Nicholas Mirzoeffís Visual Culture, (NY: Routledge: forthcoming).
 

"The War of Images" (on the media coverage of Sept. 11, 2001), in The University of
     Chicago Magazine (December 2001), 21-23.
     http://www.alumni.uchicago.edu/magazine/0112/features/remains-
     2.html
 

"911: Criticism and Crisis," Critical Inquiry 28:2 (Winter 2002), 567-572.  
     http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v28/v28n2.mitchell.html;
     it also appears in Situation Analysis: A Forum for Critical Thought & International
     Current Affairs, no. 1 (October 2002), 5-9.  View it at:
     http://www.situationanalysis.com/
 

"The Serpent in the Wilderness," forthcoming in Acts of Narrative, ed. Carol Jacobs
     and Henry Sussman (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003).
 

"The Commitment to Form," forthcoming in "Theories and Methodologies" section of
     PMLA, March 2003. 
 

"Empire and Objecthood," forthcoming in Edda, Norwegian journal published in Oslo.
 

"The Rights of Things," preface to Cary Wolfe's Animal Rites (Chicago: University of
     Chicago Press, forthcoming, 2003).
 

"Country Matters," article on the English countryside for the Romantic period volume
     in the new Cambridge History of English Literature, ed. James K. Chandler,
     forthcoming.
 

"Bilder besser als ihr Rug," ("Pictures Better than their Reputation") an interview with
     Julia Voss, Frankfurter Allgemeine June 16, 2002, p. 74.

"Medium Theory," preface to Critical Inquiry symposium, "The Future of Criticism and
     Theory," Critical Inquiry 30:2 (Winter 2004), 324-35. 
     http://www.uchicago.edu/research/jnl-crit-inq/issues/v30/30n2.
     Mitchell.html 

"Remembering Edward Said," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Section B, Oct. 10,
     2003, 10-11.

"Echoes of a Christian Symbol" (on the Abu Ghraib torture photographs), Chicago
     Tribune, Sunday, June 27, 2004, Section 2, p. 1, 3. [view PDF]

"Migrating Images: Totemism, Fetishism, Idolatry," in Migrating Images, ed. Petra
     Stegmann and Peter Seel (Berlin: House of World Cultures, 2004), 14-24.

"Secular Divination: Edward Said's Humanism," forthcoming in special issue of
     Critical Inquiry 31:2 (Winter 2005).


      

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