W. J. T. Mitchell

W. J. T. (William John Thomas) Mitchell (born 1942) Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He served as Chair of the English Department from 1988 to 1991, and has been the editor of Critical Inquiry since 1978. He received his B.A. from Michigan State University in 1963, his M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1968. He taught in the English Department of Ohio State University from 1968-77 before moving to Chicago.

Books

• The Language of Images. Chicago: Univesity of Chicago Press, 1980
• Iconology, 1986
• Picture Theory, 1994
• The Last Dinosaur Book, 1998

Selected articles

• "What is an Image?", New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 15, no. 3 (Spring, 1984): 503-537.
• "The Violence of Public Art: "Do the Right Thing"", Critical Inquiry, Vol. 16, No. 4. (Summer, 1990), pp. 880-899.
• "Interdisciplinarity and visual culture", Art Bulletin, 1995.
• "What Do Pictures "Really" Want?", October, Vol. 77. (Summer, 1996), pp. 71-82.
• "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.
• "Medium theory: preface to the 2003 critical inquiry symposium", Critical Inquiry, 2004.
• "There Are No Visual Media", Journal of Visual Culture, 2005, Vol. 4, no. 2: 257-66.

Links

• Mitchell on Wikipedia
• W.J.T. Mitchell's Home Page