W. J. T. Mitchell
W. J. T. Mitchell (William John Thomas)(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
- Selected articles
- "What is an Image?", New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 15, no. 3 (Spring, 1984): 503-537.
