John W Mowitt

Contact Me

mowit001@umn.edu

Affiliations

• Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature
• English
• Liberal Arts: Moving Image Studies Graduate Minor

Links

• Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGSC)

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D: Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, 1982.

Specialties

• cultural politics
• cultural theory
• literary criticism
• popular culture
• critical musicology
• cinema and media studies

Courses Taught

• CSDS 8910 - Figures of French Feminism
• EngL 8910 - Postcoloniality and Film Theory
• EngL 8050 - Postcolonial Feminisms
• CL/CSDS 8001 - Basic Seminar
• CSCL 5910 - Radio and the Politics of Mass Culture
• CSCL 5910 - Introduction to Semiotics
• CSCL 5711 - Sociocriticism
• CSCL 3176 - Oppositional Cinemas
• CSCL 3115 - Cinema and Ideology

Publications

• The Dreams of Interpretation: A Century Down the Royal Road. Mowitt, John, University of Minnesota Press, Co-Editor, 2008.
• Re-takes: Postcoloniality and Foreign Film Languages. Mowitt, John, University Minnesota Press, Author, 2005.
• Percussion: Drumming, Beating, Striking. Mowitt, John, Duke University Press, 2002.
• The Genealogy of an Anti-disciplinary object. Mowitt, John, Duke University, 1992.

Awards

• Sabbatical Salary Supplement, University of Minnesota, 2008 - 2009
• Co-Recipient with ICGC, Mellon Foundation Seed Grant, 2004 - 2005
• National Fellowship Supplement, University of Minnesota, 2004 - 2005
• Membership at Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, September 2004 - June 2005
• Award for Outstanding Contributions to Postbaccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, 2002 - 2003
• College of Liberal Arts Scholars of the College, 2001
• Sabbatical Salary Supplement, University of Minnesota, 1999 - 2000
• McKinght Summer Fellow, University of Minnesota, 1996 - 1997
• McKnight Research Award, University of Minnesota, 1995 - 1998
• Grant-in-Aid of Research, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1993 - 1994