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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