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Professor John Frow

Professor John Frow

BA (ANU), MA, PhD (Cornell)
Professor of English

+61 2 9351 2571
Room N304 Woolley Building

John Frow is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (1997) and holds an ARC Australian Professorial Fellowship (2011-15). He was formerly Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne (2004-2012), the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University (2000-2004), and Darnell Professor of English at the University of Queensland (1990-1999). He has held visiting appointments at a number of universities, including the University of Minnesota, Wesleyan University, the University of Chicago, New York University, and Goldsmiths College, University of London. He is a member of numerous editorial boards, including New Literary History, Textual Practice, the Journal of Cultural Economy, and Cultural Studies Review, of which he was the editor from 2006-12.

Research Interests

  • Literary Theory, including the theory of the novel
  • Twentieth-Century Poetry
  • Cultural Studies
  • Poststructuralist Theory
  • The Sociology of Literature
  • Actor-Network Theory
  • Intellectual Property Law

Current Research

Fictional character

Regimes of reading and valuation

Publications 2005-2012

Books
  • The Practice of Value: Essays On Literature in Cultural Studies. Forthcoming. Perth: University of Western Australia Press, 2013.
  • The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis . Edited and with an Introduction by Tony Bennett and John Frow. London: Sage, 2008. xii + 732 pp.
  • Genre. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. vii + 171 pp.
    - Farsi translation forthcoming 2012
Other Monographs
  • On Personhood in Public Places. University of Melbourne: Public Culture Research Unit, 2012. 49 pp.
Journal Articles
  • “‘A Nonexistent Coterie”: Pessoa’s Names.” Forthcoming in Affirmations: of the modern, 1: 1 (2013).
  • “ Avatar, Identification, Pornography.” Cultural Studies Review, 18: 3 (2012). 357-377.
  • (With Tony Bennett and Mauricio Bustamante) “The Australian Space of Lifestyles in Comparative Perspective.” Forthcoming, The Journal of Sociology, 2013.
  • “Settlement”. Cultural Studies Review 18: 1 (2012). 4-18.
  • “Hybrid Disciplinarity: Rey Chow and Comparative Studies”. Postcolonial Studies 13: 3 (2010). 265-274.
  • “On Midlevel Concepts”. New Literary History 41: 2 (2010). 237-252.
  • “An Ethics of Imitation”. Angelaki 14: 1 (2009). 77-86.
  • “The City at Human Scale”. Critical Quarterly 51: 4 (2009). 37-49.
  • “Genres of Description and Interpretation”. Journal of Cultural Economy 1: 3 (2008). 355-359.
  • “Afterlife: Texts as Usage”. Reception 1 (Fall, 2008). 1-23.
  • “Thinking the Novel” (Review Essay). New Left Review 49 (Jan-Feb 2008). 137-145.
  • “The Practice of Value”. Textual Cultures 2: 2 (2007). 61-76.
  • “‘Reproducibles, Rubrics, and Everything You Need’: Genre Theory Today”. PMLA 122:5 (October 2007). 1626-1634.
  • “UnAustralia: Strangeness and Value”. Cultural Studies Review 13: 2 (2007). 38-52.
    - alternative version in Australian Humanities Review 41 (February 2007).
Book chapters
  • “Kingdom-Come: Eschatology and Apocalypse.” Forthcoming in Religion, Violence, Language, ed. Saitya Das. Oxford: Oxford University Press / IIAS.
  • “Translating Classical Genres.” Forthcoming in Approaches to Genre in the Ancient World. Ed. Michelle Borg and Graeme Miles. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • “Digital Lending: Electronic Resources for the Study of Australian Literature.” Teaching Australian Literature: From Classroom Conversations to National Imaginings. Ed. Brenton Doecke, Philip Mead, and Larissa McLean Davies. Kent Town: AATE/Wakefield Press, 2011. 369-82.
  • “Matter and Materialism: A Brief Pre-History of the Present”. Material Powers: Essays Beyond Cultural Materialism. Ed. Tony Bennett and Patrick Joyce. London: Routledge, 2010. 25-37.
  • (With Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison) “Reading By Numbers: Gender, Class, Education and Literary Culture in Australia”. Chapter 6 of Bennett, Emmison and Frow, Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
    - Reprinted in Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader. Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal. New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2009. 150-172.
  • (With Tony Bennett) “Introduction: Vocabularies of Culture”. Handbook of Cultural Analysis. Ed. Tony Bennett and John Frow. London: Sage, 2008. 1-15.
  • “Cultural Property”. Handbook of Cultural Analysis. Ed. Tony Bennett and John Frow. London: Sage, 2008. 427-446.
  • “Toute la mémoire du monde: Repetition and Forgetting” (extract from Chapter Four of John Frow, Time and Commodity Culture, Clarendon Press 1997).
    - Reprinted in Theories of Memory: A Reader. Ed. Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 150-156.
Reviews and miscellaneous pieces
  • “Preface to the Iranian Translation of Genre.” Forthcoming 2012.
  • “Introduction: How Do Disciplines Change?” The Humanities in Australia: Taking Stock, ed. Ian Donaldson. Perth: UWA Publishing, 2012. 115-8.
  • #“Character”. Blackwell Encyclopaedia of the Novel. Ed. Peter Logan. Oxford: Blackwell, 2012.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 18: 1 (March 2012). 1-3.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 17: 2 (September 2011). 1-3.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 17: 1 (March 2011). 1-2
  • Review of Barbara Johnson, Persons and Things. Comparative Literature Studies, 47: 2 (2010). 221- 223.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 16: 2 (September 2010). 1-3.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 16: 1 (March 2010). 1-2.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 15: 2 (September 2009). 9.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 15: 1 (March 2009). 7 – 8.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 14: 2 (September 2008). 9.
  • Review of Marita Sturken, Tourists of History: Memory, Kitsch, and Consumerism from Oklahoma City to Ground Zero. Cultural Studies Review, 14: 2 (2008). 200-204.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 14: 1 (March 2008). 7 – 8.
  • “Whatever It Means, It Isn’t This”. The Australian Literary Review, August 6, 2008. 13.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 13: 2 (September 2007). 7 – 8.
  • (With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 13: 1 (March 2007). 7 – 8.
  • Review of Jerome McGann, The Scholar’s Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World. Modern Language Review 102: 4 (2007). 1133-1135.
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