Professor John Frow
BA (ANU), MA, PhD (Cornell); FAHA
Professor of English
A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney
Telephone | +61 2 9351 2571 |
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Curriculum vitae | Curriculum vitae |
Biographical details
John Frow is a graduate of the ANU and Cornell University, and is currently an ARC Professorial Fellow in the Department. 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 works at the boundary between literary studies and cultural studies, and his books include Marxism and Literary History (1986), Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995), Time and Commodity Culture (1997), Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (with Tony Bennett and Mike Emmison, 1999), and Genre (2006, revised 2015). A collection of essays, The Practice of Value, was released in 2013, and another book, Character and Person, in 2014. He is a member of numerous editorial boards, including New Literary History, Textual Practice, the Journal of Cultural Economy, Third Text and Cultural Studies Review, of which he was the editor from 2006-12. He is currently working on a series of case studies of interpretive conflict and its institutional framing.
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 students
Project title | Research student |
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Lyric Form | Jennifer H CRONE |
Wordflesh: The Antinomies of Textual Mimesis | Jonathan DUNK |
The Paradigms of Hearing Voices Within the Narrative of Henry�s Demons, A Father and Son�s Journey Out of Madness | Dimi LATTAS |
Current projects
- Fictional character
- Regimes of reading and valuation
Selected grants
2018
- The Novel Network; Lynch D, Smith V, Frow J, Hardie M; Office of Global Engagement/Travel Grants.
2014
- Avatars and Identities; Clemens J, Frow J, Apperley T; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2011
- Regimes of reading; Frow J; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
Selected publications
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Genre [Revised 2nd Edition] (Routledge, 2015)
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Character and Person (Oxford University Press, 2014)
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The Practice of Value: Essays on Literature in Cultural Studies (University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP) , 2013)
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The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis (Sage Publications, 2008)
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Genre: The new critical idiom (Routledge, 2006)
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Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (Cambridge University Press, 1999)
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Time and Commodity Culture: Essays on Cultural Theory and Postmodernity (Clarendon Press, 1997)
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Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (Clarendon Press, 1995)
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Marxism and Literary History (Harvard University Press, 1986)
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