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Professor John Frow

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

A20 - John Woolley Building
The University of Sydney

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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.

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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
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Current research students

Project title Research student
Lyric Form Jennifer H CRONE
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Current projects

  • Fictional character
  • Regimes of reading and valuation
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PhD and master's project opportunities

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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).
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Selected publications

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Books

  • Frow, J. (2015). Genre [Revised 2nd Edition]. Oxford: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2014). Character and Person. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2013). The Practice of Value: Essays on Literature in Cultural Studies. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2006). Genre: The new critical idiom. London and New York: Routledge.
  • Bennett, T., Emmison, M., Frow, J. (1999). Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Frow, J. (1997). Time and Commodity Culture: Essays on Cultural Theory and Postmodernity. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Frow, J. (1995). Cultural Studies and Cultural Value. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
  • Frow, J. (1986). Marxism and Literary History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Edited Books

  • Frow, J., Bennett, T. (2008). The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis. London: Sage Publications. [More Information]

Book Chapters

  • Frow, J. (2019). Cultural Studies. In Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory, (pp. 140-150). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2018). Character. In Matthew Garrett (Eds.), The Cambridge companion to narrative theory, (pp. 105-119). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2018). Re-reading Reading the Country. In Philip Morrissey, Chris Healy (Eds.), Reading the Country: 30 Years On, (pp. 41-43). Broadway: UTS ePRESS. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2015). Kingdom-Come: Eschatology and Apocalypse. In Saitya Brata Das, Soumyabrata Choudhury (Eds.), The Weight of Violence: Religion, Language, Politics, (pp. 121-136). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2015). Speaking Selves: Notes on Deixis. In Véronique Duché, Tess Do, Andrea Rizzi (Eds.), Genre, Text and Language - Mélanges Anne Freadman, (pp. 173-202). Paris: Classiques Garnier.
  • Frow, J. (2014). Future Anterior: The Evening of the Holiday. In Brigitta Olubas (Eds.), Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays, (pp. 3-11). Sydney: Sydney University Press.
  • Frow, J. (2013). Preface. In John Frow (Eds.), The Practice of Value: Essays on Literature in Cultural Studies, (pp. vii-xiii). Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP).
  • Frow, J. (2013). Translating Classical Genres. In Michelle Borg, Greame Miles (Eds.), Approaches to Genre in the Ancient World, (pp. 6-29). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Frow, J. (2011). Digital lending: Electronic resources for the study of Australian literature. In Brenton Doecke, Larissa McLean Davies, Philip Mead (Eds.), Teaching Australian Literature: From classroom conversations to national imaginings, (pp. 369-382). Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press.
  • Frow, J. (2010). Matter and materialism: A brief pre-history of the present. In Tony Bennett, Patrick Joyce (Eds.), Material Powers: Cultural studies, history and the material turn, (pp. 25-37). London: Routledge.
  • Bennett, T., Emmison, M., Frow, J. (2009). Reading by Numbers: Gender, Class, Education and Literary Culture in Australia. In Amit Sarwal, Reema Sarwal (Eds.), Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader, (pp. 150-172). New Delhi: Sports & Spiritual Science (SSS) Publications.
  • Frow, J. (2008). Cultural Property. In Tony Bennett, John Frow (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis, (pp. 427-446). London: Sage Publications.
  • Frow, J., Bennett, T. (2008). Introduction: Vocabularies of Culture. In Tony Bennett, John Frow (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis, (pp. 1-15). London: Sage Publications.

Journals

  • Frow, J., Hardie, M., Rich, K. (2019). The Novel and Media: Three Essays. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 66(1), 1-15. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2018). Philology: On Reading Slowly in a Digital World. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 65(2), 81-86. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2018). Questions of Address: For Meaghan Morris. Cultural Studies Review, 24(1), 46-49. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2017). Introduction: The prosaic imaginary. Novel, 50(1), 1-7. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2016). Prefaces to the Novel: Robinson Crusoe and Novelistic Form. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 63(2-3), 96-106. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2016). Reading with Guns: Institutions of Interpretation and District of Columbia v. Heller. New Literary History: a journal of theory and interpretation, 47(1), 83-108. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2013). "A Nonexistent Coterie": Pessoa's Names. Affirmations: Of the Modern, 1(1), 196-213. [More Information]
  • Bennett, T., Frow, J., Hage, G., Noble, G. (2013). Antipodean Fields: Working with Bourdieu. Journal of Sociology, 49(2-3), 129-150. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2013). On knowing and mattering. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 14(3), 447-448. [More Information]
  • Bennett, T., Bustamante, M., Frow, J. (2013). The Australian Space of Lifestyles in Comparative Perspective. Journal of Sociology, 49(2-3), 224-255. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2012). Avatar, Identification, Pornography. Cultural Studies Review, 18(3), 360-380.
  • Frow, J. (2012). Settlement. Cultural Studies Review, 18(1), 4-18.
  • Frow, J. (2010). Hybrid Disciplinarity: Rey Chow and Comparative Studies. Postcolonial Studies, 13(3), 265-274. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2010). On Midlevel Concepts. New Literary History: a journal of theory and interpretation, 41(2), 237-252. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2009). An Ethics of Imitation. Angelaki, 14(1), 77-86. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2009). The City at Human Scale. Critical Quarterly, 51(4), 37-49. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2008). Afterlife:Texts as Usage. Reception, 1, 1-23.
  • Frow, J. (2008). Genres of Description and Interpretation. Journal of Cultural Economy, 1(3), 355-359. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2008). Thinking the Novel. New Left Review, 49, 137-145.

Edited Journals

  • Frow, J., Smith, V. (2017). The Prosaic Imaginary. Novel, 50(1). [More Information]
  • Smith, V., Frow, J. (2016). Novel Worlds. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 63(2-3).

2019

  • Frow, J. (2019). Cultural Studies. In Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural Theory, (pp. 140-150). London: Bloomsbury Academic. [More Information]
  • Frow, J., Hardie, M., Rich, K. (2019). The Novel and Media: Three Essays. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 66(1), 1-15. [More Information]

2018

  • Frow, J. (2018). Character. In Matthew Garrett (Eds.), The Cambridge companion to narrative theory, (pp. 105-119). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2018). Philology: On Reading Slowly in a Digital World. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 65(2), 81-86. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2018). Questions of Address: For Meaghan Morris. Cultural Studies Review, 24(1), 46-49. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2018). Re-reading Reading the Country. In Philip Morrissey, Chris Healy (Eds.), Reading the Country: 30 Years On, (pp. 41-43). Broadway: UTS ePRESS. [More Information]

2017

2016

  • Smith, V., Frow, J. (2016). Novel Worlds. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 63(2-3).
  • Frow, J. (2016). Prefaces to the Novel: Robinson Crusoe and Novelistic Form. Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, 63(2-3), 96-106. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2016). Reading with Guns: Institutions of Interpretation and District of Columbia v. Heller. New Literary History: a journal of theory and interpretation, 47(1), 83-108. [More Information]

2015

  • Frow, J. (2015). Genre [Revised 2nd Edition]. Oxford: Routledge. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2015). Kingdom-Come: Eschatology and Apocalypse. In Saitya Brata Das, Soumyabrata Choudhury (Eds.), The Weight of Violence: Religion, Language, Politics, (pp. 121-136). New Delhi: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2015). Speaking Selves: Notes on Deixis. In Véronique Duché, Tess Do, Andrea Rizzi (Eds.), Genre, Text and Language - Mélanges Anne Freadman, (pp. 173-202). Paris: Classiques Garnier.

2014

  • Frow, J. (2014). Character and Person. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2014). Future Anterior: The Evening of the Holiday. In Brigitta Olubas (Eds.), Shirley Hazzard: New Critical Essays, (pp. 3-11). Sydney: Sydney University Press.

2013

  • Frow, J. (2013). "A Nonexistent Coterie": Pessoa's Names. Affirmations: Of the Modern, 1(1), 196-213. [More Information]
  • Bennett, T., Frow, J., Hage, G., Noble, G. (2013). Antipodean Fields: Working with Bourdieu. Journal of Sociology, 49(2-3), 129-150. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2013). On knowing and mattering. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 14(3), 447-448. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2013). Preface. In John Frow (Eds.), The Practice of Value: Essays on Literature in Cultural Studies, (pp. vii-xiii). Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP).
  • Bennett, T., Bustamante, M., Frow, J. (2013). The Australian Space of Lifestyles in Comparative Perspective. Journal of Sociology, 49(2-3), 224-255. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2013). The Practice of Value: Essays on Literature in Cultural Studies. Crawley, WA: University of Western Australia Publishing (UWAP). [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2013). Translating Classical Genres. In Michelle Borg, Greame Miles (Eds.), Approaches to Genre in the Ancient World, (pp. 6-29). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2012

  • Frow, J. (2012). Avatar, Identification, Pornography. Cultural Studies Review, 18(3), 360-380.
  • Frow, J. (2012). Settlement. Cultural Studies Review, 18(1), 4-18.

2011

  • Frow, J. (2011). Digital lending: Electronic resources for the study of Australian literature. In Brenton Doecke, Larissa McLean Davies, Philip Mead (Eds.), Teaching Australian Literature: From classroom conversations to national imaginings, (pp. 369-382). Kent Town, SA: Wakefield Press.

2010

  • Frow, J. (2010). Hybrid Disciplinarity: Rey Chow and Comparative Studies. Postcolonial Studies, 13(3), 265-274. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2010). Matter and materialism: A brief pre-history of the present. In Tony Bennett, Patrick Joyce (Eds.), Material Powers: Cultural studies, history and the material turn, (pp. 25-37). London: Routledge.
  • Frow, J. (2010). On Midlevel Concepts. New Literary History: a journal of theory and interpretation, 41(2), 237-252. [More Information]

2009

  • Frow, J. (2009). An Ethics of Imitation. Angelaki, 14(1), 77-86. [More Information]
  • Bennett, T., Emmison, M., Frow, J. (2009). Reading by Numbers: Gender, Class, Education and Literary Culture in Australia. In Amit Sarwal, Reema Sarwal (Eds.), Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader, (pp. 150-172). New Delhi: Sports & Spiritual Science (SSS) Publications.
  • Frow, J. (2009). The City at Human Scale. Critical Quarterly, 51(4), 37-49. [More Information]

2008

  • Frow, J. (2008). Afterlife:Texts as Usage. Reception, 1, 1-23.
  • Frow, J. (2008). Cultural Property. In Tony Bennett, John Frow (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis, (pp. 427-446). London: Sage Publications.
  • Frow, J. (2008). Genres of Description and Interpretation. Journal of Cultural Economy, 1(3), 355-359. [More Information]
  • Frow, J., Bennett, T. (2008). Introduction: Vocabularies of Culture. In Tony Bennett, John Frow (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis, (pp. 1-15). London: Sage Publications.
  • Frow, J., Bennett, T. (2008). The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis. London: Sage Publications. [More Information]
  • Frow, J. (2008). Thinking the Novel. New Left Review, 49, 137-145.

2006

  • Frow, J. (2006). Genre: The new critical idiom. London and New York: Routledge.

1999

  • Bennett, T., Emmison, M., Frow, J. (1999). Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1997

  • Frow, J. (1997). Time and Commodity Culture: Essays on Cultural Theory and Postmodernity. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

1995

  • Frow, J. (1995). Cultural Studies and Cultural Value. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

1986

  • Frow, J. (1986). Marxism and Literary History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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