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Contact Details

Organization: Culture and Communication
Position: CHAIR OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
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Homepage: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/people/john-frow.html
Work: +61 3 8344 5505
Fax: +61 3 8344 5494
Room: 215
Level: 02
Building: John Medley Building
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Intellectual property and the commodification of culture Australia
Foucault Australia, France
Literary theory, including narratology, discourse analysis and genre theory Australia
Cultural studies theory Australia
Cultural memory Australia
The European, Australian and American novel Australia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, United States of America

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Arts The Australian National University 20-Dec-1968
Master of Arts Cornell University 20-Oct-1975
Doctor of Philosophy Cornell University 20-Jun-1978

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (HONFAHA) 01-Jan-1997

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Literary Character and Regimes of Reading Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL Discovery Projects 01/01/2007

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Publications in 2008

Books

  • The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis
    Year: 2008
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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Book Chapters

  • Sociology and Culture


    Year: 2008
    Book: The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis
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  • Cultural Property
    Year: 2008
    Book: The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis
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  • Introduction: Vocabularies of Culture
    Year: 2008
    Book: The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis
    Publisher: Sage Publications(London)
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Journal Articles

  • Afterlife: Texts as Usage
    Year: 2008
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 1-23
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  • Editorial
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Cultural Studies Review
    Volume: 14
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 7-8
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  • Thinking the Novel
    Year: 2008
    Journal: New Left Review
    Volume: 49
    Issue: Jan-Feb
    Page numbers: 137-145
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  • Whatever it means, it isn't this
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Australian Literary Review
    Volume: August
    Page numbers: 13
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • 'Reproducibles, Rubrics, and Everything You Need': Genre Theory Today
    Year: 2007
    Journal: PMLA
    Volume: 122
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1626-1634
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  • Australian Cultural Studies: Theory, Story, History
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Postcolonial Studies
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 59-75
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  • Editorial
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cultural Studies Review
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 7-10
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  • Review of Jerome McGann, The Scholar's Art: Literary Studies in a Managed World
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Modern Language Review
    Volume: 102
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 1133-1135
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  • The Practice of Value
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Textual Cultures: texts, contexts, interpretation
    Volume: 2
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 61-76
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  • UnAustralia: Strangeness and Value
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Cultural Studies Review
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 38-52
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Publications in 2006

Book Chapters

  • Literary authorship and celebrity culture
    Year: 2006
    Book: A concise companion to contemporary British fiction
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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  • The archive under threat
    Year: 2006
    Book: Memory, monuments and museums: the past in the present
    Publisher: Melbourne University Press(Carlton)
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  • Waiting for the Antichrist
    Year: 2006
    Book: The state of the world
    Publisher: Carcanet Press(Manchester)
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Journal Articles

  • Intellectual Property Rights and the Public Domain in the New World Order
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Indian Journal of Law and Technology
    Volume: 2
    Page numbers: 106-126
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Publications in 2005

Books

  • Genre
    Year: 2005
    Publisher: Routledge(London)
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Book Chapters

  • John Frow In Conversation with Ravi Sundaram and Prabhu Mohapatra
    Year: 2005
    Book: Contested Commons / Trespassing Publics: A Public Record
    Publisher: The Sarai Programme(New Delhi)
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  • On literature in cultural studies
    Year: 2005
    Book: The aesthetics of cultural studies
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Malden)
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Major Reference Works

  • "Commodity"; "Copy"; "Deconstruction"; "Discourse"; "Intellectual"; "Theory"; "Time":New Keywords: a revised vocabulary of culture and society
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: "Commodity"; "Copy"; "Deconstruction"; "Discourse"; "Intellectual"; "Theory"; "Time"
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Oxford)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Review of Richard Florida The Rise of the Creative Class
    Year: 2004
    Journal: JAS Review of Books
    Volume: 26
    Issue: August 2004
    Page numbers: 1-2
    Publisher: Australian Studies Centre, Curtin University of Technology(Perth)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • The Uses of Terror and the Limits of Cultural Studies
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Media International Australia incorporating Culture and Policy
    Volume: 109
    Issue: November
    Page numbers: 14-21
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Publications in 2002

Book Chapters

  • Hegemony and the Articulation of Otherness: some theses
    Year: 2002
    Book: Culture and Power: ac(unofficial)knowledging cultural studies in Spain
    Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing(New York)
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  • Signature and Brand
    Year: 2002
    Book: High-Pop: making culture into public entertainment
    Publisher: Blackwell Publishers(Massachusetts)
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Journal Articles

  • "Never Draw to an Inside Straight": the critique of everyday reason
    Year: 2002
    Journal: New Literary History
    Volume: 33
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 623-637
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Publications in 2001

Book Chapters

  • Social Class and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia
    Year: 2001
    Book: Culture in Australia: policies, publics and programs
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press(Cambridge)
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Journal Articles

  • A Pebble, a Camera, a Man who Turns into a Telegraph Pole
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Critical Inquiry
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 270-285
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  • Invidious Distinction: waste, difference, and classy stuff
    Year: 2001
    Journal: UTS Review: Cultural Studies and New Writing
    Volume: 7
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 21-31
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  • Metaphor and Metacommunication in Schizophrenic Language
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Social Semiotics
    Volume: 11
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 275-287
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  • Text, Rhetoric, Culture: some futures for English
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Critical Quarterly
    Volume: 43
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 5-18
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  • The State of the Net: reflections on New York Dogs and Trojan Horses. An email interview conducted by Mark Pegrum.
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Mots Pluriels
    Volume: 18
    Issue: August
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