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W. J. T. Mitchell - Wikipedia

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American academic (born 1942)

William John Thomas Mitchell (born March 24, 1942) is an American academic. Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. He was the editor of Critical Inquiry for 42 years, from 1978 to 2020,[1] and also contributes to the journal October.

Mitchell's monographs, Iconology (1986) and Picture Theory (1994), focus on media theory and visual culture. He draws on ideas from Sigmund Freud and Karl Marx to demonstrate that, essentially, we must consider pictures to be living things. His collection of essays What Do Pictures Want? (2005) won the Modern Language Association's prestigious James Russell Lowell Prize in 2005.[2] In a recent podcast interview, Mitchell traces his interest in visual culture to his early work on William Blake, and his then burgeoning interest in developing a science of images.[3] In that same interview, he discusses his ongoing efforts to rethink visual culture as a form of life and in light of digital media.

In 2014, Mitchell was elected to the American Philosophical Society,[4] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.[5]

Mitchell has been noted as a supporter of the BDS campaign by Canary Mission.[6][7]

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