John Frow : School of Culture & Communication : The University of Melbourne

Professor John Frow

Professor, English

Qualifications

BA (ANU), MA, PhD (Cornell)

Biography

Educated at Wagga High School and the ANU, John Frow lived and worked in South America in 1970 and 1971 and then did graduate studies from 1971 to 1975 in the Comparative Literature Program at Cornell University, including a year at the University of Heidelberg. He worked at Murdoch University in Western Australia from 1975 to 1989, and was then appointed to a Chair at the University of Queensland, where he worked from 1990 to 1999. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh, before returning to take up the Chair of English Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne. He is currently the Head of the School of Culture and Communication. He has held visiting research and teaching positions at the University of Minnesota, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago.

Current research

Human scale; Port Arthur and Cultural Memory; Cultural Property, character and forms of personhood.

Knowledge transfer

Founding Member and Member of Editorial Board, Australian Journal of Cultural Studies (1983-1987)
Founding Member, Member of Editorial Board (1987-) and Australian Reviews Editor (1987-1996), Cultural Studies
Member of Editorial Board, Textual Practice (1987-)
Consulting Editor, Social Semiotics (1990-)
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Literary Criticism (1993-)
Member of Editorial Board, The UTS Review (1995-2001); continued as Cultural Studies Review (2002-)
Co-editor, Cultural Studies Review (2006-)
Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Australian Humanities Review (1997-)
Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Continuum (1997-)
Member of Editorial Board, m/c: A Journal of Media and Culture (1999-)
Member of Editorial Board, ACH: The Journal of the History of Culture in Australia (2004-)
Member of International Advisory Board, Journal of Cultural Economy (2007-)
Member of Editorial Advisory Board, Law, Culture and the Humanities (2007-)

Teaching

106-214 The Enlightenment and its Others
106-120 Literature, Culture, History
106-408 The Novel and the Invention of the Modern

Full subject descriptions are available on the University of Melbourne Handbook.

Teaching and research appointments

2004-: University of Melbourne (Professor of English Language and Literature)
2000-2004 : University of Edinburgh (Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature)
1989-1999 : University of Queensland (Darnell Professor of English)
1997: University of Chicago (Visiting Scholar, English Department)
1992: Wesleyan University (Senior Fellow, Center for the Humanities)
1988: University of Minnesota (Visiting Professor in Comparative Literature)
1975-1988: Murdoch University (Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature)
1974-75: Cornell University (Teaching Assistant in Comparative Literature)
1970: Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires (Lecturer in American Literature)
1969: Knox Grammar, Sydney (Teacher of English and French)

Publications

In-press

"The City at Human Scale". Forthcoming in Critical Quarterly 2008.
"Matter and Materialism: A Brief Pre-History of the Present". Forthcoming in Material Powers: Essays Beyond Cultural Materialism. Ed. Tony Bennett and Patrick Joyce. London: Routledge.
"Reproducibles, Rubrics, and Everything You Need: Genre Theory Today". Forthcoming in PMLA, October 2007.
"The Practice of Value". Forthcoming in Textual Cultures 2007.
"New World Order and the Public Domain". Forthcoming in Indian Journal of Law and Technology (2007)

Books

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, 2005. vii + 171pp.
Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures (with Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 313 pp.
Time and Commodity Culture: Essays in Cultural Theory and Postmodernity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. ix + 271 pp.
Cultural Studies and Cultural Value. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. v + 190 pp.
Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader. Edited and with an Introduction by John Frow and Meaghan Morris. Sydney and Chicago: Allen and Unwin and the University of Illinois Press, 1993. xxxii + 296 pp.
Marxism and Literary History. Cambridge (Mass.) and Oxford: Harvard University Press and Basil Blackwell, 1986. ix + 275 pp. - 2nd edition, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988.

Other monographs

Visual Knowledges. Edited by John Frow. Edinburgh: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2003.
(with Robin Williams, Joyce Tait, Frances Dow and Marcus Redley) Review of the Arts and Humanities Research Leave Scheme. Bristol: AHRB, 2002. 48 pp. + Appendix.
The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive. Edited by John Frow. Edinburgh: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2002.
Timeshift: Intellectual Property and The Means of Reproduction. Valencia: Eutopias / Working Papers, 1994. 19 pp.
What Was Postmodernism? Local Consumption Publications, 1991. 60 pp.
(With Tony Bennett) Australian Art Gallery Visitors. Sydney: Australia Council, 1991. 127 pp.
The Social Production of Knowledge and the Discipline of English. University of Queensland Inaugural Lecture. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990. 18 pp.

Book chapters and journal articles

(*refereed journal; #invited paper)

*“Genres of Description and Interpretation”. Journal of Cultural Economy 1: 3 (2008). 355-359.
#“An Ethics of Imitation”. Forthcoming in Angelaki 14: 1 (2009).
*“The City at Human Scale”. Forthcoming in Critical Quarterly 51: 4 (2009).
#“Matter and Materialism: A Brief Pre-History of the Present”. Forthcoming in Material Powers: Essays Beyond Cultural Materialism. Ed. Tony Bennett and Patrick Joyce. London: Routledge.
(With Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison) “Reading By Numbers: Gender, Class, Education and Literary Culture in Australia”. Chapter 6 of Accounting for Tastes. Reprinted in Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader. Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal. New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2009.
*“Afterlife: Texts as Usage”. Reception 1 (Fall, 2008). 1-23. http://copland.udel.edu/%7Epgold/webpage/RSSsite/rssjournal.html
(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.
#“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.
"Toute la mémoire du monde: Repetition and Forgetting" (extract from Chapter Four of Time and Commodity Culture). Reprinted in Theories of Memory: A Reader. Ed. Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 150-156.
*"UnAustralia: Strangeness and Value". Cultural Studies Review 13: 2 (2007). 38-52. - alternative version in Australian Humanities Review 41 (February 2007). http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-February-2007/Frow.html
*"Australian Cultural Studies: Theory, Story, History". Postcolonial Studies 10: 1 (2007). 59-75. - alternative version in Australian Humanities Review 37 (December 2006). http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-December-2005/frow.html - reprinted in Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader. Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal. New Delhi: Forthcoming.
#"Waiting for the Antichrist". The State of the World. Ed. António Pinto Ribeiro. Manchester: Carcanet and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2006. 71-89. - Portuguese version: "Á Espera do Anticristo". O Estado do Mundo. Ed. António Pinto Ribeiro. Lisbon: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2006. 99-124.
#(with James F. English) "Literary Authorship and Celebrity Culture". A Concise Companion to Contemporary British Fiction. Ed. James F. English. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 39-57.
#"The Archive under threat ". Memory, Monuments and Memorials. Ed. Marilyn Lake. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press / The Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2006. 124-137.
*#"The Public Humanities". Modern Language Review. 100 (Supplement: One Hundred Years of MLA, 2005). 269-80.
*#"Genre Worlds: The Discursive Shaping of Knowledge". Arena Journal. 23 (2005): 129-46.
# "Australian Cultural Studies: Theory, Story, History". Australian Humanities Review. 37 (December 2005) http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-December-2005/frow.html
*"The Uses of Terror and the Limits of Cultural Studies." Media International Australia. 109 (November 2003): 14-21. - alternative version in Symploke 11:1-2 (2003): 69-76.
*#"Literature as Regime (Meditations on an Emergence)." The Question of Literature: The Place of the Literary in Contemporary Theory. Ed. Elizabeth Beaumont Bissell. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002. 142-55.
#- alternative version "On Literature in Cultural Studies". The Aesthetics of Cultural Studies . Ed. Michael Bérubé. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2005. 44-57.
*#"'Never Draw to an Inside Straight': The Critique of Everyday Reason." New Literary History. 33:4 (Autumn 2002): 623-38.
(with David Walton) "Hegemony and the Articulation of Otherness: Some Theses." Culture and Power: Ac(unofficial)knowledging Cultural Studies in Spain . Ed. David Walton and Dagmar Scheu. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002. 39-43.
#"Signature and Brand." High-Pop: Making Culture into Public Entertainment. Ed. James Collins. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002. 56-74.
*"Invidious Distinction: Waste, Difference, and Classy Stuff." UTS Review. 7:2 (2001): 21-31. - reprinted in Culture and Waste: The Creation and Destruction of Value . Ed. Gay Hawkins and Stephen Muecke. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. 25-38.
*"A Pebble, A Camera, A Man Who Turns into a Telegraph Pole." Critical Inquiry. 28:1 (2001): 270-85. - reprinted in Things . Ed. Bill Brown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
#"The State of the Net: Reflections on New York Dogs and Trojan Horses." An email interview conducted by Mark Pegrum. Mots Pluriels 18 (August 2001).
*"Text, Rhetoric, Culture: Some Futures for English." Critical Quarterly. 43: 1 (Spring 2001): 5-18.
*"Metaphor and Metacommunication in Schizophrenic Language." Social Semiotics. 11:3 (2001): 275-87. - partial Spanish translation: "Una Inocencia Imposible: Locura y Metacommunicación". Impresiones 13 (Winter / Spring 2001): 5-6.
#(With Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison) "Social Class and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia." Culture in Australia: Policies, Publics and Programs . Ed. Tony Bennett and David Carter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 193-215.
"Economies of Value." Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies. Ed. James L. Machor and Philip Goldstein. New York: Routledge, 2001. 294-317. (Reprinted from Cultural Studies and Cultural Value.)
*#(With Meaghan Morris) "Cultural Studies." Handbook of Qualitative Research (Second Edition). Ed. Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2000. 315-46
*"Public Domain and the New World Order in Knowledge." Social Semiotics. 10:2 (2000): 173-85.
*(With Meaghan Morris) "Two Laws: Response to Elizabeth Povinelli." Critical Inquiry. 25 (Spring 1999): 626-30.*- Reprinted in Intimacy . Ed. Lauren Berlant. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. 421-25.
*"Cultural Studies and the Neoliberal Imagination." Yale Journal of Criticism. 12:2 (Fall 1999): 423-30.
#"In the Penal Colony." Australian Humanities Review (April-June, 1999).*- reprinted in Journal of Australian Studies. 64 (2000): 1-13. - reprinted in The Australian Legend and its Discontents . Ed. Richard Nile. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2000.
#- reprinted in Between the Psyche and the Polis: Refiguring History in Literature and Theory. Ed. Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000. 123-42.
#"Res Publica." Australian Book Review. 208 (Feb-March 1999): 23-27
"Joking in China." Textual Practice. 13:1 (1999): 1-4.
*(With Michael Emmison) "Information Technology as Cultural Capital." Australian Universities Review , 41:1 (1998). 41-45.
*"Public Domain and Collective Rights in Culture." Intellectual Property Journal.13:1 (1998): 39-52.
*"A Note on the Everyday." AntiTHESIS. 9 (1998).: 58-60.
*"Is Elvis a God? Cult, Culture, Questions of Method." International Journal of Cultural Studies. 1:2 (1998): 199-212. - reprinted in Sacred Realms: Current Research and Insights into the Anthropology of Religion . Ed. Richard L. Warms, James F. Garber and R. Jon McGee. New York: McGraw Hill, 2003.
#*"Metacapital: A Response to Pierre Bourdieu." Polygraph. 10 (1998): 33-38.
#*"Multiculturalism: The Politics of Cultural Diversity." Poetica. 50 (1998): 149-54.
#"A Politics of Stolen Time." Australian Humanities Review (www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/), February, 1998. - reprinted in Meanjin. 57: 2 (June, 1998): 351-367.
#- alternative version in Timespace: Geographies of Temporality . Ed. Nigel Thrift and Jon May. London: Routledge, 2001. 73-88.
*- reprinted as "Discursive Justice" in South Atlantic Quarterly. 100:2 (2001): 331-48.
#"Afterword: Public Voice." Intellectuals and Publics: Essays on Cultural Theory and Practice . Ed. Paolo Bartoloni, Karen Lynch and Shane Kendal. Melbourne: La Trobe University, 1997. 139-42.
#"Literature, Culture, Mirrors." Australian Humanities Review (www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/), August 1997.
*"Class, Education, Culture." Culture and Policy. 8:1 (1997): 73-88.
#"Measure for Measure: A Response to Steven Mailloux." Law/Text/Culture. 3 (1996): 158-61. Also in *Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature. 9 (Spring / Summer 1997): 11-14.
"Introduction: A Certain Smile." Rex Butler, An Uncertain Smile . Sydney: Artspace, 1996. 5-10.
#"Recovering Memory." Australian Humanities Review (www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/), December 1996.
*"Information as Gift and Commodity." New Left Review. 219 (1996): 89-108.
#"The Signature: Three Arguments About the Commodity Form." Aesthesia and the Economy of the Senses . Ed. Helen Grace. University of Western Sydney, 1996. 151-200.
"Marxism and Literary History." Ideology . Ed. T.Eagleton. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995. 295-302. (Reprinted from Marxism and Literary History.)
*"Private Parts: Body Organs in Global Trade." UTS Review. 1:2 (1995): 84-100.
# - alternative version, "Bodies in Pieces." The Body in the Library . Ed. Leigh Dale and Simon Ryan. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. 35-53.
*"A Note on Legal Semiotics." Social Semiotics. 5:2 (1995): 183-89.
*"Elvis's Fame: The Commodity Form and The Form of the Person." Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature , 7:2 (1995). 131-171.
#*(With Meaghan Morris) "Australian Cultural Studies: Contexts and Genealogies." South East Asian Journal of Social Science , Special Issue, Vol. 22 (1994). 250-63.
*"Timeshift: Technologies of Reproduction and Intellectual Property." Economy and Society , 23:3 (1994). 291-304.
*"Knowledge and Class." Cultural Studies. 7:2 (1993): 240-281.
#"Cultural Markets and the Shape of Culture." Continental Shift: Globalisation and Culture . Ed. Elizabeth Jacka. Sydney: Local Consumption Publications, 1993. 7-24.
(With Meaghan Morris) "Introduction." Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader . Ed. John Frow and Meaghan Morris. Sydney and Chicago: Allen and Unwin and University of Illinois Press, 1993. vii-xxxii.
#"Response to Michael Denning." Cultural Studies: Pluralism and Theory . Ed. John Frow. Melbourne: University of Melbourne English Department, 1993. 98-100.
"Regimes of Value." Shakespeare's Books: Contemporary Cultural Politics and the Persistence of Empire . Ed. Philip Mead and Marion Campbell. Melbourne: University of Melbourne English Department, 1993. 207-18.
"Strategies of Reading." Journal of Literary Criticism. 6:1 (1993): 38-49.
#"Beyond the Disciplines: Cultural Studies." Beyond the Disciplines: The New Humanities . Ed. Ken Ruthven. Canberra: Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1992. 22-28.
"Rationalization and the Public Sphere." Meanjin. 51:3 (1992): 505-516.
*"The Concept of the Popular." New Formations. 18 (Winter 1992): 25-38.
#"Lucien Goldmann and the Sociology of Literature." Journal of Literary Criticism. 5:2 (1992): 17-44.
*"Michel de Certeau and the Practice of Everyday Life." Cultural Studies. 5:1 (1991): 52-60.
*"Tourism and the Semiotics of Nostalgia." October. 57 (1991): 123-151.
#"Postmodernism and Literary History." Theoretical Issues in Literary History . Ed. David Perkins. Harvard English Studies 16. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1991. 131-142.
*(With Mike Emmison and Graeme Turner) "Youth Attitudes to the Arts." Culture and Policy , 2:2/3:1, 1990-91. 77-110. - Reprinted in Ideas, Facts and Futures: Youth and the Arts , Vol. 4 (Sydney: The Australia Council, 1991). 9-30.
*"The Last Things Before the Last: Notes on White Noise." South Atlantic Quarterly. 89:2 (Spring 1990): 413-430. - Reprinted in Introducing Don DeLillo . Ed. Frank Lentricchia. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. 175-192.
"The Social Production of Knowledge and the Discipline of English." Meanjin. 49:2 (Winter 1990): 353-367.
#"Marxist Criticism." Literature and Criticism: A New Century Guide . Ed. Martin Coyle et al. London: Croom Helm, 1990. 708-720.
#"Intertextuality and Ontology." Intertextuality . Ed. M. Worton and J. Still. Manchester: Manchester University Press,1990. 45-55.
#"Response to Valerie Walkerdine." Discipline, Dialogue, Difference . Ed. R. Giblett and J. O'Carroll. Murdoch: 4D Duration Publications, 1990. 140-146.
#"What Was Postmodernism?" Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism . Ed. Ian Adams and Helen Tiffin. Calgary and Hertfordshire: University of Calgary Press/Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1990. 139-152.
#*"Formal Method in Discourse Analysis." Journal of Pragmatics. 13 (1989): 333-341.
"For a Literary History." Polish Translation of Chapter 5, Marxism and Literary History. Pamietnik Literacki 79:4 (1988): 195-218.
*"Repetition and Limitation: On Copyright Doctrine." Screen. 29:1 (1988): 4-20.
"Some Versions of Foucault," Part I and Part II. Meanjin. 47:1 (1988), and 47:2 (1988). 144-156 and 353-365.
*"The Margins of the Law." Economy and Society. 17:1 (1988): 127-137.
*"Discipline and Discipleship." Textual Practice , 2:3 (1988). 307-323.
*"Accounting for Tastes: Some Problems in Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Culture." Cultural Studies. 1:1 (1987): 59-73.
#"The Subject of the Law." Social Theory and Legal Politics . Ed. Gary Wickham. Sydney: Local Consumption Publications, 1987. 68-75.
"Class and Culture: Funding the Arts." Meanjin. 45:1 (1986): 118-128.
*"Spectacle, Binding: On Character." Poetics Today. 7:2 (1986): 227-250.
*"Discourse and Power." Economy and Society. 14:2 (1985): 193-214. - Reprinted in Ideological Representation and Power in Social Relations . Ed. Mike Gane. London: Routledge, 1989. 198-217.
"A Semiotics of the Token Economy." Public/Private . Ed. Don Barry and Peter Botsman. Sydney: Local Consumption Series No. 6, 1985. 1-22.
#*"Textual Historicities." Bulletin of the Midwestern MLA. 18:1 (Spring 1985): 17-41.
*reprinted in Literature and History. 11:2 (Autumn, 1985): 264-280.
#"Foucault and Derrida." Raritan. V:I (Summer 1985): 31-42.
*"Language, Discourse, Ideology." Language and Style. 17:4 (1985): 302-315.
*"Marxism after Structuralism." Southern Review. 17:1 (1984): 33-50.
*"Spectatorship." Australian Journal of Communication. 5-6 (Jan-Dec 1984): 21-38.
*"Film, Commodity Production and the Law: Brecht's 'Sociological Experiment.'" Australian Journal of Cultural Studies. 2:1 (May, 1984): 3-22.
*"Gongula...." Southern Review. 17:2 (July 1984): 142-146.
#"Le lieu sémiotique du spectateur dans le discours d'amour contemporain." Le Récit amoureux. Ed. D. Coste and M. Zeraffa. Paris: Champ Vallon, 1984. 168-177.
*"Foucault at Forest Lodge." Australian Journal of Cultural Studies. 1:1 (1983): 36-46.
"Annus Mirabilis: Synchrony and Diachrony." The Politics of Theory . Ed. Frances Barker et al. University of Essex, 1983. 220-233.
#"Reading as System and as Practice." Comparative Criticism Yearbook, No. 5. Cambridge University Press, 1983. 87-105.
*"Who Shot Frank Hardy? Intertextuality and Textual Politics." Southern Review. 15:1 (March 1982): 22-39. - Reprinted in Frank Hardy and the Literature of Commitment . Ed. Paul Adams and Christopher Lee. Melbourne: The Vulgar Press, 2003. 137-58.
*"Genre and History in the Work of Georg Lukács." New Literature Review. 10 (1982): 29-38.
*"The Chant of Thomas Keneally." Australian Literary Studies. 10:3 (May 1982): 291-299.
*"Structuralist Marxism." Southern Review. 15:2 (1982): 208-217.
*"The Literary Frame." Journal of Aesthetic Education, 16:2 (Summer 1982): 25-30.
*"Mediation and Metaphor: Adorno and the Sociology of Art." Clio. 12:1 (1982): 57-66.
*"System and Norm in Literary Evolution: For a Marxist Literary History." Clio. 10:2 (1981): 155-181.
*"Voice and Register in Little Dorrit." Comparative Literature. 33:3 (Summer 1981): 258-270.
*"Discourse Genres." Journal of Literary Semantics. 9:2 (1980): 73-81.
*"System and History: A Critique of Russian Formalism." Oxford Literary Review. 4:2 (1980): 56-71.

Reviews

#“Character”. Forthcoming in the Blackwell Encyclopaedia of the Novel.
(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.
(With Katrina Schlunke) “Editorial”. Cultural Studies Review, 12: 2 (September 2006). 7 – 8.
“John Frow In Conversation With Ravi Sundaram and Prabhu Mohapatra”. Contested Commons / Trespassing Publics: A Public Record. Delhi: The Sarai Programme, 2005. 153-57.
'Survivor in a lesser world.' Review of Fred Rush, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory and Lorenz Jager's Adorno: A Political Biography. Australian Book Review. 272 (June-July 2005): 43-44.
Entries on "commodity", "copy", "deconstruction", "discourse", "intellectual", "theory", and "time", in New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society . Ed. Tony Bennett, Larry Grossberg, and Meaghan Morris. Forthcoming Malden, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 2005.
Review of Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class. JAS Review of Books. 26 (August 2004). http://www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/reviews/jrbview.cgi?n=1864032561
Review of Play It Again, Sam: Retakes on Remakes, ed. Andrew Horton and Stuart Y. McDougal. Screening the Past. 7 (July 1999).
Review of Thomas Keenan, Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics and Rey Chow, Ethics After Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading. UTS Review. 5:1 (1999): 258-63.
Review of Alec McHoul, Semiotic Investigations . Media International Australia, 83 (Feb 1997): 143-44.
Review of Thomas Streeter, Selling the Air: A Critique of the Policy of Commercial Broadcasting in the United States. UTS Review. 3:1 (1997): 254-58.
Review of Jacques Derrida, The Gift of Death. Southern Review. 29:2 (1996): 240-42.
Review of Bernard Smith, Imagining the Pacific. UTS Review. 2:1 (1996): 182-85.
Review of Simon During, Patrick White. The Age. 30/3/96. `Extra'. 8.
Review of Modernity and Identity. Ed. Scott Lash and Jonathan Friedman. Editions. 15 (March 1993): 12.
"Face Value?" Review of Jane Gaines, Contested Culture: The Image, the Voice, and the Law. Cultural Studies. 5:3 (1991): 393-397.
Review of James V. Catano, Language, History, Style: Leo Spitzer and the Critical Tradition. The Modern Language Review. 86:4 (1991): 957-8.
Review of Michael Sprinker, Imaginary Relations. Comparative Literature. 41:4 (Fall 1989): 405-408.
Review of J.-F. Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition. Public / Private . Ed. Don Barry and Peter Botsman. Sydney: Local Consumption Series No. 6, 1985. 97-111.
Review of T. Todorov, Introduction to Poetics. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 61:1 (Fall 1982): 112-3.

Interviews

"John Frow In Conversation With Ravi Sundaram and Prabhu Mohapatra". Contested Commons / Trespassing Publics: A Public Record. Dehli: The Sarai Programme, 2005. 153-157.

Other publications

Entries on "commodity", "copy", "deconstruction", "discourse", "intellectual", "theory", and "time", in New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society . Ed. Tony Bennett, Larry Grossberg, and Meaghan Morris. Forthcoming Malden, Mass.: Basil Blackwell, 2005.

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