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Mar 24, 1942 Anaheim, California, United States 82 years old
American academic
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About W. J. T. Mitchell
- William John Thomas Mitchell (born March 24, 1942) — known as W.J.T.
- Mitchell — is an American academic.
- Mitchell is the Gaylord Donnelley Distinguished Service Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago.
- He is also the editor of Critical Inquiry, and contributes to the journal October. His 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.
- 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.
- In that same interview he discusses his ongoing efforts to rethink visual culture as a form of life and in light of digital media. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
