Christopher Mott is an American academic who was a

National Football Foundation The National Football Foundation (NFF) is a non-profit organization to promote and develop amateur American football on all levels throughout the United States and "developing the qualities of leadership, sportsmanship, competitive zeal and the dr ...

Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete in 1978 and

Pacific-10 Conference The Pac-12 Conference is a collegiate athletic conference, that operates in the Western United States, participating in 24 sports at the NCAA Division I level. Its football teams compete in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS; formerly Divis ...

Medalist in 1979 for the

Arizona State Sun Devils The Arizona State Sun Devils are the athletic teams that represent Arizona State University. ASU has nine men's and eleven women's varsity teams competing at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I level as a member of ...

. He is currently a Senior Continuing Lecturer in the department of English at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a Normal school, teachers colle ...

Background

Mott attended

Arizona State University Arizona State University (Arizona State or ASU) is a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, ASU is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in t ...

where he played for the Sun Devils football team, serving as co-captain in 1977. He received his B.A. in English Education from ASU in 1979 and his Ph.D. in English from the

in 1991.

Awards and honors

* Honorary member of the

Golden Key International Honour Society The Golden Key International Honour Society (formerly Golden Key National Honor Society) is an Atlanta, Georgia-based non-profit organization founded in 1977 to recognize academic achievement among college and university students. Golden Key has ...

, UCLA * 1995:
Distinguished Lecturer Award
', UCLA * 1979: ''

Medalist'',

* 1978:''

Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete'',

Selected publications and talks

* "Electronic Literature Pedagogy: A Questionable Approach." In ''Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary: Supplemental Online Essays,''

N. Katherine Hayles Nancy Katherine Hayles (born December 16, 1943) is an American postmodern literary critic, most notable for her contribution to the fields of literature and science, electronic literature, and American literature. She is the James B. Duke Dist ...

, 2008. * "The Art of Self-Promotion: Or, Which Self to Sell? The Proliferation and Disintegration of the Harlem Renaissance." In Dettmar, Kevin J. H. (ed. and introd.); Watt, Stephen (ed. and introd.). ''Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, Rereading.'' Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan, 1996: 253-74. *
The Cummings Line on Race
" ''Spring: The Journal of the

E. E. Cummings Edward Estlin Cummings, who was also known as E. E. Cummings, e. e. cummings and e e cummings (October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962), was an American poet, painter, essayist, author and playwright. He wrote approximately 2,900 poems, two autobi ...

Society,'' vol. 4, pp. 71–75, Fall 1995. *
Libra and the Subject of History
" ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction,'' vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 131–45, Spring 1994

Book reviews

*
Hints and Guesses: William Gaddis's Fiction of Longing
" ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction,'' September, 1999. *
Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture and the Contemporary American Novel
" ''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction,'' September, 1999. *
Don DeLillo
''Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction'', June, 1994.

New Media talks

*

" ''Scholarship in a New Media Environment: Issues and Trends''. UCLA OID, 1999. *

''Scholarship in a New Media Environment: Issues and Trends''. UCLA OID, 1998.

Notes

External links

Official site
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