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 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 ...

. 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 land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California S ...

Background

Mott attended Arizona State University 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: '' Pacific-10 Conference 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, 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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