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| Rob Mitchell, Director of CISSCT
- Contact Info:
| Office Location: | | | Email Address: |   | Teaching (Fall 2013):
- ENGLISH 190FS-2.01, FOCUS PROG SEM LIT (TOP)
Synopsis
- Carr 242, MW 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
- ENGLISH 590S-4.01, SP TOP CRITICISM/THEORY/METH
Synopsis
- Allen 317, W 04:40 PM-07:10 PM
- Education:
| Ph.D. | University of Washington | 2001 |
| M.A. | University of California-Irvine | 1995 |
| B.A. | University of Washington | 1994 |
- Specialties:
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British Literature
Romanticism
Eighteenth Century Literature
Science and Literature
Critical Theory
- Research Interests: British Literature of the Romantic Era; Romanticism; 18th Century Literature; Literature and Science
Robert Mitchell's research focuses on relationships between literature and the sciences in the Romantic era, as well as contemporary intersections among information technologies, genetics, and commerce, especially as these have been played out in the legal, literary, and artistic spheres. His most recent work has focused on the theory and practices of experimentation in both the arts and sciences, the history of vitalism, and the relationship between aesthetics and biological concepts of population. He has published two monographs--Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity (Routledge, 2007) and Bioart and the Vitality of Media (University of Washington Press, 2010)--and is co-author of the monograph Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (Duke UP, 2006) and the DVD-ROM Biofutures: Owning Body Parts and Information (U of Pennsylvania P, 2008). He is also co-editor of several collections of essays, including Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information (Routledge, 2003), Romanticism and Modernity (Routledge, 2011), and Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media (Stanford UP, 2011), and co-editor of the book series "In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science" (University of Washington Press). His most recent monograph, Experimental Life: Vitalism in Romantic Science and Literature, is forthcoming in 2013.
- Areas of Interest:
- British Romanticism
German Romanticism
British and French Literature of the Enlightenment/Eighteenth-Century Critical Theory/History of Criticism
Media and Communication History and Theory
Twentieth-Century French and German Philosophy
European Intellectual History
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Lindsey C. Andrews
- Deanna P. Koretsky
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- R. Mitchell, Simondon, Bioart, and the Milieux of Biotechnology,
Inflexions, vol. 5
(2012) [html]
- R. Mitchell, U.S. Biobanking Strategies and Biomedical Immaterial Labor,
Biosocieties, vol. 7 no. 3
(2012),
pp. 224–244
- with John M. Conley, Arlene M. Davis, R. Jean Cadigan, Allison W. Dobson, Ryan Q. Gladden, A Trade Secret Model for Genomic Biobanking,
Journal of Medicine, Law and Ethics, vol. 40 no. 3
(September, 2012),
pp. 612–629
- R. Mitchell et. al, Genomics, Biobanks, and the Trade-Secret Model,
Science, vol. 332
(15 April 2011),
pp. 309-310
- with C. Waldby, National Biobanks: Clinical Labour, Risk Production, and the Creation of Biovalue,
Science, Technology, and Human Values, vol. 35 no. 3
(2010),
pp. 330-355
- with T. Pfau, Romanticism and Modernity
(2011), Routledge
- with J. Khalip, Releasing the Image: From Literature to New Media
(2011), Stanford University Press [ref=sr_1_1]
- R. Mitchell, Suspended Animation, Slow Time, and the Poetics of Trance,
PMLA, vol. 126 no. 1
(2011),
pp. 107-122
- R. Mitchell, Cryptogamia,
European Romantic Review, vol. 21 no. 5
(2010),
pp. 631-51
- R. Mitchell, Bioart and the Vitality of Media
(2010), University of Washington Press [ref=sr_1_1]
- with Helen Burgess, Phillip Thurtle, Biofutures: Owning Body Parts and Information
(2008), University of Pennsylvania Press (DVD-ROM.) [available here]
- R. Mitchell, Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity
(2007), Routledge [102-8880685-5627335]
- with C. Waldby, Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
(2006), Duke University Press [102-8880685-5627335]
- with P. Thurtle, Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information
(2003), Routledge [104-7461896-1670304]
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