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Faculty: Fredric Jameson  

Fredric Jameson
Title: Professor
Office Location: 125G Science Building
Office Phone: +1 919 684 4155
Email Address: jameson@duke.edu
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Education:

  • PhD, Yale Univeristy, 1959
  • MA, Yale University, 1956
  • BA, Haverford College, 1954

Research Interests:  

William A. Lane, Jr., Professor of Comparative Literature, Professor of Romance Studies (French). Professor Jameson received his Ph.D. from Yale in 1959 and taught at Harvard, Yale, and the University of California before coming to Duke in 1985. His most recent books include Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991, which won the MLA Lowell Award), Seeds of Time (1994), Brecht and Method (1998), and The Cultural Turn (1998), A Singular Modernity (Verso Press 2002). His most frequently taught courses cover modernism, Third World literature and cinema, Marx & Freud, Jean-Paul Sartre, the modern French novel and cinema, and the Frankfurt School. Among Professor Jameson's ongoing concerns is the need to analyze literature as an encoding of political and social imperatives, and the interpretation of modernist and postmodernist assumptions through a rethinking of Marxist methodology. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for South Atlantic Quarterly.

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

Articles Accepted in Journal

  • F. Jameson. "On German Wars." PMLA  (2007).
Papers Published
  • F. Jameson. "Note on Literary Realism." Adventures in Realism  (2007).
  • F. Jameson. "Utopia as Method, or the Uses of the Future."   (2007).
  • F. Jameson. "Cultural Revolution."   (2007).
  • F. Jameson. "Introduction to "Rumor City" Itsozaki Arata." South Atlantic Quarterly 106.4 (2007).