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Fredric Jameson
Title:
 
William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies
Office Location:
 
101 Friedl Building
Office Phone:
 
919-684-4155 or 919-660-3100
Office Hours:
 
Tuesday: 11:30am - 1:30pm
Email Address:
 
jameson@duke.edu
Fredric Jameson
Professor Jameson received his PhD 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). His most frequently taught courses cover modernism, Third World literature and cinema, Marx & Freud, 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 is the Editorial Board Chair of South Atlantic Quarterly and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for Duke Press.

Education:

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

Research Interests:

19th and 20 Century French Literature and Marxist Literary Theory
Recent Publications   (More Publications)
  1. F. Jameson. Valences of the Dialectic. 2008.
  2. F. Jameson. The Modernist Papers.  Verso, 2007.
  3.  Jameson on Jameson.  edited by I. Buchanan Duke University Press, 2007.
  4. Eric Aeschimann. "le monde en kitsch." Liberation  (2007).
  5. F. Jameson. Capital in its Time and Space.  Verso, 2008. Ideologies of Theory 2008