As well as teaching and researching in areas as diverse as literary theory and cultural studies theory, discourse analysis and genre theory, Frow has a broad interest in contemporary literature and poetry, and in questions of intellectual property and the commodification of culture. He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1997.
Achievements
Works
book
"Matter and Materialism: A Brief Pre-History of the Present," in Bennett, Tony and Joyce, Patrick (eds.). Material Powers: Essays Beyond Cultural Materialism. London: Routledge, 2010
The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis. Edited and with an Introduction by Tony Bennett and John Frow. London: Sage, 2008. xii + 732 pp.
London and New York: Routledge, 2005. vii + 171pp.
Time and Commodity Culture: Essays in Cultural Theory and Postmodernity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997. ix + 271 pp.
Cultural Studies and Cultural Value. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. v + 190 pp.
Marxism and Literary History. Cambridge (Massachusetts) and Oxford: Harvard University Press and Basil Blackwell, 1986. ix + 275 pp. - 2nd edition, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988
Interests
School of Culture and Communication
Research interests
Literary Theory and Cultural Studies Theory, including Narratology, Discourse Analysis and Genre Theory; the European, Australian and American Novel; 20th-Century Poetry; Foucault; Cultural Memory; Intellectual Property and the Commodification of Culture.