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.
Monographs
Frow, John (educated). Visual Knowledges. Edinburgh: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2003
Frow, John. (with Robin Williams, Joyce Tait, Frances Dow and Marcus Redley). Review of the Arts and Humanities Research Leave Scheme. Bristol: AHRB, 2002, 48 pp. + Appendix
Frow, John (educated). The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive. Edinburgh: Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2002
Frow, John. Timeshift: Intellectual Property and The Means of Reproduction. Valencia: Eutopias / Working Papers, 1994, 19 pp.
Frow, John. What Was Postmodernism? Local Consumption Publications, 1991, 60 pp.
Frow, John (with Tony Bennett). Australian Art Gallery Visitors. Sydney: Australia Council, 1991. 127 pp.
Frow, John. The Social Production of Knowledge and the Discipline of English. University of Queensland Inaugural Lecture. Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 1990. 18 pp.
Interview
Frow, John. "John Frow In Conversation With Ravi Sundaram and Prabhu Mohapatra," in Contested Commons / Trespassing Publics: A Public Record. Dehli: The Sarai Programme, 2005, pp.153-157
Other publications
Frow, John. Entries on "commodity", "copy", "deconstruction", "discourse", "intellectual", "theory", and "time", in Bennett, Tony; Grossberg, Larry and Morris, Meaghan (eds.). New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society. Malden, Massachusetts: Basil Blackwell, 2005
"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
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.
