Bill Brown

Bill Brown is the Karla Scherer Distinguished Service Professor in American Culture at the University of Chicago. He teaches in the departments of English and of Visual Arts, and he serves as a coeditor of Critical Inquiry.

Publications

Other Things
Bill Brown (Los Angeles Times Distinguished Fellow, 2012–13)

From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by considering a wide assortment of objects—from beach glass to cell phones, sneakers to skyscrapers—that have fascinated a range of writers and artists, including Virginia Woolf, Man Ray, Spike Lee, and Don DeLillo.

Verso

Posted on Oct. 16, 2019
Howard Chandler Christy, Americans All!, 1919, lithograph, 40 x 26 7/8 in., Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing, Boston. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. In the summer of 1919…