Professor 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.

Research Specialisms: 19th and 20 Century French Literature and Marxist Literary Theory

Recent Publications

F. Jameson. "Lolita after Fifty Years"." Playboy (Dec, 2005).

F. Jameson. ""Rousseau and Contradiction"." South Atlantic Quarterly  (Summer, 2005).

F. Jameson. "Symptoms of Theory or Symptoms for Theory?." Critical Inquiry 30:2 (Winter 2004): 403-408.

F. Jameson. "Storia ed Elegia in Sokurov." Alessandr Sokurov: Eclissi di Cinema Ed. Stefano Francia di Celle, Enrico Ghezzi, Alexei Jankowski. 2004, 127-133. (21st Torino Film Festival, 2003) F. Jameson. "Dekalog as Decameron." 

Fredric Jameson: A Critical Reader Ed. Sean Homer and Douglas Kellner. Palgrave MacMillan, 2004, 210-222.