Christopher Mott

Christopher Mott is an American academic who was a National Football Foundation Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete in 1978 [1][2] and Pacific-10 Conference Medalist in 1979 [3] for the Arizona State Sun Devils. He is currently a Senior Continuing Lecturer in the department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Christopher Mott
Occupation	Senior Continuing Lecturer, UCLA
Nationality	United States

Background

Mott attended Arizona State University where he played for the Sun Devils football team, serving as co-captain in 1977.[4] He received his B.A. in English Education from ASU in 1979 and his Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991.

Awards and honors

• Honorary member of the Golden Key International Honour Society, UCLA[5]
• 1995:Distinguished Lecturer Award, UCLA[6]
• 1979: Pacific-10 Conference Medalist, Arizona State Sun Devils[3]
• 1978:National Football Foundation Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete, Arizona State Sun Devils[1][2]

Selected publications and talks

• "Electronic Literature Pedagogy: A Questionable Approach." In Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary: Supplemental Online Essays, N. Katherine Hayles, 2008.
• "The Art of Self-Promotion: Or, Which Self to Sell? The Proliferation and Disintegration of the Harlem Renaissance." In Dettmar, Kevin J. H. (ed. and introd.); Watt, Stephen (ed. and introd.). Marketing Modernisms: Self-Promotion, Canonization, Rereading. Ann Arbor, MI: U of Michigan, 1996: 253-74.
• "The Cummings Line on Race." Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, vol. 4, pp. 71–75, Fall 1995.
• "Libra and the Subject of History." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 131–45, Spring 1994

Book reviews

• "Hints and Guesses: William Gaddis's Fiction of Longing." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, September, 1999.
• "Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture and the Contemporary American Novel." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, September, 1999.
• "Don DeLillo. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, June, 1994.

New Media talks

• "Customizing an Instructional Application." Scholarship in a New Media Environment: Issues and Trends. UCLA OID, 1999.
• "The Workload and the Web. Scholarship in a New Media Environment: Issues and Trends. UCLA OID, 1998.

Further reading

• Eshoff, Ryan. "Athletes are not without intellect, and UCLA students should avoid stereotypes that paint them as uninterested in or unfit for academics." Daily Bruin, May 25, 2011.

Notes

1. "Christopher Mott". National Football Foundation. NFF National Scholar-Athletes. National Football Foundation. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
2. "Football's Chad Christensen To Receive Post-Graduate Scholarship". Arizona State University. Arizona State University. 2006-06-20. Archived from the original on 2009-01-05. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
3. "ASU's Cochran and Pendergraph Awarded Conference Medals". Arizona State University. Arizona State University. 2009-06-10. Archived from the original on 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
4. "ASU Football Team Captains". Arizona State University. Arizona State University. Archived from the original on 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
5. "Golden Key at UCLA". University of California, Los Angeles. University of California, Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2009-09-25. Retrieved 2009-10-25.
6. "Distinguished Teaching Award Recipients". University of California, Los Angeles. University of California, Los Angeles. Archived from the original on 2010-07-04. Retrieved 2009-10-25.

External links

• Official site