Christopher Mott
# Christopher Mott

Christopher Mott is an American academic who was a National Football Foundation Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete in 1978 and Pacific-10 Conference Medalist in 1979 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.

## Background

Mott attended Arizona State University where he played for the Sun Devils football team, serving as co-captain in 1977. 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
* 1995:Distinguished Lecturer Award, UCLA
* 1979: Pacific-10 Conference Medalist, Arizona State Sun Devils
* 1978:National Football Foundation Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete, Arizona State Sun Devils

## 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.
