title: Christopher Mott
text: # 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.
  