# Christopher Mott > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Christopher_Mott > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Christopher_Mott.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Mott > Source revision: 1245760524 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) American football player and academic Christopher Mott Occupation Senior Continuing Lecturer, UCLA Nationality American **Christopher Mott** is an American academic who was a [National Football Foundation](/source/National_Football_Foundation) [Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete](/source/College_Football_Hall_of_Fame) in 1978 [1][2] and [Pacific-10 Conference](/source/Pacific-10_Conference) Medalist in 1979 [3] for the [Arizona State Sun Devils](/source/Arizona_State_Sun_Devils_football). He is currently a Senior Continuing Lecturer in the department of English at the [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles). ## Background Mott attended [Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University) where he played for the [Sun Devils football team](/source/Arizona_State_Sun_Devils_football), 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](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles) in 1991. ## Awards and honors - Honorary member of the [Golden Key International Honour Society](/source/Golden_Key_International_Honour_Society), UCLA[5] - 1995:*[Distinguished Lecturer Award](https://web.archive.org/web/20100709080941/http://www.senate.ucla.edu/Awards/DTAPurposeHistory.htm)*, UCLA[6] - 1979: *[Pacific-10 Conference](/source/Pacific-10_Conference) Medalist*, [Arizona State Sun Devils](/source/Arizona_State_Sun_Devils_football)[3] - 1978:*[National Football Foundation](/source/National_Football_Foundation) [Hall of Fame Scholar-Athlete](/source/College_Football_Hall_of_Fame)*, [Arizona State Sun Devils](/source/Arizona_State_Sun_Devils_football)[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](/source/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](https://web.archive.org/web/20090224122955/http://gvsu.edu/english/cummings/Mott4.htm)." *Spring: The Journal of the [E. E. Cummings](/source/E._E._Cummings) Society,* vol. 4, pp. 71–75, Fall 1995. - "[Libra and the Subject of History](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3229/is_199403/ai_n7902772/)." *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](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3229/is_199909/ai_n7902589/)." *Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction,* September, 1999. - "[Blank Fictions: Consumerism, Culture and the Contemporary American Novel](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3229/is_199909/ai_n7902588/)." *Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction,* September, 1999. - "[Don DeLillo](http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3229/is_199406/ai_n7902681/). *Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction*, June, 1994. ### New Media talks - "[Customizing an Instructional Application](https://web.archive.org/web/20100714110530/http://www.oid.ucla.edu/Webcast/Sianme/SIANME_991203.html)." *Scholarship in a New Media Environment: Issues and Trends*. UCLA OID, 1999. - "[The Workload and the Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20081120032145/http://www.oid.ucla.edu/events/sianme/Previous/Synopses/summary_980206.html). *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](http://www.dailybruin.com/index.php/article/2011/05/_athletes_are_not_without_intellect_and_ucla_students_should_avoid_stereotypes_that_paint_them_as_un)." [Daily Bruin](/source/Daily_Bruin), May 25, 2011. ## Notes 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-officialhalloffame_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-officialhalloffame_1-1) ["Christopher Mott"](https://footballfoundation.org/hof_scholars.aspx?hof=835). *[National Football Foundation](/source/National_Football_Foundation)*. NFF National Scholar-Athletes. [National Football Foundation](/source/National_Football_Foundation). Retrieved 2009-10-25. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-halloffame_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-halloffame_2-1) ["Football's Chad Christensen To Receive Post-Graduate Scholarship"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090105212642/http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/012006aaa.html). *[Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University)*. [Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University). 2006-06-20. Archived from [the original](http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/012006aaa.html) on 2009-01-05. Retrieved 2009-10-25. 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-pac10_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-pac10_3-1) ["ASU's Cochran and Pendergraph Awarded Conference Medals"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090618071320/http://thesundevils.cstv.com/genrel/061009aab.html). *[Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University)*. [Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University). 2009-06-10. Archived from [the original](http://thesundevils.cstv.com/genrel/061009aab.html) on 2009-06-18. Retrieved 2009-10-25. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-captain_4-0)** ["ASU Football Team Captains"](https://web.archive.org/web/20080724182041/http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/history/asu-m-footbl-teamcaptains.html). *[Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University)*. [Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University). Archived from [the original](http://thesundevils.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/archive/history/asu-m-footbl-teamcaptains.html) on 2008-07-24. Retrieved 2009-10-25. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-goldenkey_5-0)** ["Golden Key at UCLA"](https://web.archive.org/web/20090925195853/http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/goldenkey/honoraries.html). *[University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles)*. [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles). Archived from [the original](http://www.studentgroups.ucla.edu/goldenkey/honoraries.html) on 2009-09-25. Retrieved 2009-10-25. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-distinguished_6-0)** ["Distinguished Teaching Award Recipients"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100704180131/http://www.senate.ucla.edu/Awards/DTARecipients.htm). *[University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles)*. [University of California, Los Angeles](/source/University_of_California%2C_Los_Angeles). Archived from [the original](http://www.senate.ucla.edu/awards/DTARecipients.htm) on 2010-07-04. Retrieved 2009-10-25. ## External links - [Official site](http://www.english.ucla.edu/all-faculty/240-mott-christopher-m) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Christopher Mott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Mott) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Mott?action=history)). 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