James Chandler is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of English, Cinema and Media Studies, and the College at the University of Chicago, and a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Royal Irish Academy. He writes formally sensitive criticism addressing literature and cinema in their political contexts.
James Chandler
Articles
A Trumped-Up Spectacle
James Chandler considers what Roland Barthes’s famous essay about wrestling can tell us about reality and shared illusion in Donald Trump’s Washington.
A Total Assault on the University
James Chandler argues that claims of combating antisemitism are a bogus rationale for the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on universities, from 2017 to the present.
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