Jonathan Flatley

Jonathan Flatley is Editor of Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, and Associate Professor in the English Department at Wayne State University. His book Affective Mapping: Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism, was published by Harvard University Press in 2008. He is currently working on two other book projects, one on Andy Warhol, likeness and affect and the other on post-socialist collectivity.  Recent publications include: “Semblable,” in Mary Ellen Carroll: MEC; “The Agency of Letters” (On Sam Durant) in Afterall; “Allegories of Boredom,” in Ann Goldstein ed. A Minimal Future: Art as Object 1958-1968; “Art Machine,” in Nicholas Baume ed. Sol Lewitt, Incomplete Open Cubes; “Moscow and Melancholia,” in Social Text. He has spent time in Moscow as a researcher, teacher and lecturer at many points over the last 20 years, including a year in 2001 on a Fulbright Grant, when he organized a film festival and an international conference on Andy Warhol. Eve Sedgwick was his dissertation advisor at Duke.