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Book

2014. School for Cool: The Academic Jazz Program and the Paradox of Institutionalized Creativity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 

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Journal Articles

2014. "Semiotic Dimensions of Creativity." Annual Review of Anthropology 43:397-412. 

2014. "Modernity, Cultural Anesthesia, and Sensory Agency: Technologies of the Listening Self in a U.S. Collegiate Jazz Music Program." Ethnos. In Press.
 

2013. "Toward an Anthropology of Computer-Mediated, Algorithmic Forms of Sociality." Current Anthropology 54(6):716-739 [with commentaries]. 


2013. "From Media Technologies that Reproduce Seconds to Media Technologies that Reproduce Thirds: A Peircean Perspective on Stylistic Fidelity and Style-Reproducing Computerized Algorithms. Signs and Society 2(1):185-211.   www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/671751

2013. "Sociable Robots, Jazz Music, and Divination: Contingency as a Cultural Resource for Negotiating Problems of Intentionality." American Ethnologist 40(4):605-618.  onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/amet.2013.40.issue-4/issuetoc


2013. "Streamlining the Muse: Creative Agency and the Reconfiguration of Charismatic Education as Professional Training in Israeli Poetry-Writing Workshops." Ethos 41(2):127-149. 

2012. "Rituals of Creativity: Tradition, Modernity, and the ‘Acoustic Unconscious’ in a U.S. Collegiate Jazz Music Program." American Anthropologist 114(1):32-44.

2011. "Sincerity versus Self-Expression: Modern Creative Agency and the Materiality of Semiotic Forms." Cultural Anthropology 26(3):462-484.  

2010. "Listening to Modernity: Creativity and Cultural Reproduction in American Postsecondary Jazz Education." Anthropology News 51(9):7.  

2010. "Swinging within the Iron Cage: Modernity, Creativity, and Embodied Practice in American Postsecondary Jazz Education." American Ethnologist 37(3):563-582.

2008. Wilf, E. and Illouz, E. "Dynamic Branding: The Case of Oprah Winfrey." Women and Performance—A Journal of Feminist Theory 18(1):71-84. 


2004. Illouz, E. and E. Wilf. "Hearts or Wombs? A Cultural Critique of Radical Feminist Critiques of  Love." Theory and Criticism 25(1):205-234 (in Hebrew).

2009.  Translated into English and reprinted in Hopkins, D., J. Kleres, H. Flam, and H. Kuzmics (Eds.) Theorizing Emotions: Sociological Explorations and Applications. Frankfurt and New York: Campus Verlag (distributed by University of Chicago Press). 

Book Chapters

2015. "The 'Cool' Organization Man: Incorporating Uncertainty from Jazz Music into the Business World." In Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases, eds. P. Rabinow and L. Samimian-Darash. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. In Press.
 

Book Reviews

2013. "Literature and Agency in English Fiction Reading: A Study of the Henry Williamson Society, by Reed, Adam." Social Anthropology 21(2):270-272.
 

Edited Volumes

2008. Illouz, E. and E. Wilf (Eds.). "Oprah Winfrey and Civil Society"—A Special Issue of Women and Performance—A Journal of Feminist Theory 18(1).