HONORS
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
American Literatures & Cultures (1898-present); Modern & Contemporary Poetries & Poetics; Multiethnic & Transnational American Studies; Film Studies; Media Studies; Visual Studies;
Environmental Literature; Literary Theory; Cultural Studies; Textual Criticism; Pedagogy
PUBLICATIONS
Articles, Book Chapters, and Review Essays
"Putting Pablo Neruda's Alturas de Macchu Picchu In Its Places," invited chapter submission for
Geography and the Humanities: 21st Century Convergences, ed. Denis Cosgrove et al.
(New York: Routledge, 2009)
"Should the Meskwaki Speak? or, Ray A. Young Bear's Environmental Ethics," forthcoming in
Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, special issue on Race,
Environment, and Representation, ed. Mark Feldman and Hsuan Hsu (2009)
"Renunciations of Rhyme in Byron's Don Juan," forthcoming in SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 49.4 (Autumn 2009)
"How the University Unmakes" (review essay on academic labor addressing works by Marc
Bousquet, Christopher Newfield, et al.), forthcoming in the minnesota review ns 71 (Fall 2008)
"Eyes on the University" (review essay on the university as an institution addressing works by
Derek Bok, Jacques Derrida, et al.) the minnesota review ns 67 (Fall 2006): 143-52
Reference Entries and Shorter Reviews
Entries on "Cadence"; "Dimeter"; "Onomatopoeia"; "Syllable," forthcoming in The Princeton Encyclopedia of
Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Roland Greene and Stephen Cushman. 4th ed. (Princeton:
Princeton UP, 2009)
Entries on "Peter Blue Cloud/Aroniawenrate"; "nila northSun"; "James Wright," in Twentieth-Century American Nature Writers: Poetry. Dictionary of Literary Biography.
Ed. Roger Thompson and J. Scott Bryson (Detroit: Gale/Thompson, 2008): ): 31-5; 260-4; 346-52.
Entry on "David Berman," forthcoming in Encyclopedia Virginia (Charlottesville, Virginia Foundation
for the Humanities, 2008-)
Entries on "Bill Berkson"; "Tom Clark"; "Four Quartets," in The Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman.
(New York: Facts on File, 2005): 37-8; 92-3; 170-1.
"Ecosophy from T to X" (on Arne Naess); "Leaving the Rothko Chapel" (on Mark Rothko); "The Thinking Man's Guide to The Pervert's Guide to Cinema" (on Slavoj Zizek), n+1
Rev. of Rising Up and Rising Down, by William T. Vollmann, Meridian 13 (2004): 154-7
Rev. of The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, Ed. Ilan Stavans, Meridian 12 (2003): 127-8
Rev. of Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952-1954 and A Possible World, by Kenneth Koch, Meridian 11 (2003): 130-2
Rev. of Political Fictions, by Joan Didion, The Hartford Courant (2001 September 23): G3.
Rev. of Brink Road, by A.R. Ammons, The Harvard Advocate 132.2 (1997): 3-4.
Poetry Collections
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
"Should the Meskwaki Speak? or, Ray A. Young Bear's Environmental Ethics." Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 2008 June 16-22
"The Moderations of William Carlos Williams's Paterson."
Panel on "Composing Place in a National Context,"
Geographies of Visual and Literary Culture: Ninth Annual Modernist Studies Association Conference.
U. of Southern California and California State U. Long Beach, Long Beach, California, 2007 November 1-4
"Putting Pablo Neruda's Alturas de Macchu Picchu In Its Places."
Geography and the Humanities Symposium,
Association of American Geographers, American Council of Learned Societies,
and the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2007 June 22-4
"Below: Myung Mi Kim, A Typical Korean American Poet of Place," invited talk for Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2007 June 20-4
"Borders Remade as Arteries: The Place of the River in Chicano and Québécois Poetry,"
International Conference on Rivers and Civilization: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Major River Systems.
University of Wisconsin La Crosse. La Crosse, Wisconsin. 2006 June 25-28
"Networks of Affiliation and Dematerialization in Recent Korean American Poetry,"
Fifth Annual American Cultures Conference,
The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. 2006 March 23-25
"If It's Real Broke, Why Fix It: Bruce Andrews and Experimental Poetry." Seminar on "Experimental Poetics: 1580 to the Present,"
Eleventh Meeting of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2005 November 04-06
"Robinson Jeffers As Poet of Dislocation,"
Being in the World, Living with the Land:
The Sixth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment,
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, 2005 June 21-26.
"What's New Is Old Again: Embodying Rhetoric in the Digital Age,"
Computers and Writing 2005: New Writing and Computer Technologies,
Stanford University, Stanford, California, 2005 June 16-19
"'For The Most Part From The Chinese': Versions of Ezra Pound's Cathay,"
Found In Translation. Graduate English Students' Association Annual Conference,
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2004 March 26-27
"Lucinda Pendleton Morgan Harris Smith and the Masonic-Mormon Nexus,"
Researching New York: Perspectives on Empire State History,
State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, 2003 November 20-21.
"Shallow Water in the Poetry of Robert Frost and A.R. Ammons,"
Fourteenth Annual Conference of the American Literature Association,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2003 May 22-25
TEACHING
2008 |
Lecturer, Department of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
ENMC 330: Contemporary American Poetry.
Self-designed English Department survey for majors covering stylistic and thematic trends from Olson and Bishop to the present moment. 2008 Spring.
ENLT 224: From Stage to Screen. Self-designed English Department seminar: drama and film survey with attention to stage-screen adaptations, material culture, media studies, and performance theory incl. plays by
Shakespeare,
Jonson,
Ibsen,
Wilde,
Shaw,
Brecht,
Stoppard,
Mamet &c. and films by
Chaplin,
Ford,
Hitchcock,
Kurosawa,
Lynch,
Truffaut,
Vidor,
Welles, &c.
2008 Spring.
2003-7 |
Graduate Instructor, Department of English, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
ENLT 255M: The U.S.A. Through Other Eyes. Self-designed English Department seminar for prospective majors: literature and culture survey with emphases on autobiography, cultural criticism, performance art and travel literature incl.
Equiano,
Apess,
Tocqueville,
Martineau,
Dickens,
Martí,
Lorca,
James,
Beuys,
Naipaul,
Baudrillard,
Gómez-Peña,
Trask,
et al. 2007 Spring.
ENLT 255: Special Collections. Self-designed English Department seminar for non-majors: multi-genre American literature survey including
Irving,
Whitman,
Crane,
Frost,
Dos Passos,
Faulkner,
T. Williams,
et al.; organized via holdings of the Small Special Collections Library, attention to holograph manuscripts and rare editions in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library. 2005 Fall.
ENWR 105 / 210: Being Convincing. Self-designed Writing Program seminar for first-years: attention to five canons of classical rhetoric with emphasis on invention and delivery; focus on multimedia materials; instruction in composition relating to the academic essay, digital semiotics and public speaking. 2005 Fall ; 2005 Spring.
ENGL 383: History of Literature in English III. . English Department survey for majors: teaching assistant for Professors Paul Cantor and Victor Luftig; section leader for weekly discussions; third in a series covering history of English Literature; focus on Anglophone 20th c., incl.
Joyce,
Woolf,
Eliot,
Yeats,
O'Neill,
Coetzee,
Rich,
Walcott,
et al. 2003 Fall.
2004-7 |
Graduate Instructor, Media Studies Program, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
MDST 110: Introduction to Digital Media Studies. Introductory Media Studies survey: teaching assistant for Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan ('07), for Professor Johanna Drucker ('06) and for Professor David Golumbia ('04); course lectures on "digital selves," the user-generated internet, and ecology and digital media; weekly discussions and web design labs; attention to cultural, economic and social significances of IT, instruction in HTML and CSS. 2007 Fall; 2006 Fall; 2004 Fall.
MDST 322: Collage and New Media. Self-designed Media Studies seminar for third and fourth-year majors: attention to IT and experimentation in filmic, literary, musical, performing and visual arts; focus on aesthetic and political implications of collage techniques as practiced in digital environments; syllabus via collective web authorship; creative emphasis for final projects. 2004 Spring .
SECONDARY TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2002 |
History Instructor, York School, Monterey, California
1999 |
Humanities Dean, The American School of Tangier, Tangier, Morocco
1998 |
Stowe/Harvard Fellow, Stowe School, Buckingham, England
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, The Bedford Anthology of Eighteenth-Century Literatures in English, ed. J.
Paul Hunter and Cynthia Wall (New York: Bedford, 2009)
Editorial Assistant, Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America's Founding Document, ed. Peter S. Onuf & Christian Y. Dupont (Charlottesville: U. of Virginia Library, 2007)
Founding Editor and Non-Proprietor, Mirador Press, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2005-
Mirador Press is a startup not-for-profit copyleft digital press devoted to high quality
editions: list to include cultural thought, poetry, and the visual arts
Reviewer, Focal Press (Media Technology Imprint), Elsevier Publishing, Amsterdam, 2004-5
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2007 |
Departmental Representative, Virginia Council of Graduate Schools Research Forum, 2007
2006-7 |
Pedagogy Mentor, Professional and Academic Writing Program, University of Virginia.
2005 |
Student Committee on Program Reform, English Department, University of Virginia.
2005 |
Symposium Organizer, "Merwin the Maker." University of Virginia.
2004 |
Chair, Range Selection Committee, Range Council, University of Virginia.
2004 |
American Area Representative, Graduate English Students Association, University of Virginia.
2003 |
Symposium Organizer, "American Voices, or, The War." University of Virginia.
2002 |
Symposium Organizer, "Ashbery at 75." University of Virginia.
2002- |
Undergraduate Admissions Interviewer, Schools Committee, Harvard College.
LANGUAGES
Spanish: (semi-fluent); French, Italian, Portuguese: (proficient); (X)HTML + CSS
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
REFERENCES
Available upon request.
