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CURRICULUM VITAE JOSEPH M. CONTE Office Address: Department of English 306 Clemens Hall University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY 14260-4610 Email: [email protected] Vox: (716) 645-0696 Fax: (716) 645-5980 WebSite: http://josephconte.com/ EDUCATION Ph.D. Stanford University. English and American Literature. 1988 B.A. with distinction in all subjects. Cornell University. Classics. 1982 EMPLOYMENT Professor of English. University at Buffalo. 2001-present Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature. Capital Normal University. Beijing, China. Summer 2009 Associate Professor of English. University at Buffalo. 1992- 2001 Assistant Professor of English. University at Buffalo. 1988- 1992 Graduate Research Assistant. Stanford University. 1986-1987 Teaching Fellow. Stanford University. 1982-1987

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CURRICULUM VITAE

JOSEPH M. CONTE

Office Address:

Department of English306 Clemens Hall

University at BuffaloBuffalo, NY 14260-4610

Email: [email protected]: (716) 645-0696Fax: (716) 645-5980

WebSite: http://josephconte.com/

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Stanford University. English and American Literature. 1988B.A. with distinction in all subjects. Cornell University. Classics. 1982

EMPLOYMENT

Professor of English. University at Buffalo. 2001-presentVisiting Professor of Comparative Literature. Capital Normal University.

Beijing, China. Summer 2009Associate Professor of English. University at Buffalo. 1992-2001Assistant Professor of English. University at Buffalo. 1988-1992Graduate Research Assistant. Stanford University. 1986-1987Teaching Fellow. Stanford University. 1982-1987

GRANTS and AWARDS

Faculty Internationalization Fund Award for travel to Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Bergamo, Italy. July 2016

University at Buffalo Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellow. 2013-14

Canadian American Studies Grant for Screening of You Don’t Like the Truth: Four Days in Guantánamo and Lecture by Prof. Brenda Longfellow, Department of Film, York University, Toronto, Canada. Fall 2012

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UUP Professional Development Award for travel to the International Conference on Narrative. Las Vegas, NV. March 2012

UUP Professional Development Award for travel to Popular & American Culture Associations National Conference. San Antonio, TX. April 2011

UUP Professional Development Award for travel to Southwest / Texas Popular & American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 2010

UUP Professional Development Award for travel to Capital Normal University. Beijing, China. May and June 2009

UUP Professional Development Award for travel to New York–St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies. St. Petersburg State University. St. Petersburg, Russia. July 2006

SUNY Senior Fellow, Center on Russia and the United States. New York–St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies. St. Petersburg State University. St. Petersburg, Russia. July 2005

Certificate of Recognition. Career Service’s Year after Graduation Survey of Baccalaureate, Graduate and Professional Schools, Class of 2003. 2005

Certificate of Recognition to Influential Faculty by University at Buffalo Class of 1999. Career Planning and Placement, Division of Student Affairs. 2002

Publication Subvention Fund, for Design & Debris. College of Arts and Sciences. University at Buffalo. 2000

Elizabeth Agee Prize for Best Manuscript in American Literary Studies. University of Alabama Press. 2000

Directory of American Scholars, 10th Edition. 2000Educational Technology Initiative Grant. Faculty of Arts & Letters.

University at Buffalo. 1998Ruth Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow. University at Buffalo. 1991Julian Park Publication Fund, for Unending Design. Faculty of Arts &

Letters. University at Buffalo. 1990Julian Park Publication Fund, for Unending Design. Faculty of Arts &

Letters. University at Buffalo. 1989Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities. 1987-88Clarence Urmy Award for Poetry. Stanford University. 1984Phi Beta Kappa. Cornell University. 1981Quill & Dagger Senior Honorary Society. Cornell University. 1981The Attenzione Scholarship to the University of Siena, Italy. 1981

PUBLICATIONS

Books

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Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 2002, xi, 272 pp.1 Elizabeth Agee Prize for Best Manuscript in American Literary Studies, University of Alabama Press, 2000.

Unending Design: The Forms of Postmodern Poetry. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991, xii, 314 pp.2 Nominated for the Poetry Society of America’s Melville Cane Award, 1993. Republished across major e-book platforms by Cornell University Press, 2016.

Editor, Dictionary of Literary Biography 193: American Poets Since World War II (Sixth Series). Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1998, xxiii, 451 pp. 3 The full content of this volume is available online at Gale Literary Databases <http://www.galenet.com>.

Editor, Dictionary of Literary Biography 169: American Poets Since World War II (Fifth Series). Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1996, xviii, 404 pp. The full content of this volume is available online at Gale Literary Databases <http://www.galenet.com>.

Editor, Dictionary of Literary Biography 165: American Poets Since World War II (Fourth Series). Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1996, xviii, 377 pp. The full content of this volume is available online at Gale Literary Databases <http://www.galenet.com>.

Work in Progress

Transnational Politics in the Post-9/11 Novel (solicited book manuscript).

Book Chapters

1 Reviews of Design and Debris appear in: American Literary Scholarship: An Annual (2002), American Book Review, Choice, College Literature, Comparative American Studies, Contemporary Literature, Electronic Book Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Studies in American Fiction, and The Year’s Work in English Studies (2004).2 Reviews of Unending Design appear in: American Literary Scholarship: An Annual (1991), American Literature, Choice, College Literature, The Modern Language Review (London, Eng.), Poetic Briefs, Poetry Now Review (Manchester, Eng.), Sagetrieb, Sulfur, and The Year’s Work in English Studies (1991).3 Reviews of American Poets Since World War II, Sixth Series appear in Booklist (15 November 1998) and Choice; a review of American Poets Since World War II, Fourth Series and Fifth Series appears in American Literary Scholarship: An Annual (1996).

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“Virtual Reality.” Forthcoming in American Literature in Transition: 1990-2000. Ed. Stephen J. Burn. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2017.

“A Man Called Cody: Race and the ‘Passing’ of a Sicilian in New Orleans.” Essays on Italian American Literature and Culture. Ed. Dennis Barone and Peter Covino. New York: Bordighera Press and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 2012. 23-8.

“Writing amid the Ruins: 9/11 and Cosmopolis.” The Cambridge Companion to Don DeLillo. Ed. John N. Duvall. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 179-192.

“Discipline and Anarchy: Disrupted Codes in Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless.” Reprinted from Design & Debris in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, v. 191. Ed. Thomas J. Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Trudeau. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Press, 2008. 78-90.

“Long and Serial Poetry.” The Facts on File Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005. 283-86.

“The Virtual Reader: Cybernetics and Technocracy in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine.” The Holodeck in the Garden: Science and Technology in Contemporary American Fiction. Ed. Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris. Normal, IL: Dalkey Archive Press, 2004. 28-52.

“The Virtual Reader: Cybernetics and Technocracy in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine.” Science, Technology, and the Humanities in Recent American Fiction. Arbeiten zur Amerikanistik 36. Ed. Peter Freese and Charles B. Harris. Essen, Germany: Verlag Die Blaue Eule, 2004. 131-57.

“The Subway’s Iron Circuit: George Oppen’s Discrete Series.” Reprinted from Unending Design in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, v. 107. Ed. Linda Pavlovski. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research Press, 2001. 319-28.

“‘Not by Art Alone’: William Bronk’s Meditative Negativity.” The Body of This Life: Reading William Bronk. Ed. David Clippinger. Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House, 2001. 168-74.

“John Ashbery: The Pastoral and the Urbane [On ‘Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape’].” Reprinted from Unending Design in An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to the Anthology of Modern

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American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. <http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/ashbery/rutabagas.htm>.

“Louis Zukofsky: The Renaissance and Brooklyn Heights [On ‘Mantis’].” Reprinted from Unending Design in An Online Journal and Multimedia Companion to the Anthology of Modern American Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. <http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/s_z/zukofsky/mantis.htm>.

“Introduction: American Poetry Since World War II.” Dictionary of Literary Biography 165: American Poets Since World War II (Fourth Series). Ed. Joseph Conte. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1996. xi-xvii. Revised and updated for DLB 169 and DLB 193. The full content of this essay is available online at Gale Literary Databases <http://www.galenet.com>.

“James Schuyler.” Dictionary of Literary Biography 169: American Poets Since World War II (Fifth Series). Ed. Joseph Conte. Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1996. 235-43. The full content of this essay is available online at Gale Literary Databases <http://www.galenet.com>.

“Natural Histories: Serial Form in the Later Poetry of Lorine Niedecker.” Lorine Niedecker: Woman and Poet. Ed. Jenny Penberthy. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1996. 345-60.

“The Uncertain Predictor: Calvino’s Castle of Tarot Cards.” Literature and Science (Rodopi Perspectives on Modern Literature 14). Ed. Donald Bruce and Anthony Purdy. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi, 1994. 131-47.

Articles in Refereed Journals

“The Multimodal Icon: Sight, Sound and Intellection in Recent Poetries.” Passage 69 (Summer 2013): 7-20. Special issue on “Lyric at the Crossroads,” edited by Louise Mønster and Peter Stein Larsen, Aarhus University Press, Denmark. Translated into Danish.

“Postmodern Fiction and Information Culture.” Twenty-First Century Literature 57 (2012): 28-45. Seoul, South Korea. Translated into Korean.

“Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and the Age of Terror.” Modern Fiction Studies 57.3 (Fall 2011): 559-83. Special issue on “Fiction after 9/11.”

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“The Intratextual Obscurity of Louis Zukofsky’s “A”.” Journal of Language and Verbal Behaviour [Язык и Речевая Деятельность] 9 (2010): 26-32. The Linguistic Society of St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg State University, Russia.

“Gilbert Sorrentino: A Crystal Vision.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 51.2 (2010): 140-46. Special issue, “An American Requiem: Elegies for Twelve American Novelists.”

“Discipline and Anarchy: Disrupted Codes in Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless.” Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 39 (November 1999): 13-31.

“The Smooth and the Striated: Compositional Texture in the Modern Long Poem.” Modern Language Studies 27.2 (1997): 57-71.

“‘Design and Debris’: John Hawkes’s Travesty, Chaos Theory, and the Swerve.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 37 (1996): 120-38.

“Barrett Watten’s Complete Thought: The Language of Postmodern Meditation.” Aerial 8 (1995): 209-14.

“Seriality and the Contemporary Long Poem.” Sagetrieb 11.1-2 (1992): 35-45.

“Against the Calendar: Paul Blackburn’s Journals.” Sagetrieb 7.2 (1988): 35-52.

“Metaphor and Metonymy in Flann O’Brien’s At Swim-Two-Birds.” The Review of Contemporary Fiction 5.1 (1985): 128-134.

Articles Under Consideration

“Alternating Currents of History: The Transnational Politics of Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day” at Novel.

“The Politics of Narrative: J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year.”

“The Novelist’s Black Veil: Orhan Pamuk’s Snow.”

Online Publications

“In Recline: The Toxicology of Television in Curtis White’s Memories of My Father Watching TV.” Memories of My Father Watching TV by Curtis

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White. Studies in Modern and Contemporary Fiction: Web-Based Casebooks. Ed. Kiki Benon. Champaign, IL: Dalkey Archive Press. <http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/casebook>.

“Joseph Conte and Øyvind Vågnes Discuss Don DeLillo’s New Novel, The Body Artist.” Vinduet*. With Øyvind Vågnes. Translated into Norwegian. 30 April 2001. <http://www.vinduet.no/>. 42 par.

“Don DeLillo’s Home Page: Miraculum.com.” Ellavon: an ezine of basic culture. 6 May 1998. <http://www.ellavon.com/>. 10 par.

“The Rose is Obsolete.” Ellavon: an ezine of basic culture. Inaugural Issue. 31 January 1998. <http://www.ellavon.com>. 8 par.

Articles in Newspapers

“A Reason to be Appalled: The Sopranos.” The Buffalo News 27 May 2001: F1, F6.

Book Reviews

Untitled review. Thomas Pynchon & the Dark Passages of History by David Cowart [criticism]. Studies in the Novel 45.4 (Winter 2013): 709-11.

Untitled review. Appreciating Don DeLillo: The Moral Force of a Writer’s Work by Paul Giaimo [criticism]. Italian Americana 31.1 (Winter 2013): 106-07.

“Deep Web of 9/11 Conspiracies; or, the Enigma of DeepArcher.” Review of Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon [fiction]. The Buffalo News 6 October 2013: C5.

“Academic Vices on Display in Douglas Novel.” Review of The Vices by Lawrence Douglas [fiction]. The Buffalo News 14 August 2011: F10.

“Called to Account: Wallace’s Taxing Novel Examines Life.” Review of The Pale King by David Foster Wallace [fiction]. The Buffalo News 10 April 2011: F9.

“Things They Wrote With: The Material Making of Modern Fiction.” Review of Enduring Words: Literary Narrative in a Changing Media Ecology by Michael Wutz [criticism]. electronic book review 12 December 2010. Web. www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/enduring.

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“Everything that Rises Must Converge in DeLillo’s post-9/11 Novel.” Review of Point Omega by Don DeLillo [fiction]. The Buffalo News 14 February 2010: F9.

“Spooner Tells of Tragedy and Triumph.” Review of Spooner by Pete Dexter [fiction]. The Buffalo News 20 December 2009: F10.

“Religious Conspiracy Meets African-American Investigator.” Review of Big Machine by Victor LaValle [fiction]. The Buffalo News 22 November 2009: F10.

“Out Here in the Field: The Continuity of Black Mountain Poetics.” Review of Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry by Anne Day Dewey [criticism]. Paideuma: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 36 (2007-09): 239-41.

Untitled review. Beyond Grief and Nothing: A Reading of Don DeLillo by Joseph Dewey [criticism]. Modernism/Modernity 15.3 (2008): 585-87.

“Terror Thriller Follows Rules for Suspense.” Review of The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan [fiction]. The Buffalo News 24 June 2007: G5.

“9/11 Plus Six: Re-examining Motives and Survivors.” Review of Falling Man by Don DeLillo [fiction]. The Buffalo News 14 May 2007: G4.

“Translated Work is Romp Through a Mysterious Garden.” Review of The Natural Disorder of Things by Andrea Canobbio [fiction]. The Buffalo News 31 December 2006: G4.

“Alternative Current of History Powers Pynchon’s Big Book.” Review of Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon [fiction]. The Buffalo News 3 December 2006: G5.

“Speculations on the Mysterious Death of Poe.” Review of The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl [fiction]. The Buffalo News 9 July 2006: G5.

“Domestic Terrorism Goes Underground.” Review of Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta [fiction]. The Buffalo News 4 June 2006: G5.

“Image of Italian Americans is Mired in Crime, Capos, and Corleones.” Review of An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America by George De Stefano [nonfiction]. The Buffalo News 1 January 2006: G8.

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“Moody’s Diviners is Awash in Humor, Satire and Symbolism.” Review of The Diviners by Rick Moody [fiction]. The Buffalo News 22 October 2005: H6.

“Patty Hearst is Treated to an Otherworldly Place in History.” Review of Trance by Christopher Sorrentino [fiction]. The Buffalo News 21 August 2005: G7.

“‘Acts of Faith’ Brings Home the Deadly Truths about Modern Crusades.” Review of Acts of Faith by Philip Caputo [fiction]. The Buffalo News 3 July 2005: G7.

“The Afternoon (P.M.) of the Poem.” Review of The Obligation toward the Difficult Whole: Postmodernist Long Poems by Brian McHale. American Book Review 26 (July-August 2005): 10-11.

“The Details Are Kept a Secret.” Review essay on UnderWords: Perspectives on Don DeLillo’s Underworld by Joseph Dewey, Steven G. Kellman, and Irving Malin, eds. and Don DeLillo: The Physics of Language by David Cowart. Modernism/Modernity 11.2 (2004): 347-50.

“A Portrait of Genius.” Review of Isaac Newton by James Gleick [biography]. The Buffalo News 20 July 2003: F5.

“Blood Sport.” Review of Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo [fiction]. The Buffalo News 25 May 2003: E4.

“Leaving the Bronx.” Review of Italian Stories by Joseph Papaleo [fiction]. American Book Review 24 (January-February 2003): 10.

Untitled review. Latent Destinies: Cultural Paranoia and Contemporary U.S. Narrative by Patrick O’Donnell. Modern Fiction Studies 47 (2001): 1059-61.

Untitled review. Stages: Selected Poems by Mary Melfi [poetry]. Italian Americana 19 (2001): 227-228.

“Meet Me in St. Jude.” Review of The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen [fiction]. The Buffalo News 16 September 2001: F5.

“Intimate Performance.” Review of The Body Artist by Don DeLillo [fiction]. American Book Review 22 (September-October 2001): 20.

Untitled review. Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the Wars by Tyrus Miller. Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 48 (2000): 281-85.

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“Coming to Terms with Trauma.” Review of The Christmas Show by Harriet Levin and Dark Blonde by Belle Waring [poetry]. American Book Review 20 (January-February 1999): 27, 30.

“The Levant is East not South.” Review of How to Get Heat Without Fire by Marilyn Kallet and I’ll See You Thursday by Myra Shapiro [poetry]. American Book Review 19 (November-December 1997): 21, 25.

“Italian Americana.” Review of Underworld by Don DeLillo [fiction]. The Buffalo News 19 October 1997: F6.

“A Man in Blue.” Review of The Collected Poems of James Schuyler. American Book Review 16 (October-November 1994): 25.

“Pound Connection.” Review of ABC of Influence: Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition by Christopher Beach, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism by Vincent Sherry, and The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound by Michael North. Criticism 36 (Winter 1994): 151-55.

“The New Regionalism.” Review of Middle Murphy by Mark Costello and World Like a Knife by Ellen Akins [fiction]. American Book Review 14 (December 1992-January 1993): 18.

“Douve Speaks.” Review of Early Poems, 1947-1959 by Yves Bonnefoy. American Book Review 13 (October-November 1991): 16, 21.

“Three of a Kind.” Review of Metaphysics in the Midwest by Curtis White, The Faces Reappear by Sherril Jaffe, and Troubled by his Complexion by Lissa McLaughlin [fiction]. American Book Review 11 (November-December 1989): 21, 27.

Poetry Chapbook

Excursions. Buffalo, NY: The Veighsmere Press, 1994.

Poetry in Journals

“Esercizio No. 7 Bossa Nova” and “Rust Season” reprinted in Poesia do Mundo 4: Antologia Bilinguale (Palimage Editores, 2004). Portuguese translation by Adriana Bebiano. 90-93.

“Esercizio No. 7 Bossa Nova,” Poetry New York 8 (Winter 1995-Spring 1996): 37.“Rust Season,” Kiosk 8 (Spring 1995): 77.

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Also in The Manhattan Review, The Amherst Review, The Vanderbilt Poetry Review, Smackwarm, Rainy Day, Praxis, Sequoia, the University at Buffalo Reporter.

Poetry Readings

International Meeting of Poets IV. Universidade de Coimbra. Coimbra, Portugal. May 27-30, 2001.

INVITED LECTURES and SEMINARS

“The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be: 1990s Virtual Reality Enters the 21st Century.” Humanities Institute Science Studies Workshop. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. February 17, 2017.

“Migration, Immigration and Remigration.” Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere. Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Bergamo, Italy. July 6, 2016.

“An Archæology of Multimodal Poetry.” Agency/Poetics/Media. The Graduate School in Language and Culture in Europe. Linköping University. Linköping, Sweden. November 26, 2015.

“Immigration Literature and the Alien Nation.” The Buffalo Humanities Festival: Migration Nation: Moving Stories. Burchfield Penney Arts Center. Buffalo, New York. September 27, 2014.

“Transnational Politics and the Post-9/11 Novel.” The University at Buffalo Humanities Institute, Scholars @ Hallwalls Lecture Series. Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center. Buffalo, New York. December 6, 2013.

“The Multimodal Icon: Sight, Sound and Intellection in Recent Poetries.” Keynote Speaker. Contemporary Poetry between Genres, Art Forms and Media. Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University. Aalborg, Denmark. October 24, 2012.

“Transnational Politics in American Fiction after 9/11.” Humanities Division, University of Houston-Victoria. Victoria, Texas. December 9, 2011.

“Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and the Age of Terror.” Department of English, State University of New York at Fredonia. Fredonia, New York. September 29, 2011.

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“In the Age of Terror: Transnational Politics and the post-9/11 Novel.” Department of Comparative Literature, Capital Normal University. Beijing, China. June 15, 2009.

“In the Age of Terror: Transnational Politics and the post-9/11 Novel.” College of Foreign Languages, Beijing Language and Culture University. Beijing, China. June 11, 2009.

“In the Age of Terror: Transnational Politics and the post-9/11 Novel.” Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University. Shanghai, China. June 4, 2009.

“Twentieth-Century American Literature.” Foreign Language School, Capital Normal University. Beijing, China. Eight-week seminar for undergraduate and M.A. students. May 5-June 23, 2009.

“It’s Pitiable; or, There’s Retribution: Transnational Politics and the post-9/11 Novel.” New York–St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies. St. Petersburg State University. St. Petersburg, Russia. Eight lectures to Russian and American graduate and undergraduate students. July 7-25, 2008. http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Clubs/nels/jbailyn/NYI.html.

“American Fiction and Transnational Politics.” New York–St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies. St. Petersburg State University. St. Petersburg, Russia. Eight lectures to Russian and American graduate and undergraduate students. July 3-21, 2006. http://www.ic.sunysb.edu/Clubs/nels/jbailyn/NYI.html.

“The Virtual Reader: Has Narrativity become the Obedient Servant of Virtuality?” Virtuality 2005: 6th International Conference on Digital Cinema, Virtual Reality, Computer Graphics, (3 D) Animation and Visual Effects. Turin, Italy. November 3-5, 2005.

“Crossing the Print–Digital Divide: American Fiction in the Information Age.” General Lecture. New York–St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies. St. Petersburg State University. St. Petersburg, Russia. July 26, 2005.

SUNY Senior Fellow, New York–St. Petersburg Institute of Cognitive and Cultural Studies. St. Petersburg State University. St. Petersburg, Russia. “Postmodern Literature and Information Culture.” Advanced Seminar. Five lectures to Russian and American undergraduate and graduate students. July 18-29, 2005.

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“The Virtual Reader: Cybernetics and Technocracy in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine.” Americanist Colloquium. Professor Stacy Hubbard. English 679 (Fall 2003). November 12, 2003.

“The Virtual Reader: Cybernetics and Technocracy in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine.” Science, Technology, and the Humanities in Recent American Fiction. University of Paderborn. Paderborn, Germany. May 11-14, 2003.

“The Raw and the Cooked: Bohemians and Academics in the Poetry of the 1950s.” The Fifties. Professor Bruce Jackson. English 372 (Spring 2002). February 7, 2002.

“The Traditions of Poetry.” International Meeting of Poets IV. Roundtable discussion with Manuel Alegre (Portugal), Régis Bonvicino (Brazil), Bill Griffiths (UK), Roberta Hill (Oneida Nation, USA), Zhang Er (China/USA). Universidade de Coimbra. Coimbra, Portugal. May 27-30, 2001.

“William Bronk’s Meditative Negativity.” William Bronk: A Symposium. Talisman House and Stevens Institute of Technology. Hoboken, New Jersey. November 13-14, 1999.

“John Wheelwright: Argument for a Postmodern Sonnet Sequence.” In the Archive: Textual Criticism at Buffalo (and Beyond). The Poetry/Rare Books Collection. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York. April 29, 1998.

“The Superabundance of Cyberspace: Postmodern Fiction in the Information Age.” Victor H. Johnson Lecture Series. Department of English, University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York. April 16, 1998.

“Prose With a Sort of Higher Consciousness.” Portable Talks. With Robert Creeley. Department of English, University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York. February 6, 1998.

“Noise and Signal: Information Theory in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.” Seminar for the Liberal Arts College, Concordia University. Montréal, Canada. January 31, 1997.

“Postmodern Fiction in the Information Age.” Public Lecture Series, Liberal Arts College, Concordia University. Montréal, Canada. January 30, 1997.

“Seriality and Proceduralism in Postmodern Poetry.” Department of Literature, Stockholm University. Stockholm, Sweden. March 28, 1996.

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“‘Design and Debris’: John Hawkes’s Travesty, Chaos Theory, and the Swerve.” Departments of Comparative Literature and English, University of Bergen. Bergen, Norway. March 26, 1996.

“Seriality and Proceduralism in Postmodern Poetry.” Departments of Comparative Literature and English, University of Bergen. Bergen, Norway. March 26, 1996.

“Discipline and Anarchy: Disrupted Codes in Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless.” Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark. March 22, 1996.

Ph.D. Seminar, “Orderly Disorder in Postmodern Literature.” Institute for Nordic Philology, University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark. March 20-21, 1996. Four lectures on chaos theory and postmodern literature; fiction by John Hawkes and Italo Calvino; poetry by John Ashbery and John Cage; to Danish and Swedish graduate students.

“Poetic Thought: New Modes of Meditative Verse.” Department of English, Stanford University. Stanford, California. May 29, 1991.

“Diversification in Recent American Poetry.” Department of English, Erie County Community College. Amherst, New York. April 13, 1989.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“The Ritornati: Migration and Remigration in Sciascia’s ‘The Long Crossing’ and Tucci’s Big Night.” Italian American Studies Association Annual Conference. California State University, Long Beach, CA. November 3-5, 2016.

“The Ruins of the Future: Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis, David Cronenberg’s Film Adaptation, and Gerhard Richter’s October 18, 1977.” Melancholia: Imaging the End of the World. Philipps University, Marburg and Central Connecticut State University. Marburg, Germany. June 5-7, 2013.

“September 11, 1901: Terrorism and Transnational Politics in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day.” American Literature Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. May 24-27, 2012.

“Everything that Rises Must Converge: DeLillo’s Post-9/11 War Trilogy.” “Riddled with Epiphanies”: DeLillo, New York. College of Mount Saint Vincent and the DeLillo Society. Bronx, NY. April 20-21, 2012.

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“The Politics of Narrative in J. M. Coetzee’s Diary Of A Bad Year.” International Conference on Narrative. International Society for the Study of Narrative. Las Vegas, NV. March 15-17, 2012.

“A Tissue of Quotation: (Post)Modern Poetry and the Body.” Modernist Studies Association Conference. Buffalo, NY. October 6-9, 2011.

“The Transnational Politics of ‘World Anarchism’ in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day.” Popular Culture and American Culture Associations National Conference. Literature and Politics Session Chair. San Antonio, TX. April 20-23, 2011.

“A Terrible Thing, But You Have to Look at It: Don DeLillo’s Falling Man and the Age of Terror.” Popular Culture and American Culture Associations National Conference. Literature and Politics Session Chair. St. Louis, MO. March 31-April 3, 2010.

“In the Recliner: The Toxicology of Television in Curtis White’s Memories of My Father Watching TV.” Southwest Texas Popular and American Culture Association Conference. Albuquerque, NM. February 10-13, 2010.

“Incredulity and Fanaticism: Postmodernity after 9/11.” & Now 2009: A Festival of Innovative Art and Literature. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. October 14-17, 2009.

“Alternating Currents of History: Transnational Politics and the Great Powers in Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day.” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference. Buffalo, NY. April 10-13, 2008.

“Presentation and the Sublime in DeLillo’s Mao II.” American Literature Association Annual Conference. San Francisco, CA. May 27-30, 2004.

“The Politics of the Unpresentable: The Fiction of Don DeLillo.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky. February 27-28, March 1, 2003.

“Alternate Worlds: Victorian Computing and Alternative History in William Gibson and Bruce Sterling’s The Difference Engine.” Central New York Conference on Language & Literature. SUNY College at Cortland. October 27-29, 2002.

“American Oulipo: Proceduralism in the Novels of Gilbert Sorrentino and Harry Mathews.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky. February 21-23, 2002.

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“A Man Called Cody: Race and the ‘Passing’ of a Sicilian in New Orleans.” Discussion Group in Italian American Literature. Modern Language Association Convention. New Orleans, Louisiana. December 27-30, 2001.

“Postmodern Proceduralism in John Barth’s The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor.” 2001 Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York. October 11-14, 2001.

“Postmodern Proceduralism in John Barth’s The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky. February 22-24, 2001.

“Postmodern Fiction in the Age of Hypermedia.” 2000 Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science. Georgia Institute of Technology. Atlanta, Georgia. Oct 5-8, 2000.

“Zukofsky’s “A”-21 Rudens: An Audio-Palimptext.” The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry in the 1960s. University of Maine. Orono, Maine. June 28-July 2, 2000.

“Noise and Signal: Information Theory in Don DeLillo’s White Noise.” American Literature Association Annual Conference. Baltimore, Maryland. May 27-30, 1999.

“Postmodern Replicants: Kathy Acker, William Gibson, and Digital Sampling.” A Festival of Postmodern Piracy. Kent State University-Salem. Salem, Ohio. April 14-16, 1999.

“Don DeLillo’s Underworld: Postmodern Fiction in the Information Age.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky. February 25-27, 1999.

“The Excluded Middle: Complexity in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.” 1998 Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science. University of Florida. Gainesville, Florida. November 5-8, 1998.

“Smooth Striations: Compositional Texture in the Poundian Long Poem.” American Literature Association Annual Conference. San Diego, California. May 28-31, 1998.

“The Superabundance of Cyberspace: Postmodern Fiction in the Information Age.” Special Session on Multimedia Literature. Modern Language Association Convention. Toronto, Canada. December 27-30, 1997.

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“Dense and Hollow Obscurity: Louis Zukofsky’s “A” -22 and Gertrude Stein’s Stanzas in Meditation.” Out of Deep Need: A/The Louis Zukofsky Conference. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York. April 25-26, 1997.

“Polymathic Postmodern: Robert Duncan’s Open Universe.” American Poetry in the 1950s. University of Maine. Orono, Maine. June 19-23, 1996.

“The Smooth and the Striated: Compositional Texture in the Modern Long Poem.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Montréal, Canada. April 19-20, 1996.

“Polymathic Postmodern: Robert Duncan’s Open Universe.” Robert Duncan: The Opening of the Field. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York. April 18-20, 1996.

“The Jeopardy Canon and the Poetry Reader.” Past, Present, Future Tense: A Conference on Contemporary Poetry. Cornell University. Ithaca, New York. March 31-April 2, 1995.

“Discipline and Anarchy in Kathy Acker’s Empire of the Senseless.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky. February 23-25, 1995.

“The Uncertain Predictor: Calvino’s Castle of Tarot Cards.” 1994 Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science. Tulane University. New Orleans, Louisiana. November 10-13, 1994.

“Orderly Disorder in Postmodern Fiction.” 1993 Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 18-21, 1993.

“John Wheelwright: Argument for a Postmodern Sonnet Sequence.” The First Postmodernists: American Poetry of the 1930s Generation. University of Maine. Orono, Maine. June 17-20, 1993.

“‘Design and Debris’: John Hawkes’s Travesty, Chaos Theory, and the Swerve.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky. February 25-27, 1993.

“Postmodern Meditations: The Shape of Thought in William Bronk, Barrett Watten, and David Antin.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky. February 27-29, 1992.

“Seriality and the Contemporary Long Poem.” Division Session on Poetry. Modern Language Association Convention. San Francisco, California. December 27-30, 1991.

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“Gneiss, Agate, and Hornblend: Lorine Niedecker’s ‘Lake Superior’ Series.” Radical Poetries/Critical Address. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York. April 11-14, 1988.

“Wallace Stevens Illuminated by Joseph Cornell.” Avant-Garde Art and Literature: Toward a Reappraisal of the Heritage of Modernism. Hofstra University. Hempstead, Long Island. November 14-16, 1985.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Post-screening Discussion. Who is Dayani Cristal? (2013), directed by Marc Silver. Buffalo Humanities Festival. Center for Global Media. With Tanya Shilina-Conte. September 25, 2014.

Moderator. Buffalo Humanities Festival Book Group. Gary Shteyngart’s Little Failure. Betty’s Restaurant, Buffalo, NY. September 22, 2014.

Panel. The Poetics of Leslie Scalapino. “Seriality in Leslie Scalapino’s Poetry.” The Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. April 9, 2013. With Ming Qian Ma and João Paulo Guimarães.

Roundtable Discussion. George Oppen: A Centenary Conversation. The Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. April 25, 2008. With Myung Mi Kim, Steve McCaffery, and Krzysztof Ziarek.

Organizer, A Leslie Fiedler Symposium. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. October 30, 2003. A one-day symposium featuring Fiedler biographer Mark Royden Winchell (Clemson University); University at Buffalo faculty Robert Daly, Kenneth Dauber, and Mark Shechner; Diana Hume George (Pennsylvania State University, Behrend College), Geoffrey Green (San Francisco State University), and Richard Kopley (Pennsylvania State University, DuBois); and Sally Fiedler.

Chair and Organizer, “Programs, Procedures, and Codes in Literary Production.” 2001 Meeting of the Society for Literature and Science. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. October 11-14, 2001.

Chair, “Rethinking Center and Margin in American Poetry.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky. February 22-24, 2001.

Chair and Organizer, “Poetics at Buffalo 2000.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. Buffalo, New York. April 7-8, 2000.

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Opening Remarks, Ear, Eye, & Mind: A Conference on the Poetry of Ronald Johnson. University at Buffalo. Buffalo, New York. March 17-18, 2000.

Chair and Organizer, “Don DeLillo and Postmodern Media Culture.” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference. University of Louisville. Louisville, Kentucky. February 24-26, 2000.

Participant, Hypertext ’98: The Ninth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. June 20-24, 1998.

Respondent, “The Contemporary Long Poem: Feminist Intersections and Experiments.” Modern Language Association Convention. Toronto, Canada. December 27-29, 1997.

Chair, “Charles Olson” and “Frank O’Hara.” American Poetry in the 1950s. University of Maine. Orono, Maine. June 19-23, 1996.

Chair, “Charles Reznikoff” and “Louis Zukofsky I and II.” The First Postmodernists: American Poetry of the 1930s Generation. niversity of Maine. Orono, Maine. June 17-20, 1993.

TEACHING

Graduate Courses

Transnational Politics in Post-9/11 FictionVirtual Reality and Cyberpunk FictionMultimodality in the NovelTransnational Literature and FilmLiterary Theory: The Poetics of PostmodernismPostmodern Fiction: The New MaximalismPostmodern Fiction and Information CultureThe Politics of the Unpresentable: Acker, DeLillo, GaddisThe New York Avant-Garde, 1913-1929Poetic Texture: The Smooth and the StriatedPostmodern Fiction: Maximalism and MinimalismPostmodern Fiction: Orderly DisordersThe Postmodern Long PoemSupervised TeachingEzra Pound and Wallace Stevens20th C. American Poetry: Postmodern Movements20th C. American Poetry: The Objectivists

Undergraduate Courses

American Literature, 1914-45

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American Pluralism American Poetry American Renaissance Contemporary Literature Criticism Cyberpunk Literature and VirtualityDepartmental Honors: Postmodern Culture Epic Literature Experimental Fiction Film Genres: Film Adaptation of the NovelInterdisciplinary Modernism Italian American LiteratureLiterature of Migration Major American Writers IIModern PoetryMultimedia LiteratureMultimodal Literature PoetryPost-9/11 Fiction and FilmStudies in World Literature: The Global Novel Transnational Literature University Honors: Postmodern Fiction

Ph.D. Dissertation Committees

Chair

Chih-Wei Hsu, Biopolitics in Post-World War II American Fiction (current)Alphonse Kolodziejczak, Reading Ulysses in a Postmodern World (2014)Jeffrey Sirkin, “A Song Along the Keyboard”: Popular Music and Literature in

Postwar Culture (2007). Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, University of Texas at El Paso.

James L. Maynard, Architect of Excess: Robert Duncan and the American Pragmatist Sublime (2006). Assistant Curator, University at Buffalo Rare Books Collection.

Benjamin Robertson, Things, Politics, and the Future: Propositions for an American New (2006). Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia Tech.

Gregory S. Kinzer, Catalysis: Experimental Poetry and the Sciences (2006). Associate Professor of English, Austin College.

Sam-Chool Lee, United States Modernism and its Quest for a National Literature: A Case for William Carlos Williams (2006)

Michael Rozendal, On the Line: A Reconsideration of 1930s Modernist and Proletarian Radicalism (2006). Assistant Professor of English, University of San Francisco.

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Moonsoo Choi, The Field of Possibilities: A Semiotic Conception of the Structure of Avant-Garde Poetry (2005)

Gordon Hadfield, Sounding Time: Temporality, Typography and Technology in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2005). Attorney.

Jonathan Minton, “Written on Water”: The Poetics of Anglo-American Exchange (2005). Assistant Professor of English, Glenville State College.

Timothy Shaner, Working Form: The Poetics of Writing Work (2005). Adjunct, Lane Community College and Umpqua Community College, Eugene, Oregon.

Thomas Breene, Postmodern Optics (2004)Nicholas Laudadio, Singing Machines: Musical Intelligences and Human

Instruments in Science Fiction and Film (2004). Assistant Professor of English, University of North Carolina, Wilmington.

John Marvin, Nietzsche and Transmodernism: Art and Science Beyond the Modern in Joyce, Stevens, Pynchon and Kubrick (2004)

J. Chris Senden, A Psychoanalytical and Semiotic Approach to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2003)

Robert Zamsky, Keeping Time: Music, Lyric and Temporality in the Work of Gertrude Stein and Nathaniel Mackey (2002)

Jakwang Gu, Lacanian Ethics and Aesthetics in the Cases of William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and Charles Olson’s The Maximus Poems (2002)

Seunghyeok Kweon, Technologized Materiality in Modernist Poetics (2001)Thomas Fisher, Poetry’s Forfeiture: The Case of Laura Riding and George

Oppen (2000)Edward Comentale, Language of the Outlaw: A Modernist Primer of Art and

Politics (1999). Professor of English, Indiana University, Bloomington.Cynthia Kimball, “Lives Lived on Poetry’s Behalf”: Choreographers of

Modernist Poetry (1997)Elizabeth Burns, Around and About Elizabeth Bishop: Subversion and Stance

(1994)

Member

Soma Feldmar, The Poethics of Barbara Guest, Rosmarie Waldrop, and Robin Blaser (current)

Chung-Hwan Joe, Representing 9/11 in Novels, Comics and Movies: Drawing Text and Writing Image Over Sentimentalism and Spectacles (current)

Hye Jin Lee, Affect, Popular Culture and Postmodern Novels (current)Shayani Bhattacharya, Memory in Absentia: The (Im)possibility of

Representing Memory in Post-1945 Anglophone Fiction (2017) Jung Suk Hwang, American Innocence: Maintaining the Myth and

Reproducing the Other in Contemporary American Literature (2016)Nicholas Frangipane, Two Sides to the Story: Multiple Versions of Stories in

the Twentieth Century Narrative (2016)

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Rae Muhlstock, Reading the River Maeánder: Non-Sequential Narrative in the Literature of the Labyrinth (2014). Assistant Professor, University at Albany.

Banu Ozel, From Slavery to Guantánamo: Writing Lives, Seeking Rights (2012). Oxford University Press, Istanbul, Turkey.

Yunjin Lee, Modern Vision and Its Theatricality in Drieser, Wharton and Fitzgerald (2011)

Ben Lyle Bedard, The Material Sites of Modernism (2010) Christopher Leise, A Covenant in Fiction: Legacies of Puritanism in the Post-

War American Novel (2007). Associate Professor, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.

Michael Baxter-Kauf, The Limit of Failure: Perversion in Psychoanalysis and Temporality in Ethical Philosophy (2006)

Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Community in Post-Beat Fiction, 1955-2001 (2006). Associate Professor, Fredonia State College, Fredonia, NY.

Samuele Pardini, The Engines of History: The Automobile in American and Italian Literary Culture and Politics, 1908-1943 (2005). Associate Professor, Elon University.

Patrick Durgin, Indeterminacies and the Poetics of Critical Values (2004)Joel Kuszai, Facing Reality or Utopian Dreaming: Editorial Collectives as

Work-Around for the Boredom of the University (2004)Rosa Alcala, Identities in Relation: Transcribers, Translators, and Performers

in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (2004). Associate Professor of Creative Writing, University of Texas, El Paso.

Koichi Suwabe, Poetics of the Femme Fatale: William Faulkner, Gender, and Thirties America (2004)

Chiaki Sekiguchi, In Touch with the World: Marianne Moore, Objects, Fantasy, and Fashion (2003)Richard Deming, Always Environed by the Self: Emersonian Modernism and

the Ethics of Reading (2003)Temenuga Dencheva Trifonova, The Image in French Philosophy (2002).

Associate Professor, York University.Joel Bettridge, Reading Consequences: Ethics and the Reader in America’s

Postwar Avant-Garde (2002)Stephanie Hawkins, Spectral Realities: Intersections of Science and the

Occult in Modern American Literature (2002)Lawrence Blasco, The Image of the City in the Poetry of William Carlos

Williams, Kenneth Fearing, and Claude McKay (2001)Kyunghoon Jung, How to Do With the Absolute Other: Signifier, Subject, and

Other in Lacan, Levinas, Whitman, and Duncan (2001)Kenneth Sherwood, The Audible Word: Sounding the Range of Twentieth-

Century American Poetics (2000)Frederick Hertzberg, Materialities in Translation: Gunnar Björling’s Poetry in English (2000)Ilhwan Yoon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Thinking the Twilight Realms of

Consciousness (2000)

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Jennifer Spungin Kehoe, Postmodern Mentality: Nw Ways of Teaching American Literature (2000)

Philip Cavalier, Ethnography, Passing, and the Construction of Racial and Cultural Identities: Henry James, Pauline Hopkins, and Northern Travel Writing, 1850-1866 (1998)

Mark A. Thackray, Approaching Paterson: Dialogism, Personae and the Works of William Carlos Williams (1998)

William Tuttle, The “Never-Resting Mind”: The Meditative Mode in Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1996)

Jefferson Hansen, The Edge of Paganism: Objectivist Poetics and American Pragmatism (1993)

Sabrina Caine, Eros and the Visionaries: A Depth Psychological Approach to Lawrence, Blake, Yeats, and Duncan (1993)

Piotr Parlej, Adultery in the Novel: A Theory of the Mimetic Mode (1992)Bruce Holsapple, The Birth of the Imagination: William Carlos Williams, 1916-

1929 (1991)

Faculty Mentor / Ph.D. External Examiner

Elin Käck, “Swarming European Consciousness”: Europe and Tradition in the Work of William Carlos Williams. Department of Culture and Communication. Linköping University, Sweden (2015)

Aaron Mauro, Tragic America: Terror, Metaphor, and the Contemporary Novel. Department of English. Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada (2012)

Malcolm Sutton, Ontologies of Community in Postmodernist American Fiction. Department of English. University of Ottawa, Canada (2012)

Ronghua Zhu, Redressing the Void: Postmodern Ethics in Don DeLillo’s Fiction. Beijing Foreign Studies University, China (2011)

Kiki Benzon, A Poetics of Chaos: Schizoanalysis and Postmodern American Fiction. University College London, U.K. (2006)

Natalia Tonkova, Philological Institute, St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia. SUNY Visiting Scholar (2005)

Oleg Batalov, Neologism and Twentieth-Century American Fiction. Fulbright Scholar. Department of Linguistics, N.A.Dobrolyubov Linguistic University of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (2004)

Jaroslav Kušnír. Fulbright Scholar, Prešov, Slovakia (2004)Marianne Ølholm, Postmodern Danish Poetry. Institute for Nordic Philology.

University of Copenhagen, Denmark (1999)

Ph.D. Oral Examination Committees

Chair

Shayani Bhattacharya, Postmodernism (2013)Alphonse Kolodziejczak, 20th-Century American Fiction (2012)

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Rae Muhlstock, Theories of Postmodern Literature and Culture (2011)Paul Grabianowski, 20th-Century American Poetry (2007)Ben Lyle Bedard, Modern American Poetry (2005)Christopher Leise, Thomas Pynchon (2005)Lori Emerson, Procedural and Visual Poetry and Poetics (2004)Geoffrey Hlibchuk, Twentieth-Century American Literature (2004)Birger Vanwesenbeeck, Cognition and Technology in Pynchon, Powers, and

Cyberpunk Fiction (2003)Michael King, Twentieth-Century American Literature (2003)Benjamin Robertson, The Postmodern Novel (2003)Moon-Soo Choi, Semiotics, Poststructuralism, and Poetics (2002)John Marvin, The Transmodern: Encyclopedic Texts (2002)Jonathan Minton, Mid-century British and American Poetry (2002)Michael Rozendal, Postmodern American Literature (2001)Nathan Goldberg, Modernist Poetry and Poetics (2000)Nicholas Laudadio, Twentieth-Century American Fiction (2000)Sam-Chool Lee, William Carlos Williams (1999)Robert Zamsky, Twentieth-Century American Avant-Garde Poetry and Fiction (1999)Kathleen Mackin, Frederick Mortimer Clapp (1998)Sheri Weinstein, Kathy Acker and Contemporary Fiction (1998)Jakwang Gu, Twentieth-Century American Literature (1997)Seung-Hyeok Kweon, British and American Modernism (1996)Joel Kuszai, Modern American Poetry (1996)Philip Acree Cavalier, Marianne Moore and Her Context (1995)Cynthia Kimball, Twentieth-Century Women Poets (1993)Jefferson Hansen, American Poetry and Pragmatic Philosophers (1991)Elizabeth Burns, Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1990)

Member

Michael Pawluk, Postmodern Carnivalesque (current)Kinga Winnicki (current)Douglas Basford, The Neuronovel and Anthropocene Fiction (2017)Amy Greer, Limits and Ethics of Representation (2016)Nicholas Frangipane, Postmodern Novel, Postmodern Theory and Criticism (2014)Eleanor Gold, Posthumanism and Biopolitics: The Machine/Animal Other (2014)Chih-Wei Hsu, The Works of Don DeLillo and Related Criticism (2013)Chung-Hwan Joe, 9/11 Novels and Postmodernism (2013)Ciahnan Darrell, 20th & 21st Century Novel (2012)Banu Ozel, Postmodern Fiction and Politics (2010)Kevin Arnold, Post-War American Literature (2009)Jeffrey Sirkin, 20th-Century American Innovative Writing (2005)

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Michael Baxter-Kauf, 20th-Century American Fiction (2005)Alexei Di Orio, Postmodern Novel (2004)James Maynard, 20th-Century American Literature: Limits of the Sublime (2004)Roland Vegso, American Fiction after World War II (2004)Patrick Durgin, Radical Modernism and Postmodernism (2003)Gordon Hadfield, Postmodern American Literature (2003)Rosa Alcala, The Making of American Poetry (2002)Thomas Breene, DeLillo, Gaddis, and Pynchon (2002)Daniel Leshem, Twentieth-Century Jewish American Literature (2002)Timothy Shaner, William Carlos Williams and Wallace Stevens (2001)Joel Bettridge, American Literature after World War II (2000)Chiaki Sekiguchi, Modern American Poetry (2000)Koichi Suwabe, Formalism and Narratology (2000)Temenuga Trifonova, American Literature, 1960s-1990s (2000)Mark Peters, Twentieth-Century American Literature (1999)Hidehito Shirai, Modern American Poetry (1999) J. Chris Senden, William Carlos Williams (1998)Il-Hwan Yoon, W. B. Yeats (1998)Kyunghoon Jung, Twentieth-Century American Literature (1998)Eleni Stecopoulos, Modernism and Modernity in American Literature (1998)Bess A. Rose, American Literature 1886-1992: Challenging America (1997)Thomas Fisher, Objectivist Poetry (1996)Frederick Hertzberg, American Modernists (1996)Carla Billitteri, American Poetry 1850-1950 (1995)William Tuttle, The Modern Long Poem (1993)Jeffrey Kennell, Wallace Stevens (1992)William Markarian, Modern American Poetry (1992)Catherine McAllister, T. S. Eliot (1991)Mark Wallace, American Fiction and Poetry 1945-75 (1990)

M.A. Thesis and Project Committees

Chair

Patrick McHugh, “Failure to Abide: Morality in the Fiction of Donald Barthelme” (2017)

Jason Rubenfire, “‘What Some Have Thought’: Criticism and Reflexivity in House of Leaves ” (2017)

Mark Rosborough, “Seeking Hopelessly to Fill the Void: Postmodern Subjectivity in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow and The Crying of Lot 49” (2012)

Timothy Ryan, “Transmutations to ‘Tics’: Explorations in Symbolic and Stylistic Narrative Shifts in William Gaddis’s The Recognitions and J R (2012)

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Michael Mahoney, “‘Who hadn’t the envy of animals?’: Marking the Beast in William H. Gass’ Omensetter’s Luck” (2011)

Lindsay Bartkowski, “‘Good, if startling stuff’: The Improvisational as Psychological in William Carlos Williams” (2011)

Sean Petro, “Dedoxifying Gender Identity through Language and Sexuality: Kathy Acker’s Abjection of Western Phallocentric Traditions and the Feminist Utopian Sublime” (2008)

Aaron Lelito, “Postmodern Fiction and Consumer Culture” (2006)Gary Hink, “Reading Rhizomatically: Discordant Moments in White Noise,

City of Glass, and The Crying of Lot 49 (2005)Susan Porter, The C Street Stories (2004)Lauren Spiro, “Community Through Isolation: David Ignatow’s Poetics of

Compassion” (2004)Robin Runia, “Postmodern Criticism Perform: Desire and Contingency in the

Interpretation of Gravity’s Rainbow” (2003)Kristen Sabol, “The Emergence of Digital Poetry” (2003)Sun-Young Park, “A Way Out from the Postmodern Human Condition” (1998)Nava Fader, “Adrienne Rich” (1994)Marni Gauthier, “Historiographical Fiction: DeLillo and Pynchon” (1994).

Associate Professor, SUC Cortland.John Storm, “Ezra Pound, Confucius and the Transcendentalists: A Study in

Tradition” (1994)Patricia Carey, “Entropy in the Postmodern Fiction of Paul Auster” (1993)

Member

Lisa Vandendolder, Don DeLillo and Postmodernism (2005)Michael Baxter-Kauf, 20th-Century American Fiction (2005)Mathew Klane, “Note on the Life of M. Duchamp” (2003)Courtney Morris, “Slipping into the Gorgeous Unknown: Arriving at Ways of

Speaking in John Ashbery’s ‘The System’” (2001)David Parisi, “Non-Representational Imagery in the Two Fellini Films La Dolce

Vita and 8½ and the Cross-Fertilization in the Arts that Fostered It” (2000)

Richard Roundy, “Narrative Gravity” (1995)Kathy Wing, “Literary Criticism and Poetry” (1992)William Markarian, “Donne, Keats, and Williams” (1989)

M.A. Oral Examination Committees

Chair

Jason Silvis, The Objectivists, Language Poets, and Aesthetic Theory (2003)Tyler Clever, Gertrude Stein (1997)Alisa Messer, The Little Magazine and the Metropolitan Bohemianism of the

American Avant-Garde in the Teens (1997)

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Patrick Callan, Denise Levertov (1996)

M.A. External Examiner

William Daniel Chapman, “The Rubble of History: Counternarrative and the Ethics of Fiction in Don DeLillo. School of Culture and Communication. University of Melbourne. Melbourne, Australia (2017)

University and Senior English Honors Theses

Rachael Saeva. “The Generalization of Us: A Poetic Interpretation of the Difficulty of Diagnosing and Categorizing Generalized Anxiety Disorder” (2016)

Jessica Wagner. “The Path to Healing: Novels of September 11 Curing the Media’s Terror” (2013)

Edward Benoit, “Kinds of Writ(ing): Filmic Fundamentals in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest”(2012)

Alyssa Skarbek, “David Foster Wallace and Image-Fiction’s Duality” (2012)Alexander Douglas, “Zine Culture in the 1970s” (2007)Celia Rose Seaton, “Bop Prosody: Jazz in the Work of Jack Kerouac” (2002)

Senior Thesis External Examiner

Michael Gaffney. “The Peripheralist: Reading David Foster Wallace with Don DeLillo.” Department of English & American Literatures. Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT (2013)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Literature Association, 1998-2017Don DeLillo Society, 1999-2017; Treasurer, 1999-2006Ezra Pound Society, 1996-2017Italian American Studies Association, 2016-17John D. Calandra Institute for Italian-American Studies, 1992-2017Modern Language Association, 1986-2017Modernist Studies Association, 2011-17National Book Critics Circle, 2001-2017Northeast Modern Language Association, 1995-97, 1999-2002, 2007-

08, 2014-15Popular Culture & Amercian Culture Associations, 2009-12Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, 1993-95, 1997-98, 2000-

08Wallace Stevens Society, 1994-2017William Carlos Williams Society, 1994-2017

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SERVICE

National

Editing and Reviewing

Advisory Board, Papers on Language and Literature, 2014-16Consulting Editor, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2003-2017Editorial Board, Sagetrieb, 2000-2002

Reader, University of Alabama Press, 1996, 1997, 2006Reader, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology, 2003Reader, Contemporary Literature, 1998, 2004 (2), 2006, 2007, 2008 (2), 2011, 2012Reader, Continuum Books, 2012, 2013Reader, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2004 (3); 2005 (6);

2006 (2); 2007 (5); 2008 (7); 2009 (5); 2010 (4); 2011 (4); 2012 (2); 2013 (1); 2014 (4); 2015 (3); 2016 (4 ); 2017 (2)

Reader, Edinburgh University Press, Scotland, 2016 (2)Reader, University of Iowa Press, 1998, 2008Reader, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 2008Reader, University of Minnesota Press, 1998, 2000Reader, The Ohio State University Press, 2007, 2011Reader, Oxford University Press, 1999, 2015Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 2017Reader, Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry, 2007Reader, Papers on Language and Literature, 2014Reader, Studies in the Novel, 2015Reader, Twentieth Century Literature, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2005 (2); 2006

LANGUAGES

Italian: Intermediate spokenLatin: Advanced readingGreek: Intermediate readingRussian: Beginning spoken

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