- Bernard Bachrach
- Andrea M. Berlin
- Bruno Chaouat
- Michael Cherlin
- Gary B. Cohen
- Maria Damon
- Michelle Hamilton
- Benjamin M. Jacobs
- Alex Jassen
- Amy Kaminsky
- Ruth Mazo Karras
- Judith Katz
- Ronald R. Krebs
- Bernard M. Levinson
- Michael Lower
- Alex Lubet
- Leslie Morris
- Rick McCormick
- Karen Painter
- Riv-Ellen Prell
- Calvin Roetzel
- Andrew Scheil
- Renana Schneller
- Philip Sellew
- Eric D. Weitz
Associate Professor of English
Research Interests
- Poetry and Poetics
- Post-1945 US poetry
- Diaspora Studies
- Cultural studies: ethnicity, ethnography, subcultural/mass/popular culture
Selected Publications
“Two Modernist Precursors in Cultural Studies and Poetics: (How) Can They Help Us Now?" /Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry/ 35:3 (Winter 2006-appeared Spring 2009), pp. 13-24.
"Text, Textile, Exile: Meditations on Poetics, Network and Metaphor," in the /Electronic Book Review/ (http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/lettrist/
“Alan Sondheim’s Internet Diaspora,” Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement , Carrie Noland and Barrett Watten eds., forthcoming. (Submitted to Duke University Press.)
The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry . Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1993.
"Electronic Poetry Assay: Diaspora, Silliness and ?Gender?" Cybertext Yearbook 2002-2003, special section on "ergodic poetry," Loss Pequeño Glazier and John Cayley eds. Pp. 141-162.
"Writing, Social Science and Ethnicity in Gertrude Stein and Certain Others," Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital, Jani Scandura and Michael Thurston eds. New York: New York UP, 2001. Pp. 133-150.
"Jazz-Jews, Jive and Gender: Ethnic Anxiety and the Politics of Jazz Argot," Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies, Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin eds. Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 1996. Pp. 150-175.
"Word-landslayt: Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce," People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity, Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky eds., Madison: Wisconsin UP, 1996. Pp. 375-389.
With Thom Swiss. “New Media Literature.” Creative Writing: Theory Beyond Practice. Ed. Nigel Krauth and Tess Brady. Brisbane, AU: Post Pressed, 2006. 65–77. I wrote the latter portion, slightly more than 50%. Invited.
“Queer Cities.” A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Stephen Fredman. Cambridge, UK: Blackwell, 2005. 95–112. Invited.
Courses
- Diaspora Poetics
- Jewish American Word-Art: Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce