Ph.D. Stanford University in English
and American Literature, 1988
B.A.
with distinction in all subjects Cornell University in Classics, 1982
University at Buffalo, Professor of
English, 2001-present
University at Buffalo, Associate
Professor of English, 1992-2000
University at Buffalo, Assistant Professor of English, 1988-1992
Stanford University, Research Assistant, 1986-1987
Stanford University, Teaching Fellow, 1982-1987
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 Award, 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
Elizabeth Agee Prize for Best Manuscript in American Literary Studies,
University of Alabama Press, 2000
Directory of American Scholars,
10th Edition, 2000
Educational Technology Initiative Grant, University at Buffalo, 1998
Lilly Foundation Teaching Fellow, University at Buffalo, 1991
Julian Park Publication Fund, University at Buffalo, 1990
Julian Park Publication Fund, University at Buffalo, 1989
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Stanford University, 1987-88
Clarence Urmy Award for Poetry, Stanford University, 1984
Phi Beta Kappa, Cornell University, 1981
Quill and Dagger Senior Honorary Society, Cornell University, 1981
The Attenzione Scholarship to the University of Siena,
Italy, 1981
Books
Design
and Debris: A Chaotics of
Postmodern American Fiction.
Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama
Press,
2002, xi, 272 pp. 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. Nominated for the Poetry Society of America's Melville Cane Award, 1993.
Editor, Dictionary of Literary Biography 193: American Poets Since World War II (Sixth Series). Detroit: Gale Research Press, 1998, xxiii, 451 pp. The full content of this volume is available online at Gale Literary Databases.
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.
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.
Articles Contributed to Books
“Writing amid the Ruins: 9/11 and Cosmopolis.” 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 and Debris in Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, v. 191. Ed. Tom Schoenberg. Detroit, MI: Gale Research Press, 2008. 78-90.
"Long and Serial Poetry." A 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. Gale Research Press, 2002.
"‘Not by Art Alone’: William Bronk’s Meditative Negativity." The Body of This Life: Essays on William Bronk, ed. David Clippinger. Jersey City, NJ: Talisman House, 2001. 168-74.
"John Wheelwright: Argument for a Postmodern Sonnet Sequence." Forthcoming in New Formal Poetics: Essays on Theory and History, ed. Susan Schultz and Annie Finch. University of Michigan Press, 2004.
"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.
"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 & 193.
"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
“A Man Called Cody: Race and the ‘Passing’ of a Sicilian in New Orleans.” Forthcoming in Voices in Italian Americana. 12 ms. pp.
“Gilbert Sorrentino: A Crystal Vision.” Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 51 (2010): 140–146. 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 (Spring 1997): 57-71.
"'Design and Debris': John Hawkes's Travesty, Chaos Theory, and the Swerve." Critique 37 (Winter 1996): 120-38.
"Seriality and the Contemporary Long Poem." Sagetrieb 11 (Spring & Fall 1992): 35-45.
"Against the Calendar: Paul Blackburn's Journals." Sagetrieb 7 (Fall 1988): 35-52.
"Metaphor and Metonymy in Flann O'Brien's At Swim-Two-Birds." The Review of Contemporary Fiction 5 (Spring 1985): 128-134.
Articles in Literary Magazines
"Complete Thought: The Language of Postmodern Meditation." Aerial 8 (Spring 1995): 209-14.
Articles in Electronic Journals
“Joseph
Conte and Øyvind Vågnes Discuss Don DeLillo’s New Novel, The Body
Artist.” Vinduet*. With
Øyvind Vågnes. In Norwegian.
30 April 2001. <http://www.vinduet.no/>.
42 par.
"Don DeLillo’s Home Page: Miraculum.com." Ellavon: an ezine of basic culture. Released May 6, 1998. 10 par.
"The Rose is Obsolete." Ellavon: an ezine of basic culture. Inaugural Issue. Released January 31, 1998. 8 par.
Articles in Newspapers
“A Reason to be Appalled: The Sopranos.” The Buffalo News 27 May 2001: F1, F6.
Reviews
“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]. Forthcoming in Paideuma.
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 [non fiction]. The Buffalo News 1 January 2006: G8.
“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. Forthcoming in American Book Review, 6 ms. pp.
“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 (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
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. 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.
"What is Late Modernism?" Review of Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts Between the Wars by Tyrus Miller. Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature: 48 (2000): 281-85.
"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, 4 pp.
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.
"Bossa Nova," Poetry New York 8 (Winter 1995-Spring 1996): 37.
"Rust Season," Kiosk 8 (Spring 1995): 77.
The Manhattan Review, The Amherst Review, The Vanderbilt Poetry Review, Smackwarm, Praxis, Sequoia, the SUNY at Buffalo Reporter.
Poetry Readings
International Meeting of Poets IV. Universidade
de Coimbra. Coimbra, Portugal.
May 27-30, 2001.
“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.
“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 14-15, 1999.
"John Wheelwright: Argument for a Postmodern Sonnet Sequence." In the Archive: Textual Criticism at Buffalo (and Beyond). The Poetry/Rare Books Collection. SUNY at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. April 29, 1998.
"The Superabundance of Cyberspace: Postmodern Fiction in the Information Age." Victor H. Johnson Lecture Series. Department of English, SUNY at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. April 16, 1998.
"Prose With a Sort of Higher Consciousness." Portable Talks. With Robert Creeley. Department of English, SUNY at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY. 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.
"'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. 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.
“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. 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.
"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.
SUNY 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. 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. San Diego, CA. May 28-31, 1998.
"The Superabundance of Cyberspace: Postmodern Fiction in the Information Age." Modern Language Association Convention, Special Session on Multimedia Literature. Toronto, Canada. December 27-29, 1997.
"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. SUNY 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. SUNY 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." Modern Language Association Convention, Division Session on Poetry. San Francisco, California. December 27-29, 1991.
"Gneiss, Agate, and Hornblend: Lorine Niedecker's 'Lake Superior' Series." Radical Poetries/Critical Address. SUNY 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.
Roundtable Discussion. George Oppen: A Centenary Conversation. 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.
SUNY 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.
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. University of Maine. Orono, Maine. June 17-20, 1993.
Graduate
Courses
Postmodern
Fiction and Transnational Politics
The
Politics of the Unpresentable: Acker,
DeLillo, Gaddis
Studies in the Novel: Postmodern
Fiction and Information Culture
Literary Theory: The Poetics of
Postmodernism
Poetic Texture: The Smooth and the
Striated
Postmodern Fiction: Maximalism and
Minimalism
The New York Avant-Garde, 1913-1929
Postmodern Fiction: Orderly
Disorders
The Postmodern Long Poem
Supervised Teaching
Ezra Pound and Wallace Stevens
20th C. American Poetry: Postmodern
Movements
20th C. American Poetry: The
Objectivists
Undergraduate
Courses
American
Poetry
American Renaissance
Contemporary Literature
Criticism
Epic Literature
Experimental Fiction
Interdisciplinary Modernism
Italian American Literature
Literature of Immigration
Literary Types: Poetry
Major American Writers II
Modern American Literature
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Multimedia Literature
University
National
Consulting
Editor, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2003-2010
Editorial
Board, Sagetrieb, 2000-2002
Reader, Contemporary Literature, 1998, 2004, 2006, 2008
Reader,
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 2003-10
Reader, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology,
2003
Reader, LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, 2008
Reader, Paideuma: Studies in American and British Modernist Poetry, 2007
Reader, Twentieth Century Literature, 2000, 2003, 2004, 2006
Reader, University of Alabama Press, 1996, 1997, 2006
Reader, University of Iowa Press, 1998, 2008
Reader, University of Minnesota Press, 1998, 2000
Reader, Ohio State University Press, 2007
Reader, Oxford University Press, 1999
Reader, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
Department
of English
Administrative Positions
Chair, 2002-2005
Edward H. Butler Chair, 2002-2005
Interim Chair, 2001-2002
Interim Edward H. Butler Chair, 2001-2002
Director of Graduate Studies, 1995-98
Director of Graduate Placement, 1993-94
Director of Graduate Teaching Fellows, 1992-93
American Literature Association, 1998-2010
Don DeLillo Society, 1999-2010; Treasurer, 1999-2006
Ezra Pound Society, 1996-2010
John D. Calandra Institute for Italian-American Studies, 1992-2010
Modern Language Association, 1986-2010
National Book Critics Circle, 2001-2010
Northeast Modern Language Association, 1995-97, 1999-2002, 2007-08
Society for Literature and Science, 1993-95, 1997-98, 2000-2006
Wallace Stevens Society, 1994-2010
William Carlos Williams Society, 1994-2010