Kurt Cline 1

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Associate Professor of English and World Comparative Literature Department of English National Taipei University of Technology 1, Section 3, Chung-Hsiao East Road Taipei 106 Taiwan, R.O.C. Office: Room 406, General Education Building Office Telephone: 886-2-2771-2171 Ext. # 3943 Fax: 886-2-2776-5084 Home Telephone: 886-2-2660-9052 E-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Webpage: http://www.cc.ntut.edu.tw/~kcline

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

PH.D. in English: Binghamton University (2004) M.F.A. in Writing and Poetics: Naropa University (1995) M.A. in English with an Emphasis in Creative Writing: San Francisco State University (1987) B.A. in English with an Emphasis in Creative Writing: San Francisco State University (1984) cum laude California Community College Teaching Certificate: Language Arts and Literature (Lifetime) Lecturer: Fu Jen Catholic University; State University of New York (SUNY) Binghamton; SUNY Cortland; Hobart and William Smith Colleges; Ithaca College; Tompkins-Cortland Community College; Metropolitan State College of Denver; College of San Mateo.

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

American and British literature; poetry; experimental fiction; experimental and silent cinema; theater; cultural studies; creative writing; mythology and religion.

DISSERTATION

Legerdemain of God: Shamanic Praxis, Gnostic Speculation and the Poetics of Liminality

This work traces continuities and discontinuities between the shaman's song as it appears in its original context of the shamanic seance and mystical, visionary, avant-garde and experimental poetries within the Western tradition. Legerdemain of God places alongside close readings of poetic, philosophical, mythic and ethnographic texts, phenomenological descriptions of films, paintings, rituals and performances to show the shaman's perennial theme of the Otherworldly Journey ever reconfigured according to the artist's relationship to a specific culture, and that culture's relationship to the shamanic paradigm. [ISBN#0496799073]

Committee: Luiza Moreira, Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit, Elizabeth Tucker, Gayle Whittier [Director]

HONORS AND AWARDS

Newhouse Prize for Best Poetry Manuscript, Binghamton University: 2000. [Judge: Ruth Stone] Celia B. Wagner Award for Best Poem of the Year, Poetry Society of America: 1995. [Judge: Charles Bernstein] Browning Society Dramatic Monologue Award: 1986. Kurt Cline 2

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Board of Directors: Society for Phenomenology and the Media. 2009-present.

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Articles in Peer Evaluated Journals “Other Accomodatations: Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and the Hotel Space as Dimension of Liminality.” Hyperborean Wind: Reflections of Design and the City. Jyväskylä, Finland: Jyväskylä UP, 2011. [ISBN#9789513943394] “The Shaman’s Song and Divination in the Epic Tradition.” Anthropology of Consciousness. American Anthropological Association. Vol. 21, Issue 2, 2010: pp. 163-187. [ISSN#1053-4202] “Magic and Legerdemain: The Wonder Worker Behind the Charlatan’s Mask.” Deception. Paul Majkut and Alberto Carillo, eds. Bucharest: Zeta Books, 2010. [ISBN#9789731997575] “Troubled Visions: Black Elk’s Crisis Journey and the Romantic Otherworlds of Blake, Coleridge, Poe and Rimbaud.” Journal of National Taipei University of Technology. Volume 41-1, 2008: pp. 163-190. [ISSN#1029-3981] “Is Seeing Believing?: Houdini and the Role of Magic in the Development of Early Cinema.” Glimpse: Phenomenology and Media. Vol. 11-12, 2009-2010: pp.33-42. “Unmasking the Simulacrum: Harry Houdini’s Exposes and the Modernist Meta-Poetics of Confronatation and Exposure.” Glimpse: Phenomenology and Media. Vol 9-10, 2007 & 2008: pp. 85-89. “Magic and Legerdemain: The Wonder Worker Behind the Charlatan’s Mask.” Outis. Volume Four, 2006: pp. 9-14. [ISBN#09716583010] "Marjorie Perloff on Ginsberg and the Beats." [interview] Poetry Flash. May, 1994: pp.1-2 “The Phenomenology of the Hoax: Orson Welles, Alchemy and the Lie That Tells the Truth.” Glimpse: Phenomenology and Media. [Forthcoming] “Formosan Snake Mythology.” Scenes From Dutch Formosa: Staging Taiwan’s Colonial Past. Llyn Scott, ed. Portland, ME: Merwin Asia Publishing. [Forthcoming.]

Papers Presented at International Conferences “Not Just an Ordinary Horse: Shamanic Praxis in the Works of Leonora Carrington.” The 122nd Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Panel on “The Surrealist Image” convened by the Assocation for the Study of Dada and Surrealism. December 28, 2006. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. “The Phenomenology of the Hoax: Orson Welles, Alchemy and the Lie That Tells the Truth.” Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and the Media. March, 2011. Freiburg, Germany. “Twisted Identities: Lon Chaney, Tod Browning and the Grotesque Personae of Circus and Sideshow.” Thirteenth Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and the Media. March, 2011. Freiburg, Germany. “The Shaman’s Song in Epic Poetry.” Spring 2007 Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, a section of the American Anthropological Association. April 7, 2007. San Diego, California, U.S.A. “Now You See it, Now you Don’t: The Role of Theatrical Legerdemain in Shaping Early Silent Cinema.” Twelfth Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and the Media. February, 2010. Puebla, Mexico. “Unmasking the Simulacrum: Harry Houdini’s Exposes and the Modernist Meta-Poetics of Confrontation and Exposure.” Eighth International Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media. February 25, 2006. National University, San Diego, California, U.S.A. “The Real Yuwipi Man.” Fourth International Conference for the Outis Project of the Society for Phenomenology and Media. February 25, 2006. National University, San Diego, California, U.S.A. "Literature and Chaos: The Modernist Avant-Garde and the Evolution of Human Consciousness.” The XXXIV Annual Jean Gebser Conference, presented by the Jean Gebser Society for the Study of Consciousness and Culture. October 28, 2005. Rice University, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. “Black Elk’s Crisis Journey and the Problematics of Vision for Blake, Coleridge and Poe” The Sixth Wenshan International Conference on English and American Literature: Literature of Belief, Believing and the Unbelievable. March 11, 2006. National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan. “Silence and the Silents: Tod Browning, Lon Chaney and the Inutterable Secret of Circus and Sideshow.” Silent and Ineffable: Functions of the Unsaid in Literature and the Humanities. Conference Sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Presented by the English Department of National Taipei Universityof Technology. November 18, 2010. Kurt Cline 3

Scholarly Presentations Presenter: “Rupert Sheldrake and the Problem of Indetectability.” TED lectures. Ministry of Education Special Project. December 14, 21 and 28, 2011. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “Douglas Adams, the Universe and Not Quite Everything.” TED lectures. Ministry of Education Special Project. November 23 and 30, and December 7, 2011. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “Working Models of the Psyche: An Introduction to the Theories of Carl Jung.” English Department Colloquium. May 15, 2011. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “David Deutsch: Evolution, Quantum Theory and Emergent Phenomena.” TED lectures. Ministry of Education Special Project. May 5, 12, 19 and 26, 2011. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “Richard Dawkins and the Current Status of Evolutionary Theory.” TED lectures. Ministry of Education Special Project. April 7, 14 and 28, 2011. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “Poetry and Divination.” NTUT English Department Symposium. June 22, 2009. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “Consciousness Studies Today.” NTUT English Department Theory Colloquium. November, 2008. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “Deception and Revelation in Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane.” Ministry of Education Special Project. May 17, 2007. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?: Poe and the Gnostic Problem of Revelation and Deception.” Fourth Annual Literature and Language Symposium.” NTUT English Department Symposium. June 21, 2007. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “We Want the World and We Want It Now: 1968 and Music in the U.S.A.” NTUT Foreign Language Club. April 22, 2008. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “Lenny Bruce and Language: A Commentary on David Barton’s Pornography of the Emotions.” April 30, 2007. National Central University, Jongli, Taiwan. Presenter: “The Shaman’s Song in Myth and Epic Poetry..” Third Annual Symposium on Language Learning and Literary Analysis. June 23, 2006. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “Modernist Art and the Evolution of Human Consciousness.” NTUT English Department Symposium. June 20, 2005. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: “Poetry As Magic.” English Department Theory Colloquium. May 23, 2006. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Presenter: ”Bob Kaufman and the Poetics of Jazz.” The Naropa Instititute’s 25th Anniversary: A Tribute to Allen Ginsberg. July, 1994. The Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado.

CREATIVE WRITING

Full-Length Book Voyage to the Sun: Poems and Translations. Boston: Boston Poet Publishing, 2008. [ISBN#9780981810904]

Poetry (Recently Published in Literary Journals) “Selections from the Kif Pipe by Don Ramon del Valle Inclan, Translated from the Spanish by Kurt Cline.” Cuadrante #20. (July, 2010): 55-83. ISBN#84-87709-99-0. “God Is Not a Thought (But I Am).” Pressed: Taiwan’s Literary Journal Vol. 7 (2008): 34-37. “Forever Time,” “Solid Clouds & Climbing,” and “Plastic Actuality.” Pressed: Taiwan’s Literary Journal Vol. 6 (2007): 26-28. “The Only Music” and “Jailbreak.” Pressed: Taiwan’s Literary Journal Vol. 4 (2006): 16-17. "Train Lines" Eclipse 14 (2004): 63-64. [ISSN#1530-5066] "Looking Out the Window Involves More than the Scenery." Into the Teeth of the Wind. 4:1 (2003): 68-69.

Poetry (Published Before 2000, Selected) Dance With Death. San Francisco: E.G. Press, 1984. [chapbook] "Every River of Tears Was an Ocean Once." E.G. Press, 1986. [broadside] "One Time Visitation." Beatitude. “Presque Vu." Poetry Society of America News. Kurt Cline 4

"Sixth Street." Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal. "Seven Sketches of the Moon." Rhino. “Memory Trainwreck.” In the Margins. "Remembering and Forgetting." Minotaur. "Contemporary Thinktank Interlude." Ice River. “Serious Art,” “Schizoid Schemata” and other poems. If. “Sentimental Crap,” Domesticity & Diamonds,” and other poems. Athena Incognito. "The Metal Rose," “Valley of Echoes” and other poems. Maybe Mombasa. "Hiroshima Only More So." Swale.

Experimental Fiction “The Reliquary.” Pressed: Taiwan’s Literary Journal Vol. 3 (2005): 20-22 "Film." The New Censorship. "Strange Ocurrences” and “Destination: Unknown.” Ink. “The Act of Making Explicit.” Co-Lingua and NRG.

Performance Art (Selected) Director: Sex, Taboo, Life, Death and Dildos. [performance art show by graduate creative writing students] NTUT English Department Experimental Theater. January, 2011. Director/performer/co-writer: Phantasmagoria: the Strangest Show in the Universe. [performance art show by graduate creative writing students] NTUT English Department Experimental Theater. Fall, 2009. Performer/writer: Alien Shoe. [rock’n’roll/poetry show] Holyland. Taipei, Taiwan. October, 2009. Producer/director/performer: The Cosmic Wonder Show. [collaborative neo-vaudeville revue] State Street Theatre, Ithaca, NY. April, 2004 Producer/director/performer: Magic at the State. [magic show] State Street Theatre. Ithaca, NY. April 2003. Coordinator: State of the Art Poetry. [reading series] State of the Art Gallery. Ithaca, NY. Producer/director/performer: The Dark Side of the Sun. [collaborative performance] Intersection for the Arts. San Francisco, CA. Coordinator: P.O.W.: Performance Oriented Writing. [series] Artists’ Television Access. San Francisco, CA. Poetry readings and performance art at a multitude of venues, including: The Poetry Center (San Francisco State University); The Spaghetti Factory (San Francisco); The Chelsea Café (San Francisco); Grace Cathedral (San Francisco); Above Paradise (San Francisco); The Café Babar (San Francisco); The Lab (San Francisco); Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center (San Francisco, CA); La Salamandra Café (Berkeley, CA); Cornell University (Ithaca, NY); State of the Art Gallery (Ithaca, NY); See Spot Community Art Space (Ithaca, NY); Java Joes (Denver, CO); Poetry Society of America (Gramercy Park Hotel, NYC); Bliss (Taipei, Taiwan), Holyland (Taipei, Taiwan) and Blue Cloud Lounge (Taichung, Taiwan).

Theatrical and Cinematic Productions Director: The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco. NTUT Experimental Theater, December 2011. Director: Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht. NTUT Experimental Theater, January, 2011. Director: Woyengi by Obotunde Ijimere NTUT Experimental Theater, Fall, 2009. Director: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett. NTUT Experimental Theater, Fall, 2008. Director/screen writer: The Queen of Spades, adapted from the short-story by Alexander Pushkin. [student film] NTUT English Department. Spring, 2008. Director: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles NTUT Experimental Theater, Fall, 2007.

Creative Non-Fiction “Et Tu, Mickey?” Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. March, 2010. “The Kennedys and Me.” Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. January, 2010. “The Astonishing But True Story of a Most Remarkable Cat, Part Two.”Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. May, 2009. “The Astonishing But True Story of a Most Remarkable Cat, Part One.” Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. April, 2009. “America: Land of the Giddy and Home of T.V.” Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. March, 2009. “An American Professor’s Christmas in Taiwan.” [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. December, 2008. “An American in Taipei.” Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. November, 2008. Kurt Cline 5

“Falling Asleep in Class.” Dr. Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column.]. NTUT Gazette. December, 2007. “The Fine Art of Losing One’s Head.” Dr. Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column.]. NTUT Gazette. July 2007.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Campus Activities (Selected) Committee Member: Graduate School Curriculum Development Committee. NTUT English Department. 2007-present. Committee Member: Academic Research and Development Committee. NTUT English Department. 2005- present. Faculty Adviser: NTUT Toastmasters International Club. 2008-present. Panel Moderator: Silent and Ineffable: Functions of the Unsaid in Literature and the Humanities. Conference Sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Presented by the English Department of National Taipei University. November 18, 2010. Coordinator: Third Annual Symposium on Language Learning and Literary Analysis. June 23, 2006. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Coordinator: What’s Past Is Prologue: Medieval and Early Modern Writings. English Department Theory Colloquium. May 23, 2006. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Panel Moderator: International Conference on Sustainability and the Literary Imagination. November 18, 2006. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Judge: Annual Student Speech Contest. Ministry of Education Special Project. October, 2006; October, 2007, October 2010. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Judge: Non-English Major Drama Competition. May, 2008. National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan. Judge: Role Playing Contest for English major and non-majors. March 20, 2008. National Taipei University of Technology.

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT (Selected)

Modern Western Literature (NTUT) Western Drama (NTUT) Literature and Film (NTUT) Cross-Cultural Studies (NTUT) Pop Culture (NTUT) Approaches to Fiction (NTUT) Surrealism and its Accomplices (Binghamton University) Madness and Civilization: Foucault, the Beats and Postmodernity (Binghamton University) Modern Incarnations: The Anti-Hero in Film and Fiction (Binghamton University) English and American Short Fiction (NTUT) Feminist Literary Theory (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) American Literature to Melville (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) The Mythic Imagination (Binghamton University) Creative Writing (Binghamton University, SUNY Cortland, College of San Mateo) Public Speaking and Debate (NTUT) Introduction to Literature (SUNY Cortland, Ithaca College, Metropolitan State College of Denver) Introduction to Drama (SUNY Cortland, Ithaca College, Metropolitan State College of Denver) Academic Writing (NTUT, SUNY Cortland, Ithaca College, Metropolitan State College of Denver)

GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT

World Poetry and its Cultural Dimensions (NTUT) Creative Writing (NTUT) Period Studies: Modernism (NTUT) Kurt Cline 6

Experimentation in Film, Text and Performance (Fu Jen Catholic University) Modern American Poetry (Fu Jen Catholic University) English Romantic Poetry (Fu Jen Catholic University) The Beats and Beyond (Fu Jen Catholic University)

UNDERGRADUATE SENIOR PROJECT DIRECTION (Selected)

Hsieh, Iris. “The Relation Between Taiwanese Folk Religion and Chinese Mythology.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2011. Yu, Mancy. “The World of the Shaman: a Travel of Knowledge and Mind.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2011 Wu, Ricky. “The Unknown Sphere: A Study of Dream Divination in the Amis Tribe.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2010. Acar, Elif. “Women and Rumi.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2011. Yeh, Linda. “The Influence of Black Gospel Music on American Song.” Acar, Elif. “Women and Rumi.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2011. Tzeng, Jasmine. “Alchemy of Dreams: Symbolism in the Paintings of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2010. He, Jonathan. “Jonathan Swift and Philip K. Dick: Utopia and Dystopia as States of Mind.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2011. Fan, Melody. “Cracking Open Plato’s Cave with the Power of Knowledge in Frankenstein and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2009. Lin, Zoe. “Steinbeck, Buddha and Mencius: the Struggle for Equality and the Realization of Egolessness.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2009. Hsueh, Kay. “Perspective in Alice in Wonderland and the Relationship between Human Beings and Animals.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2008. Wu, Daniel. “The Contradictory Relationship between Rationality and Irrationality in Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ ‘The Black Cat,’ and ‘The Cask of Amontallado.’” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2008. Liu, Evelyn. “The Negative Eye: Rene Magritte.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2008. Fang, Mindy. “Futurist Art.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2008. Chen, Irene. “The Heroine: Her Role and Value in Myth, Biblical Lore and History.” National Taipei University of Technology, 2007. Chou, Sharon. “Jungian Archetypes in Myth: Shapeshifters, Tricksters and the Shadow.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2009. Hsu, Christy. “Ang Lee’s Film Language.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2008. Wang, Prince. “The One Who Crosses the Line: From Chivalric Knights and Bushido Warriors to the Contemporary Anti-Hero in the Films of Akira Kurosawa.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2007. Wong, Melissa. “The Creation of Transcendence: Classical Indian Thought and the Bollywood Experience.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2009. Su, Joanna. “What Happened to Punk Rock?: Punk Culture in Film, Fashion and Politics.” Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2007.

GRADUATE THESIS DEFENSE COMMITTEES

Li, Meng-Jun. Treachery as Revolt: Homoeroticism in Genet’s Fiction. Taipei: National Taipei University of Technology, 2010. Lin, Carol Yi-Wei. Abjection and Transgression: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Mina Loy’s Avant-Garde Poetics. Taipei: Fu Jen Catholic University, 2006. Wu, Andrea Yi Hsueh. Domains of Horror: Spatial Identity and Narrative Resolution in Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales. Taipei: Fu Jen Catholic University, 2007.

[LAST UPDATE: January 2012]