AMY SARA CARROLL
Department of American Culture and Department of English Language and Literature,
The University of Michigan, 505 South State Street, 3700 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-1045 [email protected]
EDUCATION
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Duke University
Ph.D. Literature (2004) Certificates in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women’s Studies Dissertation: “The Allegorical Performative: Mexican and U.S. Transnational Tactics for Representing and Reinventing the ‘New World Border’” (Directors Fredric Jameson and Antonio Viego; committee members Alberto Moreiras, Janice Radway, and Irene Silverblatt) M.A. Literature (2000)
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Cornell University
M.F.A. English, Creative Writing (Poetry) (1995) Thesis: “Secession” (Directors Archie Ammons and Kenneth McClane)
University of Chicago
M.A. Anthropology (1993) Masters Paper: “Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas: Contemporary Intersections of Race, Sexuality, and Gender” (Directors Jean Comaroff and Terence Turner)
Princeton University
A.B. Anthropology and Creative Writing (Poetry), magna cum laude (1990) Senior Thesis: "Cartography: Merging Anthropology and Poetry" (Directors Jorge Klor de Alva and James Richardson) Junior Paper: "Legacies and Transformations of the Myth of Quetzalcoatl" (Director John Kelly)
Richard King High School, Corpus Christi, Texas
Valedictorian (from a class of 500) (1986)
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ADDITIONAL TRAINING
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Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City), Summer 2000
Curso Avanzado de Performance
Colegio de México (Mexico City), Summer 1999
Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer
Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico), Summer 1989
EMPLOYMENT
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 2006-present
Assistant Professor of American Culture and English Language and Literature Core faculty, Program in Latina/o Studies Affiliate, Digital Studies Affiliate, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Affiliate, Center for World Performance Studies
Duke University, Spring 2005
Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department
Cornell University, Fall 1995-Spring 1997
Lecturer in Creative Writing, English Department
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RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Latin/x American twentieth and twenty-first century cultural production (art, literature, cinema, and performance), critical theory, American and border studies, postcolonial and ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, digital cultures and e-literatures, creative writing (poetry and creative nonfiction)
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PUBLICATIONS
Critical Monographs
“Global Mexico’s Coproduction,” work in progress. REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era. Austin: The University of Texas Press (Mellon Latin American and Caribbean Arts and Cultures Publishing Initiative), in production, forthcoming 2017.
Spanish translation
REMEX: Hacia una Historia del Arte de la era del TLC. México: Siglo XXI Editores (Serie Zona Crítica),
manuscript in preparation.
Poetry Collections
FANNIE + FREDDIE/ The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography (with a foreword by Claudia Rankine). New
York: Fordham University Press, 2013 (distributed by Fordham and Oxford University Presses). (104
pages) Winner of Fordham University’s 2011-2012 Poets Out Loud Prize, selected by Claudia Rankine
SECESSION (a full color collection of poems and prints with an introduction by Holly Hughes, two critical essays by Laura Gutiérrez and Evie Shockley, and two interviews with Amy Sara Carroll by Heidi Bean and Carlos Amador and Rachel Price). San Diego: Hyperbole Books (an imprint of San Diego State
University Press), 2012. (194 pages) Winner of the 2013 Louis I. Bredvold Prize for Scholarly or Creative Publication, University of Michigan, Department of English Language and Literature; Winner of the 2013 Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) Poetry Award
Collaboratively Authored Hybrid Works (Poetry/Code/Creative nonfiction)
“CODESWITCH: The Transborder Immigrant Tool,” Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, coedited by
Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez, work in progress.
[({ })] The Desert Survival Series/La serie de sobrevivencia del desierto (bilingual edition, Creative Commons
license), Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, computer code by Brett Stalbaum and Jason Najarro, poetry and statement by Amy Sara Carroll, Spanish translations by Francheska AlersRojas, Julieta Aranda, Elizabeth Barrios, Iván Chaar-López, Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Orquídea Morales, Omar Pimienta and Mary Renda. Ann Arbor: The Office of Net Assessment (The University of Michigan Digital Environments Cluster Publishing Series, coordinators Tung-Hui Hu and John Cheney-Lippold), 2014. (88 pages)
Digital redistribution
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CTHEORY and CTheory Books BLUESHIFT series, edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2015.
http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=744
http://pactac.net/ctheory-books/blueshift-series/the-transborder-immigrant-toolla-herramienta- transfronteriza-para-inmigrantes/
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Electronic Literature Collection 3, edited by ELC3 Collective Stephanie Boluk, Leonardo Flores, Jacob Garbe, and Anastasia Salter, 2016. http://collection.eliterature.org/3/ CONACULTA E-Literatura/Centro de Cultura Digital Editorial and Revista 404 (Mexico City, Mexico), with interview with Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez by Lorena Gómez Mostajo, Mónica Nepote, and Ximena Atristain, “La herramienta transfronteriza para inmigrantes,” 2016. http://editorial.centroculturadigital.mx/es/publicacion/de-la-ecopoetica-y-los-medios-dislocativos.html http://editorial.centroculturadigital.mx/es/descargable/la-herramienta-transfronteriza-para-inmigrantes.html
Truthdig, Arts & Culture section, complete set of poems published serially, 2016. http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/transborder_immigrant_tool_series_poetry_survival_us_mexico _border_20160808
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HemiPress (Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Publications, New York University, New
York, NY), multilingual TOME edition (Gestures series) with Nahuatl translations of poetry by Martín
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Vega Olmedo and Eduardo de la Cruz Cruz, Mixe translations of poetry by Luis Balbuena Gómez, and essays by Ashley Ferro-Murray and Sergio Delgado, 2017. http://tbt.tome.press
Refereed Essays
“National Matrimony: Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe’s Molcajete Cabaret,” Journal of Narrative Theory
(JNT) (“Women’s Experimental Forms” special issue, edited by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein), forthcoming 2018
“If School Is a Factory, Where is Ana Mendieta?” The Volta, “Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics”
(“Poetry and Power” special forum, edited by Evie Shockley), forthcoming 2017
“[The Fiction of a Doorframe] Further Notes on Undocumentation,” Media Fields Journal 12 (“Media and
Migration” special issue, edited by Bianka Ballina and Carlos Jiménez), January 2017. http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/707453/27416587/1484690251200/Carroll- PDF.pdf?token=peMMzNrzPx4pbz%2BDyPxumG0kgug%3D
“From Papapapá to Sleep Dealer: Alex Rivera’s Undocumentary Poetics,” Social Identities: Journal for the
Study of Race, Nation and Culture 19.3-4 (“Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America: Concepts, Histories, Experiences” special issue, edited by Kristi Wilson and Antonio Traverso), May-July 2013: 485-
500. Reprint: Wilson, Kristi and Antonio Traverso, eds. Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America.
New York and London: Routledge, 2014. 211-226.
“Global Mexico’s Coproduction: Babel, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Children of Men,” The Journal of Transnational
American Studies 4.2 (2012) (“Revolutions and Heterotopias” special issue, edited by Micol Seigel, Lessie Jo Frazier, and David Sartorius). http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bp4x1sg
“EDT 1.0, EDT 2.0, EDT 3.0” and selection of poetry from the Transborder Immigrant Tool, Errata# Revista de
Artes Visuales 3 (“Cultura Digital y Creación/Digital Culture and Creation” special issue), December 2010: 40-64. http://issuu.com/revistaerrata/docs/errata_3_cultura_digital_creaci_n
“Muerte sin fin: Teresa Margolles’s Gendered States of Exception,” The Drama Review (TDR) 54.2 (T206),
Summer 2010: 103–125.
“‘Accidental Allegories’ Meet ‘The Performative Documentary’: Boystown, Señorita Extraviada, and the Border-
Brothel→Maquiladora Paradigm,” SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31.2, Winter 2006:
357-396.
“A Critical Regionalism: The Allegorical Performative in Madre por un día and the Rodríguez/Felipe Wedding,” e- misférica 2.2 (“Sexualities and Politics in the Americas” special issue, edited by Antonio Prieto Stambaugh), November 2005. http://hemi.nyu.edu/journal/2_2/carroll.html
“Incumbent upon Recombinant Hope: EDT’s Strike a Site, Strike a Pose,” The Drama Review (TDR) 47.2 (T178),
Summer 2003: 145-150.
Essays in Edited Volumes
“Lesbianism-Poetry//Poetry-Lesbianism,” The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature, edited by Jodie Medd.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 188-203.
“Codeswitch: The Transborder Immigrant Tool” and selection of poetry from the project (with translations by
Yanoula Athanassakis [Greek], Lili Hsieh and Zona Yi-Ping Tsou [Mandarin Chinese], and Tatiana Sizonenko [Russian]), Somatic Engagement, edited by Petra Kuppers. San Francisco: Chain Links, 2011. 19-35.
“La lateralización de la historia, Maquilapolis y el efecto de los años 2000 y 2001,” Representación y fronteras: el performance en los límites del género, edited by Hortensia Moreno and Stephany Slaughter. México: UNAM/PUEG/UNIFEM, 2009. 187-201.
Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
Review of Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino, eds., Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform and Mónica
Mayer, Rosa chillante: mujeres y performance in México, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Winter 2005:
232-234.
“‘Nobody is so Rude/Not to Remember Gertrude’ (On the Work of Gertrude Stein),” Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and
Gay Studies, edited by Timothy Murphy, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000. 570-572.
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Catalogue and Exhibition Essays
“As Darkroom is to Lightbox, Lourdes Grobet’s Hora y media is to Ingrid Hernández’s La maquila golondrina,” catalogue essay for the exhibition Photography Undone, curators Natalia Brizuela and Jodi Roberts. Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, forthcoming February 2018.
“Consummate ‘PIAS Forms’: Periodizing Mexico’s 1990s,” catalogue essay for the exhibition Below the
Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico, curator Irene Tsatsos. Armory Center for the
Arts, Pasadena, CA (“Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA,” The Getty Foundation), forthcoming October 2017.
“El derecho de réplica: Performance—Lorena Wolffer—Performatividad,” exhibition essay for Lorena Wolffer /
Expuestas: registros públicos (July-October 2015), Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico, 2015. 23-27. http://www.museoartemoderno.com/lorena-wolffer#/catlogo/
“Tina Modotti’s ‘Wonderfull’/Lo ‘Wonderfull’ de Tina Modotti,” commissioned post on Open Space in response to the exhibition Photography in Mexico, the SFMOMA blog, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, June 2012. http://blog.sfmoma.org/2012/06/a-berlin-no-mexico-city-childhood/
“Todos Somos Echolalia: A Response to Becoming Transreal,” The Transreal: Aesthetics and Politics of Crossing
Realities, edited by Zach Blas and Wolfgang Schirmacher. New York/Dresden: Atropos Press, 2012. 85- 89.
“EDEMA y el/la ciudadano/a ‘posmoderno/a,’” video catalogue essay for the work of Ema Villanueva and Eduardo
Flores, June 2001.
“Los juegos representacionales de Luis Orozco,” catalogue essay for Homenaje a Joan Brossa (solo show of work by Luis Orozco), L’Orfeó Catalá de Mèxic, A.C., October 2000.
“Contracciones,” program description for Contracciones, Centro Nacional de las Artes, México, D.F., September
2000.
“Performing Body-Politics: Belle Rogue Collection’s Runway Interventions,” catalogue essay for Belle Rogue
Collection, Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina, Canada, May 2000: 1-52. http://www.neutralground.sk.ca/library/bellerogue_cat/BelleRogueCatalogue.pdf
Refereed Poetry
“re/D/act” and “BRRINNG!,” Affect and Audience in the Digital Age: Translational Poetics, curated by Amaranth
Borsuk. Los Angeles: Essay Press, Fall 2016 http://www.essaypress.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Borsuk_spreads_150.pdf
“Ze” and reprint of untitled poem, Aster(ix): A Journal of Literature, Art, Criticism (“What We Love” special
issue), December 2016
“MAY DAY || May 2nd” and “The Epic of American Civilization,” DATABLEED V, September 2016
http://www.datableedzine.com/#!amy-sara-carroll-may-day/draz0 http://www.datableedzine.com/#!amy-sara-carroll-epic/i4seh
“The Day José Died,” Pastelegram, November 2015 http://pastelegram.org/y/kegels-for-hegel/the-day-jose-died
“7 Lights after Paul Chan,” “Lumbar Puncture,” “Ganas de Canas,” “LICE,” “Still Life,” and “Escape//Hatch,”
POOL: a journal of poetry 14, August 2015
http://www.poolpoetry.com/poet-amy-sara-carroll.html
Two limited edition broadsides with untitled poems in English and Spanish (designer Jan Murray, University of
Mississippi Professor of Art and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts), distributed by the University of Mississippi, June 2015
“Think Pink,” “‘I see Mexicans dead people,’” and “Beginnings,” Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion
7, October 2014
Nine poems from the Transborder Immigrant Tool’s “Desert Survival Series” and Statement by Carroll (in English and Spanish) and interview with Carroll, Elizabeth Barrios and Mary Renda, Tiresias: Culture, Politics and Critical Theory 6 (“Elements of Matter” special issue), October 2014, 2-26 and 133-151; Statement by Carroll and select poems from the “Desert Survival Series” (in English and Spanish)
“Alegoría” and “Despierta,” The Capilano Review 3.23 (“Languages” special issue, edited by Sarah Dowling),
May 2014
“Lost Object,” “The Beets,” and “Speed Queen” (set of three image-poems distributed as limited edition postcards),
Displaced Press, May 2011
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“Built Environmental –isms,” two untitled poems from the Transborder Immigrant Tool (with translations by
Petra Kuppers [German] and Yanoula Athanassakis [Greek]), and two earth art poems from the Public Poetry Project featured on Poets for Living Waters (a poetry action), June 2010 http://poetsgulfcoast,wordpress.com/2010/06/13/929/
“Pipe Dream” and “Family Portrait,” HOW2 (“Performance and Poetry” special issue), December 2009 http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_3/performance/index.html
“‘Lloro cuando se quema el arroz…’” and “The Beets,” Version, November 2009 http://version.org/
“What Is the Difference Between Globalization and Neoliberalism?,” “Corpus Christi Corrido,” and “Transition
(song of my cells),” vandal (“Borders and Walls” special issue, edited by Angie Cruz), September 2009; Reprint: “What Is the Difference Between Globalization and Neoliberalism?,” Aster(ix): A Journal of
Literature, Art, Criticism, Fall 2013
http://asterixjournal.com/difference-globalization-neoliberalism-amy-sara-carroll/
“Arrested Development,” Jubilat 16, Summer 2009 “i” and “Process Note,” Rattle (“Tribute to Visual Poetry” special issue), Summer 2008 http://www.rattle.com/i-by-amy-sara-carroll/
“Transparent I” & “Transparent II” in “Anarcha-Anti-Archive” (website designed by Petra Kuppers and Jay
Steichmann), Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 4.2 (2008)
http://liminalities.net/4-2/
“Let Down,” “Ovulation,” “Late Onset Particle Capitalism,” and “Thrombotic” in Not for Mothers Only:
Contemporary Poets on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing, edited by Catherine Wagner and Rebecca Wolff,
Fence Books, May 2007
“Imagine” and “Papantla,” Talisman (“Poetry from North Carolina” special issue, edited by Joseph Donahue), Fall
2005
“To Amuse,” Carolina Quarterly, Fall 2005
“Simultaneous Translation,” The Displayer (chapbook), Lucipo (Lucifer Poetics Group), Triangle Area, North
Carolina, June 2005
“March,” “San Patricio,” “Breathe,” and poem-prints “D,” “LL,” and “V/W” along with interview (by Heidi Bean),
The Iowa Review, June 2004
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/carroll/index.html
“Tough Girl,” chapbook, Lucipo (Lucifer Poetics Group), Triangle Area, North Carolina, June 2004 “Una parábola de un paraguas,” Fusión, October 2002
Poem-print “Interracial,” This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, edited by Gloria
Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating, Routledge, 2002
“Grief” and poem-print “Mama-Donna,” Mamibaile (chapbook), September 2001
Web page poem-print “G” for Women in Literature and Letters, 2001
“Kith and Kin,” “October,” and poem-print “Shhh” (formerly “S”), Big Allis, Fall 2000, Reissue: Jacket2, July 2013 https://media.sas.upenn.edu/jacket2/pdf/reissues/big-allis/J2_Reissues_BIG-ALLIS-9_2000.pdf
Web page poem-print “WILL” for Women in Literature and Letters, 2000
“Secession” (in English and Spanish translation) and poem-prints “O” and “Te extraño,” Les Voz (honorable mention in “poesía erótica lésbica”), 1999
Poem-print “Q,” cover art for Crayon, 1999 “I,” “You,” “We,” “San Patricio,” and “Celos,” Mandorla, Spring 1999 “Tamarind for Cameron” and poem-print “M,” Chain 5 (“Different Languages”), Summer 1998
“Risky,” Bombay Gin, 1997
“July,” “August,” and “September,” Seneca Review, Fall 1996
“Life,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Fall/Winter 1995
“Cascarones” and “Travelers,” Faultline, Spring 1995 “Juchitán” and “Las Momias de Guanajuato,” Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly (16.2), 1991
Collaboratively Authored Plays, Essays, Portfolios, and Editorials
“Of Co-Investigation and Aesthetic Sustenance: A Conversation between Colectivo Situaciones and Electronic
Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab,” by Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez, and Colectivo
Situaciones, Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art 1995-2010, edited by
Grant Kester and Bill Kelley, Jr., Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2017
Operation Faust & Furioso: A Trans [ ] border Play on the Redistribution of the Sensible, Electronic Disturbance