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PATRICK PRITCHETT

Amherst College 34 Cherry St., Apt. A Department of English Easthampton, MA 01027 Johnson Chapel 004 617-308-6054 Amherst, MA 01002 [email protected]

EDUCATION University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Ph.D., English (2011) University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, M.A., English (2004) University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, B.A., English, Phi Beta Kappa (2001)

DISSERTATION Writing the Disasters: The Messianic Turn in Postwar American Poetry, directed by Jeremy Green, Karen Jacobs, and Julie Carr

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT 2011-15 Amherst College: Visiting Assistant Professor in English & Film Studies 2006-14 Harvard University: Lecturer, History and Literature & Freshman Seminars 2007-09 Boston University: Lecturer, First Year Writing Program 2004-06 University of Colorado: Lecturer, Modern and Contemporary Literature

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Articles, reviews, and chapters in collections “Thinking in Ruins: Ezra Pound, Gustaf Sobin and The Stones of Provence” (under review)

“How to Write Poetry after Auschwitz: The Burnt Book of Michael Palmer” Journal of Modern Literature 37.3 (127-145) Spring 2014.

“‘Giant Steps’: John Taggart’s Sheets of Sound and Messianic Jazz.” Jacket 2, June 2014. http://jacket2.org/article/giant-steps-john-taggarts-sheets-sound-and-messianic-jazz

“The Failure of Logos and The Fate of Spirit: Fanny Howe’s Gnostic Angel.” SPOKE 1.1 (78-92) Fall 2013.

“Midrash as the Angel of History: On Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Drafts.” Jacket 2. Fall 2011. http://jacket2.org/article/all-serifs-are-seraphim

“Against Elegy: Michael Palmer’s Book of the Dead” (review essay of Thread). Jacket 2, August 29, 2011. http://jacket2.org/reviews/archive/201108.

“Clarity or, Late Modernism: George Oppen and Ezra Pound.” All This Strangeness: A Garland for George Oppen. Edited by Eric Hoffman. Spring 2009. http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/OPPEN2.HTM

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“Writing the Disasters: Late Modernism and the Persistence of the Messianic in George Oppen & Michael Palmer.” Jacket 36, 2008: George Oppen Feature, edited by Thomas Devaney. http://jacketmagazine.com/36/oppen-pritchett.shtml. Fall 2008.

“How To Do Things With Nothing: Lorine Niedecker Sings The Blues.” Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and The Politics of Place, edited by Elizabeth Willis. Iowa UP, 2008: 91-102.

“Olson, Orpheus, Oz.” Ronald Johnson: Life & Works. Ed. Eric Selinger & Joel Bettridge. Orono, ME: National Poetry Foundation Press, 2008: 25-45.

Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics and Community. Edited by Dana Teen Lomax & Jennifer Firestone. Exchange of essays on poetry and form with Kathleen Fraser. Ardmore, PA: Saturnalia Press, 2008: 59-80.

“Translation as Ventriloquism: Ezra Pound and the Necromantic Idioms of Modernism.” Valley Voices: A Literary Review 7.1, Spring 2007: 9-18.

“The Breaking of the Vessels: Toward a Lyric of Messianic Form.” ELN 44.1, Spring 2006: 221-225.

“Abandoning Ship: Face to Face at Zero Degree Interpellation in Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.” ELN 42.2, Fall 2004: 41-55.

CONFERENCE TALKS Panel Organizer and Chair, “The New Gnostics: Post-secular Vectors in Recent American Poetry.” Talk: “Desiring Logos: The Holy Atheism of Fanny Howe.” The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900. February 21-23, 2013.

“Estranging the Logos: Michael Palmer in the 80s.” Panel Organizer and Chair, Poetry and Poetics of the 1980s, National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, June 27-30, 2012. With Norman Finkelstein, Richard Deming, and Peter O’Leary.

“Thinking in Ruins: Ezra Pound, Gustaf Sobin, and the Stones of Provence.” Modernist Studies Association, October 5-9, 2011, Buffalo.

“‘How to Stay Alive’: John Taggart’s Sheets of Sound and Objectivist Jazz.” MLA, Los Angeles, Jan. 2011. “Giant Steps: Jazz & Poetry,” organizer Aldon Nielsen.

“Clarity or, Late Modernism: Oppen Contra Pound” The Poetry of the 70s Conference, National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Jun 11-15. 2008.

“Writing the Disaster: The Persistence of Lyric and The Scandal of Modernism in Oppen & Palmer” Northeast MLA, Buffalo, NY, Apr 11, 2008.

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“Translation as Ventriloquism: Ezra Pound and the Necromantic Idioms of Modernism,” ALSC 11th Annual Conference. Cambridge, MA, Nov 4-6, 2005.

“‘It is easier to die than to remember’: Mourning, Memory and the Messianic in Bunting’s “Briggflatts.” RMMLA Conference, Boulder, CO, Sept 30-Oct 2, 2004.

“How To Do Things With Nothing: Lorine Niedecker Sings the Blues.” Lorine Niedecker Centenary, Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, WI, Oct 9-11, 2003.

“Location Location Locution: Whitman, Oz, and the Utopian Poetics of Place in Ronald Johnson.” The Opening of the Field: A Conference on North American Poetry of the 1960s. University of Maine, Orono, ME, Jun 28-Jul 3, 2000.

“The Grammar of Paradise: Utopian Longing & The Circulation of Song in the Work of Ronald Johnson.” Eye, Ear and Mind: A Conference on Ronald Johnson. SUNY-Buffalo, Mar 17-18, 2000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Amherst College, Amherst MA, Visiting Assistant Professor in English,2011-15 ENG 119 – “Modernism 101: The Shock of the New.” A thematic, interdisciplinary introduction to Anglo-American and European modernism from 1855-1939.

ENG 393 – “Poetry and Theory: High Modernism, Late Modernism, Postmodernism.” Examines aesthetic theories of poets and philosophers in the context of the social dynamics of poetry schools from Imagism to Language Poetry.

ENG 180/FAMS 110 – “Film and Writing.” An introductory course in writing using science fiction films to explore film structure and grammar as well as questions of genre and the posthuman.

ENG 499 – Supervision of senior theses in Creative Writing, poetry and fiction.

FYS 118 – “Science Fiction and The Posthuman.” First-year seminar focused on issues of technology, culture and ethics.

Harvard University, History and Literature Program – Lecturer, 2006-14 HL 97, HL 98, HL 99: Tutor for juniors and seniors in year-long, weekly seminars. Co- lecturer for sophomore classes on American culture, history, and literature with strong interdisciplinary emphasis.

Harvard University, Freshman Seminar Program, 2011-2013

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47g: “Science Fiction or, The Way We Live Now.” Examines the emerging idea of the posthuman and how technology shapes race, gender, the body, and the sublime in contemporary novels and films.

Harvard University, General Education – Teaching Assistant, Spring 2010 US and The World 23, “Art and Thought of the Cold War,” Professor Louis Menand.

Boston University, CAS Writing Program – Lecturer, 2007-09 WR-100 and WR-150: Lecturer in first-year sequenced composition courses focusing on modernity and technology.

University of Colorado-Boulder, English – Lecturer, Continuing Ed, 2006-13 ENGL 3116: Advanced Topics in Theory: Postmodernism. Online course, Independent Learning. An introductory course in postmodern theory, fiction, poetry and films.

University of Colorado-Boulder, English – Lecturer, Creative Writing-Poetry, 2004-05 ENGL 3021: Intermediate Poetry Workshop. Focus on student writing combined with study of poetics and formal composition strategies.

University of Colorado-Boulder, English – Lecturer, English, 2004-06 ENGL 3060: Modern & Contemporary Literature. Upper-division course in modern American and British literature that examines themes of utopia, apocalypse and urbanism.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS American literature and cultural studies post-1945; modernist American and British literature and poetry; poetics; modernist, postmodernist and avant-garde aesthetics; modernist intellectual and cultural history; messianic and secular theology; technology and science fiction; trauma and disaster studies; eco-poetics.

ACADEMIC SERVICE Advisory Editor: Journal of Modern Literature, 2011-2014

External reviewer for Jennifer Firestone’s renewable term appointment, Department of English, Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York. Summer 2013.

Oral History Initiative on George Oppen: A Public Symposium at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard University, October 25, 2011. Interview of Linda Oppen, co-organized with Curator Christina Davis. http://hcl.harvard.edu/poetryroom/vocarium/

Editor, special feature on Rachel Blau DuPlessis for Jacket 2/UPenn. Includes essays by Ron Silliman, Bob Perelman, Alan Golding, Eric Keenaghan, Libbie Rifkin, and Harriet Tarlo. Fall 2011.

Assistant Editor & Production Manager: English Language Notes, 2005-06

Contributing Editor: Facture, 1999-2002 (with Marjorie Perloff, Cole Swensen, et al.)

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FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS AND AWARDS Beverly Sears Graduate Research Award, 2007 Edward Nolan Fellowship, 2005 J.D.A. Ogilvy Graduate Fellowship for British Studies, 2003

REFERENCES

Louis Menand Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of English, Harvard University 12 Quincy Street, Barker 155, Cambridge, MA 02138 617-495-8780 [email protected]

Jeanne Follansbee Director of Studies, History and Literature, Harvard (2006-2013) 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 508-479-1692

Rhonda Cobham-Sanders William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Black Studies and English, Amherst College 102 Cooper House, Amherst, MA 01002 413-542-5832 [email protected]

Jeremy Green Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado-Boulder Denison 233, Boulder, CO 80309 303-735-4468 [email protected]

Karen Jacobs Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado-Boulder Cottage 105, Boulder, CO 80309 303-492-8851 [email protected]

Julie Carr Associate Professor of English, University of Colorado-Boulder Hellems 127, Boulder, CO 80309 303-492-0948 [email protected]