Curriculum Vitae

University of

California, Santa Cruz

May 01, 2013

Roxanne Hamilton

Continuing Lecturer in Writing; Lecturer in Literature, Kresge College, and Porter College

Kresge College

RESEARCH INTERESTS Rhetoric; Contemporary American poetry; gender, queer, and feminist studies; cross-genre and inter-arts performance, publishing, and writing.

TEACHING INTERESTS Writing; Creative writing; Contemporary American poetry; gender, queer, and feminist studies; performance studies.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 2006 - 2007 Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Mills College 2006 - 2007 Lecturer, English Department, San Francisco State University 1999 - 2000 Visiting Assistant Professor, Literature, University of St. Francis 1998 - 2002 Visiting Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies and Southwest Studies, Colorado College 1998 - 2012 Continuing Lecturer, Writing Program. Lecturer, Literature Department, Kresge College, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz 1992 - 1998 Visiting Assistant Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1989 - 1992 Lecturer and Instructor, English, Cornell University

EDUCATION 1991 M.F.A., Poetry, Cornell University, 1991 1987 B.A., Cum Laude, English/Creative Writing, University of Colorado, 1987

HONORS AND AWARDS 2009 - 2010 University of California, Santa Cruz: "Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities". Inclusion in Humanities Division award ceremony for the Viz. Inter-Arts

44 Independent Publishing award. 2008 Audience award: first place in Santa Cruz Film Festival " for Neo-Benshi performance (live film narration) of "Rebel without a Cause." 2008 National award: Independent Publishing Award (IPPY), Bronze Medal, Anthology category, Viz. Inter-Arts Event: Trans-Genre Anthology, Summer 2005 - 2006 National finalist: : Creative Capital Foundation Grant for Performing Arts and Emerging Fields (NYC): "Neo-Benshi" (live film narration). 1991 National award: "Intro" Poetry Award (and publication in Black Warrior Review), Associated Writing Programs. 1988 - 1991 Graduate Fellowship: Cornell University, full scholarship, 2 years (MFA in poetry).

GRANTS 2011 - 2012 Principal Investigator, Hitchcock Poetry Fund Award, University of California, Santa Cruz: Purpose: publication of the second edition of Viz. Inter-Arts, a trans-genre anthology series I founded and publish at UC Santa Cruz. Viz. is a national book series and winner of an Independent Publishing award (anthology category), 2008. (Peer reviewed). $1,450 2010 - 2011 Principal Investigator, Hitchcock Poetry Fund Award. Purpose: publication of the second edition of Viz. Inter-Arts, a trans-genre anthology series I founded and publish at UC Santa Cruz. (Peer reviewed). $1,980 2008 - 2009 Principal Investigator, Hitchcock Poetry Fund Award. Purpose: launch event and distribution costs for the first edition of Viz. Inter-Arts, a trans-genre anthology series I founded and publish at UC Santa Cruz. (Peer reviewed). 2007 - 2008 Principal Investigator, Hitchcock Poetry Fund award. Purpose: design and print costs associated with the first edition of Viz. Inter-Arts anthology. (Peer reviewed). 2006 - 2007 Principal Investigator, Non-senate Professional Development Fund. Purpose: design of Viz. Inter-Arts, the UCSC anthology I edit. (Peer reviewed). 2006 - 2007 Principal Investigator, Hitchcock Poetry Fund award. Purpose: infrastructure and publication costs associated with the upcoming anthology series, Viz. Inter-Arts. (Peer reviewed). 2005 - 2006 Principal Investigator, Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Fund Grant, Web development: Viz. Inter-Arts anthology series. (Peer reviewed). 2005 - 2006 Principal Investigator, Center for Teaching Excellence Course Development mini-grant: "Literary Magazine Publishing," University of California, Santa Cruz. (Peer reviewed). 2005 - 2006 Principal Investigator, Hitchcock Poetry Fund award. Purpose: funding to establish the foundation of a national inter-arts publication. (Peer reviewed). 2005 - 2006 Principal Investigator, Hitchcock Poetry Fund. Purpose: funding for the continuation of an event series I founded at UCSC: "Trans-Genre II: Poetry and the Inter- Arts," featuring inter-arts panel discussions and Neo-Benshi performances. (Peer-reviewed). 2004 - 2005 Principal Investigator, Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Fund. Purpose: Research for writing project on poet, Anne Waldman. (Travel to University of Michigan to research Waldman's archives in order to write a commissioned article by New York University press.) (Peer reviewed). $1,000 2004 - 2005 Principal Investigator, Non-Senate Faculty Professional Development Fund: Start-up costs for Viz. Inter-Arts, UCSC anthology series. (Peer reviewed). 2004 - 2005 Principal Investigator, Hitchcock Poetry Fund: Purpose: start-up funding to start a new inter-arts print publication for UCSC: Viz: Inter-arts. (Peer reviewed). 2004 - 2005 Principal Investigator, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of California, Santa Cruz: Mini-Grant to found an arts and literary periodical/book: Viz. Inter-Arts. (Peer reviewed).

45 2004 - 2005 Principal Investigator, Hitchcock Poetry Fund, University of California, Santa Cruz: Purpose: organize a campus event bringing together renowned poets and scholars for panels and readings related to the theme: "Poetry in a Time of Crisis." $1,500 2003 - 2004 Principal Investigator, Poets and Writers, California Writers Series Grant. Purpose: organization of launch event in an event series I founded at UCSC: "Trans-Genre I: Poetry and the Inter-Arts": a 3 dayconference featuring renowned poets, scholars, musicians, and performers (panel discussions, readings, performances, and the first-ever Transcontinental Poetry Reading). 2003 - 2004 Principal Investigator, Hitchcock Poetry Fund, University of California, Santa Cruz:Purpose: organization of launch event in an event series I founded at UCSC: "Trans-Genre I: Poetry and the Inter-Arts": a 3 day conference featuring renowned poets, scholars, musicians, and performers. (Peer reviewed). $2,600

WRITINGS AND CREATIVE ACTIVITIES IN PROGRESS

Books In Progress: Book (poetry manuscript)

Edited Books In Progress: Intermedia: Viz. Inter-Arts II: INTERVENTIONS: A Trans-Genre Anthology, Roxanne Power Hamilton, Editor. University of California, Santa Cruz, Viz. Inter-Arts. (Publication date: summer 2012).

Contributions to Books Submitted: Article: "Becoming Benshi": an article forthcoming in Viz. Inter- Arts INTERVENTIONS, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2012.

Journal Articles In Progress: Article: Article on poetry and the gift economy, based on a talk I gave at Naropa University, summer 2011. Requested by an editor of the Columbia Review. INVITED

Performing Arts Submitted: Performance script: re-writing of film script, Streetcar Named Desire, for the purpose of Live Film Narration (Neo-Benshi) performances. Commissioned by the Tennessee Williams Festival director, David Kaplan.) INVITED Submitted: Performance script: Compact Rebel: re-writing of film script, Rebel Without a Cause, for the purpose of Live Film Narration (Neo-Benshi) performances.

PUBLICATIONS AND SCHOLARLY WORK

Edited Books 2007 Published: Book: Viz. Inter-Arts EVENT: A Trans-Genre Anthology, Roxanne Power Hamilton, Editor. University of California, Santa Cruz, Viz. Inter-Arts, 2007.

Contributions to Books 2005 Book Chapter: Published: "Take Everyone to Heaven With Us: Anne Waldman's Poetry Cultures," Eds. Avital Bloch and Lauri Umansky, Impossible to Hold: Women and Culture in the 1960s, NYU Press, 98-125. PEER REVIEWED

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Journal Articles 2003 Article: Published: "Lecturers and the University: Good Relationships Make Good Politics," UCAFT Perspective

Papers in Conference Proceedings 2011 "Poetry and the Gift Economy": a paper delivered at Naropa University, July 2011, on the "Gift Economy" panel. Panelists included Harryette Mullen, Lewis Warsh, Steven Taylor, and Jane Sprague. INVITED

Other Publications 2007 Poetry: "The Bardo of War" in Viz. Inter-Arts Event: A Trans-Genre Anthology, University of California, Santa Cruz 2005 Poetry: "Naturally, One Does Not Know…," in Leslie Scalapino and Judith Goldman eds., War and Peace 2 Anthology, O Books PEER REVIEWED 2004 Poetry: "The Bardo of Dream," Score 19: The Bay Area Poets Issue PEER REVIEWED 2004 Web article: "My Big Fat Queer Wedding," Mindy Bockser, Ed., Bay Area Women's Coalition, San Francisco PEER REVIEWED 2002 Poetry: "Implying a Trip to Wyoming," Red Wheel Barrow 2002 Newspaper Article: "One Lecturer’s Dreams for the Future," City on a Hill Press 1998 Poetry: "Name Outlasting Name," Seneca Review PEER REVIEWED 1994 Poetry: "Pumpjacks," Puerto Del Sol PEER REVIEWED 1993 Poetry: "Letter from the Yucatan," New Mexico Humanities Review PEER REVIEWED 1992 Poetry: "Vanities," Confluence PEER REVIEWED 1992 Poetry: "Could Be a Ringing of Stones," Arizona Literary Review PEER REVIEWED 1991 Poetry: "The Lease," Metis: A Feminist Quarterly PEER REVIEWED 1990 Poetry: "Park Slope with a Mind to Walk," Prism International PEER REVIEWED 1990 Poetry: "Driving that Road to New York to see you," Ithaca Women’s Anthology PEER REVIEWED 1990 Poetry: "Smoke," Ithaca Women’s Anthology PEER REVIEWED 1990 Poetry: "Both And," Ithaca Women’s Anthology PEER REVIEWED 1990 Poetry: "Thanksgiving," The Black Warrior Review won AWP Intro Award PEER REVIEWED 1990 Poetry: "My Last Glacier," Mankato State Review PEER REVIEWED

Art 2007 Group Exhibition: Collaborative art from the pages of Viz. Inter-Arts Event: Trans-Genre Anthology, with Bill Berkson, New York School poets and painters, Guy Debord, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jerome Rothenberg, Amy Trachtenberg, George Hitchcock, Clarence Major, Kenneth Patchen, Mary Kite, and others, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, California. INVITED 2004 Group Exhibition: Photography and writing in The Queer Wedding Album, a traveling exhibit from the San Francisco GLBT Marriages. INVITED

Music

47 2007 Composition: San Francisco State University Poetry Center: Composer/Singer: four songs for the tribute event for Helen Adams, with Kristin Prevallet, Steve Dickison, David Buuck, Chris Stroffolino, Kevin Killian. INVITED 2004 Performance: THE LAB: San Francisco. Composer/performer: "Cabinet of the Muses" Inter-Arts Festival, original compositions (music, poetry, slides) with band, Mobius Operandi. INVITED 2003 Performance: Henry Miller Library, Big Sur: Composer/singer/percussionist: Music/poetry/film performance of original scores with San Francisco band, Mobius Operandi. INVITED 2003 Performance: University of California, Santa Cruz: composer/vocalist/percussionist with San Francisco band, Mobius Operandi, in the first Transcontinental Poetry Reading: A Dedication to Kenneth Koch, with Andrei Codrescu, David Antin, Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, Anselm Hollo, Forrest Gander. Broadcast nationally. INVITED

Performing Arts 2011 Performance: University of California, Santa Cruz, Living Writers Series: composition and performance of a new Neo-Benshi (Live Film Narration) script of Streetcar Named Desire, with Jen Hofer and Konrad Steiner. INVITED 2011 Performance: University of California, Santa Cruz. Neo-Benshi performance (Live Film narration) and lecture about the form for Professor Marcia Ochoa's film course, with Tisa Bryant and Jaime Cortez. INVITED 2008 Performance: Santa Cruz Film Festival: Audience award-winning Neo-Benshi performance (Live Film Narration). INVITED 2008 Performance: University of California, Santa Cruz: performer and event coordinator, "Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice," Art Department Conference: Neo-Benshi (Live film narration) performance following the keynote address by The Harrisons. INVITED 2007 Performance: St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York City: Composer/performer: "Neo-Benshi" (Live Film Narration), with Konrad Steiner, Rodney Koeneke, Vincent Katz, Abigail Childs. INVITED 2007 Performance: The Bowery Poetry Club, New York City: Author/Performer: Premiere Book Launch for Viz. Inter-Arts Event: A Trans-Genre Anthology, with Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Holman, Joan Retallack, Sarah Schulman, Edwin Torres, Kristin Prevallet. INVITED 2007 Performance: The San Francisco Poetry Center and Artists' Access Television: Author/Performer: Viz. Inter-Arts Book launch event, with Steve Dickison, Konrad Steiner, Paul Hoover, Maxine Chernoff, Dore Bowen, MacMcGinnes. INVITED 2007 Performance: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA.: Event coordinator/performer: Viz. Inter-Arts Book Launch event, with Eileen Myles, Bill Berkson, Terry Wolverton, Marie Cartier, Konrad Steiner. INVITED 2007 Performance: Roy and Edna Disney/CAL ARTS Theater, Los Angeles: Composer/performer: "Neo-Benshi", with Eileen Myles, Jen Hofer, Konrad Steiner, Stephanie Young, Nadia Gordon. INVITED 2006 Performance: California College of the Arts/Small Press Traffic annual "Poet's Theater Jamboree", San Francisco: Master of ceremonies/speaker: Poets' Theater and Neo-Benshi, with Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, Colter Jacobson, Ron Palmer, Dennis Somera, Konrad Steiner. INVITED 2005 Performance: San Francisco State University Poetry Center: Composer/Perfomer: "Neo-Benshi" (Live Film Narration), with Konrad Steiner, David Larsen, Stephanie Young, Brandon Brown, Rodney Koeneke, Mac

48 McGinnes, Norma Cole. INVITED 2005 Performance: The San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts: Event co- coordinator/Composer/Performer: "Neo-Benshi: The Latter Day Art of Japanese Film Narration", with Konrad Steiner, David Larsen, Stephanie Young, Brandon Brown, Rodney Koeneke, Mac McGinnes, Norma Cole. INVITED 2005 Performance: University of California, Santa Cruz, Porter College: Event coordinator/performer: Trans-Genre: Poetry and the Inter-Arts II: A Benefit for Vis-à-vis Inter-Arts Broadsides, with Michelle Tea, David Larsen, Stephanie Young, Mac McGinnes, Norma Cole, Konrad Steiner. 2004 Director: Naropa University Summer Writing Program, Boulder, CO. Writer/choreographer of "Epistrophy", a poetry-dance performance with Anne Waldman's poetry graduate students. INVITED 2004 Performance: California College for the Arts, Poets Theater/Small Press Traffic: performance in a revised play by Gertrude Stein, with kari edwards, Rob Halperin, David Larsen and others. INVITED 2003 Performance: Artists' Access Television, San Francisco, Composer/Performer: The first-ever "Neo-Benshi Festival," (Live Film Narration) INVITED

Curation 2007 Curator: The Bowery Poetry Club, New York City: Event coordinator: Premiere Book Launch for Viz. Inter-Arts Event: A Trans-Genre Anthology, with Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Holman, Joan Retallack, Sarah Schulman, Edwin Torres, Kristin Prevallet. INVITED 2007 Curator: City Lights Book Store, San Francisco. Event coordinator, with Peter Maravelis: Premiere West Coast book launch for Viz. Inter-Arts, with Michael McClure, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Hoover, Maxine Chernoff, Stephen Ratcliffe, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Chris Stroffolino. INVITED 2005 Curator: University of California, Santa Cruz, Porter College: Event series founder/coordinator: "Trans-Genre: Poetry and the Inter-Arts" II: A Benefit for Vis-à-vis Inter-Arts Broadsides, with Michelle Tea, David Larsen, Stephanie Young, Mac McGinnes, Norma Cole, Konrad Steiner. 2004 Curator: University of California, Santa Cruz, Porter College: Event coordinator: "Poetry in a Time of Crisis": with Leslie Scalapino, Joanne Kyger, Juliana Spahr, Rob Wilson, Taylor Brady, David Buuck, Jennifer Scappetone, Judith Goldman, Walter Lew (scholarly panels and poetry readings). 2004 Curator: University of California, Santa Cruz, Porter College: Event coordinator: "Poetry in a Time of Crisis": with Leslie Scalapino, Joanne Kyger, Juliana Spahr, Rob Wilson, Taylor Brady, David Buuck, Jennifer Scappetone, Judith Goldman, Walter Lew (scholarly panels and poetry readings). INVITED 2003 Curator: University of California, Santa Cruz: "Trans-Genre I: Poetry and the Inter-Arts," Event series founder/coordinator featuring David Antin, Andrei Codrescu, Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, Anselm Hollo, Forrest Gander, Mobius Operandi (in the first-ever "Transcontinental Poetry Reading) and Robert Gluck, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, K. Silem Mohammad, Rob Halperin, kari edwards, Camille Roy In the New Narrative panel and reading). University of California, Santa Cruz 2003 Curator: University of California, Santa Cruz, Kresge College: Anne Waldman Symposium (with Anne Waldman.) 2003 Curator: University of California, Santa Cruz, Porter College: Event series founder/coordinator: "Trans-Genre I: Poetry and the Inter-Arts," a three-day scholarly and performance event with David Antin, Andrei Codrescu, Anne Waldman, Ron Padgett, Anselm Hollo, Forrest Gander, Mobius Operandi

49 ("Transcontinental Poetry Reading); Robert Gluck, Kevin Killian, Dodie Bellamy, K. Silem Mohammad, Rob Halperin, kari edwards, Camille Roy (New Narrative panels and readings). This event series was the basis for the inter-arts anthology series, Viz. Inter-Arts.

Other Creative Activities 2011 Creative Writing: University of California, Santa Cruz, Writing Program Reading Series: poetry reading with Charles Atkinson, Jeff Arnett, Ingrid Moody, and Robin Somers. 2009 Creative Writing: University of California, Santa Cruz, Writing Program Faculty Reading Series: poetry reading. 2008 Creative Writing: University of California, Santa Cruz, Writing Program Faculty Reading series: poetry reading and lecture on publishing, with Jeff Arnett and Tim Fitzmaurice. 2008 Creative Writing: University of California, Santa Cruz, Living Writers Series: poetry reading and lecture on publishing, with Rob Wilson and Kelly Holt. INVITED 2007 Creative Writing: University of California, Santa Cruz, Porter College: Literary Arts Magazine Publishing launch event for students. A reading with student editors in my Literary Arts Magazine Publishing class. 2007 Creative Writing: "All Poets Welcome" reading series, North Beach, San Francisco: poetry reading with Donna de LaPerierre and Kit Kenned. INVITED 2007 Creative Writing: City Lights Book Store, San Francisco. Event coordinator/Author/Performer: Premiere West Coast book launch for Viz. Inter- Arts, with Michael McClure, Jerome Rothenberg, Paul Hoover, Maxine Chernoff, Stephen Ratcliffe, Jocelyn Saidenberg, Chris Stroffolino. INVITED 2007 Creative Writing: Moe's Book Store, Berkeley, CA. Event coordinator/Author/Performer: Viz. Inter-Arts Book launch event, Fall, with Michelle Tea, Laura Moriarty, Sean Finney, Gary Gach. INVITED 2007 Creative Writing: Modern Times Book Store, San Francisco: Event coordinator/Author/Performer: Viz. Inter-Arts Book launch event, with Kevin Killian, Taylor Brady, Rob Halperin, Stephen Vincent, Amanda Davis. INVITED 2006 Creative Writing: University of California, Santa Cruz: Writing Program Faculty Reading series; poetry reading with Tim Fitzmaurice. 2005 Creative Writing: University of California, Santa Cruz, Porter College: George Hitchcock Tribute (poetry reading), with George Hitchcock, David Swanger, Chuck Atkinson, Dennis Morton. INVITED 2005 Creative Writing: California College for the Arts, San Francisco: Book release poetry reading for War and Peace 2 Anthology, with Leslie Scalapino, Judith Goldman, and other readers. Small Press Traffic Reading series. INVITED 2004 Creative Writing: University of California, Santa Cruz, Porter College: poetry reading and panel moderator: "Poetry in a Time of Crisis": with Leslie Scalapino, Joanne Kyger, Juliana Spahr, Rob Wilson, Taylor Brady, David Buuck, Jennifer Scappetone, Judith Goldman, Walter Lew (scholarly panels and poetry readings). 2004 Creative Writing: "The Bay Area Poetry Marathon", 21 Grand, Oakland. Poetry reading with Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Bin Ramke, Rusty Morrison, Rodney Koeneke. INVITED 2002 Creative Writing: University of California, Santa Cruz Living Writers Series: poetry reading as launch event for The Red Wheelbarrow in The Arboretum with Rob Wilson, Charles Atkinson, and K. Silem Mohammad. INVITED

50 2000 Creative Writing: Santa Cruz Dance Gallery: Poetry reading with musical performance. INVITED 1999 Creative Writing: Colorado College: feature poetry reading INVITED 1998 Creative Writing: Hobart and William Smith Colleges (New York): Poetry Readings (4), 1992- 1998 INVITED 1991 Creative Writing: Cornell University Writers Read series: poetry readings (6), 1988-1991 INVITED

UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Service to the Division 2005 - 2007 NSF member: Ad Hoc Committee on Workload Issues in Writing /Santa Cruz Campus

Service to the College 2010 Member: Kresge Honors Review Committee, Spring 2010 (reviewed the files of top Kresge students for College Honors) 2005 - Founder/organizer, Porter College "Literary Arts Magazine Publishing" annual festival for 2008 UCSC student magazines 2005 Founder/editor of Viz. Inter-Arts anthology series, Porter College 2005 Porter College: introduction of new course to curriculum, "Literary Magazine Publishing," Spring 2004 Member: Kresge Core Course "Power and Representation" redesign committee 2003 Kresge Core Honors Course (development and instruction), Fall

Service to the Department 2011 - Member: Writing Program, Research committee ongoing 2010 - Chair: Writing Program, C2 Curriculum and pedagogy committee ongoing 2008 Member: Writing Program subcommittee to review Writing 1 and 2 course offerings 2005 - 2011 Member: Writing Program workload committee 2005 Member: Writing Program/Core C2 planning group 2004 Event coordinator and instructor for Community Studies "Queer Arts and Activism Gayla" event, Kresge Town Hall 2004 - 2008 Faculty Advisor for new student media publication, Vis-à-vis Inter-Arts Broadsides, Literature and Porter College. 2004 Writing Program C2 pilot program instructor (Kresge College) 2002 Member: Writing Program, Writing 1 Assessment Committee 1998 Member: Women’s Studies Department, Feminist Faculty Research Colloquium

Other Service to the Campus 2008 "Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice" conference planning committee, University of California, Santa Cruz, spring 2003 - Member, UC-AFT Unit 18 ongoing 2005 - 2008 Queer faculty/curriculum planning, University of California, Santa Cruz 2005 - 2007 Elected as Statewide Representative of University Council, American Federation of Teachers, UCSC

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OUTSIDE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Public Lecture or Forum Participation 2011 "Poetry and the Gift Economy": a paper presented at the "Gift Economy" panel of the Naropa University Summer Writing Program. Other participants included Lewis Warsh, Harryette Mullen, Steven Taylor, and Jane Sprague. PEER REVIEWED INVITED 2008 Lecture on inter-arts publishing: University of California, Santa Cruz Living Writers Series INVITED 2008 Lecture on Same-Sex Marriage in California, Practical Activism conference, University of California, Santa Cruz (forthcoming) INVITED 2007 Lecture on inter-arts publishing: Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, California INVITED 2007 Lecture on inter-arts publishing: The San Francisco State University Poetry Center, San Francisco INVITED 2006 Lecture on "Neo-Benshi" and silent-film era Japanese film-telling at California College on the Arts, San Francisco INVITED 2005 San Francisco State University, Lecture, "The Business of Creative Writing: Literary Magazine Publishing," Fall INVITED 2005 Speech: "Violence in the Queer Community," at "Take Back the Night Rally," University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring INVITED 2005 Introduction of poet Amiri Baraka for "Kinetic Poetics" event, Porter College, UCSC, Winter INVITED 2005 "What is an 'Event'? Situationist models for writing events":a talk delivered at Naropa University Summer Writing Program. 2004 Lecture at "Same-Sex Marriage Teach-in," College 9-10, UCSC, Spring INVITED 2004 Lecture: "Feminist Response to Same-Sex Marriage" at "Practical Activism" conference, College 9-10, UCSC, Fall INVITED 2004 Introduction of Visiting writer, Terry Wolverton for Living Writers Series, UCSC INVITED 2003 Introduction of Visiting poet, Ron Padget for Living Writers Series, UCSC INVITED 2003 Guest lecture, "Poetic Fields: Open and Closed," LTCR 10, Introduction to Creative Writing, UCSC INVITED 2002 Guest lecture, "Poetic Form," LTCR 10, Introduction to Creative Writing, UCSC INVITED 2002 Speeches (numerous) at labor rallies for the University Council of American Federated Teacher INVITED 2000 Colorado College, "Queer Revolutions" conference, lecture: "Feminist and Queer," Spring INVITED 1999 Colorado College, "Queer Revelations" conference/lecture: "Teaching Trans Issues," Fall INVITED 1998 Moderator, Feminist Theory Conference, Hobart and William Smith Colleges INVITED 1997 Lecture, "What is Feminist Poetry?" King’s College, London INVITED

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings 1994 "Identity Trouble: Homelessness on Cather’s Prairie," paper presented at theNational Graduate Women’s Studies Conference, University of California, San Diego, Spring

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Conferences and Meetings 2008 Co-coordinator and performer at "Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice," University of California, Santa Cruz, Spring INVITED 2004 Event Coordinator: Poetry in a Time of Crisis, University of California, Santa Cruz 2003 Event Coordinator: Trans-Genre Poetry and the Inter-Arts New Narrative Panel 2000 Event director of Queer Revolutions conference, Colorado College, Spring INVITED 1999 Event director of Queer Revelations conference, Colorado College, Fall INVITED

Memberships or Activities in Professional Associations 2008 Member, Conference on College Composition and Communication/National Council of Teachers of English 2006 Coordinator, National Women's Studies Association Creative Writing Series, 2006 conference PEER REVIEWED INVITED 2005 Member, UCSC Queer/Sexuality Studies planning committee INVITED 2003 Member, Poetry and Politics Research Cluster, UCSC 2000 - 2002 University Council, American Federation of Teachers, UCSC 1998 - 1999 Feminist Faculty Research Colloquium, UCSC 1996 - 1998 Regional Adjunct Faculty Organizing Project, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1996 - 1998 Committee for form the Program in Sexuality and Culture Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges INVITED 1996 Discourse and Resistance: a curricular planning and reading group, Hobart and William Smith Colleges INVITED 1995 - 1998 Writing Tutor training for Summer Writing Program, Hobart and William Smith Colleges 1994 - 1998 Program Developer: Summer Writing Program for EOP students, Intercultural Affairs, Hobart and William Smith Colleges INVITED 1990 - 1992 Committee to form the Minor Field in Lesbian, Bisexual, and Gay Studies, Cornell University INVITED 1990 Native American Curriculum Committee, Cornell University 1988 - 1992 Organizer, "Writers At Cornell Read" Reading Series, Cornell University INVITED

Editorial Services 2005 - ongoing Editor and Founder, Viz. Inter-Arts Publication PEER REVIEWED INVITED 1992 Poetry Editor, Epoch Literary Magazine, Cornell University INVITED 1988 - 1991 Staff Editor, Epoch Literary Magazine, Cornell University INVITED 1988 Public Relations Manager, Epoch Literary Magazine, Cornell University INVITED

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