Kurt Heinzelman, Professor, Department of English 10/2010

B.A. (with Honors, summa cum laude in English—Middlebury College, 1969) M.A. (Bread Loaf School of English, 1972) Ph.D. (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1978)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: Judge, Dylan Thomas Prize, 2010, 2008, 2006 Judge, Cardiff International Competition, 2009 Appointed Faculty Affiliate, Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies, 2009-present Advisory Board, TEXT: The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs, 2008-present Editor-in-Chief, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 2007-present Advisory Council, Cunda Workshop/Conference, Bogaziçi Universitesi, Turkey, 2006-present Advisory Board, Alzheimers National Poetry Project, 2005-present Board of Directors, Dylan Thomas Award, Swansea, , 2004-present Editorial Board, Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 2002-07 Founding Advisory Editor, Bat City Review, 2004-09; Editor-at large, 2009- present Board of Directors, Rude Mechanicals Theater Company, 1999-2003 President, Wordsworth-Coleridge Society, 1992-94 Founding Editor, The Poetry Miscellany, 1971-78; Editor-at-large, 1981-86

UNIVERSITY/DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE (Recent): Interim Director of Education, The Blanton Museum of Art, 2009-10 Director, Creative Writing Program, English Department, 2007-09 University Fulbright Selection Committee, 2005-06; Chair, 2006 Master Teacher, Telluride Foundation National Summer Course, 2006 Advisory Council, University Libraries, Univ. of Texas; Chair, Research & Special Collections Committee, 2006-present Executive Curator, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, 2002-05 Faculty Advisory Panel, "Social Entrepreneurship and Non-Profits," Bridging Disciplines Program, Univ. of Texas, 2005-present Faculty Committee to create UT Museum Studies Program, 2005-06 Advisory Council, Plan II Honors Program, Univ. of Texas, 2002-present

HONORS/GRANTS: Texas Poetry Calendar annual awards, second place, 2008 Elected Fellow, Texas Institute of Letters, 2005 Pushcart Prize Nominations, 2004 and 1978 Natalie Ornish Poetry Award for Best Poetry Volume of the Year, Runner-up, 2000 and 2004 Featured Author, Texas Festival, 2001 and 2004 Visiting Fellow, Rockefeller Institute, Bellagio, Italy, 2004 2

Academic Consultant for various successful grants: 2007—from Bridgeway Foundation for the University Libaries ($1 million); 2004—from Mellon Foundation for HRC Fellowships ($800,000); 2004—from Mellon Foundation and Newberry Library for Vernacular-Language Paleography Institute ($80,000); 2004—from Herzstein Foundation for HRC to acquire Forzinetti/Dreyfus Archive ($300,000) Fellow, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, 1982-83 A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book of the Year," 1980 Fellow, Fulbright Foundation, Edinburgh University, 1977-78 Best Poems of 1979: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards Anthology, 1977

TEACHING AREAS: Taught widely in the undergraduate curriculum, in the fields of British, American, and World Literature, earning a number of teaching award nominations. Graduate teaching has focused on British Romanticism, the history and practice of English poetry and poetics, including literary translation, and creative writing.

BOOKS and JOURNALS EDITED: Jean Follain: Demarcations. Translation of Territoires [Gallimard, 1953]; Host Publications, forthcoming 2011 The Names They Found There. San Antonio: Pecan Grove Press, forthcoming 2010 Black Butterflies. Privately published, 2004 The Covarrubias Circle: Nickolas Muray’s Collection of 20th-Century Mexican Art, general editor and introduction. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2004. [Nominee, Leab Best Exhibition Catalog Award, American Library Association] Make It New: The Rise of Modernism, general editor. Austin: Univ. of Texas Press and HRC, 2003. [Nominee, Leab Best Exhibition Catalog Award, American Library Association] The Halfway Tree. Privately published, 2000 Romans and Romantics, general editor, special issue of Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 33.2 (Summer 1991), 201 pp. The Economics of the Imagination. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. edition, Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 1984.

EXHIBITIONS and PERFORMANCES: "If These Walls Could Speak": The Blanton Poetry Project, co-curated with D'Arcy Randall, Blanton Museum of Art, 2008-present. See also http://blantonmuseum.org/elearning/blantonpoetry/index.html "Clock Knot Square Dance." Commissioned for the dedication of the sculpture "Clock Knot" by Mark di Suvero, University of Texas Landmarks Series: Art in Public Places, September 26, 2008. “Stopping By Words: A Monologue,” Phrasings ~ In Word and Dance, ed. Carla Shafer, Chuckanut Sandstone Review, 2008: 6-10. Selected by open national competition and performed by Bellingham Repertory Dance Company in conjunction with Chuckanut 3

Sandstone Writers Theater, Firehouse Performing Arts Center, Bellingham, Washington, choreographed by Pam Kuntz, Angela Kiser, and Ella Mahler, performed by Pam Kuntz, April 2008. Also auditioned by Pam Kuntz for “On the Boards” and selected for performance in the “Twelve Minutes Max” series, Seattle, Washington, June 2008 Technologies of Writing, lead curator, Ransom Galleries, 350 items, 23 cases, 20 walls, January-August, 2006 20 X 20: Twenty American Poets of the Twentieth Century, sole curator, Ransom Galleries, 130 items, 12 cases, 10 walls, 20,000 words of text panels and labels: 2004. Make It New: The Rise of Modernism, secondary curator, Ransom Galleries, 350 items, 2003-04.

ARTICLES: "Lord Byron and the Invention of Celebrity," Southwest Review 93.4 (2008): 489-501 “Rubbish and Aura: Archival Economics,” in Beyond Price: In Search of Cultural Value, eds. David Throsby and Michael Hutter, (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007). pp. 106-23. "'Early One Morning' by Heinrich Heine, Translation, vol. 2 (2007), pp. 153-57. "'Make It New': The Rise of an Idea," in Make It New: The Rise of Modernism, (Austin: Harry Ransom Center, 2003; Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 2004) ), pp. 130-33 (double-column, oversize page) "The Reader, The Book, The Library," Guide to the Collections (Austin: Harry Ransom Center, 2003), pp. 6-9. "Interview with Kurt Heinzelman," by Jenny Browne, http://www.borderlands.org/webaudio/heinzelman/index.html (2001) "Millennarial Poetics," Raritan XIX.4 (Spring 2000): 148-58. "Poetry and Real Estate: Wordsworth as Developer," Southwest Review 84.4 (Autumn, 1999): 573-88. "The Last Georgic: Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations," in Texts in Culture: "The Wealth of Nations," eds. Stephen Copley and Kathryn Sutherland, Manchester University Press (England), 1995, pp. 171-94. "The Uneducated Imagination: Romantic Representations of Labor," in At The Limits of Romanticism, eds. Mary Favret and Nicola Watson, Indiana University Press (1994), 101-24. "Rhetoric, Economics, and the Scene of Instruction," in "L'imaginaire économique," a special issue of Stanford French Review, ed. Philippe Desan, 15 (1991), 349-71. "Roman Georgic in The Georgian Age: A Theory of Romantic Genre," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 33.2 (Summer 1991), 182-214. "American Poetry 1988," Massachusetts Review 30 (Spring 1989), 137- 176.

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"Crossing the Wye--Or, Why Value Landscape?" The Maine Scholar 1 (1988, Inaugural Issue), 171-91. "Politics, Memory, and the Lyric: Collaboration as Style in Byron's Hebrew Melodies," in "Beginning Byron's Third Century," special issue ed. Karl Kroeber, Studies in Romanticism, 27 (Winter 1988), 515-27. "The Cult of Domesticity: Dorothy and William Wordsworth at Grasmere," in Romanticism and Feminism, ed. Anne K. Mellor (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988), 52-78. "Self-Interest and the Politics of Composition in Keats's 'Isabella,'" English Literary History 55 (Spring 1988), 159-93. "Williams and Stevens: The Vanishing-Point of Resemblance." Library Chronicle n.s. 29 (1984), 85-113. Rpt. WCW and Others. Eds. D. Oliphant and T. Zigal, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin (1985), 85-113. "Telling Stories: In Search of the Contemporary 'Long Poem'," The Poetry Miscellany, 13 (1983), 53-60. "Texts That We Own, Texts That We Do Not Own: Theories of Economic and Aesthetic Response," The Society for Critical Exchange Reports, 10 (1981), 10-32. "Byron's Poetry of Politics: The Economic Basis of the 'Poetical Character,' " in "Romanticism and Criticism," special issue ed. Walter Reed, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 23, 3 (Fall 1981), 361-88. Rpt. Critical Essays on Lord Byron, ed. Robert F. Gleckner (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1991). "Indigenous Art: The Poetry of Wendell Berry," Cencrastus [Scotland], 2 (Spring 1980), 34-37. "William Blake and the Economics of the Imagination," Modern Language Quarterly, 39, 2 (June 1978), 99-120. " 'Cold Consolation': The Art of Milton's Last Sonnet," Milton Studies X, ed. James D. Simmonds (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1977), 111-25. "Blake's Golden Word," English Language Notes, 15, 1 (Sept. 1977), 33- 38. "Staging the Poem: William Carlos Williams's A Dream of Love," Contemporary Literature, 18, 4 (Autumn 1977), 491-508.

POEMS and in periodicals: See Arion, Blue Mesa Review, Borderlands, Callaloo, Dirty Goat, Ekphrasis, Georgia Review, Luna, Marlboro Review, Massachusetts Review, Nimrod, Notre Dame Review, Poetry (Chicago), Poetry Northwest, Translation, Texas Observer, World Leaders' Favourite Poems: A Book of Peace (Parthian , 2008), and many others.