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CURRICULUM VITAE STEPHEN FREDMAN

HOME ADDRESS 16407 Waterton Square Cir., Granger, IN 46530 574-243-1747; mobile: 574-514-6980

PRESENT Emeritus Professor of English, University of Notre Dame POSITION 356 O’Shaughnessy, Notre Dame, IN 46556 574-631-7555; fax: 574-631-4795, [email protected]

EMPLOYMENT Chair of the English Department, University of Notre Dame (2003-6) HISTORY Joseph Morahan Director, Arts & Letters Core Course (1999-2002) Director of Undergraduate Studies, English Department (1992-95) Professor, University of Notre Dame (1993-2017) Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame (1986-93) Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame (1980-86)

EDUCATION 1977-80: Ph.D., Stanford University Major: Modern Thought and Literature 1975: M.A., Sonoma State University Major: English 1970-71: B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA Major: Critical Studies 1967-69: University of California, Berkeley 1966-67: Pomona College, Claremont, CA

DISSERTATION “SENTENCES: Three Works of American Prose Poetry” Director: Albert Gelpi; Readers: Herbert Lindenberger, John Felstiner

HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS

Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts publication subvention (2016) Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C. Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (2012) Notre Dame Library Acquisitions Grant for purchasing a portion of the Robert Creeley Collection (2011; $125,000) Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts publication subvention (2009) Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts publication subvention (2008) Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Miscellaneous Research and Materials Grant (2008) Notre Dame Faculty Research Program Award (2008) Appointed to Profession Advisory Committee by MLA Executive Council (2007 & 2008). David Gray Chair Library Fellow, SUNY Buffalo, awarded for research on Robert Duncan in the Poetry/Rare Books Collection, May-June 2006. Alternate, American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2006-7). A Menorah for Athena nominated for Koret Jewish Book Award (2002). Appointed first Joseph Morahan Director, Arts & Letters Core Course Program (1999-2002). Inducted into The Guide (student evaluations of teachers) “Hall of Fame” (1996). National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1995). Lilly Faculty Open Fellowship (1991-92).

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Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Summer Stipend (1989). Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Summer Award for New Course Preparation (1988). Chosen as Collegiate Mentor in College of Arts and Letters. A portion of The Chilean Spring chosen for Editor’s Choice II: Poetry, Fiction & Art from the U.S. Small Press (1978-1983) (1987). Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Summer Stipend (1984). Poet’s Prose nominated for a Pulitzer Prize (1983). Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D., American Council of Learned Societies (1982). National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1982). Summer Grant, College of Arts & Letters (1981). Stanford Fellowship (1977-80). Listed, Directory of American Scholars, Directory of American Poets, and Who’s Who in America. Books and manuscripts collected by Archive for New Poetry, U.C. San Diego and Poetry Collection, SUNY Buffalo. Commissioned by University of California, San Diego to translate Lope de Vega’s play San Diego de Alcalá (performed 1976). National Merit Finalist (1966).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

20C and 21C American poetry and poetics; prose poetry; poetry and performance art; California culture; collage theory; Judaism & Modernism; Indic thought and its impact upon American culture; translation theory.

TEACHING 1980-2017: University of Notre Dame EXPERIENCE: University Service Courses: First Year Composition University Seminar (Introduction to American Poetry) Honors Humanities Seminar (yearlong) Ideas, Images & Values (yearlong Sophomore Core Course) College Seminar (California Culture; American Culture as Collage)

English Major Courses: American Literary Traditions 19C American Literature Survey 20C American Literature Survey Major 19C American Authors Transcendentalists Passage to India (American Transcendentalists meet Indic texts) Poetry and Theory Modern American Poets Recent American Poets Age of Collage: Poetry, Art, Film & Video (team-taught) Poetry and Performance Art The Ethics of Performance (team-taught with David O’Connor) Modern Jewish Writers

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London in the Imagination of Modern American Poets Grand Collage: California Poetry, Arts, & Culture Voice of the People: Lawrence, Lorca, and Hughes American Culture as Collage Black Mountain Poetry

Graduate Courses: Modern American Poetry Charles Olson & the Poetics of Postmodernism The American Long Poem Postmodern Poetry & Literary History The Objectivist Strain in American Poetry Objectivism & Ethnopoetics From Image to Object in American Poetry 20C American Poetry and Poetics Poetics: Modern & Contemporary (team-taught with Gerald Bruns) 20C American Poetry and Media Poet’s Prose

DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED

Semyon Khokhlov, “Marcel Duchamp, Gertrude Stein, and the Modernist Loss of Autonomy” (2016).

Joel Duncan, “The Song in the Machine: Organic Forms of American Poetry” (co-directed with Laura Walls, 2016).

Yugon Kim, “Imagining the Radical Middle: Asian Philosophy and Contemporary American Avant-Garde Poetry” (2015).

Todd Thorpe, “Future Pastoral: Poetry, Modernity, and Urbanization from Twentieth- Century Chicago to Twenty-First-Century London” (in progress, co-directed with Romana Huk).

Kristina Jipson, “New Spiritualism: Approaching the Dead in Twenty-First-Century American Poetry” (2014).

Chris Chapman, “Taboo: The Actual Modernist Aesthetic, Made Real” (2011).

Craig Woelfel, “The Varieties of Aesthetic Experience: Religious Experience and Literary Modernism” (2010).

Kaplan Harris, “The Inherited Self: Autobiography and History in American Avant-Garde Poetry” (2003).

Ranen Omer-Sherman, “‘Finding One’s Own Jerusalem’: The Jewish American Narrative Imagination and the Rhetoric of Zionism” (2000).

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Grant Jenkins, “Totally Bound: Tracing a Levinasian Ethics from Objectivism to Language Poetry” (1999, co-directed with Krzysztof Ziarek).

Feng Lan, “Poundian Confucianism: A Modernist Counterdiscourse” (1997).

Sharon LaBranche, “Denise Levertov and the Ethics of Poetry: A Legacy of Romantic Vision and Revision” (1995).

Linda (Taylor) Kinnahan, “Networks of Empowerment: Feminine Poetics and Tradition in the Works of William Carlos Williams, Denise Levertov, and Kathleen Fraser” (1990).

Brian Conniff, “The Lyric and Modern Poetry” (1984, co-directed with John Matthias).

PUBLICATIONS

Monographs American Poetry as Transactional Art. Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, Forthcoming, 2020.

Contextual Practice: Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. xv + 221 pp. Cloth.

A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ix + 193 pp. Cloth and paper.

The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993. xii + 168 pp. Cloth and paper.

Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse. Second edition. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. xvi + 194 pp. Cloth and paper.

Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture. Cambridge, England and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. x +173 pp. Cloth. Nominated for Pulitzer Prize.

Editorial Projects Robert Creeley and Marisol. Presences: A Text for Marisol, A Critical Edition. Ed. Stephen Fredman. Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth-Century American Poetics. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2018. xxvi + 166. Cloth.

How Long Is the Present: Selected Talk Poems of David Antin. Edited, with an introduction and an interview, by Stephen Fredman. Recencies Series: Research and Recovery in Twentieth- Century American Poetics. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2014. xxiv + 381 pp. Paper.

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Form, Power, and Person in Robert Creeley's Life and Work. Edited by Stephen Fredman and Steve McCaffery. Contemporary North American Poetry Series. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010. xiii + 251 pp. Cloth.

A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Edited by Stephen Fredman. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2005. xxvii + 258 pp. Cloth and paper.

“First Annotations to Edward Dorn’s Gunslinger.” Stephen Fredman and Grant Jenkins. Sagetrieb 15.3: “Edward Dorn: Special Issue” (Winter 1996, pub. 1998): 57-176.

Intersections of the Lyrical and the Philosophical. A special issue of Sagetrieb (12.3 [Summer 1993], pub. 1995), edited by Stephen Fredman and Henry Weinfield. 164 pp.

Interviews Roadtesting the Language: An Interview with Edward Dorn. Documents for New Poetry I. La Jolla: Archive for New Poetry, University of California, San Diego, 1978. 45 pp. Paper. Reprinted in Edward Dorn. Interviews. Ed. Donald Allen. Bolinas, CA: Four Seasons Foundation, 1980. 64-106.

Translations Fernando Alegría. The Chilean Spring. Translated by Stephen Fredman. Pittsburgh: Latin American Literary Review Press, 1980. 166 pp. Cloth and paper. (Novel)

Angeles de la Rosa and C. Gandia de Fernández. Flavors of Mexico. Translated by Stephen Fredman. San Francisco: 101 Productions, 1978. Paper. (Cookbook)

Lope de Vega. San Diego de Alcalá. Translated by Stephen Fredman. Performed at University of California, San Diego, 1976, Dir. Peter Klein, Dramatic Arts Department. The Journal of San Diego History 24.1 (Winter 1978): 25-77. (Play)

Federico García Lorca. Poet in New York. Translated by Stephen Fredman. San Francisco: Fog Horn Press, 1975. 55 pp. Paper. (Poetry)

Acting “The Narrator” in John Matthias, “Ballet Mécanique: A Spread-Spectrum Ecstasy.” University of Notre Dame, September 8, 2010; University of Chicago, April 21, 2011.

Video Works William Bronk Reading. June 18, 1996. The poet reads from his Selected Poems at home in Hudson Falls, NY. Production, direction, and camera work by Stephen Fredman. Introduced by Henry Weinfield. http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Bronk.php

Poetry Seaslug. Back cover statement by Robert Duncan. San Francisco (Printed at Panjandrum Press), 1973. 40 pp. Paper.

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Projects Underway Craving Experience: American Poetry and Performance Art in the Wake of John Dewey. In Art as Experience (1934), Dewey posits art as having the nature of a fully lived experience. This notion of experience becomes the catalyst for a wide range of groundbreaking artistic activity in which bodily experience and the present moment become dominant concerns. Chapters include: “Hewing to Experience,” “A Pragmatist Aesthetics for the 1930s,” “Poetry and Performance at Black Mountain College,” “Early Postmodernism in Poetry, Philosophy, and Happenings,” “The Plan is the Body,” “Storytelling and Communicable Experience.”

Contributions to Journals, Collections, etc.

Articles “Poetry of All Poetries: Robert Duncan at 100.” Poetry Foundation, February 7, 2019. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/148874/poetry-of-all-poetries. 3700 words.

“David Antin and Robert Duncan in San Diego.” Golden Handcuffs Review 24 (2018): 48-50.

“Robert Creeley.” American National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2016: http://www.anb.org/articles/16/16-03936.html. 1500 words.

“Form and Experience: Dewey, Objectivism, and the Origins of American Postmodernism.” Daniel Morris and Paul Cappucci eds. William Carlos Williams Review 32.1-2 (2015): 33-52.

“Judaism as Loss in the Poetry of Michael Heller.” Jonathan Curley and Burt Kimmelman eds. The Poetry and Poetics of Michael Heller: A Nomad Memory. Madison, NJ: Roman and Littlefield/Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015. 121-30.

“The Contemporaries: A Reading of Charles Olson’s ‘The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs.’” “Charles Olson at the Century: A Projective and Archival Reconsideration,” ed. Steve McCaffery. Open Letter 15.2 (2013): 25-39. Reprinted in David Herd, ed. Contemporary Olson. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2015. 181-94.

“San Francisco and the Beats.” The Cambridge History of American Poetry. Eds. Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 823-43.

“The Audio File Audiophile: Listening for Ambient Poetry.” Feedback (weblog of Open Humanities Press): http://openhumanitiespress.org/feedback/literature/the-audio-file- audiophile-listening-for-ambient-poetry/. 2013. 2000 words.

“Symposium of the Whole: Jerome Rothenberg and the Dream of ‘A Poetry of All Poetries.’” Reading Duncan Reading. Ed Stephen Collis and Graham Lyons. Contemporary North American Poetry Series. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2012. 151-71.

“Before Caesar’s Gate, Robert Duncan Comes to Grief: The Vietnam War and the ‘Unengendered Child.’” (Re:)Working the Ground: Essays on the Late Writings of Robert

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Duncan. Ed. James Maynard. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 55-75. Reprinted from Contextual Practice.

“Art as Experience: A Deweyan Background to Charles Olson’s Esthetics.” Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry, 6.13, Issue on Modernisms (Fall 2010): 12-21.

“Creeley’s Contextual Practice: Interviews, Conversations, and Collaborations.” Form, Power, and Person in Robert Creeley's Life and Work. Ed. Stephen Fredman and Steve McCaffery. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010. 181-202.

“Introduction.” Form, Power, and Person in Robert Creeley's Life and Work. Ed. Stephen Fredman and Steve McCaffery. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2010. 1-15.

“Forms of Visionary Collage: Harry Smith and the Poets.” Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular. Eds. Andrew Perchuk and Rani Singh. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2009. 225-51.

“Introduction to Edward Dorn.” Jacket 32 (April 2007): http://www.jacketmagazine.com/32/fredman-dorn.shtml (2000 words).

“Surrealism Meets Kabbalah: The Place of Semina in Mid-Century California Poetry and Art.” American Poetry: Walt Whitman to the Present. Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature 18. Eds. Robert Rehder and Patrick Vincent. Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 2006. 151-174. Reprinted on the PEPC (Penn Electronic Poetry Center): http://writing.upenn.edu/library/Fredman-Stephen_Semina.html

“Surrealism Meets Kabbalah: Wallace Berman and the Semina Poets.” Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle. Eds. Andrew Duncan and Kristine McKenna. New York: D.A.P./Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2005. 40-48.

“Mysticism: Neo-paganism, Buddhism, and Christianity.” A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Stephen Fredman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 191- 211.

“Introduction.” A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Ed. Stephen Fredman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 1-10.

“Lyn Hejinian’s Inquiry into the Relationship between Language and the Person.” West Coast Line 35.3 (2002): 60-72. Reprinted in Michelle Lee, ed., Poetry Criticism 108. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Gale, 2010.

“‘And All Now Is War’: Charles Olson, George Oppen, and the Problem of Literary Generations.” The Objectivist Nexus. Eds. Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain. University of Alabama Press, 1999. 286-93.

“Allen Ginsberg and Lionel Trilling: The Hasid and the Mitnaged.” Religion and Literature 30.3 (1998): 67-76.

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“‘How to Get Out of the Room That Is the Book?’: Paul Auster and the Consequences of Confinement.” Postmodern Culture 6.3 (May 1996): online, 15,000 words. Reprinted in Harold Bloom, ed. Paul Auster. Modern Critical Views. Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2004. 7-41.

“Call Him Charles.” Sagetrieb 13.1-2 (Fall & Spring 1994, pub. 1995): 55-81.

“Intersections of the Lyrical and the Philosophical.” Introduction to Sagetrieb 12.3 (Summer 1993, pub. 1995): 7-11.

“Williams, Eliot, and American Poetic Tradition.” Twentieth Century Literature 35.3 (Fall 1989): 235-53.

“Solitude at Walden Pond.” Darshan 2.8 (1988).

“Robert Creeley on the Ground.” North Dakota Quarterly 55.4 (Fall 1987): 89-102.

“American Poet’s Prose and the Crisis of Verse.” American Poetry 1.1 (Fall 1983): 49-63.

“Why American Poets Write Prose.” PN Review 9.6 (1983): 10-11.

“Not Understanding: For Walter Benjamin.” O.ARS 3: “Translations: Experiments in Reading” (1983): 19-23.

“The New American Poetry.” PN Review 9.2 (1982): 42-44.

“Michael Palmer’s Order.” WCH WAY 2.2 (Spring 1976): np.

“Out Loud.” Panjandrum 4 (Fall 1975): 20-22.

“Notes on Antin.” Vort 3.1 (1975): 64-67.

“DESIRE*STAR*DREAM.” Open Reading 3 (Spring 1973): 5-7.

“Letters to David Meltzer.” Tree 3 (Winter 1972): 169-71.

Reviews and Review Essays

W. Scott Howard and Broc Rossell, eds. Poetics and Practice ‘After’ Objectivism. ALH Online Review, Series XXI (2020), https://academic.oup.com/alh/pages/the-alh-online- review-series-21.

“On Edward Dorn” (Collected Poems). Review essay. Chicago Review 58.2 (Winter 2014): 123- 31.

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Cary Nelson, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry. Modern Language Review 109 (July 2014): 791-4.

Marjorie Perloff, The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage. “Marjorie Perloff: A Celebration,” Jacket2, November 8, 2012, http://jacket2.org/article/poetics-indeterminacy- rimbaud-cage.

Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris, eds., Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture. Modernism/Modernity 17.4 (November 2010): 947-9.

Daniel Kane, We Saw the Light: Conversations between the New American Cinema and Poetry. Textual Practice 23 (2009): 1074-77.

Max Cavitch, American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman. Early American Literature 43 (2008): 733-4.

“A Response to Jeffrey J. Kripal’s ‘From Altered States to Altered Categories (and Back Again): Academic Method and the Human Potential Movement.’” The Religion & Culture Web Forum, Martin Marty Center, University of Chicago Divinity School, April 2007 (700 words). https://cforum.uchicago.edu/viewtopic.php?t=42

Charles Reznikoff, The Poems of Charles Reznikoff 1918-1975, ed. Seamus Cooney. Shofar 25.3 (Spring 2007): 220-2.

Robert Duncan, Letters: Poems 1853-1956. Notre Dame Review 19 (2005): 97-103.

Marjorie Perloff, 21st-Century Modernism. Symploke 13.1-2 (2005): 340-2.

Geoff Ward, Statutes of Liberty: The New York School of Poets, 2nd ed. American Literature 74.3 (2002): 664-66.

“Breakthrough Books: Literary Modernism.” Lingua Franca 10.2 (March 2000): 14-15.

Lawrence Rainey and Robert von Hallberg, eds. Modernism/Modernity. Sagetrieb 13.3 (Winter 1994, pub. 1996); 153.

Barbara Einzig, Distance Without Distance. Talisman 14 (Fall 1995); 85-89.

Michael Davidson, The San Francisco Renaissance. Resources for American Literary Study 21.1 (1995); 17-72.

Tim Redman, Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism. History of European Ideas 18.5 (1994); 818-19.

Alison Reike, The Senses of Nonsense. American Literature 65.3 (1993); 589-90.

H. Daniel Peck, ed., The Green American Tradition: Essays and Poems for Sherman Paul. New England Quarterly 63.2 (1990): 343-45.

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Margaret Dickie, On the Modernist Long Poem. American Literature 60 (1988): 506-7.

Charles Altieri, Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry. English Language Notes 24.1 (1986): 98-99.

Robert Creeley, Collected Poems and Charles Olson, The Maximus Poems. American Poetry 1.3 (1984): 93-5.

“Paul Blackburn the Translator.” Chicago Review 30.3 (Winter 1979): 152-6.

David Antin, talking at the boundaries. San Francisco Review of Books 2.9 (1977): 18-19.

George Steiner, After Babel. San Francisco Review of Books 2.3-4 (1976): 20-22.

Poetry and Translations

Fernando Alegría. The Chilean Spring. Translated by Stephen Fredman. Reprint (in part) in Editor’s Choice II: Poetry, Fiction & Art from the U.S. Small Press (1978-1983). Ed. Morty Sklar and Mary Briggs. Iowa City: The Spirit that Moves Us Press, 1987. 31-48.

“Insubstantial Questions.” Juggler 42.1 (Fall 1987): 50-51.

“The well requires,” “And bones and bones,” “Tout Va Bien.” O.ARS 2: Perception (1982): 51-2.

“Altazor, Cantos V and VI.” Translated by Stephen Fredman. The Selected Poetry of Vicente Huidobro. Ed. David Guss. New York: New Directions, 1981: 114-157. Reprinted (in part) in Jerome Rothenberg, ed. Technicians of the Sacred. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985. 544-5. Reprinted (in part) in The Language of the Birds. Ed. David Guss. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1985. 89-92. Reprinted (in part) in Twentieth- Century Latin American Poetry. Ed. Stephen Tapscott. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.

How Far Apart. Broadside. Healdsburg, CA: Zephyrus’ Image, 1979.

“How Far Apart.” L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 1.4 (August 1978): np.

“Water (A Book).” boundary 2, 6.2 (1978): 513-20.

“Norm and Paradise of the Negroes,” “Abandoned Church.” Translations from García Lorca. Panjandrum 5 (1977): np.

“The pelvic cradle,” “Pat Went First,” “People lie in submission.” Invisible City 18-20 (1976): 9.

“Could I afford.” WCH WAY 2.2 (Spring 1976): np.

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“Warning, other snakes as we,” “People lie in submission.” Out There 9 (1976): 36-8.

“The Moon Looms,” “Tree tree/ dry and green.” Translations from García Lorca. Sonoma Mandala (1975): 3, 21.

“Words of African Critics,” “We argued about the distance.” Open Hand (1975): 24-5.

“La vida es sueño.” Panjandrum 4 (Fall 1975): 81.

“Some/how,” “from Lope de Vega’s The Knight of Olmedo, 1.1.” Credences 1.2 (1975): 114-15.

“INTRODUCTION TO DEATH (Translation of Section 6 from García Lorca’s Poet in New York).” Invisible City 16/17 (June 1975): 9-10.

“La vida es sueño.” Indigena 1.3 (Winter 1974-75): 16.

“Purple winged kites,” “Fern shoots rise,” “Vestigial anger.” Io 8 (1974): 327-28.

“Is the Muse.” Open Reading 3 (Spring 1973): 4.

“The Match.” Box (California Institute of the Arts, 1971): np.

LECTURES AND CONFERENCES

“‘Difficulties Are Once More’: Charles Olson, John Dewey, and The Rhythm of Experience,” Ninth Annual Charles Olson Lecture, Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, MA, October 26, 2019.

“Laurie Anderson in the Reagan Eighties,” Institute of English Studies, Contemporary Poetry Research Seminar, University of London/Royal Holloway, Bedford Square, London, June 19, 2019.

“Robert Duncan, David Antin, and the Performance of Experience,” Keynote lecture, “‘Passages’: The Robert Duncan Centennial Conference in Paris,” Sorbonne & Maison de la Recherche, Paris, June 13, 2019.

“The Rhythm of Experience: Black Mountain Poetry and John Dewey,” “Beyond Metrical Prosody: New Rhythms in US and German (Post-) Modern Poetry,” Free University of Berlin, May 19, 2018.

“Thinking Poetically,” plenary lecture at “Thinking Poetically: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Stephen Fredman,” University of Notre Dame, April 7, 2017.

Invited participant at “US-China Poetry Dialogue,” University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow, Eureka Springs, AK; and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK; October 23-26, 2017. Delivered “How Does American Poetry (and Thought) Address Nihilism?” (October 24) and gave three

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poetry readings (October 24, 25, 26). Dialogue also included (from China) Xi Chuan, Wang Guangming, Denis Mair, (from the US) Hank Lazer, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Arthur Sze; organized by Jonathan Stalling.

“Poetry and Performance: How Deweyan Pragmatism Informs Charles Olson’s Art of Experience,” Modernist Studies Assn., Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 10, 2017.

“Craving Experience in Poetry and Performance Art,” Modernist Studies Assn., Pasadena, CA, November 17, 2016.

“Grace Is to Be at Home in the World,” Symposium on Religion and Literature, Cambridge University, October 15, 2016.

Organized and chaired “Symposium: Robert Creeley’s Library,” Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame, February 7, 2014. Participants: Penelope Creeley, Steve Clay, Kaplan Harris, Douglas Duhaime, Joel Duncan, Aleksandra Hernandez, Emma Vanhoozer (webcast archived at http://bit.ly/creesymp). The symposium accompanied an exhibition, “Robert Creeley’s Library: The Poet’s Books as Art Museum and Network of Communications,” curated by Stephen Fredman, Rare Books and Special Collections, Hesburgh Library, February 7-August 1, 2014.

“Form and Experience: Pragmatism and Objectivism in the Modern City.” Modernist Studies Assn., University of Sussex, August 31, 2013.

Organized and directed with Daniel Kane “Poetry as Muse,” a seminar at the Modernist Studies Conference, Las Vegas, NV, October 20, 2012.

Organized and chaired “Post-Generic Writing in the 1980s,” with papers by Kaplan Harris, Peter Middleton, and Stephen Fredman (“Post-Generic Writing: Poetic Innovations in Prose”), and response by Marjorie Perloff, for “Poetry and Poetics of the 1980s, National Poetry Foundation, Orono, ME, June 27, 2012. For the same conference, also delivered the paper “Strange Angels: Laurie Anderson and Spirituality at the End of the Cold War,” June 30, 2012.

“The Audio File Audiophile: Listening for Ambient Poetry.” Modernist Studies Assn., Buffalo, NY, October 6, 2011.

“Charles Olson’s ‘The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs.’” American Literature Association Conference. Boston, May 28, 2011.

“Michael Heller: Judaism as Loss.” Louisville Conference on Literature & Culture since 1900. University of Louisville, February 24, 2011.

Invited Lecture: “Early American Jewish Poetry: With Special Reference to Charles Reznikoff.” Jewish Federation of St. Joseph Valley, December 5, 2010.

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Keynote address: “Art as Experience: A Deweyan Background to Charles Olson’s Esthetics.” “Charles Olson 2010: A Centenary Conference.” Centre for Modern Poetry, University of Kent, November 13, 2010.

“Art as Experience.” “Charles Olson Centenary Conference.” Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, June 6, 2010.

“In Robert Duncan’s ‘Anima Rebellion,’ Denise Levertov Meets the Goddess Kali.” “The Truth and Life of Myth: A Robert Duncan Symposium,” The Chicago Poetry Project at the School of the Art Institute, April 23, 2010.

“The Erotics of Collage: Norman O. Brown and Robert Duncan,” ND English Dept. Colloquium, March 1, 2010.

Speaker on plenary panel at “Lifting Belly High: A Conference on Women’s Poetry Since 1900.” Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, September 12, 2008.

Invited respondent at the symposium, “Conceptual Poetry and Its Others.” Poetry Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, May 31, 2008.

“Erotic Poetics and Loss: Robert Duncan Meets the Goddess Kali.” English Department Faculty Colloquium, Notre Dame, December 5, 2007.

“The Poetics of the Age of Assemblage.” Modernist Studies Assn., Long Beach, CA, November 4, 2007.

“Postwar American Poetics and Spanish-Language Poetry.” Modernist Studies Assn., Long Beach, CA, November 1, 2007.

“Before Caesar’s Gate, Robert Duncan Comes to Grief.” Invited Lecture at Stanford University, April 16, 2007.

“The Poetics of Robert Creeley’s Interviews.” MLA Convention, Philadelphia, December 29, 2006.

“Surrealism Meets Kabbalah: The Place of Semina in Mid-Century California Poetry and Art.” Invited Lecture at University of California, Berkeley, October 24, 2006.

“Content Is Never More Than an Extension of Context: The Poetics of Robert Creeley’s Interviews.” Invited Lecture, “On Words: A Conference on the Life and Work of Robert Creeley,” SUNY Buffalo, October 14, 2006.

“‘Grief’s Its Proper Mode’: Robert Duncan Re-Enters Caesar’s Gate in 1972.” David Gray Fellow Lecture, SUNY Buffalo, October 11, 2006.

“‘Grief’s Its Proper Mode’: Re-Entering Caesar’s Gate in 1972.” Invited lecture at “(Re:)Working the Ground: A Conference on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan.”

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SUNY Buffalo, April 21, 2006.

“Collage Culture: Harry Smith and California Poetry.” Invited lecture at symposium, “The Artworlds of the Sixties,” University of Notre Dame, November 15, 2005.

“Surrealism Meets Kabbalah: California Poetry and Art in the Fifties and Sixties.” Invited lecture at University of Southampton, UK, March 16, 2005.

“Surrealism Meets Kabbalah: California Poetry and Art in the Fifties and Sixties.” Invited lecture at St. John’s College, Oxford University, UK, March 9, 2005.

Co-organized “Textsounds: a Mini-Conference” with Gerald Bruns and Romana Huk. Invited guests: Charles Bernstein, Steve McCaffery, Caroline Bergvall, cris cheek, Marjorie Perloff, and Joan Retallack. University of Notre Dame, November 18-20, 2004.

Keynote address: “Neo-Paganism, Buddhism, and Christian Mysticism in Modern American Poetry.” “American Poetry: Whitman to the Present,” The Swiss Association for North American Studies Conference, Fribourg, Switzerland, November 12, 2004.

“‘Passages of a Sentence’: The Invention of a Visionary Postmodernism in Robert Duncan’s Letters.” “Poetries of the 1940s: American and International,” University of Maine, Orono, June 24, 2004.

“Semina and Surrealism.” Modernist Studies Assn., Birmingham, UK, September 27, 2003.

“Modernist Collage as Documentary History: Charles Reznikoff’s Testimony and Harry Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music.” Invited lecture to the Graduate Seminar, English Department, University College London, May 8, 2003.

“Harry Smith and the Poets.” Invited lecture to the Postgraduate Forum, English Department, Queen Mary, University of London, March 13, 2003.

“Forms of Visionary Collage: Harry Smith and the Poets.” Invited lecture at Birkbeck College, London, January 29, 2003.

“Modernist Collage as Documentary History: Charles Reznikoff and Harry Smith.” Modernist Studies Assn., University of Wisconsin, November 3, 2002.

“Charles Reznikoff and A Menorah for Athena.” Invited lecture to San Diego Jewish Book Fair, December 3, 2001.

“Grand Collage in the Works of Harry Smith and Robert Duncan.” Modernist Studies Assn., Rice University, October 12, 2001.

“Harry Smith and the Poets: Between the Personal and the Visionary.” Invited lecture at the symposium, “Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the American Vernacular.” The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, April 21, 2001.

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“Ethnographic Self-Regard in American Jewish Poetry.” Modernist Studies Assn., University of Pennsylvania, October 12, 2000.

“A Menorah for Athena: Hebraism and Hellenism at the Inception of Objectivist Poetry.” Modernist Studies Assn., Pennsylvania State University, October 7, 1999.

“‘By the Waters of Manhattan’: Jewish Contexts for the Emergence of Objectivist Poetry.” Invited lecture to Austrian Association for American Studies Conference, “Cultural Encounters: American Studies in the Age of Multiculturalism,” Innsbruck, Austria, November 7, 1998.

“How to Write Yiddish Poetry in English: Louis Zukofsky, Ezra Pound, and the Origins of Objectivism.” Invited lecture to Jewish Studies Colloquium, Stanford University, March 9, 1998.

“‘By the Waters of Manhattan’: Jewish Contexts for the Emergence of Objectivist Poetry.” 20th-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 26, 1998.

“Sincerity and Objectivism.” Invited paper at Louis Zukofsky Conference, SUNY Buffalo, April 26, 1997.

“The Not-So-Pure Pluralism of Horace Kallen.” MLA Convention, Washington DC, December 29, 1996.

“The Question of Identity in Lyn Hejinian’s My Life.” “Assembling Alternatives: An International Poetry Conference,” University of New Hampshire, August 31, 1996.

“Allen Ginsberg and Lionel Trilling: The Hasid and the Mitnaged.” Conference on “American Poets in the 1950s,” National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, June 20, 1996.

“The Question of Identity in Lyn Hejinian’s My Life.” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, University of Notre Dame, April 11, 1996.

“‘And all now is war’: Charles Olson, George Oppen, and the Problem of Literary Generations.” MLA Convention, Chicago, December 29, 1995.

“‘And all now is war’: Charles Olson, George Oppen, and the Problem of Literary Generations” and “Allen Ginsberg: Utopic or Dystopic Vision?” Invited lectures at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, March 13, 1995.

“Call Him Charles: Reznikoff and Jewish American Modernism.” Invited lecture at Lancaster University, March 15, 1995.

“Call Him Charles: Reznikoff and Jewish American Modernism.” Invited lecture to Poets & Writers, East/West Gallery, London, March 17, 1995.

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“Falling between Two Stools: Charles Reznikoff and The Menorah Journal.” MLA Convention, San Diego, December 29, 1994.

“Reznikoff and Jewish American Studies.” Invited lecture to the Poetics Program, SUNY Buffalo, October 27, 1994.

Organized with Henry Weinfield the conference “Intersections of the Lyrical and the Philosophical in Contemporary American Poetry.” Part of the Paul and Barbara Henkels Visiting Scholar Series at Notre Dame, the conference featured Ross Feld, Norman Finkelstein, Michael Heller, and Michael Palmer. March 20-22, 1994.

“‘Call Him Charles’: Reznikoff as Jewish-American Poet.” “The First Postmodernists: American Poets of the 1930s Generation,” National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, June 18, 1993.

Chaired and organized session, “Philosophical Approaches to Contemporary Poetry,” and presented “Olson/Gadamer: The Concept of Recognition in Projective Verse,” 20th-Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 27, 1993.

Invited lectures on Charles Olson and Laurie Anderson, presented to the American Studies Program at Vassar College, March 23, 1992.

“Williams, Eliot, and the Missing American Tradition.” MLA Convention, New Orleans, December 29, 1988.

“Charles Olson and the Poetics of Postmodernism.” The Colloquium in Critical and Interpretive Studies, Notre Dame, October 5, 1988.

“Collaborations: Some Recent Poets and Painters.” Fr. Leo R. Ward Memorial Lecture, Notre Dame, November 19, 1985.

“This World of Robert Creeley’s.” MLA Convention, Washington, D.C., December 29, 1984.

Chaired and organized session, “The Prose of Poets: Beyond the Prose Poem,” and presented “Why American Poets Write Prose.” MLA Convention, Los Angeles, December 29, 1982.

“Why American Poets Write Prose.” Invited lecture to the Critical Forum, University of Chicago, November 16, 1982.

SERVICE (major items)

Department Department Executive Committee (2007-8) English Department Chairperson (2003-6) Chair of Steering Committee for Departmental External Review (1996-97) Director of Undergraduate Studies (1992-95) Multiple terms on Committee on Appointments and Promotions

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Multiple terms on Committee for Promotion to Full Professor Chaired and served on multiple search committees Co-designed Poetry & Poetics Program (http://english.nd.edu/faculty/working-groups/modern- poetry-and-poetics/index.shtml) Co-designed Text-Media Studies Working Group (http://english.nd.edu/faculty/working- groups/text-media-studies/index.shtml) Mentor for junior faculty

College The Joseph Morahan Director of the Arts & Letters Core Course Program (1999-2002) College Council (1999-2002, 2003-6) Deans and Chairs Committee (1999-2002, 2003-6) Co-chair of committee to create new College Seminar (2003) Created Honors Humanities Seminar (1988-90)

University Faculty Senate (2007-8) Academic Council (2004-6) Advisor for Sophomore Literary Festival (multiple years)

Profession Manuscript and proposal reader for numerous journals and university presses Outside evaluator for tenure cases and promotions to professor and endowed chair, US and UK Member of Advisory Committee for the MLA journal Profession (2007 and 2008) Editorial Boards: Sagetrieb, William Carlos Williams Review Member: Modernist Studies Association, Modern Language Association, American Literature Association, The Poetry Center (San Francisco State University), Small Press Distribution

Community Organized and taught for “Med Poets Society,” a menu of courses in the arts offered for physicians at Memorial Hospital, South Bend, IN (2004-7) Taught in “Medicine through Literature,” Evanston Hospital, Evanston, IL, October 21, 2008 Write grants and PR for community organization, Friends of Granger Paths Secretary, Berkshire Homeowners Association, 2013-17 President, Berkshire Homeowners Association, 2017-19

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