ALISON ARMSTRONG WRITER and PAINTER 55 Bethune St., A101 Westbeth, New York, NY 10014 Tel

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ALISON ARMSTRONG WRITER AND PAINTER 55 Bethune St., A101 Westbeth, New York, NY 10014 Tel. 212-924-3753 E-mail: [email protected]

Education: Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University (dissertation on James Joyce and Roland Barthes) 1989 M.Litt., English Literature, Oxford University (thesis on W.B. Yeats Mss)* 1980 M.A., English Literature, Ohio State (thesis on James Joyce and W.B. Yeats) 1972

Teaching : 2003 – present Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, School of Visual Arts, 209 E. 23 rd St, New York, NY 10010: 2008 - Department of Art History, School of Visual Arts, Fall semester 2002 – 2005 - Department of Humanities, The New School, 66 West 12 th St., NYC 1998 - Department of English, Divi of Humanities, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York: 1996 - Non-Fiction Writing, Gotham Writers' Workshop, New York City: 1994 – 1996 - Dept. of English, Marymount College, Tarrytown, New York:

1992 - Irish Studies, The College of The Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine:

1984 - 1990 - Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, The Cooper Union, New York City: 1988 - 1989 American Language Institute, New York University, New York City:

1982 – 1985 - Dept. of Comparative Lit., New York University; The New School; Pace University, New York City: 1976 – 1979 - Tutor in English, Lincoln College, Oxford University, Oxford, England and Instructor, Liberal Arts, Oxfordshire Co. CounciL: 1970 – 1974 - Graduate Teaching Assistant, Dept. of English; Div. of Comparative Lit., Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio: *For books & other publications, see Bibliography, below.

NON-TEACHING POSITIONS: Nov. 2006 - present - Consultant: Newington Cropsey Cultural Studies Center, 915 Broadway, 11 th floor, NYC 10010, and reviewer and essayist in their publication, American Arts Quarterly: 1989 – present - Visual Artist: [list of exhibitions on request] 1998 – 2001 - Publishers' Representative: Mid-Atlantic region, with Sirak & Sirak Associates. - 2 - 2

1993 - Course Consultant: Outward Bound National HQ, Garrison, NY. 1985 – 1986 - Research Assistant to Dr. Jerome Bruner, Dept. of Psychology , for the Spencer Fund Project for the Study of Narrative, The New School for Social Research , Fifth Avenue, New York, NY. 1980-1981 - Fiction Editor , The Kenyon Review , Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio: 1978 – 1998 - Bookseller with Robin Waterfield, Ltd., Antiquarian Books and Ken Swift Books & Prints , Park End and Turl Streets, Oxford, England: 1978 – 1980; Freelance editor, proofreader, indexer. 1973 – 1974 - Editorial Assistant: The New Review (London literary magazine, edited by Ian Hamilton) and British Economy Survey (Economics journal), Oxford University Press/ The Clarendon Press, Oxford, England.

LITERARY ACTIVITIES: Speaker: “It is Myself That I Remake,” illustrated lecture at The National Arts Club to the W.B. Yeats Society of New York, January 19 th , 2010. Chair of Literary Arts , Westbeth Artist-Tenants’ Council, NYC: June 2008 – June 2009 Recipient: NEH/W.B. Yeats Institute, “Reassessing Yeats” in Ireland, July 2 - August 2, 2008 Speaker/Panel Chair: James Joyce Symposium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY June 2005 Speaker : “The Explosion of Light & Color in Modern Art,” at 75 th Annual Syntonics Conference, Santa Fe, NM May 2005 Speaker: As participating artist in 3-person show, “Line, Form & Function” at AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA, Artists’ Talk , March 12 th , 2005 Speaker: “Deja Dit et Deja Vue” at “The Pataphysics of [conceptual artist] William Anastasi” Conference, The Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA Dec. 11 th 2004 Speaker : “Visual Poetry,” Panel of Poets and Artists to discuss their work in the exhibition at AFA Gallery, Scranton, PA August 16 th 2003 Speaker : James Joyce Pre-Bloomsday celebration, Roger Smith Hotel, NYC June 14 th 2003 Reader: T.S. Eliot’s “Little Gidding,” at Symphony Space, NYC Sept. 11 th 2002 Speaker : “Joyce & Svevo: A Freudship,” and “Joyce/Svevo/Grieving,” two papers delivered on panels at the 18 th James Joyce International Symposium, in Trieste, Italy. June 2002 Speaker: Reading own work, “Some Poems, Short Prose and Reminiscences”: Westbeth Community Room, NYC. February 18, 2000

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Columnist: "Food Thoughts," monthly food column in The Nimham Times Magazine, Putnam Valley, NY. May 1998 - June 1999 Director/Performer: "Beat Night Cabaret" at The Depot Theatre, Garrison, NY; directed Samuel Beckett's play, "Happy Days" and performed own "Beat" poems. July 24-25, 1998 Director: "Dying Like A Man," a one-act play by Catherine Gonick: with Philipstown Players, The Depot Theatre, Garrison. June 25-28, 1998 Speaker: "Attitudes toward Death," The Hastings Center for Bio-Ethical Study, Rt., 9D, Garrison, New York. February 10, 1998 Speaker: "In Search of Saint Attracta: Hyde & Seek in the West of Ireland" at the American Irish Historical Society, NYC. Nov. 7, 1994 Editor, Westbeth News , Westbeth Artist Housing [as Chair of Publicity, the Tenants' Council], 55 Bethune Street, NYC 10014: 1993 - 1994 Speaker : "In Search of Saint Attracta: Hyde & Seek in the West of Ireland" [discoveries during research into origins of Yeats's play " The Herne's Egg "] for Irish Studies Seminar Lecture Series, Faculty House, Columbia Univ., NYC: February 15, 1991. Radio Speaker : Reading own poetry and fiction on WKCR-FM (Columbia University station ): February 3, 1991 Coordinator of Special Events for the "Conflict Resolution through the Arts: Focus on Ireland" Exhibition at The Ward-Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Street, NYC: January 5 through March 25, 1990 Radio Interviewer , with Irish painter Dermot Seymour on WBAI-FM Radio, NYC, in conjunction with his involvement in "Conflict Resolution through the Arts: Focus on Ireland" (see above): March 24, 1990 Speaker: Reading own fiction in the "Bad Words" series at Ward Nasse Gallery, 178 Prince Street, NYC: February 15, 1989 Lecturer: "Living Sustenance in Joyce's 'The Dead'" at The American -Irish Historical Society, Fifth Avenue, NYC : March 6, 1988. Television Interviews : regarding my book, "The Joyce of Cooking" on WTZA (Dutchess County, NY): Feb. 5, 1987; on Long Island Cable: March 17, 1988 Panelist: Joyce & Vico Conference, The Cini Institute, Isola San Giorgio. Venice, Italy : June 1985 Organizer/Speaker: James Joyce Society of New York meeting to honor Richard Ellmann , Gotham Book Mart, NYC : March 17, 1983 Contributing Editor: Irish Literary Supplement: 1982 - Present Respondant to two papers (by S. Henke & C. Herr) delivered at the "Joyce and His Contemporaries" Conference, Hofstra University: Oct. 1982 Assistant Organizer/Speaker: "Joyce and Modernism" Conference, Rutgers University , Newark, NJ : January - March 1982 Co-Founder/co-Editor, James Joyce Broadsheet (UK): June 1979 – 1989 Speaker/panelist at various International Joyce Symposia in Dublin, Paris, Zurich, Trieste : June 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979…2002.

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MEMBERSHIPS: American Conference for Irish Studies; Authors Guild; James Joyce Foundation; James Joyce Society of NY; Japanese Artists’ Assoc. of NY; W. B. Yeats Society of NY. GRANTS: PEN American Center Writers Fund (Nov. 1987 and Dec. 1989); from Carnegie Fund for Authors (Nov. 1989); from Authors League (Oct. 1993 and Sept. 1998). Bursaries and travel grants from St. Hugh's College and the Meyerstein English Faculty Fund, Oxford University, Oxford, England (1975, 1977, 1979). The Una Ellis-Fermor Research Grant from Bedford College (Univ. College London) for work on transcription of Yeats MS8770 in The National Library of Ireland (July 1978). National Endowment for the Humanities for “Reassessing Yeats” in Ireland, Summer 2008.

REFERENCES: Morris Beja, Dept. of English, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43215 John P. Harrington, Dean, Rts & Sciences Faculty, 416 Dealy Hall, Fordham University, 441 E. Fordham Road, Bronx, NY 10458 Tel. 718-817-0721/3047 Noah Isenberg, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, The New School, 66 West 12 th Street, New York, NY 10011 Robert G. Lowery, Editor. Irish Literary Supplement . Wading River, NY [email protected] Tel. 631-929-0224 Maryhelen Hendricks, Co-Chair, Dept. of Humanities, School of Visual Art, 308 Second Avenue, 8 th floor, New York, NY 10010 Dr. Fritz Senn, Director, James Joyce Stiftung, Strauhof, Augustinergasse 9, Zurich CH-8001, Switzerland TEL. 1 211 8301. ******** BIBLIOGRAPHY Alison Armstrong, MA, M.Litt., Ph.D. BOOKS: "The Herne's Egg," by W.B. Yeats: The Manuscript Materials, Including the Author's Final Text. Transcription with photofacsimiles en face. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993. 205pp. Hardcover jacketed. [Reviews include: Richard Cave, in Yeats Annual No. 12 (Autumn 1996); D.C. Greetham in Yeats: An Annual No. XIII ( 1995 ); J.P.S. Jochum, in English Literature in Translation, No. 38 , No. 1 (1995); Kathleen Raine, in Modern Fiction Studies (1997); Katharine Worth, in Review of English Studies, Vol. XLVII, No. 187 (1996)] The Joyce of Cooking: Food & Drink from James Joyce's Dublin . Foreword by Anthony Burgess. Illustrated. Rhinebeck, NY: Station Hill Press, 1986. 272pp. Hardcover jacketed & paper (BOMC). [Reviews include: NY Times , The Washington Post, Arts Ireland , Books Ireland , James Joyce Quarterly, James Joyce Literary Supplement ....] SHORT FICTION: “Ismene,” one-act play, Notre Dame Review (Summer 2009), 138-142. "Mose Konen/Woman of the Bog," [excerpted from a novella-in-progress set in Ireland, Denmark, and

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Venice—“A Song at Twilight "], New Observations (Summer 1990), 12-13. "Ostranenie," BOMB Magazine, XVII (Sept. 1986), 67. "Gazelle," Exquisite Corpse , Vol. 3, No. 11/12 (Nov.-Dec., 1985), 5. "The Man in the Apple-Green Tie," BOMB Magazine, X (Sept. 1984), 51-52.

ARTICLES, Art Reviews, Essays & Book Chapters: “Sonya Sklaroff at The Gallery at Sofitel,” American Arts Quarterly (Winter 2010) . “A Walk in the Country with Robert Kipniss,” 2-page catalogue text (October 2009) for the exhibition “Robert Kipniss paintings and intaglios” at Weinstein Gallery, San Francisco, California. “The Casual Sublime: Conversations with Robert Kipniss,” American Arts Quarterly (Summer 2009), 39-47. “Ephraim Rubenstein at George Billis Gallery” and “David Kassan at Gallery Henoch.” Reviews of exhibitions, American Arts Quarterly (Spring 2009), 42-44; 50-52. “Explorations in Light: Affinities of Color and Music,” American Arts Quarterly (Winter 2009), 30-39. “ ‘The Glorious Scenery Doth Ever Excite’, 19 th Century American Paintings of the Hudson Highlands” at Boscobel, in American Arts Quarterly (Fall 2008), 55 – 58. “When Craft Meets Art: Explorations in Beauty,” American Arts Quarterly (Summer 2008), 30-39. “Can Art be Taught? A Critique of Why Art Cannot be Taught by James Elkins,” American Arts Quarterly (Spring 2008), 36-39. “Visual Literacy: Humanities and the Fine Arts Curriculum,” American Arts Quarterly (Summer

2007), 23-28 . “Trieste Assessed,” James Joyce Broadsheet (October 2002). “Dutch Colonial Houses in the Hudson Valley” [rev. of The Hudson Valley Dutch & their Houses by Harrison Frederick Meeske (Purple Mountain Press, 1998)] in Nimham Times Magazine (Putnam Co., NY: Summer 2000), 30-32.

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"Richard Upjohn in Philipstown" Parts I & II, The Nimham Times Magazine (Nov./Dec. 1998; Jan. 1999). [Two-part essay on the architecture of Richard Upjohn in Garrison and Cold Spring, New York, with photographs by A.A.] "The Phantom Barge," SEA KAYAKER Magazine (Summer 1991), 12-15. [Reprinted in Deep Trouble , Edited by Christopher Cunningham (Camden, Maine: Ragged Mountain Press, 1997), 94-99.] "Transition Years: James Joyce & Modern Ar t," a chapter in Omnium Gatherum: Essays for Richard Ellmann, Edited by Joseph Ronsley, et al. (Montreal: McGill Univ. Press, 1989), 351-59. "The Way to Caserta,” [rev. of Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta, by George Hersey, 1983; with emphasis on the influence of Giambattista Vico in planning the Integration of palace grounds and architecture], Progressive Architecture (Nov. 1985), 135-36. "The Joyce of Cooking," in An Gael Magazine (Nov. 1984), 10-13. “The Cuala Press: 1902-1984,” written under the name Richard Murdoch, in Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 1984), 30-31. "Prosecutors Will Be Violated: Sexuality and Heroism in 'The Herne's Egg'," in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies , IX, No. 2 (Dec. 1983), 43-56. "Hans [Jean] Arp" and "Gertrude Stein, " Makers of Modern Culture (Routledge & Kegan Paul, Ltd., 1981). "Shem the Penman as Glugg as the Wolf-Man," in A Wake Newslitter , Vol. X, No. 4 (Aug. 1973), 51-59.

LITERARY REVIEWS: “Between Irish and Irish: Issues of Ethnicity” [rev. of The Cambridge Companion to the Irish Novel , edited by John Wilson Foster, (NY: CUP, 2006 ), in James Joyce Literary Supplement (Spring 2008), 27. Response to Lerm-Hayes, Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 2006), 2-3.

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“Masterful Literary Detection” [rev. of The Scandal of ‘Ulysses’ : The Life and Afterlife of a Twentieth Century Masterpiece by Bruce Arnold (Dublin: The Liffey Press, 2004 revised edition)] in Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 2005), “Modernism, the Road-Kill of Contemporary Theory?” [rev. of The Future of Modernism , Edited by Hugh Witemeyer (Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2000)], in James Joyce Literary Supplement (Spring 2005), “Joyce Made Visible” [rev. of Joyce in Art by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2004)], Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 2005), 8-9. “Scriptito Ergo Sum” [rev. of The Spire , by Bruce Arnold (Lilliput Press, 2003)], Irish Literary Supplement, Fall 2004, 29-30. “Fine Bindings in Marsh’s Library, Dublin.” [rev. of Mirjam Foot’s book, same title (Ashgate Press, 2004)] Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 2004), 19. “The Matter of Modernism,” [rev. of Material Modernism: The Politics of the Page , by George Bornstein (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2001)] in Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 2001), 32. "Two Uses of Mind: or the Art of Absence" [rev. of Atchley: A Novel, by David Green (Station Hill, 1998)] in Notre Dame Review (Summer 2000), 165-67. "Working Within the Limits of Love" [rev. of Word Play Place: Essays on the Poetry of John Matthias , Ed. by Robert Archambeau (Swallow Press, 1998)] in PN Review No. 129 (Carcanet Press, UK (Sept.-Oct., 1999), 62-63. "Just Another Donkey" [rev. of " The Herne's Egg" by W.B. Yeats by Andrew Parkin. Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1991; Washington, DC: Catholic Univ. Press, 1992], in Yeats Annual, No. 11 , Warwick Gould, Editor. (London: Macmillan Co.; NY: St. Martin’s Press. 1995), 244-51. "A Decade of Yeats Studies" [rev. of Yeats Annual, No. 10 , Warwick Gould, Ed.], in Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 1994), 35. "Two Annuals a Year" [rev. of Yeats : An Annual , Ed. Richard Finneran, and Yeats Annual, No. 6 , Warwick Gould, Ed], in Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 1990), 8. "Literary Gastronomy ," [rev. of collected essays edited by David Bevan] in Modern Language Studies , Vol. 35, No. 4, (Winter 1989), 863-64. "Whither Joyce Scholarship," [rev. of Assessing the 1984 'Ulysses' , Eds., Sandalescu and Hart. Monaco, 1986], in Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 1987), 46-47. "Codebook for the 'Wake'," [rev. of Frances Phipps, Let Me Be Los: Codebook for 'Finnegans Wake'. Station Hill Press, 1987], in Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 1987), 20-21. "Stephen and Bloom at Life's Feast,' [rev. of Lindsay Tucker's ... Alimentary Symbolism and the Creative Process in James Joyce's 'Ulysses '. 1984], in James Joyce Broadsheet No. 20 (June 1986), 2. "Macmillan's Yeats Annuals Nos. 3-4," Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 1986), 23. 7

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"The Trial of 'Ulysses' , United States District Court, Southern District of New York," [rev. of pamphlet and accompanying exhibition at Manhattan Federal Court House Nov. 1985-April 1986], in Irish Literary Supplement ( Spring 1986), 29. "Biography of a Noman," [rev. of Leopold Bloom , by P. Costello. 1983], in Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 1984), 49. "Focus: Stony Brook," an editorial, with Robert Lowery, on the then-current state of the Yeats Archive at the Center for Contemporary Arts and Letters at SUNY Stony Brook], in A Yeats Broadside No. 1 , Ed. by Alison Armstrong, as a supplement to Irish Literary Supplement (Spring 1983), 20. “When is a Joke not a Joke,” [rev. of The Riddle of “Finnegans Wake,” by Patrick A. McCarthy (Assoc. Univ. Presses, 1980)], Irish Literary Supplement (Fall 1982), 7. "We Live Here Now" [rev. of Crossing , a volume of poetry by John Matthias. London: Anvil Press (UK), 1979 and Swallow Press (US), 1980], in PN Review No. 32 [Carcanet, UK] (1983), 59-60; and in Notre Dame Magazine (Oct. 1982), 70-71. [Other reviews have appeared in Irish Literary Supplement , James Joyce Broadsheet , and The Villager (NYC)]

POETRY: [Published in Exquisite Corpse, International Poetry Magazine of the Lower East Side, James Joyce Broadsheet, Mid-American Review, The Nimham Times, 1980-1998.]

Ph.D. Dissertation : A Barthesean (Re)Reading of James Joyce’s “Clay” (New York University, 1989) ; M. Litt. Thesis : “The Herne’s Egg” by W.B. Yeats: The Manuscript Materials (Oxford University, UK, 1980) [Revised and published by Cornell Univ. Press, Dec. 1993]; Master’s Thesis : “How Minney Combinaisies and Permutandies…?” Cyclical Patterns in the Art of James Joyce and W.B. Yeats (Ohio State University, 1972).

Updated January 2010