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 46 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. 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