Assistant Professor of English
Ph.D. 2000 (English), University of California, Berkeley; B.A. 1991 (English), Cornell University

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Research Interests:

Twentieth-century American poetry and poetics; art history; urbanism

Affiliations:

Contributing Editor, Cabinet; Founder/Co-editor, Shark; Founder/Curator, Line Reading Series at The Drawing Center; MLA: Modern Language Association.

Fellowships/Honors:

Getty Post-Doctoral Grant in Art History, 2003-2004; Millay Colony, 2001; MacDowell Colony, 2001; Vice Chancellor for Research Grant (UC Berkeley), 1998; Dean's Dissertation Fellowship (UC Berkeley), 1997-1998; Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (UC Berkeley), 1996-1997; Class of 1916 Honors Thesis Prize (Cornell), 1991.

Selected Works:

19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology, ed./Introduced.  The Drawing Center/Roof Books.  Forthcoming.  2007.

Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie.  University of Iowa Press.  2006.

Faulting Description: Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer and the Site of Scientific Authority, in Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing Beyond “The New York School,” ed. Daniel Kane.  Dalkey Archive. 2006.

Smithson, Writer, in Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, eds. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly.  DIA Center for the Arts/University of California Press.  2005.

Orgies of Modernization: Nördstrom’s Exemplary World, Parkett, 74.  2005.

Withdrawn Authority: The Royal Art Lodge, in The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust.   The Drawing Center.  2003

The Moral Storm: Henry Darger’s Weather Notebooks, Cabinet, 3. 2001.

"Proximity's Plea: O'Hara's Art Writing," Qui Parle, 12, 2. 2001

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