CURRICULUM VITAE

MING-QIAN MA

Department of English The State University of New York at Buffalo Phone: (716) 645-0697 mma3@buffalo.edu

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

2007-Present: Associate Professor of English, Department of English State University of New York, Buffalo

2001-2007: Assistant Professor of English, Department of English State University of New York, Buffalo

1998-2001: Assistant Professor of English, Department of English University of Nevada, Las Vegas

1996-1998: Instructor, Department of English University of Nevada, Las Vegas

EDUCATION

1998: Ph. D., English, Stanford University Ph. D. Minor in Contemporary Chinese Literature, 1993

1987: M. A., English, Brigham Young University

HONORS AND AWARDS

Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo Funding Award, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011

Julian Park Publication Fund, College of Arts and Sciences, SUNY-Buffalo, 2007

UUP (SUNY-Buffalo) Professional Development Award, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2011-2012

Professor of the Month (Feb.), Panhellenic Association, UNLV, 1999

English Department's Nominee for the William Morris Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, UNLV, 1998

The Annual College of Liberal Arts Research Awards ($2,000.00), UNLV, 1998

Travel Awards from Barrick Endowment, UNLV, 1997-2000

John Sias Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford University, 1993-1994

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Graduate Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center, Stanford University, 1989-1990 Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship (Summer), Stanford University, 1989

Department of English Fellowship, Stanford University, 1988-1992

The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Brigham Young University, 1987 The Ed M. and Minnie Berry Rowe Award for Excellence in Teaching, Department of

English, Brigham Young University, 1987 Valedictorian, Graduation Convocation, College of Humanities, Brigham Young

University, 1987 PUBLICATIONS Book

Poetry as Re-Reading: American Avant-Garde Poetry and the Poetics of Counter-Method Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2008

Articles under Circulation:

“‘Something on Paper’: Michel Henry, Material Phenomenology, and Lyn Hejinian’s Poetic Autobiography My Life”

“From Blind to Blinding: Saturated Phenomena and the Speculative Lyric of the Invisible

in Andrew Joron’s Poetry” Articles in Peer Referred Journals

“Poetry Elsewhere, Elsewhere Poetry: A Poetics of the Interstitial in Contemporary American Poetry,” Forthcoming in CounterText

“‘Negative Seeing’: Robert Smithson, Earth Art, and the Eco-Phenomenology of ‘Mirror

Displacements’,” Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research. CXXI (2018), 321-338.

“Asserting the Ineffable: Rhetorical Appropriation of ‘Poetic’ and the Contemporary

Poetry Text,” CounterText 3:2 (2017), 144-161. “Displaced by ‘Reading’: Contemporary Innovative Poetry and the Democratized

‘Criticism’,” translated into Slovene and published in the Slovenian journal LUD Literatura 24. 12. 2015.

“Percolated Nearness: Immanence of Life and a Material Phenomenology of Time,”

Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research CVIII (2011), 639-651.

“From Innovation to Renovation: Formal Practice and the Politics of Absorption in

American Language Poetry,” Formes Poetiques Contemporaines 7 (2010), 129-

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146. “De-Situatedness: The Subject and Its Exhaustion of Space in Gilles Deleuze,” Analecta

Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research CIV (2009), 299-313.

“‘In an Instant of Time’: The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the

‘Upsurge’ of the Present in Ezra Pound’s Cantos.” Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research LXXXVI (2007), 47-63.

Abstracted in The Philosopher’s Index “Becoming Phenomenology: Style, Poetic Texture, and the Pragmatic Turn in Gilles

Deleuze and Michel Serres,” Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research LXXXIV (2005), 97-116.

Abstracted in The Philosopher’s Index

“‘Nonsense bargains’: Inversely Proportional Writing and the Poetics of ‘Expenditure

without Reserve’ in Bruce Andrews’s Work.” Textual Practice 18 (2), 2004, 297-316.

"'The Past Is No Longer Out-of-Date': Topological Time and Its Foldable Nearness in

Michel Serres's Philosophy," Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology. 8:2 (Spring 2000), 235-244.

Translated into Italian and appeared in the Italian journal of philosophy Iride. Rivista di filosofia e discussione pubblica XIV: 33 (maggio-agosto 2001), 369-377. Reprinted, under the title “‘The Past Is No Longer Out-of-Date’: The Philosophy of Time from Jacques Derrida to Michel Serres,” Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry 2:6 (Winter 2006), 10-18. Abstracted in The Philosopher’s Index

“Reflection upon ‘My [Unreflected] Life’: M. Merleau-Ponty and Lyn Hejinian’s Poetics

of ‘Genetic Phenomenology’ in My Life,” Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research LXIX (2000), 17-37.

“Articulating the Inarticulate: Singularities and the Counter-Method in Susan Howe,”

Contemporary Literature 36:3(Fall 1995), 466-489.

Reprinted in American Women Poets in the Twentieth-First Century, ed. Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr. Wesleyan UP, 2002. 329-347.

“An Epistolary Road Map for a Modern-Day Moses: The Kierkegaadian Strait Gates in

Saul Bellow’s Herzog,” Saul Bellow Journal 13:1(Winter 1995), 27-39. “Poetry as History Revised: Susan Howe’s Revisionist Approach to History in

‘Scattering As Behavior Toward Risk’,” American Literary History 6:4(Winter

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1994), 716-737.

Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, vol. 152, ed. Jeff Hunter. Detroit: Gale Group, 2002. 174-182.

“The Dialectic of ‘saying so little’: Gustaf Sobin’s Poetics of ‘Toward’,” Talisman: A

Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 10 (Spring 1993), 54-59. “A ‘Seeing’ through Refraction: The Rear-View Mirror Image in George Oppen’s

Collected Poems,” Sagetrieb 10: 1-2(Spring and Fall 1991), 83-97. Articles in Collections of Essays

“Toward a Closed-Open Typology: Language System, Systems Theory, and a Phenomenology of Organization-Structure Interface,” in The Prague School and Theories of Structure, edited by Martin Prochazka, Marketa Mala, and Pavlina Saldova. V&R Uniporess, 2010. 437-451.

“The Sound Shape of the Visual: Toward a Phenomenology of an Interface,” in The

Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, edited by Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin. The University of Chicago Press, 2009. 249-269.

“Be Aware of ‘The Medusa’s Glance’: The Objective Lens and Carl Rakosi’s Poetics of

Strabismal Seeing in ‘Adventures of the Head’,” in The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics, edited by Rachel Blau DePlessis and Peter Quartermain. The University of Alabama Press, 1999, 56-83.

“A ‘no man’s land!’: Postmodern Citationality in Zukofsky’s ‘Poem beginning “The”’,”

in Upper Limit Music: The Writing of Louis Zukofsky. Mark Scroggins ed. The University of Alabama Press, 1997, 129-153.

Book Reviews

Book Review of ABC of Reading TRG by Peter Jaeger (Talonbooks, 1999) in “Letters in Canada,” University of Toronto Quarterly 70:1 (Winter 2000/2001), 487-489.

Book Review of The Poetic Avant-Garde: The Groups of Borges, Auden, and Breton by

Beret E. Strong (Northwestern UP, 1997) in Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History 60:4 (December 1999), 530-533.

Book Review of Musicage: Cage Muses on Words, Art, Music. (ed. Joan Retallack.

Wesleyan UP, 1996) in Modernism / Modernity 5:2 (April 1998), 167-169. Selected Works in Progress Book:

The Language Turn: Contemporary Poetry of Innovation and the Question of Form

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INVITED KEY NOTES, LECTURE, TALKS, AND INTERVIEWS

“Earth Art and the Environment: A Revision”: An invited key-note talk at the 3rd International Congress of Environment 2021 (ICE-2021), June 16-19, Singapore (Declined due to the pandemic)

“The Condition of Poetry and Criticism”: An Interview with Jed Rasula, Helen S. Lanier

Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia. Forthcoming in CounterText

“Amy Catanzano Bridges the Worlds of Poetry and Science,” Interviewed by Madeleine

O’Keefe for Symmetry, An Online Magazine about Particle Physics, April 21, 2020.

“Poetic Intimations of Everettian Multiverse: Toward a Quantum Phenomenology on/off

the Page,” an invited keynote lecture, presented at the 2019 Reynolda Conference on “Entanglements: A Conference of the Intersections of Poetry, Science, and Art.” Wake Forest University, May 13-15, 2019.

“Time of Visits: Toward an Ecology of ‘Life-ism’ in Leslie Scalapino’s New Time,” an

invited talk and discussion on the panel “The Poetics of Leslie Scalapino” for “English 583: Poetics (Ecopoetics and Biopolitics)” by Professor Judith Goldman, Spring Semester, 2013.

“‘The Ectopic Eye’: Re-Vision and Its Topology of the Page in Avant-Garde Visual

Prosody,” an invited lecture and workshop discussion presented in the Department of Comparative Literature in conjunction with the Avant-Garde Interest Group and the Poetry and Poetics Workshop at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 15-17, 2012.

“‘The Medium Is the Method’: Toward a Postmodern Poetics of Counter-Method,” an

invited lecture presented in the Ph. D. in English and Creative Writing Program, University of Southern California, Feb. 12, 2008.

“Deleuze, Fold, and the Spatial Configurations in Ezra Pound’s Cantos,” an invited talk

in English 679: “American Colloquium” Professor Stacy Hubbard, Fall, 2003. “Death of the Author”: An interview with Akitoshi Nagahata, Twenty-First Century 5

(April 2000), 2-6.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“‘Something on Paper’: Michel Henry, Material Phenomenology, and Lyn Hejinian’s Poetics Autobiography My Life,” presented at The World Phenomenology Institute Forty-Third Annual Cambridge Conference on “Women Phenomenologists, Past and Present” and “Phenomenological Investigation of Autobiography,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June-5-7, 2019.

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“Language of Gossip: On Functional Semantics in Contemporary Arrière-Garde Poetics,” presented at the 63rd Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, St. Johns University, New York, April 20-22, 2018.

“Invented Language, Created Life: Toward a Poetics of Variation,” presented at the 2018

MLA Convention, New York City, Jan. 4-7, 2018. (Panel Co-Organizer) “De-Anthropomorphizing Language: Toward a ‘Non-Human’ Empathy in Contemporary

Innovative Poetry,” presented at 11th Conference of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts on “Empathy,” University of Basel, Switzerland, June 21-24, 2017.

“A Non-Human Poetics of Split: Amy Catanzano’s Multiversal,” presented at the 2017

MLA Convention, Philadelphia, Jan.5-8, 2017. (Panel Co-Organizer) “Asserting the Ineffable: The Rhetorization of the Poetic and the Contemporary Text,”

invited and presented at The First CounterText Conference on “The Poetic: Contemporary Texts and Counter-Texts,” Durham University, UK, Nov. 18-20, 2016.

“Percolating Present: Impressional “Now” in Poetry Installation as Site-Specific Art,”

presented at the Annual Symposium of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 8 (ASAP/8), University of Tartu, Estonia, Sept. 3-5, 2016.

“From Blind to Blinding: Saturated Phenomena and the Speculative Lyric of the Invisible

in Andrew Joron’s Poetry,” presented at the Conference of Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years, Buffalo, NY, April 7-9, 2016. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“Displaced by “Reading”: Contemporary Innovative Poetry and the Democratized

‘Criticism,’” invited and presented at the Symposium on “The Art of Criticism: Contemporary Literary Criticism: Debating Value, Opinion, and Style,” Ljubljana, Slovenia, Oct. 28-29, 2015.

“The Encoded Information: Toward a Holographic Poetics of a ‘Single Text’,” presented

at the Symposium on “Polyhedrons of Scripture: Translations, Multilingualism, and the Single Text,” SUNY-Buffalo, Oct. 9, 2015.

“A Poetics of ‘Lethe’: The Linguistic Space of Glimmer in J. H. Prynne’s Poetry,”

presented at the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference 7 (ASAP/7) on “Arts and the Public,” hosted by Clemson University, Hyatt Regency, Greenville, SC., Sept. 24-27, 2015. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“Seeing Worlds Anew: American Language Poetry and Its Poetics of Scale

Derangement,” presented at the conference of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts on “Scale,” Valletta, Malta, June 15-18, 2015.

“Screams without Objects: Pain and the Bodily Soundscape in Steve McCaffery’s Sound

Poetry,” presented at the 2015 MLA Annual Convention, Vancouver, Canada, Jan. 8-11, 2015. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“‘Negative Seeing’: Robert Smithson, Earth Art, and the Eco-Phenomenology of ‘Mirror

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Displacements’,” presented at the 64th Congress of Phenomenology on “Eco-Phenomenology: Life, Human Life, Post-Human Life in the Harmony of the Cosmos, Department of Philosophy, The Catholic University of the “Sacred Heart,” Milan, Italy, Oct. 1-3, 2014.

“The Blurring Middle: The Hyphenated ‘As If’ in Rae Armantrout’s Poetry,” presented at

the 42nd Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Feb. 20-22, 2014. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“‘no sustaining’: Time as Saturated Phenomena in Leslie Scalapino’s New Time,”

presented at 27th Annual Conference of the Society of Literature, Science, and the Arts, The University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, Oct. 3-6, 2013. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“Geno-Poetry and/as Philosophy of Life: Toward a Poetics of Co-Extensivity in the Post-

Medium Age,” presented at The 26th Annual conference of the Society for Literature, Science, and Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sept. 27-30, 2012. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“Expressed from Within: Geno-Poetry and the Gesture toward Immanence,” presented at

the 2012 MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, Jan. 5-8, 2012. (Panel Co-Organizer) “The Perloff Era: Poetry Criticism and the American Avant-Garde Poetry 1980-Present,”

presented at the First Convention of Chinese-American Association for Poetry and Poetics on “Dialog on Poetry and Poetics”, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, Sept. 29-30, 2011.

“‘a long the’: Slumbering Language in Finnegans Wake,” presented at the XXII

International James Joyce Symposium, Prague, Czech Republic, June 13-18, 2010.

“Pan-Situatedness: The Poetics of Apposition in Formally Innovative Poetry,” presented

at the 2009 MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2009. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“Percolated Nearness: Immanence of Life and a Material Phenomenology of Time,”

presented at the Conference of the Fifty-Ninth International Congress of Phenomenology on “Transcendentalism Revisited,” The University of Antwerp, Belgium, July 8-10, 2009.

“Percolated Thinking: Poetry Plastique and the Language of Locality,” presented at the

Conference on the “Idioms of the Post-Global,” SUNY-Buffalo, March 19-21, 2009.

“De-Situatedness: The Subject and Its Exhaustion of Space in Gilles Deleuze,” presented

at the Conference of the Fourth World Congress of Phenomenology on “The Phenomenology and Existentialism of the Twentieth Century,” Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, August 17-20, 2008.

“From Innovation to Renovation: The Politics of Absorption and Language Poetry’s Late

Form,” presented at the 2007 MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, Dec. 27-30,

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2007. “A Critical Crystallography: Fictions of Science in the ‘Optical Anomalies’ of Christian

Bök’s Poetry,” presented at the 2007 MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, Dec. 27-30, 2007.

“Toward a Closed-Open Typology: Language System, Systems Theory, and a

Phenomenology of Organization-Structure Interface,” presented at the Conference on “Prague School and Theories of Structure,” Charles University, Prague, Oct. 18-21, 2007.

“The Visual Shape of the Noise: Avant-Garde Visual Poetry and Its Poetics of

Phenomenological Becoming,” presented as a keynote speech at the International Conference on the 20th-Century American Poetry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China, July 21-23, 2007.

“The Sound Shape of the Visual: Toward a Phenomenology of an Interface,” presented at

the 2006 MLA Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2006. “The Unreadable: Formal Innovation and Its Poetic Outside,” presented at the 2006 MLA

Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2006. (Panel Co-Organizer) “Imagining the Worlds ‘never before existing’: Formal Innovation, Un-Readability, and

the Poetics of ‘Crossing’,” CUNY Conference on Contemporary Poetry, Graduate Center, City University of New York, Nov. 3-6, 2005. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“‘In An Instant of Time’: The Imagist Perception and the Phenomenology of the

‘Upsurge’ of the Present in Pound’s Cantos,” 29th Annual Conference of the World Phenomenology Institute on “Literature and Temporality,” Harvard Divinity School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 25-26, 2005.

“Sense of Nonsense: Unintelligibility and the Poetics of Post-Metonymy in Language

Poetry,” 2004 MLA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2004. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“A Subject without (It)Self: American Language Poetry and Its Poetics of De-Objectified

Subject,” 2003 MLA Annual Convention, San Diego, Dec. 27-30, 2003. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“Speed: Another Dimension of Time in Digital Poetry,” presented jointly with Jesse

Fabian on a panel on “Reading Digital Culture: Poetics of the In-between” at the 17th Annual Conference of Society for Literature and Science on “Rethinking Space and Time,” Austin, TX, Oct. 23-26, 2003.

“Becoming Phenomenology: Poetic Language and Its Stylistic Texture,” 53rd

International Phenomenology Conference on “Phenomenology of Life Meeting the Challenge of the Present Day World” held jointly with the 21st World Congress of Philosophy Conference, 2003, Istanbul, Turkey, August 10-17.

“Style as the Threshold: Writing and the Textuality of Becoming in Contemporary

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Philosophy and Avant-Garde Poetry,” Conference on “Literature and Its Others,” University of Turku, Finland, May 8-10, 2003.

“Topological Folding: Baroque Architecture and Its Spatial Morphology in the Cantos of

Ezra Pound,” 2002 MLA Convention, New York, NY, Dec. 27-30, 2002. “‘My eyes sharpen / when I blink’: The Poetics of the ‘Common Eye’ and Its

Physiological Moment in Basil Bunting’s Poetry,” Seminar on “Modernist Things,” Modernist Studies Association Fourth Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2002.

“Joyce’s (Dis)Place(ment): Aesthetics of Proximity in “Ithaca,” 18th International James

Joyce Symposium on “Mediterranean Joyce,” Trieste, Italy, June 16-23, 2002. “Entropic Writing: The Language Machine and the Politics of Idling in the Works of

Charles Bernstein,” Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Feb. 21-23, 2002. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“‘Nonsense Bargains’: Excess and Inversely Proportional Writing in the Poetry of Bruce

Andrews,” 2001 MLA Convention, New Orleans, Dec. 27-30, 2001. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“‘See It Explained’: The Counter-Anthropomorphic Lens and the Poetics of the

‘Compound Eye’ in Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry,” Modernist Studies Association Third Annual Conference, Rice University, Houston, Texas, Oct. 12-15, 2001. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“Rethinking Form as an Operation,” Modernist Studies Association Third Annual

Conference, Rice University, Houston, Texas, Oct. 12-15, 2001. “Topological Folding: Spatial Morphology and the Poetics of Architectonics in The

Cantos of Ezra Pound,” Nineteenth International Ezra Pound Conference on “Ezra Pound and the Twentieth Century,” Universite de Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France, July 5-7, 2001.

“Form M(a)iming Meaning: Iconizing Iconicity and the Poetics of Informatics in

Christain Bok’s Crystallography,” Third International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat, Jena, Germany, March 29-31, 2001.

“From ‘In-the-Red’ to ‘In-the-Black’: Topological Time and Geo-Economy in Steve

McCaffery’s The Black Debt,” 20th-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Feb. 22-24, 2001. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“‘Aim without a Target’: Karen Mac Cormack and the Poetics of the ‘Objectless

Subject’,” Special panel on “Post-subjectivity,” 2000 MLA Convention, Washington D.C., Dec. 27-30, 2000. (Panel Organizer and Chair)

“Edifice of History: The Poetics of Architectonics in Pound’s Cantos,” Modernist Studies

Association Conference on “New Modernism II,” The University of Pennsylvania, October 12-15, 2000. (Panel Co-Organizer)

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"Representation and Its Dis-Content: Topological Time and the Politics of 'Circum-

Stance' in Michel Serres's Philosophy," 7th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Bergen, Norway, August 14-18, 2000.

"Confucius and the Dialectics of Education: The Philosophy of the Quotidian and Some

of Its Propositions," invited to present at the Conference on "Paradigms of Learning in Diverse Cultures," The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, June 19-22, 2000.

"'blinded by the object': The Aesthetics of Blindness and the Poetics of the Postmodern

Sublime in Pinter's Poems," Conference on "Pinter in London," London, June 15-18, 2000.

"From the Metaphysical to the 'Pataphysical: The Poetics of 'As If' and the '(Immanent)

(Critique)' of Language in the Avant-garde Poetry in North America," invited to present at the International Poetry Conference on "Transgressing Boundaries and Strategies of Renewal in American Poetry," University of Salamanca, Spain, May 18-20, 2000.

"After Word, After Image: Disimagination and the Disappearance of Images in Deanna

Ferguson's Poetry," 20th-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Feb. 24-26, 2000. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“Textualizing the Material, Materializing the Textual: Christian Bök and the Poetics of

the ‘Cosmic Dance’ on the Painted Ground of Language,” 1999 MLA Convention, Chicago, Dec. 27-30, 1999. (Panel Co-Organizer)

"'Clock-tick pierces the vision': Packaged Time and Boxed Writing in Pound's 'The Pisan

cantos'," 18th International Ezra Pound Conference, Beijing, China, July 16-19, 1999.

"Self-Representation in a Convex Mirror: The Preposition 'At' and the Reversal of the

'Co-Locational Order' in Clark Coolidge's At Egypt," "Self-Representation in Literature and the Arts: An International Word and Image Conference," Paris, France, June 24-26, 1999.

"Cracking the Mirror: Cartography of the Word as Semanalysis in Christian Bök and

Qian-Zi Che," Seminar on "The Geography of the Word: The Acoustic and the Visual Topography of Nonlinear Verse," American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, April 8-10, 1999. (Seminar Organizer and Chair)

"'Which side of the mirror are you on?': 'Iconizing' Iconicity and the Poetics of the

'Ectopic Eye' in Joan Retallack's Afterrimages," Second International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, March 25-27, 1999.

"'Imaginary lines connect sore points': Hypothetical Sentence and the Critique of the

Symbolic Order in Rae Armantrout," 20th-Century Literature Conference,

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University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, Feb. 25-27, 1999. (Panel Co-Organizer) “‘Nature in Her Manner of Operation’: System Aesthetic and the Poetics of ‘Happening’

in John Cage,” 1998 MLA Convention, San Francisco, Dec. 27-30, 1998. “‘In the beginning is the echo’: Topological Time and the Foldable Diversity of Gensis in

Michel Serres’s Philosophy of Beginning,” the 6th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Haifa, Israel, August 16-21, 1998.

“‘The Extraordinary Voyages’: Interdisciplinarity and the Hermesian Discourse in

Michel Serres,” 6th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Haifa, Israel, August 16-21, 1998.

“The Exile of the Narrative: The “New Sentence” and the A-Signifying Writing in

American Language Poetry, 1970-Present,” the 6th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, University of Haifa, Isreal, August 16-21, 1998.

“Reflection upon ‘My Unreflected Life’: M. Merleau-Ponty and Lyn Hejinian’s Poetics

of ‘Genetic Phenomenology’ in My Life,” XXIII Annual Conference of the International Society for Phenomenology and Literature on “The Poetry of Life in Literature,” Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 16-17, 1998.

“Rewriting Language as Social Method: Language Poetry and the Poetics of Counter-

Method in Bruce Andrews,” 26th Annual Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Feb. 26-28, 1998. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“The Point of Dislocation: The Aeolotropic Vision and Scales of Repositioning in Leslie

Scalapino and Robert Smithson,” American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May 23-25, 1997.

“Disorder, Complexity, and Meaning: Language as a Self-Organizing System and

Language Poetry,” Ninth Annual Meeting of the Far West Popular Culture and Far West American Culture Association, Las Vegas, NV, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 1997.

“1+1>2: The Philosophy of Word Game and the Poetics of Civil Engineering in Chinese

Language Poetry,” “Assembling Alternatives: An International Poetry Conference and Festival,” University of New Hampshire, August 29-September 2, 1996.

“‘Slowed Reason’ as ‘The Curve to Its Answer’: Postmodern Counter-Speed and the

poetics of Sediment in Charles Bernstein and Steve McCaffery,” “Assembling Alternatives: An International Poetry Conference and Festival,” University of New Hampshire, August 29-September 2, 1996.

“‘Memory is the present faintly / motivated’: Michel Serres’s Philosophy of Space-Time

and Hejinian’s Poetics of Counter-Memory,” American Comparative Literature Conference on “Literature between Philosophy and Cultural Studies,” The University of Notre Dame, April 11-13, 1996.

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“Chance Operation, Mesostic Method, and the Cagean Aesthetic of Counter-Memory,” Conference on “American Poetry in the 1950s,” National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, June 19-23, 1996. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“‘Not Quite That’: Smithson, Scalapino, and the Poetics of Aeolotropy,” 1995 Modern

Language Association Convention, Chicago, Dec. 27-30, 1995. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“‘Memory of Erasing at Any Page’: Counter-Memory and the Reversal of the Arrow of

Time in Lyn Hejinian’s Poetry,” American Literature Association Symposium on “Contemporary Women Poets of the Americas,” Cancun, Mexico, Dec. 14-17, 1995.

“Be Aware of ‘The Medusa’s Glance’: The Objectivist Lens and Carl Rakosi’s Poetics of

Strabismal Seeing,” American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May 26-28, 1995.

“From Dialogue to Polylogue: Information Theory and Positionality in Michel Serres and

Language Poetry,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference on “Science and Literature,” The University of Georgia, March 16-18, 1995.

“‘Dim Mirror Naught Formula’: Asymmetrical Enantiomorphs and the Poetics of

Displacement in Susan Howe,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference on “Borders, Exiles, and Diasporas,” Claremont, CA., March 3-5, 1994. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“Articulating the Inarticulate: Susan Howe’s Poetheory of Singularities and the Triple

Reader,” 1993 Modern Language Association Convention, Toronto, Canada, Dec. 27-30, 1993. (Panel Co-Organizer)

“A ‘no man’s land’: Postmodern Citationality in Zukofsky’s ‘Poem beginning “The”’,”

Conference on “The First Postmodernists: American Poets of the 1930s Generation,” National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, June 17-20, 1993.

“Filial Piety and the Mother-Child Construct in Scar Literature 1977-1979,” 1991

Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco, CA, Dec. 27-30, 1991.

“Rock, A Sinking Rock: Family as the Trying Narrative Background in Willa Cather’s

Short Fiction,” 3rd National Cather Symposium on “Willa Cather: The Family and Community,” Brigham Young University, Utah, Sept. 14-17, 1988.

“The Eternal Temporality: Self Transcendence in Willa Cather’s Short Stories,” 18th

Annual Conference of the Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature on “The Cultural Heritage of the Midwest,” Michigan State University, Michigan, May 12-14, 1988.

“A Losing Battle: The Unrequited Dialogue in The Good Soldier,” 16th Twentieth

Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, KY, Feb. 25-27, 1988.

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RESEARCH AND TEACHING SPECIALITIES AND INTERESTS

• Language-Centered / Experimental Poetry and Poetics • Poetry and Poetics in Relation to Philosophy, Science, and Arts • Comparative Poetics, Aesthetics, and Language Strategies • American Modernist and Postmodernist Poetry and Poetics • Critical Theories and Continental Philosophy • Theory of the Mind • Visual Studies

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Chinese-American Association for Poetry and Poetics The Modern Language Association of America The American Literature Association The American Comparative Literature Association The Society of Literature and Science The International Husserl and Phenomenological Research Society The International Society of Phenomenology and Literature The American Society for Phenomenology, the Fine Arts, and Aesthetics The International Society for the Study of European Ideas The Modernist Studies Association The Ezra Pound Association The Harold Pinter Society The International James Joyce Foundation The International Linguistic Association

CONSULTANT READER

American Literary History Criticism Contemporary Literature Modern Language Studies Review of English Studies (UK) Northwestern University Press Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Index Journal (An art-history publication in association with University of Melbourne Modernism/Modernity

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AND ACTIVITIES:

NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL:

2020: Promotion Review, Department of English, University of California, Los Angeles

2016-2021: Guest Editor, for the special issue of the peer referred journal

CounterText, which is stationed at University of Malta, Malta, on Contemporary American Innovative Poetry

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2018: External Reviewer for the Research Grants & Partnership Division Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

2017: External Reviewer for the Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee,

Creative Writing Department, San Francisco State University External Reviewer for Tenure and Promotion, Department of English,

Wake Forest University 2011- Present: Member, Academic Committee, The First Convention of the Chinese-

American Association for Poetry and Poetics on “Dialog on Poetry and Poetics,” China Central Normal University, Wuhan, China

2011- Present: Editorial Board Member, Journal of Formes Poetiques Contemporaines,

Paris, France 2007-Present: Board Member, Chinese-American Association for Poetry and Poetics,

Wuhan, China 2006: External Examiner for the Department of Aesthetics and Philosophy,

Uppsala University, Sweden 1998: External Reviewer for the Retention, Tenure, and Promotion Committee,

Department of English, Brigham Young University SUNY Buffalo: 2001-Present 2017-2018: Graduate Review Committee

2016-2017: Committee on Creative Writing 2009-2011: Executive Editor for the On-Ling Journal Becoming Poetics

Editing and publishing the first two issues of Becoming Poetics 2009-2013: Graduate Review Committee 2009: UB Library Search Committee 2001-Present: Dissertation Committees 2001-Present: Ph. D. Orals Exams Committees 2006-2007: Executive Committee 2006-2007: Committee on Undergraduate Handbook 2001-2004: Associate Director, Poetics Program 2003-2004: David Gray Chair Search Committee 2002-2003: Graduate Review Committee 2001-2002: Graduate Admission Committee 2001-2002: Department Reading Committee (Loss Pequeno Glazier)

UNLV: 1996-2001

Ph. D. Dissertation Committee Ph. D. Orals Exam Committee

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MA Exam Committee Ad Hoc Committee (External Review) Search Committee (Theory) Undergraduate Committee Graduate Committee Research Resources Committee Freshman Composition Committee

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2001-Present: Assistant-Associate Professor, SUNY-Buffalo

Classes Taught: English 252: Literary Type: Poetry English 281: Pattern Poetry

English 301: Criticism English 339: American Poetry English 349: Modern Poetry English 361: Modern and Contemporary Poetry English 369: Literary Theory English 372: Special Topic: Theoretical Exploration in

Innovative Poetics English 372: Special Topic: Contemporary Innovative Poetry and Some Critical Issues English 383: World Literature: Epic

English 400: Department Honors: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry English 499: Independent Study

English 502: Introduction to Critical Theory English 542: 20th-Century American Poetry

English 583: Language Poetry and Its Critical Issues English 600: Independent Study English 601: Supervised Reading English 679: Poetic Form and Formal Innovations: A Theory of Form as Practice English 679: An (A)Poetics of the Literal English 679: Theory of the Avant-Garde English 682: Language Poetry: History, Theory, Praxis English 682: Michel Serres and Radical Poetics English 684: Poetic Media and Their Implications English 684: Poetics of Scale English 689: Avant-Garde Visual Prosody: Politics

Aesthetics, Philosophy (SP) English 689: A Poetics of Textual Physiognomy English 689: Phenomenology of Reading

English 698: A Poetics of the Invisible English 700: Thesis Guidance UGC 211: American Pluralism 1996-2001: Assistant Professor/Instructor, UNLV

Classes Taught: Honors 115: Perspectives on Western Experience II

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English 203: Introduction to Literary Study English 232: World Literature II English 242: Survey of American Literature II English 261: Introduction to Poetry English 472/672: Modern American Poetry English 475/675: Literary Criticism English 744: Postmodernist Poetry and Poetics English 744: Avant-Garde Visual Prosody English 760: Studies in Literary Genres

1989-1996: Teaching Assistant/Teaching Fellow/Student Instructor

Stanford University Classes Taught: English 50/150: Poetry and Poetics

English 115: Freshman English English 120: American Literature 1855-1917 English 125: American Fiction 1918-1940 English 155: The Voice in Contemporary Poetry English 159: African-American Poetry English 266: Introduction to Literary Theory

Chinese 008: Beginning Conversational Chinese Intermediate Chinese, Summer Program

1984-1988: Exchange Faculty/Student Instructor/Special Instructor, BYU

Classes Taught: English 115: Freshman Composition English 316: Technical Writing English 251: Introduction to Literature

Chinese 311: Advanced Conversation RESEARCH SUPERVISION---SUNY-Buffalo

Ph. D. Dissertation Committees, Member (Completed): 2020: Martin Goffeney: “Fiction(al) Science: Literary Experimentation and SF 1950-

Present”

Andrew Dorkin: “‘The Mind Sneezing’: Humor, Media Theory, and Modernist Poetry”

2018: Soma Feldmar: “A Poethics of the Other in the Poetry of Robin Blaser, Rosmarie

Waldrop, and Barbara Guest” 2017: Morani Kornberg: “Poetics of Protest: Trans-Nationalism in Israeli Anglophone

and Hebrew Lyric Poetry” 2015: James Kurt: “A Question of Determinacy: American Procedural Poetry 1950-

2013 and the Postmodern Critique of Subjectivity” (Comparative Literature Department)

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2013: Hee Jion Choi: “Sound and Silence, about the Complex Space” 2012: Andrea Strudensky: “Catastrophe’s Apostrophe: The Poetics of Address in Frank

O’Hara, Jack Spicer, and Langston Hughes” 2011: Angela Szczepaniak: “Minding the Gaps: A Cannulated Reading Process

Developed through the Works of bp Nichol, Chris Ware, and Art Spiegelman” 2011: Holly Neubert: “Hand Perception in Late Twentieth Century Women’s

AvantGarde Texts” 2011: Ron Sweeny: “Paper Cuts: The Material Page and the Body of Writing” 2010: Ben Berdard: “Material Sites of Modernism” 2008: Lori Emerson: “The Re-materialization of Poetry: From the Book-bound to the

Digital” 2008: Geoffrey Hilbchuk: “The Poetics of Exception: Contemporary North American

Poetry and the Ghosts of Relation” 2007: Asa Arketeg: “Aesthetics of Resistance: The Open-Ended Project of Language

Writing” (External Examiner for the Department of Aesthetics and Philosophy, Uppsala University, Sweden)

2006: James Maynard: “Architect of Excess: Robert Duncan and the American

Pragmatist Sublime” 2006: Greg Kinzer: “Catalysis: Experimental Poetry and Sciences” 2005: Barbara Cole: “No There There: Gertrude Stein’s Poetics of Negation” 2005: Jonathan Stalling: “Poetics of Emptiness: Historicizing East Asian Philosophy in

Twentieth Century American Poetry” 2005: Sasha Steensen: “Wandering: (Back) toward a Poetic Historiography”

2005: Gordon Hadfield: “Sounding Time: Temporality, Typography, and Technology in Twentieth-Century American Poetry”

2005: Tim Shaner: “Working Form: The Poetics of Writing Work” 2004: Linda Russo: “Becoming Poet: Women, Gender, and Innovation in 20th Century

Avant-Garde Poetry and Poetics”

2004: Patrick Durgin: “Indeterminacies and the Poetics of Critical Value” 2003: Douglas Manson: “Pre-poetics Precursors: Blake, Patchen, Nichol and the

Materials and Ethics of Verbal-Visual Poetry” 2001: Joel Mark Bettridge: “Reading Consequences: Ethics, Belief, and the Reader in

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America’s Postwar Avant-Garde”

Ph. D. Dissertation Committee, Chair (Completed)

2018: Henrikus Joko Yulianto: “East Meets West: Spontaneity in Beat Generation

Poetry as Poetics of Buddhist Dharma and Visions of Spiritual Ecology” 2017: Joao Guimareas: “Life Lines: Post-1960s American Poetry and the Concept of

Living Form”

Ph. D. Dissertation Committees, Member (In Progress):

Zack Brown: “Poetic and Textual Ontology” Callie Ingram: “Reading Encounter: On US Post-Postmodern Narrative Ethics” Simon Eales: “Poetic Bondage”

Laura Hensch: “Aspects of Language through the Printed Page in British Modernism, 1926-1929”

Ph. D. Dissertation Committee, Chair (In Progress):

Eric VanLeshout: “A Whole New Universe: William S. Burroughs’ Fiction, Alchemy, and a New Vision of Human Being”

Ph. D. Orals Exam Committee, Member: Simon Eales (2019) Zackary Brown (2019) Callie Ingram (2019) Travis Sharp (2019) Daniel Swenson (2018) Henrikus Joko Yulianto (2015) Joao Guimareas (2014) Andrew Dorkin (2014) Chris Sylvester (2012) Morani Kornberg-Weiss (2012) Joseph Yearous-Algozin (2012) Soma Feldmar (2012) Ayesha Malik (2009) Andrea Strudensky (2008) Holly Neubert (2007) Ben Berdard (2005) Ron Sweeney (2005) Angela Szczepaniak (2005) Geoffrey Hlibchuk (2004) James Maynard (2004) Thomas Donovan (2003) Greg Kinzer (2003) Anna Reckin (2003) Jonathan Stalling (2003) Barbara Cole (2003) Sasha Steensen (2003) Gordon Hadfield (2003) Eun-Gwi Chung (2003) Patrick Durgin (2002) Ph. D. Orals Exam Committee, Chair:

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Eric Vanlieshout (2018) Directed Readings, Independent Studies, and Orals Exam Readings (Ph. D.) Spring, 2019: Zack Brown: “Construction of the Poetics Text In the 20th-Century

Avant-Garde” Spring, 2019: Travis Sharp: “The Philosophy and Poetics of Reading and Readability” Fall, 2018: Simon Eales: “Radical Aesthetics, Formalism, and Language Poetry

Fall, 2018: Callie Ingram: “Narrative Ethics & the Phenomenology of Reading” Spring, 2018: Daniel Swenson: “Model-less-ness: Philosophy, Poetry, and Millenarianism” Fall, 2017: Eric Vanlieshout: “Information and Meaning: Mechanisms and Methods

of Language” Spring, 2016: Carmen Cibella: “Theory and Cinematic Poetics” Fall, 2015: Laura Hensch: “Theories of Rhythm” Fall, 2014: Henrikus Joko Yulianto: “Buddhism and Eco-Criticism” Laura Hensch: “Rhythm Study” Spring, 2014: Joao Guimaraes: “The Local” Fall, 2013: Andrew Dorkin: “Humor Theories, Media, and Modernism” Fall, 2012: Joao Guimaraes: “Post-Humanism” Spring, 2012: Soma Feldmar: “From Objects to Language: Poetry in the Latter Half of the 20th-

Century” Morani Kornberg-Weiss: “Theory of Lyric Poetry and the Poetics of Conflict” Joseph Yearous-Algozin: “Archiving Text Location: An Initial Approach to

Materialist Poetics” Fall, 2011: Chris Sylvester: “Object-Oriented Poetries and Philosophies and Their Systems” Joseph Yearous-Algozin: “Theories of the Field of Objects” Hee Jion Choi: “Sound as a Spatial Form”

Fall, 2010: Jeremiah Bowen: “The Future of the Subject”

Joseph Yearous-Algozin: “Toward a Theorization of the Document”

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Holly Melgard: “Building Is Dwelling” Hee Jion Choi: “Plato’s Cave and Its Architectonics”

Fall, 2009: Robert Dewhurst: “Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition”

Matthew Rigilano:

Spring, 2009: Ayesha Malik: “Aesthetics”

Fall, 2007- Andrea Strudensky: “The Apostrophe of Catastrophe” Spring, 2008: Spring, 2006: Holly Neubert: “The Tactile Forms of the Visual”

Spring, 2005: Ben Berdard: “Poetic Communities: The Changing Spaces”

Ron Sweeney: “Materiality of the Page”

Angela Szczepaniak: “Genre Boundaries and Inter-Sensory Experience”

Zhen Li: “Body and Intellectuality in Chinese and American Literatures”

Spring, 2004: James Maynard: “Theories of the Sublime”

Spring, 2003: Barbara Cole: “Reception-Gender-Feminist Theories” Thomas Donovan: “Philosophy after Auschwitz”

Gordon Hadfield: “Performing Texts and Performing Time” Greg Kinzer: “Poetry, Philosophy, and Science” Sasha Steensen: “Theories of History, Historiography, and Time” Benjamin Robertson: “Language Poetry”

Fall, 2003: Geoffrey Hilbchuk: “Canadian Pataphysics and Theory of Exception”

James Maynard: “Theories of the Sublime”

Jonathan Stalling: “Buddhist Hermeneutics and Modernist Poetry”

Tori Zimmermann (Comp. Lit.): “Phenomenology and Poetry”

Spring, 2002: Moonsoo Choi: “Modernist Poetry from Pound to Ashbery”

Patrick Durgin: “Philosophy from Descartes/Spinoza to Deleuze” A group: Kristen Gallagher, Christopher Alexander, Nathan Austin, Thomas Donovan, Sandra Guerreiro, Gordon Hadfield, Dan Leshem, Kyle Schlesinger: “The Objectivist Poetry and Poetics”

Fall, 2002: Patrick Durgin: “Philosophy from Descartes/Spinoza to Deleuze” Fall, 2001: Anna Reckin: “Landscape / Sound-Space in Women’s innovative Poetry”

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Eun-Gwi Chung: “Modernist and Postmodernist Poetry”

Thesis Director / Exam Supervision (Master’s) Fall, 2010: Tasawar Ali: “The Natural Man in Coetzee’s Life and Times of

Michael K” Spring-Summer, 2010: Melissa Wright: “The Subject becomes ‘Really-Real’: Idealism

and Materialism in Laura (Riding) Jackson” Summer, 2010: Caitlin Hurst (Exams)

Paper: “The Collaborative Poetics of Leslie Scalapino and Lyn Hejinian’s Sight”

Spring, 2009: Brandon Potyrala: “What To Do about Doing? Ethically

Innovative Poetics and the ‘puppet Strings’ that B[l]ind Poetic Praxis”

Spring-Summer 2007: Crane Giamo: “The Boundaries of Digital Authorship: Agency,

Effacement, and Power” Fall, 2003-Fall, 2004: Leslie Hodgkins: “A Body of Semiotic Correspondence: Louis

Zukofsky’s Poetic Object” Fall, 2002-Fall, 2003: John Long (Title not available)

Independent Studies (Undergraduate) Spring, 2020: Ruth Beshta: “Review Essays of Scientific Documents” Spring, 2012: Olusheui Ogunshakin: “Langston Hughes” (International student from

the Center for American Studies, University of Leicester, UK) Spring, 2009: Nicole Brown: “Lyric Poetry: Theory and Creative Practice” Spring 2005: Ann Breidenstein: “Memory and Language in Innovative Writing” Fall, 2003: Michael Sobieraj: “Artistic Creation and the Subconscious” Honors Thesis Supervision (Undergraduate) Fall, 2001-Spring, 2002: Jessica Smith: “Plasticity of Poetry”

MENTORING AND ADVISING:

Fall, 2013-Present: Henrikus Joko Yulianto (First/Second Year Ph. D. Advisee/Fulbright)

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Fall, 2011-2017: Joao Guimaraes (First/Second Year Ph. D. Advisee/Fulbright)

Fall, 2012-Spring, 2013: Justin Ramm (First Year Ph. D. Advisee)

Fall, 2011-Spring, 2012: Andrea Strudensky (Senior Ph. D. Student)

Fall, 2011-Spring, 2012: Hee Jion Choi (Senior Ph. D. student)

Spring, 2009: Alessandro Porco (English 252: Literary Type-Poetry)

Spring, 2009: Maria Almanza (First Year Advisee)