"'This Posture of the Nerves': Modernism's
Partisan Center," Journal of Modern
Literature 18, 1 (Winter 1992):
49-64.
"Stevens, 'J. Ronald Lane Latimer,' and the
Alcestis Press," Wallace Stevens
Journal 17, 2 (Fall 1993), 180-202.
"Modernism from Right to Left: Stevens,
Radicalism, and the 1930s" [chapter 2, part 1 of
the book bearing that title], George Arent
Library Courier 27, 2 (Spring 1992), 3-23.
"Voicing the Desert of Silence: Stevens' Letters
to Alice
Corbin Henderson," Wallace Stevens Journal
12, 1 (Spring 1988),
3-20.
"Wallace Stevens and the Strength of the Harvard
Reaction," New England Quarterly 58 (March
1985), 27-45.
"Wallace Stevens and the Crisis of Authority,"
American Literature 58 (December 1984),
560-78.
Advisor to the nonprofit "Close Up Foundation," a nonpartisan civic
education organization
ESSAYS:
REVIEWS:
Review of Alan M. Wald, Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and
the Anti-Fascist Crusade, in Left History 12, 2 (Fall/Winter
2007-08).
Review of Harold Kaplan, Poetry, Politics and Culture, Wallace
Stevens Journal 30, 2 (Fall 2006), pp 235-36.
"Where Survival Is at Stake," review of Frederick Busch, A Memory of
War in the New
Leader, November-December 2002, pp. 50-52.
Review of Cary Nelson, Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of
the American Left (Routledge, 2001), Modernism/Modernity,
Fall 2002.
Review of Modernism, Inc: Body, Memory, Capital, eds.
Jani Scandura, Michael Thurston (NYU, 2002), Against the Current,
September 2002, pp. 100-103.
Review of
Marjorie
Perloff, Poetry On & Off the Page, in
"Breakthrough Books," Lingua Franca, January 2000.
Reviews of David Jarroway, Wallace
Stevens and the Question of Belief: Metaphysician in the Dark
(1993) for American Literature
and The Wallace Stevens
Journal.
Untitled review of William W. Bevis,
Mind of Winter: Wallace Stevens, Meditation, and
Literature (1988), American Literature
(June 1990).
Untitled review of B. J. Leggett, Wallace
Stevens and Poetic Theory: Conceiving the Supreme
Fiction (1987), American Literature
60, 1 (March 1988), 134-35.
"The Problems of Biography," review of Milton
Bates, Mythologies of Self (1985),
Virginia Quarterly Review 62 (Summer
1986), 543-47.
Untitled review of Charles Berger, Forms of
Farewell: The Late Poetry of Wallace Stevens
(1985), The New England Quarterly 59
(March 1986), 531-33.
NOTES:
"Carl Rakosi: audio recordings," Jacket 25 (February 2004).
(http://jacketmagazine.com/25/index.html)
In memoriam, Gil
Ott (February 6, 2004)
jacket
statement for Irene Gammel's Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and
Everyday
Modernity - a Cultural Biography (2002)
"A Note on Aaron Levy's
Tombe" (May
2001)
"Cultural
Aspects of Atomic Anxiety", June 1999, for use in discussion of
Michael Frayn's Cophenhagen, Penn Reading Project 1999
"Covici-Friede," in American
Literary Publishing Houses, 1900- 1980, ed.
Peter Dzwonkoski
(Detroit: Gale,
1986), pp. 92-
97.
INVITED LECTURES:
"Oppen's Antifascism: Guilt in 'Myth of the Blaze,'" George Oppen at 100
conference, April 7, 2008, Kelly Writers House
"Poetics & Learning," Franklin Inn Club, Philadelphia, April 6, 2007
"Poetics of Stanley Burnshaw: Eco-Lyricism and Environmental
Radicalism in 'The Iron Land,'" symposium on the life and work of
Stanley Burnshaw, CUNY Graduate Center, co-sponsored by CUNY
and Harry Ransom Research Center of the University of Texas, October
20, 2006
"The Radical Poetry of New York City," Gotham Center for New York City
History, CUNY Graduate Center, May 4, 2006.
A series of related talks on the politics of
writing and the university at the University of
Michigan co-sponsored by the College of
Literature, Science & Art, the MFA Program of
the English Depaetmwnt, the Sweetland Wroting
Center, and the Alice Lloyd Hall Scholars
Program, October 6, 2005.
"Modernism and Anti-Communism," English Department, Pennsylvania State
University on October 18, 2004.
"Red Blue Guitar: Why Can't Modernism and Communism Get
Along," Poetics Program, SUNY Buffalo (hosted by Susan Howe) on
September 22.
"Modernism in Anti-Communism in the 1940s," National Poetry Foundation
conference on the Poetry of the 1940s, University of Maine, June 2004
"What's Historical about Historicism?" a plenary session paper delivered at
the Celebrating Wallace Stevens conference in Hartford, sponsored by
the University of Connecticut, April 8-10, 2004
"The Politics of Scholarship in the Digital Era," Frye Leadership Conference
hosted by the Council on Library and Information Resources and Emory
University, at Emory University, Atlanta, June 13, 2001
"Magic
thinking, unmediated access, instant solutions--not,"
Wayne State
University, April 13, 2001.
"'You can't say it that way any more': poetry, lifelong learning, and
technology," sponsored by the Liberal Learning Group of the University
Continuing Education Association conference, Philadephia, April 13, 2001
"The medium is the message and other tall tales," Bard College, February
22, 2001
"’For occupation: This’: The problem of the literary in Holocaust
writing--Levi, Keneally, Wiesel, and Celan," United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum, Washington DC, January 28, 2001
"Making a house an academic home," panel on
architecture sponsored by the
Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania, November 2000
(with James Timberlake of KieranTimberlake Associates; John Patkau, Patkau
Architects; and David Brownlee, History of Art
"Real Flowers Better than Virtual," "The Medium is Not the Message,"
two keynote lectures, Ohio Wesleyan University, October 24,
2000
"Fifties Culture," at The American Moments Project, July 14, 2000,
Springfield (MA) Museum of Art
"Ten 'thou shalts' of information technology," Emory University, the Frye
Leadership Institute, Atlanta, June 13, 2000
"A Thirties for the Twenties: Modern American Poetry in Transition,"
seminar/lecture given at a session of "The
American Moments Project," July 19, 1999, Westfield College, Springfield,
MA
"Innovative Poetics," lecture and presentation at the
Poetry & Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary symposium,
sponsored by the Institute for Writing & Thinking, Bard College, June
24-27, 1999
"Contextual Media and the New Writing," series of lectures, Universita'
degli Studi di Trento, Trento, Italy, March 5, 1999
"Inventing the Wheel: 'distributed learning' in learning communities &
other tall tales of the information age," Faculty Workshop on Teaching and
Learning, Villanova University, February 25, 1999
"The Role of the Faculty in the Information Age," keynote talk,
5th International Conference
on Living-learning Programs, Burlington, Vermont, October 1998
"Distributing the Core: The End of the Lecture as
We Know It", Washington
University, October 22, 1997
"Problems of Memory, Representation & Testimony," NEH Workshop on
Teaching the Holocaust, Susquehanna University, February 21, 1997
"Beyond
Cables & Jacks: ResNets and the Academic Mission", keynote
address, with Daniel Updegrove, Resnet Conference, Wellesley College, June
22, 1997
"Cold War Legacy: Teaching Literature Today," April 5, 1995, Penn
Lectures Series, College of General Studies
"Howard
Fast & the Cold War," Symposium on Cold-War Culture, Van Pelt Library,
March 1994
"Storm
Center and the Culture of
Anticommunism," symposium
convened by the School of Library Sciences,
Columbia University, May 9, 1991
"Wallace Stevens and the American Literary Left,"
Friends of Van Pelt Library, April 7, 1990
"The Fifties' Thirties," Miami University (Ohio),
February 15, 1990
"Bringing 'Documentary' and 'Literary' Together:
The Literature of the Holocaust," Facing History
Foundation annual conference, Harvard University,
April 28, 1988
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
"Sound in Stevens," MLA, December 2006.
"Text & University: Working against Conventions of Reading & Listening"
International Association of
Word and Image Studies: Elective Affinities conference, September 23-27,
2005, for a panel entitled "VVV-on-line: Verbal-Visual-Vocal Poetries in
Hyperspace."
MLA conference, in December 2004, organized, chaired and
participated in a panel on "Stevens in Contemporary Poetics" with Susan
Howe, Charles Bernstein, and Peter Gizzi.
Keynote speaker, "New Media Poetry: Aesthetics, Institutions, and
Audiences" conference sponsored by The International Writing Program, the
English Department, and the Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry of the
University of Iowa, October 10-13, 2002: "On the Institutionalization of
E-Poetries"
Session chair, featuring Susan Suleiman, Norman
Kleeblatt and Charles Dellheim, entitled "Holocaust: Art, Memory and
History" at the "Modern Jewry at the Arts" conference, Center for Judaic
Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April 30, 2001
"The Modernists are Coming! The Modernists are Coming!" in a panel (with
Ron Silliman) entitled "Modernism in the 50s," Modernist Studies
Association, New Modernisms II, October 12, 2000
"Before Organic Form Was a Weapon against Fragment: Pound/Stevens
Revisited," Modernist Studies Association, October 14,
2000
"'no one to drive the car': Experimental Poetry across
Time and Space," Modern Language Association conference, Washington, DC,
December 2000 (panel sponsored
by the MLA Poetry Division, convened by Charles
Bernstein and chaired by Loss Pequeño Glazier)
"Human Nature--Human Rights," Penn Humanities Forum, March 20-25, 2000
(with Milicent Marcus, Barbie Zelizer, et alia)
"Anticommunism and the Political History of Modernism," paper delivered at
the inaugural conference of the Modern Studies Association, Penn State
University, October 7, 1999
"Mid-century Modernism and the Cold War," American Literature Association
Conference, May 21, 1999
"Notes toward an Anticommunist Narrative Form," International Conference
on Narrative (sponsored by the Society for the Study of Narrative
Literature), Dartmouth College, April 29-May 2, 1999
Keynote speech,
Annual
Meeting of the American Association for History
and Computing, Temple University Conference Center, April 23-25,
1999
"The Effect of the Cold War on American Scholarship," Mellon-funded "Seminars in
the Theories and Practices of History," September 9, 1996
"Generation
Envy: Poets, Modernism & the Cold War", division of poetry session
convened by Marjorie Perloff, Modern Language Association conference,
December 1995
"Teaching with Technology," EDUCOM 1996, October 10, 1996 (with James
O'Donnell)
"Popular-Front Poetics," National
Poetry Foundation conference, Univ. of
Maine, June 1993
"'The Alabama of New England': Stevens's Poems'
Hartford & the Demographics of Race," American
Literature Association conference, May
28, 1993
"The Politics of Limited Editions," NEMLA, April
1992
"Anglo-American Accommodations of the East: Snow
Man in Sri Lanka," Modern Language Association,
December 1990
"Subversive Language and the 'Science' of Law:
Where Science and the Humanities Won't Meet,"
Eleventh Annual Humanities & Technology
Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, October 24, 1987
"Wallace Stevens and the Problems of Biography,"
Collation Address, University of Pennsylvania
English Department, September 1986
"Santayana and the Closed Door," Wallace Stevens
Society, Modern Language Association convention,
December 1985
"Wallace Stevens: Resisting the Intelligence,"
American Literature
Section, South Atlantic Modern Language
Association convention, Atlanta, November 3,
1985
"'Is Lunar Habana the Cuba of the Self?':
José Rodríguez Feo and
Wallace Stevens," Modern Language Association,
December 1984
CONFERENCE:
Higher Education
in the Information Age, invited participant and
subject
(June 2-3, 1997)
HONORS AND AWARDS:
named the Class of 1942 Professor, 1999
Carnegie/CASE
Pennsylvania Professor of the Year, 1998-99
The Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Award for Faculty Excellence, 1996
Ira Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching,
1995
Lindback Award for Distinguished
Teaching, 1992
Esther K. & N. Mark Watkins Humanities Chair,
1988
INTERVIEWS
- for the syndicated NPR program The Best of Our Knowledge,
recorded on February 22, 2001, originating from WAMC 90.3 FM, Albany (a
recording is available
here in MP3
format)
SAMPLING OF PRESS REPORTS
- "A Haven
on an Ivy Campus", by Alan Finder, New York Times, December 5,
2007,
page B7
- "Influences: What Shapes the Minds that Make the News," profile in
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Sunday, January 28, 2007, p. C2.
- "Building the
Archives,"
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, September 28, 2005 (on PennSound)
- "Professor
Establishes Repository for iPod Poetry", Chroncile of Higher
Education, January 21, 2005.
- "Is
e-mail ruining writing?", AP wire story (carried by many newspapers) by
Kathy Matheson, December 12, 2005
- in a Chronicle of Higher Education article about
Penn's "pilot curriculum, May 10, 2002 [experimental pedagogy is
described]
- in Patricia Leigh Brown, "Armageddon Again: Fear in the 50's and Now,"
New York Times "Week in Review," December 23, 2001, p. 10 [quoted
on the cultural meaning of cold-war fall-out shelters]
- James O'Neill, "Teaching
Revolution," Philadelphia Inquirer
Magazine, August 5, 2001
- Robert Daniel, "Caught in the Web," Jerusalem Post, June 8,
2001
- newspaper
article on hyperlinked literature, Philadelphia Inquirer, May
3, 2001
- Chronicle of
Higher Education on electronic poetry, July 28, 2000
- "eCollege
and PennAdvance
Pass eLearning's Double-Secret," by NELIA ROBBI
October 12, 2000, Alentis Trade Journal
-
"A Web Site Grows New
Poems, Sometimes Right Before Readers'
Eyes:
SUNY-Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center connects poets and scholars
from around
the world", by Zoe Ingalls, Chronicle of Higher
Education, July 28, 2000
- "Online
orientation", Washington Post, July 23, 2000
- Kelly
Writers House Fellows program (January 2000)
- e-seminar
for university pre-matriculants - New York Times, July 1, 1999
- Choice
review of 1950s web site (1998)
- "Survey
Shows a Sharp Rise in Net-Savvy Academics," Pamela Mendels, New
York
Times, November 4, 1998
- "Classes on the
Web,"
by Jeff Young, Chonicle of Higher Education
- "Alumni
of Penn reconnect with academic life..." by Martha Woodall, Philadelphia
Inquirer
-
"A
Course of a Different Color," by John Bowers, NetGuide
- Local
article about Penn mortgage plan, November 1998, Philadelphia
Business Journal
FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS (selected):
For 2004-2007: William Penn Foundation grant to support fund-raising for
the Kelly Writers House
For 2001-2002 - University of Pennsylvania
Distributed
Learning Venture Fund
For 1999-2000 - University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Grant,
"Anticommunism and Poetry"
For 1998-2001 - Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant ($448,000),
Collaborative Writing Groups, "Cost Effective Teaching
with Technology"
category
For 1996-97 - University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Grant, "The
Literature and Culture2 of the Cold War, 1945-60"
For 1995-96 - the year's recipient of the Edmund J. & Louise W.
Kahn Fund for Faculty Excellence (School of Arts & Sciences)
For 1995-96 - Center for Community Partnerships Program Grant, "Teaching
the Holocaust as a Model for High School-University Partnerships"
For 1994-95 - Pew Charitable Trusts Grant for
instituting the English department's new
communications network and integrating electronic
and traditional pedagogies and curricula
For 1993 - NEH "Travel to Collections" grant, to
travel for two weeks to Stanford University for
work in the archives of the Hoover Institute
For 1991 - University of Pennsylvania Research
Foundation Grant to travel for two weeks to the
unpublished George Oppen papers in the New Poetry
Archives, University of California at San
Diego
For 1990 - Huntington-Mellon Grant, for two
months' work at the Henry E. Huntington
Library;
Prior to 1990:
Research Grant, Esther K. & N. Mark Watkin's
Chair
Educational Development Fund (course
development)
Threshold Grant (academic computing)
A.C.L.S. Research Fellowship (declined)
NEH Research Fellowship (full year, 1987-88)
A.C.L.S. Grant-in-Aid (archival research)
Huntington Library Fellowship (1986)
FOUNDER:
The Penn-Edison Partnership (a tutoring program
involving Penn English faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate
majors at the Edison-Fareira High School in North Philadelphia, for
which I have raised $6000; now in its fourth year)
ACADEMIC SERVICE:
Current (selected):
- Faculty Director, The Kelly
Writers
House (1995-present)
- Chairman of the Policy Board, WXPN-FM, 1999-present
- Member, Provost's Council on Arts and Culture, 2000-present
- Member, Provost's Committee on the Continuum of Education, 2002-03
- Member, Committee on Graduate Education: Preparation for Teaching,
2002-03
- Member, Board of Trustees for the new KIPP Collegiate Charter School
in West Philadelphia (2003- )
- Member, Chaim Potok Literary Award Selection Committee, Jewish
Community
Centers of Greater Philadephia, 2003-2004
- Member, College of Arts & Sciences Admissions Committee, 2001-present
- Faculty Liaison, Trustee Committee on Student Life, 2001-03
- Member, Univerity Council Committee on Communications, 2001-02
- Chairman, Continuum of Education Committee, Stategic Planning for the
University, 2001-02; member, Strategic Planning Steering Group
- Member, Provost's Advisory Board for Computing, Committee on Distance
Learning, 1999-2000
- Member, Provostial Search Committee for Director of Graduate Center,
2001
- Member, SAS Committee on Distributed Learning, 1998-2000
- Member, SAS Committee on Learning and Technology, two-year term,
2000-2003
- Member,
Committee for Campus Development ("Student, Faculty, Administrative
Life;
Neighborhood & Community Life")
- Member, Advisory Board on Security & Safety, 1999-2001
- Faculty Director, The Writing Program (July 1996-July 1998)
- Chair, Residential Faculty Council, 1996-98
- Member, Jewish Studies Faculty, 1991-
- Member, Graduate Group in American Civilization (term July 1998-July
2003)
- Member, Residential Communities Planning Group (1997-98)
- Member, Residential Operations Board (1997- )
- Undergraduate Chairman, English department, Sept.
1993-July 1996
- Chairman, Provost's Classroom
Facilities Review Committee (1993-1998)
- Member, Residential Communities Planning Group (charged by President,
Provost, and EVP), 1997-98
- Member, University of Pennsylvania Alumni Society (UPAS)
Communications Committee (overseeing the Pennsylvania Gazette),
1997-
- Member, WXPN (radio) Policy
Board
- Member, Research Foundation Humanities Review panel, 1996-97
- Member, Collegiate Planning Board (21st Century Project), 1995-96
- Member, Design Team, Restructuring Computing at Penn, 1995-96 (and
co-leader, Communications Committee); Steering Committee, 1996-97; founder
and creator of
Penn's
residential computing support project
- Member, Residential Faculty Council, 1995-96
- Member, Faculty Senate Communications Committee (through May 1997)
- Member, College of Arts & Sciences Writing Committee
- Member, Committee on Undergraduate Education
(CUE) 1993-95
- Member, Information & Computing Services Faculty
Advisory Committee
- Member, ISC/DCCS Campus Wide Information Services
Committee
- Member, American Civilization Executive Committee (1995-96)
- Member, SAS Academic Computing Advisory
Committee
- Member, Pre-Freshman Program Faculty Executive
Committee
- Member, Committee on Study Abroad
- Member, College of General Studies Executive
Committee (1994-96)
- Member, Electoral Board, Executive Committee of
Phi Beta Kappa, 1989-92, 95-97
- Faculty Liaison to the Trustee Committee on
Facilities & Campus Planning (selected by
Senate Executive Committee)
- Member, Univ. Council Committee on Facilities, 1994-96
- Member, Senate Committee on Conduct (until April
1995)
- Member, American Civilization & Comp Lit Grad
Groups
- Advisor to American Civilization Graduate
Students
- Judge, College of Arts & Sciences/College Alumni
Society Undergraduate Research
Awards (1994-95)
Past (selected):
Member, University Committee on Classroom
Facilities, 1991-92
Departmental Committee to Review the
Undergraduate Major, 1991-92
Departmental Library Committee, 1991-present
Departmental Executive Committee, elected to two-
year term, 1988-90
Departmental Senior Search Committee, 1988-89
Departmental Junior Search Committees, 1987-88,
1988-89
Departmental Committee on the New
Distributionals, Summer 1986
Faculty Freshman Advisor for the College,
1988-present
Elected Member, Executive Committee of Faculty
Senate (1991-93 term)
Member, Van Pelt Library Special Collections
Advisory Committee
Faculty Supervisor, restructuring the English
component for the Summer "Pre-Freshman"
Program, 1991
Lecturer in "Pre-Freshman" Program, 1992-94
Advisor to Philadelphia public school teacher
studying American fiction as a "1988
Philadelphia Fellow for Independent Study
in the Humanities" under the U. S. Council for Basic
Education
Faculty Fellow in residence, Van Pelt College
House, 1991-92
Adjunct Faculty Fellow, Stouffer House, 1985-
present
Founding Teacher/Scholar,
Innovative Study in
Teaching and the
Humanities (ISTAH), a program designed to
"support and develop communication and
collaboration between secondary school
teachers at urban high schools and scholars
at Penn"
Judge, Phi Beta Kappa Essay Prize, 1991
Reviewer of fellowship applications for Robert
Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program,
1988
Reviewer of Mellon Fellowship applications,
Humanities Coordinating Committee, 1987,
1989, 1994
Reviewer, NEH Summer Seminars at Penn, 1991,
1994
ACADEMIC SERVICE (professional)
"Representations
of the Holocaust in Literature and Film", part of the College of Arts &
Sciences "pilot curriulum," co-taught with Millicent Marcus of Italian
Studies, Fall 2000, 2001, 2002.