Refereed Articles

“James Schuyler’s Poetics of Indolence.” Literary Imagination 11.1 (2009): 28-42.

“Working in the Gap Between Art and Life: Frank O'Hara's Process Poem.”   David Hopkins, ed. Neo-Avant-Garde . Avant-Garde Critical Studies Series 20.   Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 37-47.

“Ashbery, O’Hara, and the Neo-Avant-Garde Manifesto.” Arizona Quarterly 59.1 (Spring 2003): 136-65. (This article was also chosen to be reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism 221. New York: Thomson Gale, 2006. 73-86).

“Laughter and Uncertainty: John Ashbery’s Low-Key Camp.” Contemporary Literature 43.2 (Summer 2002): 285-316. (This article was also chosen to be reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism 221. New York: Thomson Gale, 2006. 51-64).

“You Must Change Your Life”: Formative Responses to The Catcher in the Rye.” In J.P. Steed, ed. The Catcher in the Rye: New Essays. New York: Peter Lang Publishers, 2002. 7-32.

“‘Where There’s a Will, There Are Always Two Ways’: Doubling in World of Wonders.” In Camille La Bossière and Linda M. Morra, eds. Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties. Reappraisals: Canadian Writers 24. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 2001. 99-110.

“The Can(adi)onization of Al Purdy.” Essays on Canadian Writing 70 (Spring 2000): 226-51.

“A Readership of None: The Later Poetry of W.S. Graham.” English Studies in Canada. 24: 2 (June 1998): 139-55.

“A Bouquet of Empty Brackets: Author-Function and the Search for J.D. Salinger.” The Dalhousie Review 75.2 (Summer/Fall 1995): 222-46.

Other Publications and Reviews

“Re/Subdivisions.” Catalogue essay for Brian Geary's painting exhibition, Cape Breton University Art Gallery, March

“Ekphrastic Poetry.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, Vol. 2 .   Jeffrey Grey, ed. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2006. 460-63.

“Kenneth Patchen.”   The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry . Vol. 4 .   Jeffrey Grey, ed. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 2006. 1128-30.

“Anne Sexton.” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Volume 2: The 1960s. William O’Neill, ed. New York: Scribner’s, 2003. 355-58.

“William Carlos Williams.” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives, Thematic Volume 2: The 1960s. William O’Neill, ed. New York: Scribner’s, 2003. 520-22.

Nelson’s “Introduction to Literature” Website. Content provider and editor. Work completed July 2002. <www.englishresources.nelson.com>

“James Schuyler.” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Kenneth T. Jackson, ed. Vol. 3. New York: Scribner’s, 2000: 477-9.

“John Steinbeck.” A detailed web page created for The College Board Learning Collaborative <http:// www.cblc.org>. This is a private site, not accessible to the public, but details can be obtained through the literature editor, Dr. Danell Jones at the above URL.

“Reading the New York School.” Review article. Henry Street 8.2 (Fall 1999): 81-102.

“Poetry Review of Ken Babstock’s Mean.” The Dalhousie Review 78.2 (Summer 1998): 327-9.

“George Oppen.” The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives. Kenneth T. Jackson, ed. Vol. 1. 1981-85. New York: Scribner’s, 1998: 613-14.

“Personality and Poetics.” Review of Frank Lentricchia’s Modernist Quartet. Henry Street 5.2 (Fall 1995): 102-106.

“Talking Back: Preface to an Uncollected Anthology of Canadian Poems.” (Published by York University as winner of the 1989 Faculty of Arts Prize for the Best Essay in a 4000-level course).

Conference Papers and Lectures

“New York School Collaborations.” American Literature Association, Boston MA, May 21-24, 2009.

“Kenneth Patchen’s Last Poem-Paintings.” National Poetry Foundation, University of Maine, Poetry of the 1970s Conference. June 11-15, 2008

“James Schuyler’s ‘Intimist’ Still Lives.” Seminar on Literature and the Visual Arts. The Association of Literary Critics and Scholars Conference, Chicago, IL, Oct. 12-14, 2007.

“Brainard and the Neo-Avant-Garde: Archiving the Everyday.”   Presented at the 8 th Modernist Studies Association Conference, Tulsa, OK, Oct. 19-22.

“Working in the Gap Between Art and Life: The New York School Process Poem.” Presented at Mapping the Neo-Avant-Garde, a conference sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Research Board Project on the European Avant Garde.   September 23-25, 2005.   University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

“Healing Arts: How Literature and Medicine Speak to One Another.”   Presented at the 3 nd Annual Cape Breton Health Research Symposium, May 26-27, 2005. Cape Breton University.

“Orality versus Textuality: The Problem of Sentiment in Richard Wagamese's Keeper 'n Me. ”   Presented at The Ninth Annual Cape Breton University Storytelling Symposium: Storytelling as a bridge to other worlds.   June 17-18, 2005.   Cape Breton University .

“Poetry and Medicine.”   Presented at the 2 nd Annual Cape Breton Health Research Symposium, University College of Cape Breton.   June 18, 2004.

“‘This room, this battlefield’: Kenneth Patchen’s Poetics of Pain” Presented at Vital Lines, Vital Signs: A Conference on Poetry and Medicine at the Duke Center for the Study of Medical Ethics and Humanities, April 23-25, 2004.

“Frank O'Hara's Hollywood Aesthetic” Presented at the Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Meeting, April 7- 10, 2004. San Antonio, Texas.

“Name-Dropping and –Recovery: Gossip and the Proper Name in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara.” Presented at the 2002 Modern Language Association Convention. Panel: “Names as Multi/Cultural Tokens.” New York, December 27-30, 2002.

“Shades Of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Camp, Cliché, and John Ashbery’s Good Bad Verse.” National Poetry Foundation Conference “North American Poetry in the 1960s.” University of Maine, June 28-July 2, 2000.

“Renegotiating the Avant-Garde in the 1960s: Frank O’Hara’s ‘Personism’ and the New Manifesto.” Presented at “Rethinking the Avant-Garde: Between Politics and Aesthetics.” University of Notre Dame, April 14-15, 2000.

“Jackson Pollock, Frank O’Hara, and the Poetics of Process.” Presented at “History Across The Disciplines: The Future of the Past.” Dalhousie University, March 25-26, 2000.

“‘Where There’s a Will, There Are Always Two Ways’: Doubling in World of Wonders.” The Robertson Davies Symposium, University of Ottawa, May 8-9, 1998.

Creative Writing

Publications of poems in journals including:

Germination, What, Existere, Yak, and EM,L.

Three chapbooks of poetry:

Of How and Why Another (some bees press, 1996).

Shadows Hold Their Breath (some bees press, 1989).

Asleep Inside An Agate Stone (some bees press, 1988).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Teaching Experience

Associate Professor

Cape Breton University, July 2003-

Courses:

Introduction to Literature (ENGL 200)

Twentieth Century American Poetry (ENGL 352)

Twentieth Century American Fiction (ENGL 351)

American Literature to 1866 (ENGL 357)

Selected Topics in American Literature: New York School Poetry   (ENGL 451)

Twentieth Century Criticism and Critical Theory to 1960 (ENGL 426)

Twentieth Century Criticism and Critical Theory 1960 to Present (ENGL 428)

Creative Writing: Poetry and Poetics (ENGL 333—June 2007)

Topics in Literature and Medicine: Representations of Pain (ENGL 388—Sept. 2007)Selected Topics in American Literature: Avant-Garde and Collaborative Poetry (ENGL 451--Sept. 2009 )

Thesis Supervision: Donald Calabrese (“Make Up Our Makeup: Art's Fiction and Robert Coover” 2005-6); Heather Mackenzie (“Is John Steinbeck a Feminist?” 2004); Jeannine Maclean (“Sylvia Plath and the Problem of Pain” 2003-4)

Adjunct Professor

Memorial University of Newfoundland, September 2005-

"Teaching English in Intermediate and Secondary Schools" (EDUC 4142) Sept.-Dec. 2005.

Assistant Professor (Limited Term)

Dalhousie University, September 2002–July 2003

Courses:

Introduction to Literature (English 1000)

Fictions of Development (English 2221 / Women's Studies 2200)

American Literature to 1865 (English 3061)

Staking Claims in Contemporary American Poetry (English 4602)

Instructor: Introduction to Literature and English Composition

Dalhousie University, September 2000–May 2002
St. Mary’s University, September 2001-May 2002

Instructor: Twentieth Century Poetry
St. Mary’s University Extension Program in The Gambia, September - November 1998

College English and E.S.L teacher
Taylor’s College, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1992-94

Secondary School English language and literature teacher
International Community School of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1990-92

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Poetry and Poetics; Interdisciplinary Collaborations; Word and Image Studies;
Twentieth Century Literature, Theory, and Culture
Literature and Medicine: Pain, Trauma, and Art
Creative Writing: Poetry

SELCTED AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS

Cape Breton University RP/RAC Grants (April 2008: $4186; April 2006: $4782; Oct. 2004: $4631)

Cape Breton University Summer Research Stipend (May 2007, 2009)

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of California, San Diego, 2003-05) (declined)

Dalhousie University Research Development Grant, Feb. 2003)

Nominated for the Dalhousie U. Sessional Instructor Award for Teaching Excellence (2001)

Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship (1998-99)

Dalhousie University Research Development Grant (June 1998)

Dalhousie University President’s Graduate Teaching Assistant Award (1998)

Dalhousie University Graduate Fellowship (1994-98)

First prize, James DeMille Essay Contest (Dalhousie U., 1995)

First prize, Joseph Howe Poetry Competition (Dalhousie U., 1995)