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Assistant Professor of English Research and teaching interests
Digital textuality; modern and contemporary American and Canadian poetry; science and literature
Education
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2008
M.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 2004
M.A., University of Victoria, 2001
B.A., University of Alberta, 1998
Publications
Books
Co-ed. with Darren Wershler-Henry, The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader. Coach House Books, 2007
Journal issues and web sites edited
Guest Editor. Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, Special Issue: bpNichol+21. 13:8 (Spring 2009). Reviewed in: rob mclennan’s blog March 2009.
Guest Editor. Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, Special Issue: bpNichol+20. 13:5 (Spring 2008); 13:8 (Spring 2009).
Editor, Producer. “bp Nichol.” PENNsound online audio archive (January 2006). University of Pennsylvania Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing.
Guest Editor with Barbara Cole. Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, Special Issue: Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics. Series 12, No. 7 (Fall 2005).
Essays
“Materiality, Intentionality, and the Computer-Generated Poem: A Reading of Walter Benn Michaels And/Against Erin Mouré’s Pillage Land.” English Studies in Canada (Winter 2009), forthcoming.
“A Hyperspace Poetics, or, Words in Space: Digital Poetry Through Ezra Pound’s Vorticism.” Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology. Special Issue: Mathematics and the Imagination (Fall 2009), forthcoming.
"a seeing of your writing: An Introduction." Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, Special Issue 2: bpNichol + 20. 12:8 (Spring 2009): 7-9.
"My Digital Dickinson." The Emily Dickinson Journal. Special Issue: Contemporary Poetics. 17:2 (Fall 2008): 55-76
"bpNichol: First Screening" and "Talan Memmott: Lexia to Perplexia." Electronic Literature Organization Directory (November 2008)
"'a writing of your seeing': An Introduction." Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory, Special Issue 1: bpNichol+20. 12:7 (Spring 2008): 7-9.
With Darren Wershler-Henrym, "Afterword: This book is a frame." The
Alphabet Game: A bpNichol
Reader. Coach House Books, 2007, 316-17
"Introduction: ceci n'est pas un texte." Electronic Book Review (October 2007)
"Writing Hours: The Space of Thought or An Ethics of Reading." P-Queue 3 (2006): 147-61
"Numbered Space and Topographic Writing." Leonardo Electronic Almanac 14.5 (September 2006)
"Robin Blaser"; "Johanna Drucker"; "Roy (Kenzie) Kiyooka." Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry. Ed. Jeffrey Gray, James McCorkel, and Mary Balkun. Greenwood Press, 2005.
"Robin Blaser"; "Robert Duncan: 'The Structure of Rime.'" Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. Ed. Burt Kimmelman. Facts on File, 2005
"Excavating the 'Real Story': An Interview with Karl Siegler." Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory 12.4 (Fall 2004)
"Digital Poetry as Reflexive Embodiment." CyberText Yearbook (2002-2003): 88-106
With Joseph Hooper, "Miming/Différance: Leonard Cohen Live." Essays on Canadian Writing 69 (Winter 1999): 160-83. Rpt. in Intricate Preparations: Writing Leonard Cohen. Ed. Stephen Scobie. ECW Press, 2000, 160-83
"Nicholongings/because they is." Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory 10.4 (Fall 1998): 27-33
Editorial positions
Associate editor, Electronic Book Review, 2005-present
Contributing editor, Poetics Listserv, University of Pennsylvania, 2005-present
Editor-in-Chief. “bpnichol.ca.” Online author archive. Sept. 2007 – present
Associate editor, Electronic Poetry Center, University at Buffalo, 2008-present
Current projects
The Rematerialization of Poetry: Space, Time, and the Body from the Bookbound to the Digital (book)