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Bio
Associate Professor, Adj. BA, 2000, University of Iowa; MA, 2003, PhD, 2004, State University of New York at Buffalo. Publications: PQRS (Kenning Editions, 2012); The Route (Atelos, 2008); The Matter of Disability; Chicago Review; Contemporary Women's Writing; Cross-Cultural Poetics; Denver Quarterly; Disability Studies Quarterly; Jacket2; Journal of Modern Literature; Postmodern Culture, Emergency Index, and others. Editor: Hannah Weiner's Open House. Exhibitions: Institutional Garbage (Sector 2337/Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, 2016); Pulse Art and Technology Festival, "Gesture to Exit" (Non Fiction Gallery, Savannah, GA, 2015). Readings: Wolfman Books (Oakland, 2019); Poetic Research Bureau (Los Angeles, 2019); Seminary Co-op at University of Chicago (2020); Poetry Foundation, Open Door Series (Chicago, 2020) and Arts Club of Chicago and Renaissance Society, “An Adventure Was Home: Gertrude Stein in Chicago” event (Chicago, 2015); Poetic Research Bureau (Los Angeles, 2013); Red Rover Series (Chicago, 2011); Felix Series (Madison, WI 2011); Series A (Chicago, 2010); Danny’s Series (Chicago, 2010); Segue Series (New York, 2009); Poetry Project (New York, 2008); Myopic Books (Chicago, 2008); Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee, 2008); The Route/Imitation Poems readings at Kootenay School of Writing in Vancouver, The Spare Room in Portland, Emergent Forms series in Ashland, San Francisco Poetry Center, UC Santa Cruz, and The Smell in Los Angeles (2007); MLA Off-Site Reading (Arts Alliance, Philadelphia, 2006; D.C. Four Seasons, 2005; Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, 2004); Discrete Series (Chicago, 2005); Carl Rakosi 100th Birthday Celebration at Beyond Baroque (Los Angeles, 2003); Geary Street series (San Francisco, 2003); New Brutalism series (Oakland, 2003); In Your Ear series (Washington DC, 2002); Rust Talks series (Buffalo, 2002), Canessa Park series (San Francisco, 2000); Words of Light series (Chicago/Iowa City, 1999).
Personal Statement
I teach Visual & Critical Studies, Art History, Theory & Criticism, and Liberal Arts. I regularly teach an introduction to the work of Gilles Deleuze and a series of courses on language as artistic medium. I also teach literature and poetics courses. I have taught in the Writing Program at SAIC, the MFA Program in the School of Art and Art History at the University of Illinois, Chicago, the English Language & Literature Department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, The Liberal Arts Program at the University of St. Catherine, Minneapolis, and the English Department of SUNY, Buffalo. I am a poet-critic who also makes artist books, performances, and text-sound works. In 1998 I founded Kenning Editions. From 2015–2017, I co-curated the Festival of Poets Theater in Chicago.
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