Curriculum Vitae
CLARK D. LUNBERRY
Professor
University of North Florida
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL USA 32224-2645
Dept. Phone Number: (904) 620-2273
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English (Modern Studies Program). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
M.A., English (Modern Studies Program). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
EMPLOYMENT
Department of English
University of North Florida
Professor, Aug. 2015 - present
Associate Professor, Aug. 2008 - July 2015
Assistant Professor, Aug. 2004 - July 2008
BOOKS
Seeking Frozen Sound | PostCardPoem. Tofu Ink Arts Press, 2023.
The Very Thought of Herbert Blau. Co-Editor (with Joseph Roach). U of Michigan Press, 2018.
Writing On Water / Writing On Air. U of North Florida, 2016.
Sites of Performance—Of Time and Memory. Anthem Press, 2014.
StonePoems. Bratislava: Kalligram Press; Budapest: Institute of Broken and Reduced Languages, 1999.
JOURNALS
"Picturing the Flames of Kyoto's Daimonji," Kyoto Journal (Spring 2024). Vol. 107.
“'An Aquatic Reverie' | Mallarmé’s Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves," Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (Dec. 2019). Vol. 3, No. 2: 55-63.
"Writing on Basho's Pond," Critical Multilingualism Studies. 7: 2 (2019): 21-34.
"Dance of Light and Loss," Performing Arts Journal (PAJ 112, 2016). Vol. 38, No. 1: 56-62.
"Picturing the Flames of Daimonji," Kyoto Journal (Winter 2015). Vol. 84: 20-33.
"Bodies of Water: Somebody | Nobody" (For E.D.), Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin (Nov/Dec 2015). Vol. 27, No. 2: 16-20.
"Reinventing, Vowel by Colorful Vowel," Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Fall 2014). Vol. 16, No. 2: 104-111.
“Seeing In Plain Sight—Installations in Flight,” University of Toronto Quarterly (Fall 2014). Vol. 83, No. 3: 606-624.
“‘…In Front of Our Eyes’ — Remembering Herbert Blau,” The Beckett Circle, the newsletter of the Samuel Beckett Society, Oxford University (Spring 2014).
“Suspicious Silence: Walking Out on John Cage.” Current Musicology (Spring 2014), No. 94: 127-142.
Review of Herbert Blau’s Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual (U of Michigan Press), for The Drama Review, (Winter 2013), Vol. 57, No. 4 (T220): 172–174.
"Antonin Artaud's Unending Death Rattle." Rattle: A Journal at the Convergence of Art and Writing. Vol. 3 (Summer 2012): 27-40.
“That’s the Beauty of It, Or, Why John Ashbery is Not a Painter,” Journal of Modern Literature. 34: 4 (Summer 2011): 172- 184.
“Writing on Water, Murmur of Words.” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 7: 2 (Fall 2010): 139-159.
“Soliloquies of Silence: James Turrell’s Theater of Installation.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 37: 1 (March 2009): 85-98.
“The Theater and its Derridean Double: Writing Upon Derrida’s Theater of Thought.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge (Winter 2008).
“‘Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 22: (Fall 2007): 53-63.
“Departing Landscapes: Morton Feldman’s String Quartet II and Triadic Memories.” SubStance 110: Vol. 35, Number 2 (Summer 2006): 17-50.
“Wiping Blood from the Walls: Medea’s Pleasures of Terror.” Theatre Topics 16: 1 (March 2006): 35-45.
Sites of Sound, Alchemies of Air: Audiotropsm. CD Liner Notes for live trio improvisations by Hal Rammel, Thomas Gaudynski and Steve Nelson-Raney. Milwaukee, WI: Necessary Arts, 2005.
“So Much Depends: Printed Matter, Dying Words and the Entropic Poem.” Critical Inquiry 30: 3 (Spring 2004): 627-653.
“Theater as Installation: Ann Hamilton and the Accretions of Gesture.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 37: 1 (March 2004): 119-133.
“In the Name of Coriolanus: The Prompter (Prompted).” Comparative Literature 54: 3 (Summer 2002): 229-241.
"Quiet Catastrophe: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Vanished.” Discourse 24.2 (Spring 2002): 84-118.
“(Silence): Scripting [It], Staging [It] on the Page, For the Stage.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 15: 2 (Spring 2001): 69-84.
"The Philosopher and the Geisha: Alphonso Lingis and the Performance of Philosophy." Discourse 22.2 (Spring 2000): 92- 103.
“Broken English: Deviant Language and the Para-Poetic.” Kyoto Journal 29 (Spring 1995): 90-99. Now available on UBU.COM: http://www.ubu.com/papers/Lunberry_Poetless-Poem.pdf
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“‘Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence.” Beckett’s Proust/Deleuze’s Proust. Ed. Mary Bryden and Margaret Topping. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009: 117-127.
“‘Collaborating with Entropy’: Robert Smithson’s Enantiomorphic Chambers and the Exhibition of Absence.” (Im)permanence: Cultures in/out of Time. Ed. Judith Schachter and Steve Brockmann. Pittsburgh: Penn State UP, 2008: 59-69.
"East Meets West Meets East: Dreaming Japanese Butoh." The Avant-garde and the Margins: New Territories of Modernism. Ed. Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and Marinos Pourgouris. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
“In the Name of Coriolanus: The Prompter (Prompted).” Shakespearean Criticism (SC-96). Ed. Michelle Lee. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006: 165-172.
“The Accidental Re-Appearance of Language” in Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1988-1998, Vol. 2, Poetry and Essays. Eds. Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000: 395-405.
"WRITING ON WATER / WRITING ON AIR" INSTALLATIONS
"OF | OF | OF -- Empty Wor[l]d," Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida. November 2021 - February 2022.
"Haunted Words | Or, Drowning My Library (In the Waters of Hogan's Creek), Th3Rivers | A Contemporary Exploration of the St. Johns Lower Basin, Karpeles Manuscript Library, Jacksonville, Florida, April 9 - May 29, 2021.
"A Time Once Upon," Chiswick Gardens, London, England, June 2019.
"DisAppearingWorld," Svandemman Pond, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2018.
"Vanishing Point | Point Vanishing," Lake Herrick, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, November 2017."
Image | Mirage," a Writing on Water Art and Poetry Installation, University of Oxford, on the pond adjacent to Lazenbee's Ground Walk, Oxford, England, September 11-16, 2017.
"And then the Windows failed," a Writing on Water / Writing on Air Art Installation, Fondation des Etats-Unis (windows of the Grand Salon), and on the lake inside the Parc Montsouris, Paris, France, June 22 – July 1, 2016.
“Mizu No Oto” (Sound of Water). “Writing on Water / Writing on Air” Art Installation, Tama Art University (Hachioji Campus), Tokyo, Japan, June 30 – 28, 2015.
“‘Bodies of Water—Somebody | Nobody’ (for E.D.)” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), September 28 – October 16, 2014.
“A Time To”; “Writing on Air”; “Mixed Signals.” Stanford University (USA), in conjunction with the conference “Performance Studies International 19” (PSi 19), June 25-July 1, 2013.
"Sight | Light," FSCJ-Kent Campus Library, Jacksonville, Florida, Feb. 2 – May 7, 2013.
"In One Ear & Out the Other," Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (France), in conjunction with the conference “Transatlantic Cage: John Cage’s Centennial in Paris.” September 19 - 22, 2012.
"Neither Here Nor There," University of Toronto, in conjunction with the conference “(An)Aesthetic of Absence - Une esthétique de l'absence,” March 8 – 12, 2012.
"No Such Thing," University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), in conjunction with UNF's John Cage Festival, March 1 – April 8, 2012.
“Crossing Over (After Hakuin),” Pt. 1. Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan, July 4-8, 2011.
“Crossing Over (After Hakuin),” Pt. 2. Keio University (Hiyoshi Campus), Tokyo, Japan, July 11-15, 2011.
“Sensation: Water | Trees | Sky,” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), March 21 – April 13, 2011.
“Word In Mind.” Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) projection event, at the San Marco Skyway Station, Jacksonville, FL (USA). Dec. 1, 2010.
“Providing Positioning," University of Durham (England), in conjunction with the conference “Cosmopoetics: Mediating a New World Poetics,” Sept. 8-10, 2010.
"The Uncomprehending Window," Institut Charles V – Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, in conjunction with the conference “John Ashbery in Paris,” March 11 – 13, 2010.
“Floating Form Less,” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), Nov. 1-14, 2009.
“Murmur of Words / Murmur of Wounds,” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), February 2008.
“Water on Water,” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), April 7-20, 2007.
"WRITING ON WATER / WRITING ON AIR" PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
“'An Aquatic Reverie' | Mallarmé’s Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves," Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (Dec. 2019). Vol. 3, No. 2: 55-63.
"Poetry Off the Page, Language On the Landscape: Writing on Water and Air," Kingsborough Art Museum (KAM) Lyceum Lectures in the Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY. October 18, 2019.
"Writing on Water | Writing on Air," The Curtis Meltzer Memorial Lecture, Story and Song Bookstore, Fernandina Beach, Florida, October 24, 2018.
"Surface Tension and Aquatic Reveries | Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves," an invited talk at the Stockholm University, “The Higher Literary Seminar,” September 20, 2018.
"Surface Tension and Aquatic Reveries | Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves," an invited talk at the Uppsala University’s “The Higher Seminar in Rhetoric,” September 18, 2018.
"Writing on Water," an invited talk at the University of Georgia's Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Athens, GA, November 10, 2017.
"Bodies of Water: Somebody | Nobody" (For E.D.), Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. Vol. 27, No. 2: 16-20.
Invited Presentations in Japan, Spring/Summer 2015:
606-624.
“In One Ear & Out the Other: Installation at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3,” TERZ Magazine, Vienna, Austria 2013: <http://terz.cc/magazin.php?z=246&id=267>
“strikethrough,” Otolith, Issue 26, 2012. <http://goo.gl/DLovQI>
“Floating Form Less.” Otoliths, Vol. 20, Summer 2011. <http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/>
Invited Presentations in Japan, Summer 2011, “Writing on the Landscape: Extensions of the Poem in Japan and the West”:
“Writing on Water, Murmur of Words.” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 7: 2
(Fall 2010): 139-159.
“Writing on Water: Extensions of Text (and Teaching) onto Landscape.” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 7: 2 (Fall 2010): 139-159.
“Writing on Water / Writing on Air: Language onto Landscape,” an invited lecture at the Université de Caen (France), March 17, 2010.
“Writing on Water: Extensions of Text (and Teaching) onto Landscape.” A paper presented at the conference,
“Creativity: Worlds in the Making.” Wake Forest University, Mar. 18–20, 2009
“Water On Water,” a selection of photographs from the 2007 UNF Library Installation, in the journal, Exquisite
Corpse <http://www.corpse.org/>, Summer 2008.
POETRY AND PHOTOGRAPHY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Noon: Journal of Short Poems; publication of three poems, “Buried in Layers”; “Almost Ever Again”; “And Yet an Instant,” Spring 2024.
Indianapolis Review: A Selection of Eight Visual Poems, Fall 2023
Invited artist for group gallery exhibition “Next Text,” curated by UNF Art Department’s Sheila Goloborotko, October/November 2022. Webber Gallery, College of Central Florida, Ocala, Florida.
Mayday Magazine: “Impossible Answer,” “Poem Full of Grammar,” “Materially Speaking” (3 Visual Poems and “Statement”), January 2022
3:AM Magazine: “Single Word,” “Of Their Eyes” (2 Visual Poems and “Statement”), Summer 2021.
“Correspondences" (After Charles Baudelaire). Western Humanities Review 69: 1 (Summer 2015): 63-68.
“In One Ear & Out the Other: Installation at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3,” TERZ Magazine, Vienna,
Austria, 2013.
"Born So Blind," from the CD "Eat Justiss: The Poetry of Alan Justiss," featuring Noah Lunberry, 2012.
“strikethrough,” Otolith, Issue 26, 2012. <http://goo.gl/DLovQI>
“Floating Form Less,” Otolith, Issue 20, 2011. < http://goo.gl/YvItdK>
“Murmur of Words/Murmur of Wounds,” a “Writing on Water” Installation, 2009. Slideshow with sound on
UBU.COM: http://ubu.com/film/lunberry.html
“Words Away: A Poem in 125 Parts,” E·ratio. <http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/> (Fall 2008).
“Water On Water,” Exquisite Corpse a selection of photographs from the 2007 “Water On Water” UNF Library
Installation: http://bit.ly/1oWPDWs
“As If / To Drift,” “Eavesdropping Across America” and “Reconsider Now” (three poems, in collaboration with the musician Jason Arnold). EAT #1 (spoken word CD). Ed. Mark Ari. Winter 2007.
“Found Eyes,” “Only Fragments” (two poems). Kalligram: Art & Idea (January 2003): 54-55.
“Nobody Takes,” “The Attained Eye,” “Minds” (three poems). The 2River View 6: 2 (Winter 2002): 12-14.
<www.2river.org/2RView/6_2/2RV06_2.pdf>
“What Up,” “Trees of Animals” (two poems). Vert #6 (Winter 2002 <http://epc.buffalo.edu/mags/vert/Vert_issue_6/cvrsix.html>
“Said Sounds,” “Appeared Moment” (two poems). Chicago Review 47: 1 (Spring 2001): 79-80.
“Nothing in My Head” (one poem). SugarMule #9 (Spring 2001) <http://www.marclweber.com/sugarmule/frame9.htm>
“Silent Thoughts,” “Thinking Of,” “Pieces” (three poems). Kalligram: Art & Idea (Dec. 2000): 85-94.
“Delivering,” “World Words,” “Winged,” “There” (four poems). LVNG: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction, Essays & Art 8 (Winter 2000): 39-43.
StonePoems (a book of poems and photographs). Bratislava, Slovakia: Kalligram Press, 1999. (This book was included in the exhibition “Outside of a Dog: Paperback and Other Books by Artists,” at Baltic: International Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England, September-May 2004.)
“Enlightenment Needs a Minyan” (photographs). Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Summer 1996): 48-52.
“Rakan: The Disciples of the Buddha” (photographs). Kyoto Journal 20 (Spring 1992): 31-35.
“Japanese Jizo” (photographs and article). Mainichi Graphic, 1 Oct. 1989: 35-42.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES & PERFORMANCES
"Power of the Word International Conference VII: The Dramatised Word," Title of Paper: "Gertrude Stein and the Rhythmic ReWorking of Words." La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. September 16-20, 2024
“Global Barthes” Symposium at Meiji University, in Tokyo, Japan, "Roland Barthes and the Poetics of the Postcard." May 18, 2024
"International Conference of Modernist Studies in Asia," Title of Paper: “Makings of Memory | Marcel Proust, Annie Ernaux, and the Writing of a Life,” University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. May 31 - June 2, 2024.
Panel Presentation: “Seeking Frozen Sound | PostCardPoems”; Conference Title: “Fragmented Writing in the 21st Century,” SAMLA 2022, Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 11-13, 2022.
Invited Public Lecture: “Playing It by Ear | Colluding with John Cage,” MoCA-Jacksonville, March 23, 2023.
Panel Presentation: “Marcel Proust, Annie Ernaux, and the Poetics of Fragmentation”; Conference Title: “The Fragment and its Rhythms: Writing Practices, Sites of Thought, Acts of Resistance,” Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 27th and 28th, 2023
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"UnReading the Newspaper (To My Dog)," a live (and Facebook Live) performance, in conjunction with the Art, Art History, and Design Faculty Exhibition at the UNF Gallery of Art, "How Soon is Now," on October 21, 2020,
"Poetry Off the Page, Language On the Landscape: Writing on Water and Air," Kingsborough Art Museum (KAM) Lyceum Lectures in the Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY. October 18, 2019.
TEDxFSCJ Salon: "Leonardos of the 21st Century," Panel Member. Thursday, February 28, 2019, MOCA Jacksonville.
"Surface Tension: Writing on Water," Uppsala University, September 18, 2018; and Stockholm University, September 21, 2018.
"Writing on Water," an invited talk at the University of Georgia's Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Athens, GA, November 10, 2017.
“An Aquatic Reverie”: Mallarmé’s Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves," Power of the Word International Conference V, "The Prophetic Word," Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 13-16 September 2017.
"And then the Windows failed | Installing Emily Dickinson,” Emily Dickinson International Society Triennial Conference, Cité International Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France, June 24, 2016.
“Writing on Basho’s Pond,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Mar. 17-Mar. 20, 2016.
“Reinventing Language, Vowel by Colorful Vowel,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. Feb. 26-March 1, 2014.
“Seeing in Plain Sight – Installations in Flight” and “Remembering Herbert Blau.” Conference Title: Performance Studies International 19 (PSi 19). Stanford University, June 27, 2013. (This conference included an accompanying installation.)
“Floating Form Less - Writing on the Landscape,” keynote panel (with Ron Silliman and Joe Milutis) at the conference “Convergence on Poetics,” at the University of Washington-Bothell, September 27-30, 2012.
“In One Ear & Out the Other – On Not Hearing John Cage.” Conference Title: “Transatlantic Cage: John Cage’s Centennial in Paris.” Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, September 19 - 22, 2012. (This conference included an accompanying installation.)
“Suspicious Silence: Walking Out on John Cage.” Conference Title: “(An) Aesthetic of Absence - Une esthétique de l'absence.” Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, March 8-10, 2012. (This conference included an accompanying installation.)
“Writing on Water / Writing on Air: Dispersions of a Borderless Poem.” Conference Title: “Cosmopoetics: Mediating a New World Poetics,” Sept. 8-10, 2010, Durham University, UK. (This conference included an accompanying installation.)
“‘Professional Exiles Like Me’: John Ashbery’s Self-Imposed Paris and the Pursuit of Poetic Abstraction.” Conference Title: “John Ashbery in Paris,” at the Institut Charles V – Université Paris Diderot, in Paris, France, March 11 – 13, 2010. (This conference included an accompanying installation.)
“Writing on Water / Writing on Air: Language onto Landscape,” an invited lecture at the Université de Caen (France), March 17, 2010.
“Antonin Artaud’s Unending Death Rattle.” Conference Title: Séismes / Seismic Shifts 20th and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. University of Minnesota, Department of French and Italian. Minneapolis, MN, March 26-28, 2009.
“The Deep Seascape,” two poems included in sound installation by composer Erik DeLuca, Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Art Center’s Concert Hall, Miami, FL, March 21, 2009.
“Installing James Turrell’s Installation Art: The Building of Next to Nothing at All.” Conference Title: Built Spaces: Earth Sky and Human Praxes. Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University. April 27-29, 2007.
“The Theatre and its Derridean Double: Derrida’s Theater of Thought.” International Interdisciplinary Conference: Following Derrida: Legacies. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. October 2006.
“Vanishing Acts: Seeking Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.” Invited Speaker. Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan. July 14, 2006.
“‘Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence.” Invited Speaker. Conference Title: Beckett’s Proust/Deleuze’s Proust. An international conference organized by Cardiff School of European Studies, Cardiff University (Wales), Mar. 9-11, 2006.
“Setting an Empty Stage: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence.” Conference Title: Beckett at 100: New Perspectives, Florida State University, Feb. 9-11, 2006.
“Vanishing Acts: Seeking Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.” Invited Speaker. University of North Florida Art Gallery. December 1, 2005.
“East Meets West Meets East: Japanese Butoh.” Modernist Studies Association, 7th Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. Nov. 3-6, 2005.
“‘Collaborating with Entropy’: Robert Smithson and the Exhibition of Decay.” Conference Title: (Im)permanence: Cultures In/Out of Time. Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. October 13-16, 2005.
“Wiping Blood from the Walls: The Make-Believe Pleasures of Tragedy and Terror.” Modernist Studies Association, 6th Annual Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Oct. 21-24, 2004.
“Remembrance of Things Present: Steven Foster’s Repetition Series, Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories.” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. April 9, 2004.
“The Pediatrician and the Patient: William Carlos Williams and Robert Smithson,” 20th-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 2002.
Poetry Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI. October 12, 1999.
“Broken English: Deviant Language and the Para-Poetic,” Conference of Postmodern Literatures, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, April 1999.
COURSES RECENTLY OFFERED AT UNF
Five-Part “Backgrounds to Modernism” Courses:
ORGANIZED EVENTS
Donal McConnon, Galway, Ireland. A sound art performance, UNF Commons, October 19, 2023 (organized with Mark Ari).
Bill Brown, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Wish You Were Here," an evening of short films, Sun-Ray Cinema, Nov. 16, 2022.
Jaap Block, The Netherlands, a sound art performance, Sun-Ray Cinema, October 19, 2022.
Olivia Block, Chicago, "Breach," a world-premier sound art presentation and installation, Sun-Ray Cinema, Sept. 28, 2022.
Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans: A Public Reading | A Public Destruction," March 20-25, 2023,
"Four Conversations Between Dennis Wheeler and Robert Smithson,' a staged reading performed by Mark Creegan (FSCJ-Kent) and Clark Lunberry, inside and out of the UNF Art Gallery, November 14, 2019.
Andrew Epstein (Florida State University), graduate seminar meeting and evening lecture, "'Fence-Sitting Raised to the Level of an Ideal: John Ashbery and the Poetics of Middle Age," October 28, 2019.
Musician Carl Stone (Tokyo/Los Angeles), a performance at Sun-Ray Cinema, September 18, 2019.
Ange Mlinko (University of Florida), class meeting and evening poetry reading, November 1, 2018; UNF Art Gallery.
Musician Kevin Drumm (Chicago, IL), a performance at Sun-Ray Cinema, October 24, 2018.
R. Andrew Lee (Denver), pianist, performing the music of Eva-Maria Houben, Jurg Frey and Dennis Johnson's November, UNF Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, November 6-7, 2017.
Julia Jarcho (New York), playwright, a lecture titled "On Negativity (and Theater)," UNF Art Gallery, October 26, 2017.
"A Series of Boring Events," in conjunction with the Spring 2017 course, "Being Bored: The Art of Ennui"
Poet and sound artist Jaap Blonk (Holland), a workshop and a performance, "Dada @ 100," at Sun-Ray Cinema, Nov. 17, 2016.
Sound artist Erik DeLuca, a sound installation at the UNF Art Gallery, "Walkie Talkie," Nov. 15-30, 2016.
Scholar and poet, Dr. Jed Rasula (University of Georgia), a class visit and evening lecture, "Dada and the Art of the Hoax," September 28, 2016; UNF Art Gallery.
Composer and sound artist William Basinski (L.A.), a performance of "Cascade | The Deluge," on March 24, 2016, at Sun-Ray Cinema, in Riverside.
Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (Japan) and Michel Doneda (France), a performance, Dec. 8, 2015.
Poet and sound artist Jaap Blonk (Holland), a workshop and a performance of Antonin Artaud's "To Be Done With The Judgement Of God," Nov. 2, 2015.
Rae Armantrout, class meeting and evening lecture on Nov. 20, 2014.
Dr. Marta Werner, co-editor of Emily Dickinson: The Gorgeous Nothings, class meeting and evening lecture on Oct. 2, 2014.
T. D. Allman, author of Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State, meeting with two history classes, two English classes, and giving an evening public lecture, “Florida: Revelations of America,” Feb. 18, 2014.
Poet and sound artist Jaap Blonk (Holland) and Jeb Bishop (Chicago), a class visit and MOCA-Jacksonville
performance, Oct. 8, 2013.
Poet and sound artist Bonnie Jones (Baltimore), a class visit and MOCA-Jacksonville performance, Oct. 8, 2012.
“John Cage Festival: 100th Birthday Celebration,” at UNF, March 2012, with performances by Dutch sound artist Jaap Blonk, violinist Tom Chiu (Flux Quartet), pianist Louis Goldstein (Wake Forest University), as well as local and regional artists and musicians.
Coordinator of the Sound Art Series, “Liminal Collisions: Live @ Art Walk,” a monthly sound art and music series, 2006-2011, held at MOCA-Jacksonville.
Marton Koppany (Budapest, Hungary), a class visit and public lecture presentation, March 2011.
Pianist, Louis Goldstein, on Feb. 26-27, 2009, a class visit and the solo performances of Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus and John Cage’s 4’ 33” and Sonatas and Interludes, sponsored by Academic Affairs and an Intellectual Life Grant.
Samuel Beckett Festival at UNF, Oct. 30-Nov. 6, 2008. This festival featured a lecture by Dr. Herbert Blau, a concert of Morton Feldman’s For Samuel Beckett and conducted by Tom Chiu, and Rick Cluchey performing in Beckett’s Krapp's Last Tape.
Steven Addiss, art historian of Zen painting and calligraphy, University of Richmond, March 10,2008, in collaboration with John Maraldo, UNF’s Philosophy Department.
UNF Library Showcase Installation “FACT: No Stone Unturned,” April 2008, an exhibition of visual poetry.
Sound artist Joan La Barbara and violinist Tom Chiu, through the UNF Fine Arts Center, March 14-15, 2007.
Louis Goldstein, on Oct. 12, 2006, a class visit and the solo performance of Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories, sponsored by Academic Affairs.
Centennial birthday celebration of Samuel Beckett with a 24-hour marathon reading of Beckett’s trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. UNF Courtyard, April 2006.
Dutch sound poet, Jaap Blonk, on Nov. 21, 2005, a student workshop, a faculty colloquy, and an evening performance.
GRANTS AND SABBATICALS RECEIVED
Sabbatical project, a book project titled The Forgotten Photograph | The Poetics of the Postcard, Spring 2024.
Sabbatical project, a book of collected essays on the work of theater director and theorist Herbert Blau, in collaboration with Dr. Joseph Roach, Yale University, Spring 2015.
UNF Research Grant, “Writing on the Landscape: Extensions of the Poem in Japan and the West,” based at Ryogkoku University, Kyoto, Japan, as “Research Scholar from Abroad, Summer 2011.
Intellectual Life Grant to bring the Hungarian poet Marton Koppany to UNF to present his poetry, March 2011.
Intellectual Life Grant to bring the Miami painter Yolanda Sanchez to UNF to present her work, March 2010.
International Faculty Grant for travel to France to develop a study abroad course, August 2009.
Summer 2009 Research Grant, “Writing on Water: Extensions of Text (and Teaching) onto Landscape.”
Intellectual Life Grant to bring the pianist Louis Goldstein to UNF to perform, in conjunction with my course on the New York School, John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, Feb. 26, 2009.
Intellectual Life Grant to invite the pianist, Louis Goldstein, for a class visit and the solo performance of Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories, Oct. 12, 2006.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Member, University of North Florida, English Undergraduate Committee, 2018-2021.
Member, Campus Art Committee, 2009-present.
Member, College of Arts and Science Foreign Culture Committee, 2008-present.
Member, committee to hire a new Dean for UNF’s Thomas G. Carpenter Library, Fall 2013-Spring 2014.
Member, University of North Florida, English Graduate Committee, 2004-2014.
Member, UNF English Department Hiring Committee, Irish Studies position, 2006-2007.
Member, UNF English Department Hiring Committee, Rhetoric and Composition position, 2005-2006.
Member, University of North Florida, Fine Arts Center’s Committee for Programming, 2005-2009.
UNF Steering Committee Co-Chair. iTunesU, 2006-2008.
Member/Judge, Boston University's Writing Program Essay Competition, 2003-2004.
RELATED EXPERIENCE AND ANCIENT EMPLOYMENT
Writing Program
Boston University
Instructor, Sep. 2003-Aug. 2004
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Teaching Assistant, Sep. 1998-May 2002; Associate Lecturer, Sep. 2002-May 2003
Center for Twentieth Century Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Project Assistant for Herbert Blau, Aug. 1996-Aug. 1998
Department of English
Department of English
Suzugamine Women’s College (Hiroshima, Japan).
Lecturer, Apr. 1991-Mar. 1995
David English House
Kabe, Japan
Instructor, Sept. 1987-Mar. 1991
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Dept. of Education, Project Assistant, Aug. 1986-Aug. 1987
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Dept. of Education, Project Assistant, Aug. 1984-July 1986
Gravedigger, Fairview Cemetery
Phillipsburg, Kansas
Summer 1980
ANCIENT HISTORY
Selection and Exhibition of video entitled “Rest.” Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, May 1-7, 1992.
Top honors and exhibition of video entitled “Crossing Another Spring.” Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, a national art competition, Jan. 25- Mar. 24, 1992.
Selection and Exhibition of video entitled “Tending the Fire.” European Media Art Festival, an international competition, Osnabrück, Germany, Sep. 1991.
Selection and exhibition of video entitled “The Narrow Road, A Slow Spring.” The 13th Tokyo Video Festival, a national competition, May 1991.
Professor
University of North Florida
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of English
1 UNF Drive
Jacksonville, FL USA 32224-2645
Dept. Phone Number: (904) 620-2273
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Ph.D., English (Modern Studies Program). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
M.A., English (Modern Studies Program). University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- L'université de Liège (Belgium). Rotary International Graduate Scholarship
- L'université de Besançon (France). Junior Year Abroad
EMPLOYMENT
Department of English
University of North Florida
Professor, Aug. 2015 - present
Associate Professor, Aug. 2008 - July 2015
Assistant Professor, Aug. 2004 - July 2008
- Areas of Teaching and Research: modern and contemporary poetry and poetics; backgrounds of modernism and the history of the avant-garde; dramatic literature and performance studies; the interrelations of the arts; creative writing.
BOOKS
Seeking Frozen Sound | PostCardPoem. Tofu Ink Arts Press, 2023.
The Very Thought of Herbert Blau. Co-Editor (with Joseph Roach). U of Michigan Press, 2018.
Writing On Water / Writing On Air. U of North Florida, 2016.
Sites of Performance—Of Time and Memory. Anthem Press, 2014.
StonePoems. Bratislava: Kalligram Press; Budapest: Institute of Broken and Reduced Languages, 1999.
JOURNALS
"Picturing the Flames of Kyoto's Daimonji," Kyoto Journal (Spring 2024). Vol. 107.
“'An Aquatic Reverie' | Mallarmé’s Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves," Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (Dec. 2019). Vol. 3, No. 2: 55-63.
"Writing on Basho's Pond," Critical Multilingualism Studies. 7: 2 (2019): 21-34.
"Dance of Light and Loss," Performing Arts Journal (PAJ 112, 2016). Vol. 38, No. 1: 56-62.
"Picturing the Flames of Daimonji," Kyoto Journal (Winter 2015). Vol. 84: 20-33.
"Bodies of Water: Somebody | Nobody" (For E.D.), Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin (Nov/Dec 2015). Vol. 27, No. 2: 16-20.
"Reinventing, Vowel by Colorful Vowel," Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Fall 2014). Vol. 16, No. 2: 104-111.
“Seeing In Plain Sight—Installations in Flight,” University of Toronto Quarterly (Fall 2014). Vol. 83, No. 3: 606-624.
“‘…In Front of Our Eyes’ — Remembering Herbert Blau,” The Beckett Circle, the newsletter of the Samuel Beckett Society, Oxford University (Spring 2014).
“Suspicious Silence: Walking Out on John Cage.” Current Musicology (Spring 2014), No. 94: 127-142.
Review of Herbert Blau’s Reality Principles: From the Absurd to the Virtual (U of Michigan Press), for The Drama Review, (Winter 2013), Vol. 57, No. 4 (T220): 172–174.
"Antonin Artaud's Unending Death Rattle." Rattle: A Journal at the Convergence of Art and Writing. Vol. 3 (Summer 2012): 27-40.
“That’s the Beauty of It, Or, Why John Ashbery is Not a Painter,” Journal of Modern Literature. 34: 4 (Summer 2011): 172- 184.
“Writing on Water, Murmur of Words.” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 7: 2 (Fall 2010): 139-159.
“Soliloquies of Silence: James Turrell’s Theater of Installation.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 37: 1 (March 2009): 85-98.
“The Theater and its Derridean Double: Writing Upon Derrida’s Theater of Thought.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge (Winter 2008).
“‘Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 22: (Fall 2007): 53-63.
“Departing Landscapes: Morton Feldman’s String Quartet II and Triadic Memories.” SubStance 110: Vol. 35, Number 2 (Summer 2006): 17-50.
“Wiping Blood from the Walls: Medea’s Pleasures of Terror.” Theatre Topics 16: 1 (March 2006): 35-45.
Sites of Sound, Alchemies of Air: Audiotropsm. CD Liner Notes for live trio improvisations by Hal Rammel, Thomas Gaudynski and Steve Nelson-Raney. Milwaukee, WI: Necessary Arts, 2005.
“So Much Depends: Printed Matter, Dying Words and the Entropic Poem.” Critical Inquiry 30: 3 (Spring 2004): 627-653.
“Theater as Installation: Ann Hamilton and the Accretions of Gesture.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 37: 1 (March 2004): 119-133.
“In the Name of Coriolanus: The Prompter (Prompted).” Comparative Literature 54: 3 (Summer 2002): 229-241.
"Quiet Catastrophe: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, Vanished.” Discourse 24.2 (Spring 2002): 84-118.
“(Silence): Scripting [It], Staging [It] on the Page, For the Stage.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 15: 2 (Spring 2001): 69-84.
"The Philosopher and the Geisha: Alphonso Lingis and the Performance of Philosophy." Discourse 22.2 (Spring 2000): 92- 103.
“Broken English: Deviant Language and the Para-Poetic.” Kyoto Journal 29 (Spring 1995): 90-99. Now available on UBU.COM: http://www.ubu.com/papers/Lunberry_Poetless-Poem.pdf
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“‘Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence.” Beckett’s Proust/Deleuze’s Proust. Ed. Mary Bryden and Margaret Topping. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009: 117-127.
“‘Collaborating with Entropy’: Robert Smithson’s Enantiomorphic Chambers and the Exhibition of Absence.” (Im)permanence: Cultures in/out of Time. Ed. Judith Schachter and Steve Brockmann. Pittsburgh: Penn State UP, 2008: 59-69.
"East Meets West Meets East: Dreaming Japanese Butoh." The Avant-garde and the Margins: New Territories of Modernism. Ed. Sanja Bahun-Radunovic and Marinos Pourgouris. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
“In the Name of Coriolanus: The Prompter (Prompted).” Shakespearean Criticism (SC-96). Ed. Michelle Lee. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2006: 165-172.
“The Accidental Re-Appearance of Language” in Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader, 1988-1998, Vol. 2, Poetry and Essays. Eds. Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000: 395-405.
"WRITING ON WATER / WRITING ON AIR" INSTALLATIONS
"OF | OF | OF -- Empty Wor[l]d," Thomas G. Carpenter Library, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida. November 2021 - February 2022.
"Haunted Words | Or, Drowning My Library (In the Waters of Hogan's Creek), Th3Rivers | A Contemporary Exploration of the St. Johns Lower Basin, Karpeles Manuscript Library, Jacksonville, Florida, April 9 - May 29, 2021.
"A Time Once Upon," Chiswick Gardens, London, England, June 2019.
"DisAppearingWorld," Svandemman Pond, Uppsala, Sweden, September 2018.
"Vanishing Point | Point Vanishing," Lake Herrick, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, November 2017."
Image | Mirage," a Writing on Water Art and Poetry Installation, University of Oxford, on the pond adjacent to Lazenbee's Ground Walk, Oxford, England, September 11-16, 2017.
"And then the Windows failed," a Writing on Water / Writing on Air Art Installation, Fondation des Etats-Unis (windows of the Grand Salon), and on the lake inside the Parc Montsouris, Paris, France, June 22 – July 1, 2016.
“Mizu No Oto” (Sound of Water). “Writing on Water / Writing on Air” Art Installation, Tama Art University (Hachioji Campus), Tokyo, Japan, June 30 – 28, 2015.
“‘Bodies of Water—Somebody | Nobody’ (for E.D.)” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), September 28 – October 16, 2014.
“A Time To”; “Writing on Air”; “Mixed Signals.” Stanford University (USA), in conjunction with the conference “Performance Studies International 19” (PSi 19), June 25-July 1, 2013.
"Sight | Light," FSCJ-Kent Campus Library, Jacksonville, Florida, Feb. 2 – May 7, 2013.
"In One Ear & Out the Other," Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (France), in conjunction with the conference “Transatlantic Cage: John Cage’s Centennial in Paris.” September 19 - 22, 2012.
"Neither Here Nor There," University of Toronto, in conjunction with the conference “(An)Aesthetic of Absence - Une esthétique de l'absence,” March 8 – 12, 2012.
"No Such Thing," University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), in conjunction with UNF's John Cage Festival, March 1 – April 8, 2012.
“Crossing Over (After Hakuin),” Pt. 1. Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan, July 4-8, 2011.
“Crossing Over (After Hakuin),” Pt. 2. Keio University (Hiyoshi Campus), Tokyo, Japan, July 11-15, 2011.
“Sensation: Water | Trees | Sky,” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), March 21 – April 13, 2011.
“Word In Mind.” Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA) projection event, at the San Marco Skyway Station, Jacksonville, FL (USA). Dec. 1, 2010.
“Providing Positioning," University of Durham (England), in conjunction with the conference “Cosmopoetics: Mediating a New World Poetics,” Sept. 8-10, 2010.
"The Uncomprehending Window," Institut Charles V – Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France, in conjunction with the conference “John Ashbery in Paris,” March 11 – 13, 2010.
“Floating Form Less,” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), Nov. 1-14, 2009.
“Murmur of Words / Murmur of Wounds,” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), February 2008.
“Water on Water,” University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL (USA), April 7-20, 2007.
"WRITING ON WATER / WRITING ON AIR" PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
“'An Aquatic Reverie' | Mallarmé’s Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves," Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures (Dec. 2019). Vol. 3, No. 2: 55-63.
"Poetry Off the Page, Language On the Landscape: Writing on Water and Air," Kingsborough Art Museum (KAM) Lyceum Lectures in the Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY. October 18, 2019.
"Writing on Water | Writing on Air," The Curtis Meltzer Memorial Lecture, Story and Song Bookstore, Fernandina Beach, Florida, October 24, 2018.
"Surface Tension and Aquatic Reveries | Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves," an invited talk at the Stockholm University, “The Higher Literary Seminar,” September 20, 2018.
"Surface Tension and Aquatic Reveries | Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves," an invited talk at the Uppsala University’s “The Higher Seminar in Rhetoric,” September 18, 2018.
"Writing on Water," an invited talk at the University of Georgia's Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Athens, GA, November 10, 2017.
"Bodies of Water: Somebody | Nobody" (For E.D.), Emily Dickinson International Society Bulletin. Vol. 27, No. 2: 16-20.
Invited Presentations in Japan, Spring/Summer 2015:
- Aoyama Gakuin, Tokyo, June 9, 2015
- Tama Art University (Hachioji Campus), Tokyo, July 19, 2015
- Waseda University, Tokyo, July 21, 2015
- Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, July 30, 2015
606-624.
“In One Ear & Out the Other: Installation at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3,” TERZ Magazine, Vienna, Austria 2013: <http://terz.cc/magazin.php?z=246&id=267>
“strikethrough,” Otolith, Issue 26, 2012. <http://goo.gl/DLovQI>
“Floating Form Less.” Otoliths, Vol. 20, Summer 2011. <http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/>
Invited Presentations in Japan, Summer 2011, “Writing on the Landscape: Extensions of the Poem in Japan and the West”:
- Hiroshima City University, July 7, 2011
- Senshu University, Tokyo, July, 12, 2011
- Keio University, Tokyo, July 14, 2011 (with evening poetry reading)
- Waseda University, Tokyo, July 15, 2011
- Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, July 19, 2011
- Ryukoku University, Kyoto, July 20, 2011
“Writing on Water, Murmur of Words.” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 7: 2
(Fall 2010): 139-159.
“Writing on Water: Extensions of Text (and Teaching) onto Landscape.” New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, 7: 2 (Fall 2010): 139-159.
“Writing on Water / Writing on Air: Language onto Landscape,” an invited lecture at the Université de Caen (France), March 17, 2010.
“Writing on Water: Extensions of Text (and Teaching) onto Landscape.” A paper presented at the conference,
“Creativity: Worlds in the Making.” Wake Forest University, Mar. 18–20, 2009
“Water On Water,” a selection of photographs from the 2007 UNF Library Installation, in the journal, Exquisite
Corpse <http://www.corpse.org/>, Summer 2008.
POETRY AND PHOTOGRAPHY PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
Noon: Journal of Short Poems; publication of three poems, “Buried in Layers”; “Almost Ever Again”; “And Yet an Instant,” Spring 2024.
Indianapolis Review: A Selection of Eight Visual Poems, Fall 2023
Invited artist for group gallery exhibition “Next Text,” curated by UNF Art Department’s Sheila Goloborotko, October/November 2022. Webber Gallery, College of Central Florida, Ocala, Florida.
Mayday Magazine: “Impossible Answer,” “Poem Full of Grammar,” “Materially Speaking” (3 Visual Poems and “Statement”), January 2022
3:AM Magazine: “Single Word,” “Of Their Eyes” (2 Visual Poems and “Statement”), Summer 2021.
“Correspondences" (After Charles Baudelaire). Western Humanities Review 69: 1 (Summer 2015): 63-68.
“In One Ear & Out the Other: Installation at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3,” TERZ Magazine, Vienna,
Austria, 2013.
"Born So Blind," from the CD "Eat Justiss: The Poetry of Alan Justiss," featuring Noah Lunberry, 2012.
“strikethrough,” Otolith, Issue 26, 2012. <http://goo.gl/DLovQI>
“Floating Form Less,” Otolith, Issue 20, 2011. < http://goo.gl/YvItdK>
“Murmur of Words/Murmur of Wounds,” a “Writing on Water” Installation, 2009. Slideshow with sound on
UBU.COM: http://ubu.com/film/lunberry.html
“Words Away: A Poem in 125 Parts,” E·ratio. <http://www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com/> (Fall 2008).
“Water On Water,” Exquisite Corpse a selection of photographs from the 2007 “Water On Water” UNF Library
Installation: http://bit.ly/1oWPDWs
“As If / To Drift,” “Eavesdropping Across America” and “Reconsider Now” (three poems, in collaboration with the musician Jason Arnold). EAT #1 (spoken word CD). Ed. Mark Ari. Winter 2007.
“Found Eyes,” “Only Fragments” (two poems). Kalligram: Art & Idea (January 2003): 54-55.
“Nobody Takes,” “The Attained Eye,” “Minds” (three poems). The 2River View 6: 2 (Winter 2002): 12-14.
<www.2river.org/2RView/6_2/2RV06_2.pdf>
“What Up,” “Trees of Animals” (two poems). Vert #6 (Winter 2002 <http://epc.buffalo.edu/mags/vert/Vert_issue_6/cvrsix.html>
“Said Sounds,” “Appeared Moment” (two poems). Chicago Review 47: 1 (Spring 2001): 79-80.
“Nothing in My Head” (one poem). SugarMule #9 (Spring 2001) <http://www.marclweber.com/sugarmule/frame9.htm>
“Silent Thoughts,” “Thinking Of,” “Pieces” (three poems). Kalligram: Art & Idea (Dec. 2000): 85-94.
“Delivering,” “World Words,” “Winged,” “There” (four poems). LVNG: A Journal of Poetry, Fiction, Essays & Art 8 (Winter 2000): 39-43.
StonePoems (a book of poems and photographs). Bratislava, Slovakia: Kalligram Press, 1999. (This book was included in the exhibition “Outside of a Dog: Paperback and Other Books by Artists,” at Baltic: International Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England, September-May 2004.)
“Enlightenment Needs a Minyan” (photographs). Tricycle: The Buddhist Review (Summer 1996): 48-52.
“Rakan: The Disciples of the Buddha” (photographs). Kyoto Journal 20 (Spring 1992): 31-35.
“Japanese Jizo” (photographs and article). Mainichi Graphic, 1 Oct. 1989: 35-42.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES & PERFORMANCES
"Power of the Word International Conference VII: The Dramatised Word," Title of Paper: "Gertrude Stein and the Rhythmic ReWorking of Words." La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy. September 16-20, 2024
“Global Barthes” Symposium at Meiji University, in Tokyo, Japan, "Roland Barthes and the Poetics of the Postcard." May 18, 2024
"International Conference of Modernist Studies in Asia," Title of Paper: “Makings of Memory | Marcel Proust, Annie Ernaux, and the Writing of a Life,” University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. May 31 - June 2, 2024.
Panel Presentation: “Seeking Frozen Sound | PostCardPoems”; Conference Title: “Fragmented Writing in the 21st Century,” SAMLA 2022, Jacksonville, Florida, Nov. 11-13, 2022.
Invited Public Lecture: “Playing It by Ear | Colluding with John Cage,” MoCA-Jacksonville, March 23, 2023.
Panel Presentation: “Marcel Proust, Annie Ernaux, and the Poetics of Fragmentation”; Conference Title: “The Fragment and its Rhythms: Writing Practices, Sites of Thought, Acts of Resistance,” Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 27th and 28th, 2023
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"UnReading the Newspaper (To My Dog)," a live (and Facebook Live) performance, in conjunction with the Art, Art History, and Design Faculty Exhibition at the UNF Gallery of Art, "How Soon is Now," on October 21, 2020,
"Poetry Off the Page, Language On the Landscape: Writing on Water and Air," Kingsborough Art Museum (KAM) Lyceum Lectures in the Fine Arts, Brooklyn, NY. October 18, 2019.
TEDxFSCJ Salon: "Leonardos of the 21st Century," Panel Member. Thursday, February 28, 2019, MOCA Jacksonville.
"Surface Tension: Writing on Water," Uppsala University, September 18, 2018; and Stockholm University, September 21, 2018.
"Writing on Water," an invited talk at the University of Georgia's Ideas for Creative Exploration (ICE), Athens, GA, November 10, 2017.
“An Aquatic Reverie”: Mallarmé’s Writing on Water and the Naming of Waves," Power of the Word International Conference V, "The Prophetic Word," Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 13-16 September 2017.
"And then the Windows failed | Installing Emily Dickinson,” Emily Dickinson International Society Triennial Conference, Cité International Universitaire de Paris, Paris, France, June 24, 2016.
“Writing on Basho’s Pond,” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), Annual Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Mar. 17-Mar. 20, 2016.
“Reinventing Language, Vowel by Colorful Vowel,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference, Seattle, WA. Feb. 26-March 1, 2014.
“Seeing in Plain Sight – Installations in Flight” and “Remembering Herbert Blau.” Conference Title: Performance Studies International 19 (PSi 19). Stanford University, June 27, 2013. (This conference included an accompanying installation.)
“Floating Form Less - Writing on the Landscape,” keynote panel (with Ron Silliman and Joe Milutis) at the conference “Convergence on Poetics,” at the University of Washington-Bothell, September 27-30, 2012.
“In One Ear & Out the Other – On Not Hearing John Cage.” Conference Title: “Transatlantic Cage: John Cage’s Centennial in Paris.” Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3, September 19 - 22, 2012. (This conference included an accompanying installation.)
“Suspicious Silence: Walking Out on John Cage.” Conference Title: “(An) Aesthetic of Absence - Une esthétique de l'absence.” Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, March 8-10, 2012. (This conference included an accompanying installation.)
“Writing on Water / Writing on Air: Dispersions of a Borderless Poem.” Conference Title: “Cosmopoetics: Mediating a New World Poetics,” Sept. 8-10, 2010, Durham University, UK. (This conference included an accompanying installation.)
“‘Professional Exiles Like Me’: John Ashbery’s Self-Imposed Paris and the Pursuit of Poetic Abstraction.” Conference Title: “John Ashbery in Paris,” at the Institut Charles V – Université Paris Diderot, in Paris, France, March 11 – 13, 2010. (This conference included an accompanying installation.)
“Writing on Water / Writing on Air: Language onto Landscape,” an invited lecture at the Université de Caen (France), March 17, 2010.
“Antonin Artaud’s Unending Death Rattle.” Conference Title: Séismes / Seismic Shifts 20th and 21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium. University of Minnesota, Department of French and Italian. Minneapolis, MN, March 26-28, 2009.
“The Deep Seascape,” two poems included in sound installation by composer Erik DeLuca, Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing Art Center’s Concert Hall, Miami, FL, March 21, 2009.
“Installing James Turrell’s Installation Art: The Building of Next to Nothing at All.” Conference Title: Built Spaces: Earth Sky and Human Praxes. Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, Duquesne University. April 27-29, 2007.
“The Theatre and its Derridean Double: Derrida’s Theater of Thought.” International Interdisciplinary Conference: Following Derrida: Legacies. University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. October 2006.
“Vanishing Acts: Seeking Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.” Invited Speaker. Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan. July 14, 2006.
“‘Staring Sightlessly’: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence.” Invited Speaker. Conference Title: Beckett’s Proust/Deleuze’s Proust. An international conference organized by Cardiff School of European Studies, Cardiff University (Wales), Mar. 9-11, 2006.
“Setting an Empty Stage: Proust’s Presence in Beckett’s Absence.” Conference Title: Beckett at 100: New Perspectives, Florida State University, Feb. 9-11, 2006.
“Vanishing Acts: Seeking Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty.” Invited Speaker. University of North Florida Art Gallery. December 1, 2005.
“East Meets West Meets East: Japanese Butoh.” Modernist Studies Association, 7th Annual Conference. Chicago, IL. Nov. 3-6, 2005.
“‘Collaborating with Entropy’: Robert Smithson and the Exhibition of Decay.” Conference Title: (Im)permanence: Cultures In/Out of Time. Center for the Arts in Society at Carnegie Mellon University. October 13-16, 2005.
“Wiping Blood from the Walls: The Make-Believe Pleasures of Tragedy and Terror.” Modernist Studies Association, 6th Annual Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Oct. 21-24, 2004.
“Remembrance of Things Present: Steven Foster’s Repetition Series, Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories.” University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. April 9, 2004.
“The Pediatrician and the Patient: William Carlos Williams and Robert Smithson,” 20th-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, February 2002.
Poetry Reading at Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI. October 12, 1999.
“Broken English: Deviant Language and the Para-Poetic,” Conference of Postmodern Literatures, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, April 1999.
COURSES RECENTLY OFFERED AT UNF
Five-Part “Backgrounds to Modernism” Courses:
- "Wanderlust: The Flaneur's Modern Imagination"
- “Being Bored: The Art of Ennui”
- “‘Be Drunk’ | The Art of Intoxication”
- “Out of My Mind | Madness & Modernism”
- "Anti-Theater: or, Theater for Those Who Hate Theater"
- "Barely There | Minimalism & Poetry"
- "The Brain — is wider than the Sky —" (Emily Dickinson & Rosmarie Waldrop)
- "Writing the Body: Writers as Doctors & Doctors as Writers"
- "Tragic Women | Tragic Pleasure: Picturing Women in Pain"
- “No Man’s Land: Modern and Contemporary Women Poets (Who Happen to Be)”
- “Telling it Slant: Instances of American Poetry”
- “The Warrior and the Scholar: Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Coriolanus”
- "(The) Crime (of) Writing | Breaking and Entering (into the Imagination)"
- ""America...A Poem in Our Eyes' | Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson"
- "Reading Irelands | James Joyce & Samuel Beckett"
- "Reading Russia | Short Stories | Storm Clouds" [Leo Tolstoy; Anton Chekhov; Vladimir Nabokov}
- "Reading Dreams | The Art and Literature of Dreaming"
- "UnReading | UnWriting : [Making Poems]
- "Dada @ 100: The Art of Anti-Art"
- “New York and the ‘New York School’ of Poets, Painters & Composers”
- “Killing Time, and the Writing of Writing about Photography"
- “Breath, the Body, Silence & the History of Sound Art”
- “Making of Memory: Writings of Remembrance and Oblivion”
- “Seeing in Motion, Writing in Time: Words and Images”
- “‘Absolutely Modern’: The Trails and Traces of French Modernism"
- "Killing Time | The Writing of the Writing of Photography"
- “Writing Time: Anton Chekhov and Samuel Beckett”
- “So Much Depends: William Carlos Williams and the Idea of Things"
- "Lyrical Theory: The Aesthetics of Analysis and Insight"
- "Writing the City | The New York Schools of Poetry and Painting"
ORGANIZED EVENTS
Donal McConnon, Galway, Ireland. A sound art performance, UNF Commons, October 19, 2023 (organized with Mark Ari).
Bill Brown, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Wish You Were Here," an evening of short films, Sun-Ray Cinema, Nov. 16, 2022.
Jaap Block, The Netherlands, a sound art performance, Sun-Ray Cinema, October 19, 2022.
Olivia Block, Chicago, "Breach," a world-premier sound art presentation and installation, Sun-Ray Cinema, Sept. 28, 2022.
Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans: A Public Reading | A Public Destruction," March 20-25, 2023,
"Four Conversations Between Dennis Wheeler and Robert Smithson,' a staged reading performed by Mark Creegan (FSCJ-Kent) and Clark Lunberry, inside and out of the UNF Art Gallery, November 14, 2019.
Andrew Epstein (Florida State University), graduate seminar meeting and evening lecture, "'Fence-Sitting Raised to the Level of an Ideal: John Ashbery and the Poetics of Middle Age," October 28, 2019.
Musician Carl Stone (Tokyo/Los Angeles), a performance at Sun-Ray Cinema, September 18, 2019.
Ange Mlinko (University of Florida), class meeting and evening poetry reading, November 1, 2018; UNF Art Gallery.
Musician Kevin Drumm (Chicago, IL), a performance at Sun-Ray Cinema, October 24, 2018.
R. Andrew Lee (Denver), pianist, performing the music of Eva-Maria Houben, Jurg Frey and Dennis Johnson's November, UNF Fine Arts Center Recital Hall, November 6-7, 2017.
Julia Jarcho (New York), playwright, a lecture titled "On Negativity (and Theater)," UNF Art Gallery, October 26, 2017.
"A Series of Boring Events," in conjunction with the Spring 2017 course, "Being Bored: The Art of Ennui"
- "Watching Paint Dry," in collaboration with Jim Draper, UNF Art Gallery, Feb. 14-17, 2017.
- "Checks & Balances," a performance by Mark Creegan, UNF Art Gallery, March 1-2, 2017
- A performance of Erik Satie's Vexations, in collaboration with Dr. Erin Bennett, UNF School of Music, March 15, 2017.
- "Boring and Boring Again," a sound installation by Tim Albro, UNF Art Gallery, April 3-7, 2017.
- "The Boring Films of Andy Warhol," in collaboration with Ryan Bell, UNF Student Union, April 20, 2017.
Poet and sound artist Jaap Blonk (Holland), a workshop and a performance, "Dada @ 100," at Sun-Ray Cinema, Nov. 17, 2016.
Sound artist Erik DeLuca, a sound installation at the UNF Art Gallery, "Walkie Talkie," Nov. 15-30, 2016.
Scholar and poet, Dr. Jed Rasula (University of Georgia), a class visit and evening lecture, "Dada and the Art of the Hoax," September 28, 2016; UNF Art Gallery.
Composer and sound artist William Basinski (L.A.), a performance of "Cascade | The Deluge," on March 24, 2016, at Sun-Ray Cinema, in Riverside.
Percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani (Japan) and Michel Doneda (France), a performance, Dec. 8, 2015.
Poet and sound artist Jaap Blonk (Holland), a workshop and a performance of Antonin Artaud's "To Be Done With The Judgement Of God," Nov. 2, 2015.
Rae Armantrout, class meeting and evening lecture on Nov. 20, 2014.
Dr. Marta Werner, co-editor of Emily Dickinson: The Gorgeous Nothings, class meeting and evening lecture on Oct. 2, 2014.
T. D. Allman, author of Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State, meeting with two history classes, two English classes, and giving an evening public lecture, “Florida: Revelations of America,” Feb. 18, 2014.
Poet and sound artist Jaap Blonk (Holland) and Jeb Bishop (Chicago), a class visit and MOCA-Jacksonville
performance, Oct. 8, 2013.
Poet and sound artist Bonnie Jones (Baltimore), a class visit and MOCA-Jacksonville performance, Oct. 8, 2012.
“John Cage Festival: 100th Birthday Celebration,” at UNF, March 2012, with performances by Dutch sound artist Jaap Blonk, violinist Tom Chiu (Flux Quartet), pianist Louis Goldstein (Wake Forest University), as well as local and regional artists and musicians.
Coordinator of the Sound Art Series, “Liminal Collisions: Live @ Art Walk,” a monthly sound art and music series, 2006-2011, held at MOCA-Jacksonville.
Marton Koppany (Budapest, Hungary), a class visit and public lecture presentation, March 2011.
Pianist, Louis Goldstein, on Feb. 26-27, 2009, a class visit and the solo performances of Morton Feldman’s For Bunita Marcus and John Cage’s 4’ 33” and Sonatas and Interludes, sponsored by Academic Affairs and an Intellectual Life Grant.
Samuel Beckett Festival at UNF, Oct. 30-Nov. 6, 2008. This festival featured a lecture by Dr. Herbert Blau, a concert of Morton Feldman’s For Samuel Beckett and conducted by Tom Chiu, and Rick Cluchey performing in Beckett’s Krapp's Last Tape.
Steven Addiss, art historian of Zen painting and calligraphy, University of Richmond, March 10,2008, in collaboration with John Maraldo, UNF’s Philosophy Department.
UNF Library Showcase Installation “FACT: No Stone Unturned,” April 2008, an exhibition of visual poetry.
Sound artist Joan La Barbara and violinist Tom Chiu, through the UNF Fine Arts Center, March 14-15, 2007.
Louis Goldstein, on Oct. 12, 2006, a class visit and the solo performance of Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories, sponsored by Academic Affairs.
Centennial birthday celebration of Samuel Beckett with a 24-hour marathon reading of Beckett’s trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. UNF Courtyard, April 2006.
Dutch sound poet, Jaap Blonk, on Nov. 21, 2005, a student workshop, a faculty colloquy, and an evening performance.
GRANTS AND SABBATICALS RECEIVED
Sabbatical project, a book project titled The Forgotten Photograph | The Poetics of the Postcard, Spring 2024.
Sabbatical project, a book of collected essays on the work of theater director and theorist Herbert Blau, in collaboration with Dr. Joseph Roach, Yale University, Spring 2015.
UNF Research Grant, “Writing on the Landscape: Extensions of the Poem in Japan and the West,” based at Ryogkoku University, Kyoto, Japan, as “Research Scholar from Abroad, Summer 2011.
Intellectual Life Grant to bring the Hungarian poet Marton Koppany to UNF to present his poetry, March 2011.
Intellectual Life Grant to bring the Miami painter Yolanda Sanchez to UNF to present her work, March 2010.
International Faculty Grant for travel to France to develop a study abroad course, August 2009.
Summer 2009 Research Grant, “Writing on Water: Extensions of Text (and Teaching) onto Landscape.”
Intellectual Life Grant to bring the pianist Louis Goldstein to UNF to perform, in conjunction with my course on the New York School, John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes, Feb. 26, 2009.
Intellectual Life Grant to invite the pianist, Louis Goldstein, for a class visit and the solo performance of Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories, Oct. 12, 2006.
ACADEMIC SERVICE
Member, University of North Florida, English Undergraduate Committee, 2018-2021.
Member, Campus Art Committee, 2009-present.
Member, College of Arts and Science Foreign Culture Committee, 2008-present.
Member, committee to hire a new Dean for UNF’s Thomas G. Carpenter Library, Fall 2013-Spring 2014.
Member, University of North Florida, English Graduate Committee, 2004-2014.
Member, UNF English Department Hiring Committee, Irish Studies position, 2006-2007.
Member, UNF English Department Hiring Committee, Rhetoric and Composition position, 2005-2006.
Member, University of North Florida, Fine Arts Center’s Committee for Programming, 2005-2009.
UNF Steering Committee Co-Chair. iTunesU, 2006-2008.
Member/Judge, Boston University's Writing Program Essay Competition, 2003-2004.
RELATED EXPERIENCE AND ANCIENT EMPLOYMENT
Writing Program
Boston University
Instructor, Sep. 2003-Aug. 2004
Department of English
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Teaching Assistant, Sep. 1998-May 2002; Associate Lecturer, Sep. 2002-May 2003
Center for Twentieth Century Studies
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Project Assistant for Herbert Blau, Aug. 1996-Aug. 1998
Department of English
Department of English
Suzugamine Women’s College (Hiroshima, Japan).
Lecturer, Apr. 1991-Mar. 1995
David English House
Kabe, Japan
Instructor, Sept. 1987-Mar. 1991
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Dept. of Education, Project Assistant, Aug. 1986-Aug. 1987
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Dept. of Education, Project Assistant, Aug. 1984-July 1986
Gravedigger, Fairview Cemetery
Phillipsburg, Kansas
Summer 1980
ANCIENT HISTORY
Selection and Exhibition of video entitled “Rest.” Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, May 1-7, 1992.
Top honors and exhibition of video entitled “Crossing Another Spring.” Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, a national art competition, Jan. 25- Mar. 24, 1992.
Selection and Exhibition of video entitled “Tending the Fire.” European Media Art Festival, an international competition, Osnabrück, Germany, Sep. 1991.
Selection and exhibition of video entitled “The Narrow Road, A Slow Spring.” The 13th Tokyo Video Festival, a national competition, May 1991.
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