About

Susan Mccabe

Professor of English

Contact Information
E-mail: mccabe@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-2816
Office: THH 434

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Curriculum Vitae
 

Biographical Sketch
Susan McCabe was born on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, has taught in Oregon and Arizona, and received her PhD at UCLA. She also taught and conducted research in her mother’s country of Sweden. She currently directs the PhD in Literature and Creative Writing Program, and has been President of the Modernist Studies Association. She is the author of four books, including two critical studies—Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss (Penn State University Press, 1994) and Cinematic Modernism: Modern Poetry and Film (Cambridge University Press, 2005)—and two poetry volumes, Swirl (Red Hen Press, 2003), and Descartes’ Nightmare (winner of the Agha Shahid Ali prize and published by Utah University Press in 2008). Her scholarship has primarily focused on modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, with an emphasis on modernism, gender studies and film; her creative writing builds upon many of the motifs found in her research. McCabe’s research in 20th and 21st century poetry has been a major source for her creative projects. Her current research, however, marks a transition from writing in the genres of scholarly criticism and poetry to biography: a first full-length study, Bryher: Female Husband of Modernism, drawing upon multiple interests already present in McCabe's career thus far. An ambassador and pioneer in modernism, Bryher, the illegitimate daughter of a shipping magnate, had a significant presence in diverse areas—modern poetry, cinema, psychoanalysis, and gender politics, all areas engaged by McCabe's writing thus far. McCabe received a Beinecke Fellowship at Yale to conduct research at the library's enormous archive of Bryher's writing and correspondence. McCabe has been awarded the Provost’s “Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and the Sciences” (2007-8) to focus upon Bryher’s myriad “triangles” within modernism. Simultaneously, McCabe is finishing another book of poems, called Cry of Players, a collection focused upon the voices of the dead, and the uneasy intersections between the technological and the so-called natural.
 

Education
Ph.D. , University of California, Los Angeles
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History

Tenure Track Appointments
Full Professor of English, University of Southern California, 12/05/2008-  
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, 01/01/1999-  
Associate Professor, University of Southern California, 08/01/2003-12/04/2008  
Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor, Lund University, Spring 2006   
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University, 01/01/1994-01/01/1999  
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 01/01/1991-01/01/1994  
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Oregon, 01/01/1990-01/01/1991  
Teaching Assistant, University of California, Los Angeles, 01/01/1985-01/01/1990  
 

Visiting and Temporary Appointments
Fulbright Scholar and Professor, Lund University, Sweden, Spring 2006   
 

Other Employment
Professor of English, University of Southern California, 12/05/2008-  
Director of PhD in Literature & Creative Writing, University of Southern California, 08/31/2006-08/31/2009  
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Professor McCabe studies modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, creative writing, gender studies, film studies and biography.
 

Research Keywords
modern and contemporary poetry and poetics, creative writing, gender studies, film and visual culture, biography
 

Research Specialties
McCabe's research specialties primarily lie in modernism, poetics, creative writing, gender and film studies, and psychoanalysis.
 

Funded Research

Contracts and Grants Awarded
Hilda Doolittle Fellowship (Yale University Beinecke Library), Susan McCabe, $6,000, Fall 2008   
Swedish Memoir and Family History (Fulbright), Susan McCabe, $40,000, Spring 2006   
 

USC Funding
Advancing Scholarshi in the Humanities & Social Sciences. Bryher: The Triangulated Desries of Modernism: The project explores Bryher's numerous collaborations and triangles within literary and cultural modernism, establishing her as a "female husband" and redefining the very nature of collaboration., $12,800, 2008-2009   
 

Affiliations with Research Centers, Labs, and Other Institutions
Literary, Visual & Material Culture, Member of Steering Committee
PhD Program in Creative Writing & Literature, Director
 

Conferences and Other Presentations

Conference Presentations
""New Directions in Modernist Studies"", Modern Language Association, Roundtable/Panel, , San Francisco, MSA, Invited, Fall 2008   
""'Let's Be Alone Together': the Erotic Collaborations of Moore, Bryher & H.D."", American Literature Association, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , San Francisco, Spring 2008   
""Post-Cinematic? Cinema and the Modern"", Lecture/Seminar, , Massey University, New Zealand, Invited, Spring 2008   
""Cinematic Modernism: Borderline"", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Toronto, Canada, Garry Leonard, Invited, Fall 2007   
""Lyric & Cinema: Self & Experimental Crossing of Media"", Associated Writers Program, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , New York, Invited, Fall 2007   
""Modernism & The Melancholy of Money"", International Association of University Professors, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Lund, Sweden, Marianne Thormalen, Invited, Fall 2007   
""In and Out of the Archive: Bryher & Illegitimacy"", Modernist Studies Association 8, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Tulsa, OK, Fall 2006   
""Cinematic Modernism"", Invited Talk, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Lund, Sweden, Invited, Spring 2006   
""Cinematic Modernism"", Invited Talk, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Linkoping Universitet, Sweden, Invited, Spring 2006   
""Bryher’s Close-Up: from Visual Erotics to the Politics of Film" ", Modernist Studies Association , Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Chicago, Fall 2005   
""On Borderline": Screening and Talk", Invited Talk, Talk/Oral Presentation, , San Francisco, California, Small Traffic Press, College of the Arts, Invited, Spring 2005   
""Whither Sexuality and Gender?"", Pacific Association of Modern Languages, Talk/Oral Presentation, , Pepperdine University, Steven G. Axelrod, Invited, Spring 2005   
"On "Cinematic Modernism"", Talk/Oral Presentation, , USC, LIterary, Visual & Material Culture Program, USC, Invited, Spring 2005   
"Seminar on "Modernism and Film"", Modernist Studies Association , Seminar Leader, Refereed , Vancouver, CANADA, Fall 2004   
""The Double Life of Modernism: Race and Popular Culture in T.S. Eliot and D.W. Griffith" ", Modernist Studies Association , Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Birmingham, UK, Fall 2003   
" "Making it Now: Visualizing Experience in Modernism, Cinema and Modernity"", Modernist Studies Association , Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Madison, Wisconsin, Fall 2002   
"Feminist Roundtable", Modernist Studies Association , , Univesity of WIsconsin, Susan Stanford Friedman, Invited, Fall 2002   
""The Cosmopolitan Lyric" ", American Literature Association, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Long Beach, California, Spring 2002   
""The Surrealist Elizabeth Bishop and Max Ernst" ", Modernist Studies Association , Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Houston, Fall 2001   
""Blue Sky Laws and Poetic Indemnities: Wallace Stevens and James Merrill" ", American Literature Association, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Long Beach, California, Spring 2001   
""William Carlos Williams and Surrealist Film" ", American Literature Association, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Cambridge, MA, Spring 2001   
""The Cinematic Bodies of Stein, Man Ray and Chaplin" ", Modernist Studies Association , Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Fall 2000   
""H.D.’s Cinematic Modernism," ", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Center for Feminist Research Lunch, Hilary Schor, Invited, Spring 2000   
""H.D’s Borderline: The Avant-Garde Femme Fatale," ", Talk/Oral Presentation, , University of California, Riverside, Steven Axelrod, Invited, Spring 2000   
""German Expressionist Film, H.D. and Borderline" ", Modernist Studies Association 1, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Pennsylvania State College, Fall 1999   
""Tradition and the Female Talent: H.D. and Stein" ", Talk/Oral Presentation, , Pomona College, Cristanne Miller, Chair, Invited, Fall 1999   
""Alchemies of Synthesis: Brenda Hillman’s Loose Sugar" pBarnard College, April 1999", Women Poets: Language Meets Lyric Poetry: Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Barnard College, New York, Columbia University, Spring 1999   
""Moore's Animal Documentaries"", American Literature Association, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , San Diego, Fall 1998   
""No Sooner Sped Than Din": James Merrill's Temporal Poetics", American Literature Association Symposium, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Los Cabos San Lucas, Mexico, Fall 1998   
""Stevens, Bishop & Ashbery: A question of surrealist influence"", American Literature Association, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , San Diego, Spring 1996   
""Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil: Writing the Unameable"", American Literature Association, Symposium on Women Poets, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Cancun, Mexico, Fall 1995   
""Translation as Autobiography: Bishop and Mi Vida de Menina"", Modern Language Association, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , San Diego, Fall 1994   
""'The Life They Cannot Have': Dolls in Barnes' Nightwood"", Toys and Literature, Talk/Oral Presentation, Refereed , Cal State Dominguez Hills, Fall 1993   
""'She Speaks Through Stone Lips': Willa Cather's Historical Nature"", Willa Cather Symposium, 4th Annual, Roundtable/Panel, Refereed , Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spring 1990   
 

Other Presentations
"from Descartes' Nightmare", Invited Reading & Workshop, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Spring 2009   
"from Descartes' Nightmare", Reading & Workshop, St. Olaf's College, Minnesota, Spring 2009   
"from Descartes' Nightmare", Reading & Signing, Associated Writers' Program, Chicago, Fall 2008   
"from New Poems", Reading, Ide Room, PhD in Creative Writing and Literature Program , USC, Fall 2008   
"from Descartes' Night", Reading & Workshop, Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Spring 2008   
"from Descartes' Nightmare", Los Angeles Times Book Fair, UCLA, Spring 2008   
"from Descartes' Nightmare", Reading, Doheny Library, Feuchtwanger Rare Book Room, Spring 2008   
" from New Poems", Reading, West Hollywood Annual Book Fair, West Hollywood Library Park, Fall 2007   
""Oh Say Can you See The Wind from the East: Gertrude Stein and a Feminsit Is"", "Feminaissance: Talks and Performances", Cal Arts/Moma, Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles, Spring 2007   
"Reading from New Poems", Reading , Creative Writing Department at Redlands College, Redlands, California, Spring 2007   
"Reading from New Poems", Reading , Poets & Writers, Downtown Los Angeles, Spring 2007   
"On Elizabeth Bishop", Lecture, Ruskin Literary Art Club, Los Angeles, Spring 2005   
"Reading from Swirl", Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, UCLA, Spring 2005   
"Swirl", Reading from Swirl, Ruskin Literary Art Club, Los Angeles, CA, Spring 2005   
""Bryher's Visa for Avalon & Marianne Moore"", Reading and talk , Rosenbach Library Museum, Philidelphia, Pennsylvania , Fall 2004   
""Swirl," Reading and Signing", Poetry reading and signing, West Hollywood Book Fair, Los Angeles, CA, Fall 2004   
""VIsa for Avalon"", Reading, Sponsored by Paris Press, Dutton's Bookstore, Beverly Hills, Fall 2004   
"Reading from Swirl", Reading from Swirl, Skylight Bookstore, Silverlake, Los Angeles, Spring 2004   
"Reading from Swirl", Reading from Swirl, Beyond Baroque Cultural Center, Venice, California, Spring 2004   
"Reading from Swirl", Reading from Swirl, Barnes & Noble Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA, Spring 2004   
"Reading from Swirl", Reading from Swirl, USC, Doheny Library, Fall 2003   
"Reading from Swirl", Reading from Swirl, Dutton's Bookstore, Brentwood, California, Fall 2003   
"Reading from Swirl", Reading from Swirl, Open House Reading Series, Brighton, UK, Fall 2003   
 

Publications

Book
Mc Cabe, S. The Cambridge Introduction to Cinema & Modernism. Cambridge University Press.
Mc Cabe, S. Bryher, Female Husband to Modernism: A Crtical Biography. Bryher, Female Husband to Modernism: A Crtical Biography.
Mc Cabe, S. Cry of Players: Book of Poems.
Mc Cabe, S. (2008). Descartes' Nightmare: A Book of Poems. (Kate Coles, Ed.). University of Utah Press.
Mc Cabe, S. (2007). "'Say Can You See a Wind from the East:' Gertrude Stein and a Feminist Is". Cal Arts.
Mc Cabe, S. (2005). Cinematic Modernism: Modern Poetry and Film. Cambridge, UK: Cinematic Modernism: Modern Poetry and Film/Cambridge University Press.
Mc Cabe, S. (2003). Swirl. Red Hen Press.
Mc Cabe, S. (1994). Elizabeth Bishop: Her Poetics of Loss. Pennsylvania University State Press.
 

Book Chapter
Mc Cabe, S. (2007). "Mother Twist: Male Melodrama and Brokeback Mountain". pp. 15 pages. University of Nebraska Press.
Mc Cabe, S. (2006). "How to Teach Sex in H.D.'s Poetry & Prose" for MLA Pedagogic Approaches for Teaching H.D. MLA.
Mc Cabe, S. (2004). Introduction and Biography for Visa for Avalon. pp. p. xii-xxii; pp. 151-7. Introduction and Biography for Visa for Avalon/Paris Press.
Mc Cabe, S. (2002). "Alice Notley's Experimental Epic." in We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics. pp. pp. 41-63.. University of Alabama Press.
Mc Cabe, S. (2000). "A Queer Lot and the Lesbian Talent: Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein and H.D.," in Challenging Boundaries: Literary Periodization in the United States, Spring2000. pp. pp. 62-90. University of Georgia Press.
Mc Cabe, S. (1999). "Elizabeth Bishop in Brazil: Writing the Un-renamable" in Women Poets of the Americas: Toward a Pan-Amercian Gathering. pp. pp. 176-99.. University of Notre Dame.
 

Book Review
Mc Cabe, S. (2007). "Collaborations: Learning to Live with Gertrude Stein," by Karin Cope. Women's Studies. pp. pp. 377-83.
Mc Cabe, S. (2007). "Insane Passions: Lesbianism and Psychosis in Literature and Film," by Christine Coffman. Studies in the Novel. pp. 7 pages.
Mc Cabe, S. (2006). "Theory of the Image: Capitalism, Conemporary Film and Women," by Ann Kibbey. Modernism/Modernity. pp. pp. 180-2.
Mc Cabe, S. (2005). "Amy Lowell, American Modern," eds. Adrienne Munich and Melissa Bradshaw. Legacy. pp. pp. 89-90.
Mc Cabe, S. (2005). Review of "Women's Experience of Modernity: 1875-1945". Studies in the Novel. pp. pp. 235-8.
Mc Cabe, S. (2005). "Women's Experience of Modernity 1875-1945," edited by Ann Ardis and Leslie W. Lewis. Studies in the Novel. pp. pp. 235-238.
Mc Cabe, S. (1992). "John Gould Fletcher and Southern Modernism," by Lucas Carpenter. Modern Literature Review. pp. pp. 958-9.
 

Broadcast Media
Mc Cabe, S. (2006, April, 11). KPFK Radio Station. Los Angeles.
 

Conference Proceeding
Mc Cabe, S. (2008). "Bryher's Archive: Modernism & the Melancholy of Money". In Marianne Thormalen, with Michael Bell (Ed.), pp. pp. 118-25.. Lund. Lund University Press.
 

Encyclopedia Article
Mc Cabe, S. (2005). "Elizabeth Bishop". (Jeffrey H. Gray, James McCorkel, and Mary Balkun, Ed.). p.238-50. The Encyclopedia of American Poetry/Greenwood Press.
Mc Cabe, S. (2001). "Marianne Moore". (Christopher Hudson, Ed.). pp. 475-8. Fitzroy Dearborn.
Mc Cabe, S. (2001). "Wallace Stevens' 'Sunday Morning'". (Christopher Hudson, Ed.). pp. 702-4. Fitzroy Dearborn.
Mc Cabe, S. (1997). "The Lyric" in Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson. (Jane Eberwein, Ed.). Greewood Press.
Mc Cabe, S. (1997). "Poems, 1937" in Encyclopedia of Emily Dickinson. Greenwood Press.
Mc Cabe, S. (1997). "Influences upon Modern and Contemporary Poets". (Jane Eberwein, Ed.). Greenwood Press.
 

Essay
Mc Cabe, S. (2002). "'Facing the Wrong Way': Elizabeth Bishop & the French Connection". pp. 10 pages. HoW2, an experimental online journal. www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2
Mc Cabe, S. (1999). "'Naming the Worst: 'unhappy these words still stirring among'. pp. pp. 77-87.. Denver Quarterly.
Mc Cabe, S. (1998). "An Ecstasy of Finding Another Way of Being': Alice Notley's Epic Entry". pp. pp. 273-80. Antioch Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (1997). "'Full of Tongues': Birds, Writing and Women". pp. pp. 111-118. Arshile.
Mc Cabe, S. (1990). "Elizabeth Bishop's 'Crusoe in England'". pp. pp. 57-9. The Explicator.
 

Journal Article
Mc Cabe, S. (2008). "'Let's Be Alone Together:' Bryher and Marianne Moore's Aesthetic-Erotic Collaboration:. Twentieth Century Literature.
Mc Cabe, S. (2006). "'To Become Something Broken': Jorie Graham's Overlord". Kenyon Review/Kenyon Review. pp. p. 186-95.
Mc Cabe, S. (2006). "Platonic Oxygen: Pieces of Epic in the AIr". Denver Quarterly. Vol. 41 (2), pp. 65-71.
Mc Cabe, S. (2006). "Whither Sexuality and Gender? 'What That Sign Signifies'". Pacific Coast Philogy. Vol. 41, pp. 26-31.
Mc Cabe, S. (2005). "Alice Notley's Experimental Epic". Interim. Vol. 23 (1), pp. pp. 32-47.
Mc Cabe, S. (2005). "To Be and to have: The Rise of Queer Historicism". Gay & Lesbian Quarterly. Vol. 11 (1), pp. p.95-110.
Mc Cabe, S. (2002). "Borderline Modernism: Paul Robeon and the Femme Fatale". Callaloo. Vol. 25 (2), pp. pp. 640-653.
Mc Cabe, S. (2001). "'Delight in Dislocation': Stein, Man Ray and Chaplin". Modernism/Modernity. Vol. 8 (3), pp. 429-52.
Mc Cabe, S. (2001). "Blue Sky Law and Poetic Inequivalence: Wallace Stevens and James Merrill". The Wallace Stevens Journal. pp. pp. 52-63.
Mc Cabe, S. (2000). "The 'Ballet Mécanique' of Marianne Moore's Cinematic Modernism," in Mosaic, June 2000. Mosauc: A journal in the Interdisciplinary Arts. pp. pp. 67-86.
Mc Cabe, S. (1998). "Stevens, Bishop & Ashbery: A Surrealist Lineage". The Wallace Stevens Journal. Vol. 22 (2), pp. pp. 149-68.
Mc Cabe, S. (1993). "Writing Loss". American Imago: Psychoanalysis and Culture. Vol. 50 (1), pp. pp. 69-110.
 

Other
Mc Cabe, S. (2005). Introduction to Dies: A Sentence. Les Figues Press.
 

Poem
Mc Cabe, S. (2008). "Bewraythal". (Samuel Knights, Ed.). pp. p.27. Bombay Gin, a journal of the Naropa School of Disembodied Poetics.
Mc Cabe, S. (2007). "The Dead That Have Spoken to Me Lately". (Samuel Knights, Ed.). pp. pp. 18-9. Bombay Gin, a journal of the Naropa School of Disembodied Poetics.
Mc Cabe, S. (2007). "Sentimental Education (after Flaubert)". (Samuel Knights, Ed.). pp. p. 20. Bombay Gin, a journal of the Naropa School of Disembodied Poetics.
Mc Cabe, S. (2007). "On Coffee in Canada". (Samuel Knights, Ed.). pp. pp. 21-5. Bombay Gin, a journal of the Naropa School of Disembodied Poetics.
Mc Cabe, S. (2007). "Swaddling". pp. p. 26. Bombay Gin, a journal of the Naropa School of Disembodied Poetics.
Mc Cabe, S. (2006). "Sybil". pp. p 98. Iowa Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (2006). "Descartes' Nightmare". pp. p.7. American Poetry Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (2006). "Rimbaud at the Railway Station". American Poetry Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (2006). "Nightmare Under Red White and Blue". pp. p. 7. American Poetry Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (2006). "Code Orange:". pp. p. 7. American Poetry Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (2005). "Because We Roll WIth Our Bones in Tears and Dialect". pp. pp. 99-100. The Journal.
Mc Cabe, S. (2004). "Swirl Girl". pp. p. 50. Denver Quarterly.
Mc Cabe, S. (2004). "Green Spectacles". pp. pp. 48-9. Denver Quarterly.
Mc Cabe, S. (2003). "Silver Axe in the Ninth". pp. p. 61. Pool: Journal for the Arts.
Mc Cabe, S. (2003). "Greeer Than Grass". pp. pp. 62-3. Pool: Journal for the Arts.
Mc Cabe, S. (2002). "Isis". pp. p. 16. Washington Square.
Mc Cabe, S. (2002). "She is Not She". pp. pp. 69-70. Volt.
Mc Cabe, S. (2001). "When The Shore Moved". pp. p. 40. Barrow Street.
Mc Cabe, S. (2000). "Forgetful". pp. p. 118. New York, NY. Fence.
Mc Cabe, S. (1999). "Melancholy and Mystery of the Street". pp. p. 40. Tuscon, Arizona. Sonora Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (1998). "There is a Dislocation". pp. p.. Volt.
Mc Cabe, S. (1998). "Division". pp. p. 37. Volt.
Mc Cabe, S. (1998). "Over a River Do You Hear the Water". pp. p. 38-9. Volt.
Mc Cabe, S. (1998). "Cezanne's Doubt". pp. p. 54. Colorado Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (1995). "That Homer Girl". pp. p. 60. Hayden's Ferry Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (1988). "Zen Master". pp. pp. 78-9. The Jacaranda Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (1988). "Frameless". pp. p. 30. The Jacaranda Review.
Mc Cabe, S. (1988). "Circular". pp. p. 31. The Jacaranda Review.
 

Multimedia Scholarship and Creative Works
Poetry Volume, I edited and submitted Descartes' Nightmare, a book of poems, which was awarded the Agha Shahid Ali first prze in 2007, to be published Spring 2008. It explores the legacy of Descartes to the present, for instance linking the philosopher's own post-war trauma with the present conflict in Iraq., 2006-2007   
Poetry Volume, Swirl is my first book of poems, and using experimental forms, explores female identity and ontological inquiry, drawing upon personal and cultural elements to create edgy, visual even hallucinatory, emotional landscapes, 2003-2004   
Fund-Raising and Organizing a Multi-Media Conferen, I worked on organizing, fund-raising, inviting plenary speakers, vetting panels, creating an interdisciplinary roundtable, for the international Modernist Studies Association, affiliated with Johns Hopkins University. My labor took up about 40% of my time for over a year. The conference had 650 atttendees; I raised over 20,000 in funds., 2006-2007   
Reading Series, In my capacity as CW Director of PhD I have expanded our reading series, bringing diverse writers: Stephen Yenser, Harryette Mullen, Hank Lazar, Rae Armantrout, Mary Jo Bang, Caroline Bergvall, and others., 09/01/2006-05/30/2009  
Swedish Memoir, I continue to work on a memoir/critical monograph begun during my Fulbright in Sweden. It meditates upon my family's history and the culture of living in a small town during World War II. My mother, who immigrated to Hollywood on the Drottingham in 1940 with her Jewish husband, received numerous letters from my grandmother, a Falun journalist., 01/01/2006-  
Panel Review and Selection Committee, I participated in the planning and screening for the UCLA Center for the Study of Women, Thinking Gender., Spring 2007   
Poetry Volume, I have completed (and am revising) another collection of poems, tentatively titled Cry of Players, to refer to a number of voices, some from myth, some from the cemetary, and some responding to war and new technologies. A new series of poems, called "Fates," was completed last year. The book is currently in submission., 05/30/2007-  
Biography Project (ongoing), This is the first full-length biography of Bryher (born Annie Winnifred Ellerman, 1893-1984, illegitimate daughter of a shipping magnate). She used her wealth to become an ambassador for experimental writing, to fund psychoanalysis and cinema enterprises, to support bookstores and pensioners, and to help over 105 Jews flee from Nazi Germany., 06/01/2006-  
 

Honors and Awards
Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2008-2009   
Agha Shahid Ali Award, First Prize for Poetry Book, Fall 2007   
Fulbright Award, Research/Lecturer at Lund University, Sweden, Spring 2006   
Yale University Beinecke Library Fellowship, 2005  
Center for Feminist Research Travel Grant, Spring 2004   
USC Zumberge Research and Innovation Fund Award, Fall 2000   
Outstanding Mentor Award for Gradute Students, Arizona State University, 1998-1999   
 

Service to the University

Administrative Appointments
Director of the PhD in Creative Writing & Literature Program. Duties include monitoring and supervising the entire program, recruitment, selection, advisement, attending annual Associated Writers Program conference and Chairs' meeting, budget management, orchestrating and planning events and readin, 08/31/2006-08/31/2009  
 

Committees
Member, Steering Committee of Graduate Certificate in Literary, Visual, Material Culture, 2007-. (Invited Rubén Gallo, Princeton University, for Talk on Freud and Mexico, November 5, 2008)., 08/31/2007-  
 

Service to the Profession

Administrative Appointments
Modern Language Association Executive Committee, Poetry Division, 09/01/2009-01/04/2013  
 

Conferences Organized
Organizer, Modernist Studies Association 9, Long Beach, California, As chief organizer, I was responsible for program planning, budget and fund-raising (about 20K), plenary talks, panel selection, receptions, including one on the "modernist"' ship, The Queen Mary. There were over 600 registrants. I worked at least twenty hours a week for about 6 months., 2007-2008   
 

Editorships and Editorial Boards
Editorial Board, PAMLA, 2006-2007   
 

Professional Memberships
Associated Writers Program, 09/01/2006-  
American Literature Association, 09/01/1998-  
Modernist Studies Association, 09/01/1998-  
Modern Language Association, 09/01/1994-  
Modernist Studies Association President, 2006-2007  
Pen West Literary Society, 2005  
 
 
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