Maria Damon
Associate Professor
Ph.D. Modern Thought and Literature, Stanford Unviersity, 1988
225 Lind Hall
(612)625-1536
damon001@umn.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Department Affiliations
Departments of English; American Studies; Gender, Women, and Sexuality; Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature; Theatre Arts and Performance; Center for Jewish Studies
Areas of Expertise
contemporary poetry and poetics; cultural studies; American poetry from 1940; diaspora studies
Selected Publications
The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader. Co-edited with Ira Livingston. Champaign: Illinois University Press, forthcoming 2008.
pleasureTEXTpossession. with mIEKAL aND. Canary Islands: Zasterle Press, 2005.
Literature Nation. with mIEKAL aND. Bedford: Potes & Poets, 2003. Also online at www.joglars.org/litnat/index.html
"Electronic Poetry Assay: Diaspora, Silliness and ?Gender?" Cybertext Yearbook 2002-2003. Ed. Loss Pequeño Glazier and John Cayley.
"Writing, Social Science and Ethnicity in Gertrude Stein and Certain Others." Modernism, Inc.: Body, Memory, Capital. Ed. Jani Scandura and Michael Thurston. New York: New York University Press, 2001.
"Was That 'Different,' 'Dissident' or 'Dissonant'? Poetry (n) the Public Spear: Slams, Open Readings, and Dissident Traditions." Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word. Ed. Charles Bernstein. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
"Post-literary Poetry, Counterperformance, and Micropoetries." Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere. Ed. Amitava Kumar. New York: New York University Press, 1997. Reprinted in Poetry and Pedagogy: The Challenge of the Contemporary. Eds. Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
"Jazz-Jews, Jive and Gender: Ethnic Anxiety and the Politics of Jazz Argot." Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies. Ed. Daniel Boyarin and Jonathan Boyarin. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.
"Avant-garde or Borderguard: (Latino) Identity in Poetry." American Literary History 10:3 (1998).
"'Unmeaning Jargon'/ Uncanonized Beatitude: Bob Kaufman, Poet." South Atlantic Quarterly 87:4 (1988). Reprinted in Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics. Ed. Christopher Beach. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1998. and in Poetry Criticism 74. Ed. Michelle Lee. Farmington. Michigan: Gale, 2007.
Graduate Courses
Contemporary African American Poetry
Writing for Publication
Advanced Workshop in Poetry (Creative Writing)
Women Experimental Poets
The San Francisco Renaissance
Poetry Writing: Trauma, Play, Experiment (Creative Writing)
Poetry/Culture/Power
Contemporary American Poetry
Writing the Body Politic(s)
Unfinishing Your Work
Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
Poetry and Politics in Our Time
Weird Books by Women
Poetry as Cultural Critique
Queer Poetry
Jewish American Word Art: Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce, Bob Dylan
American Poetry Since 1900
Diaspora Poetics
Writing/Life/History: Creative Writing and Cultural Studies
Beat Sensibilities