Christina Milletti
University at Buffalo, SUNY 292 Summer Street
Department of English Buffalo, NY 14222 306 Clemens Hall Phone: 716-877-7299
Buffalo, NY 14260 Cell: 716-316-9248
Phone: 716-645-0575
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor University at Buffalo, SUNY, English Department, 2009-Present
Assistant Professor University at Buffalo, SUNY, English Department, 2003-2009
Assistant Professor Eastern Michigan University, English Department, 2001-2003
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English StateUniversity of New York at Albany, 2001
Presidential Fellow
M.F.A.Fiction Brown University, 1996
M.A.English Pennsylvania State University, 1994
B.A.Classics Boston College, 1991
PUBLICATIONS
The Religious and Other Fictions
Carnegie Mellon University Press. August 2006
Blurbs by Janet Kauffman, Paul West, and Brian Evenson (see final page for full text)
Gravitational Intrigue: An Anthology of Emergent Hypermedia, The Little Magazine 22CD. (Eds) Dimitri Anastasopoulos and Christina Milletti, New York: April 1999. Reviewed by the American Book Review (21:3).
Fiction
“Now You See Her,” New World Writing. Fall 2015.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize.
“The Erratic,” Masters Review Award Anthology, Volume 4, Fall 2015. Guest Judge: Kevin Brockmeier.
“Dr. Kirkbride’s Moral Treatment Plan,” Buffalo Noir, (Eds) Ed Park & Brigid Hughes. Akashic Books. New York: 2015. Solicited.
“The Upper Hand,” Denver Quarterly: 49.3, pp 67-69. April 2015. Solicited.
“Story Net,” American Letters & Commentary, Spring 2012. With Dimitri Anastasopoulos, Dave Kress & Christine Hume..
“Where Nööne is Now.” (reprint). The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing. Ed. Davis
Schneiderman. Lake Forest College. September 2009.
“A Pair of Hose Trimmed with Button Eyes, a Lipstick Mouth, Manipulated by So Many Fingers,” PP/FF: an anthology of Prose Poems and Flash Fiction, (Ed) Peter Connors. Starcherone Books, 2006, p. 153-155. Solicited.
“Where Nööne is Now,” The Cincinnati Review, Spring 2005, p. 46-58. Solicited.
“The Smallest Apartment,” in Parakeet, Spring 2005. p. 65-68. Solicited.
“Kaspar Soup,” A Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fiction. (Ed) Dinty Moore. MammothBooks, Dubois PA., May 2003: p. 20.
“Sweetbreads,” The Alaska Quarterly Review, Fall 2003, p. 85-97.
“The Religious,” in The Greensboro Review, April 2002, p. 16-31.
“Villa of the Veiled Lady,”Best New American Voices. Guest Editor: Charles Baxter.
(Eds) John Kulka, Nathalie Danford. Harcourt, New York: October 2001, p. 60-77.
“Parcel Post,” 13th Moon, v. 16:1-2, Fall 2000, p. 121-123.
“Hum,” 13th Moon. v. 16:1-2, Fall 2000, p. 120.
“The Search for Anna Boubouli,” The Chicago Review, v. 45:3-4, November 1999, p. 77-88.
“The Retrofit,” Scribner's Best of the Fiction Workshops 1998. Guest Editor: Carol Shields. (Eds) John Kulka, Nathalie Danford. Scribner, New York: January 1998, p. 324-245.
“Vic Tin: Locksmith Secret Keeper Extraordinaire,” Pennsylvania English. Spring
1999, p. 77-87.
“Letters from H.,” Rafters, v. 2:1, September 1996, p. 105-112.
Critical Articles & Essays
“What I’m Reading Now,” Drunken Boat, November 2015, Guest Contributor (
“‘Getting Word’: The Force of Language in Robert Kelly’s Short Fictions,” A City Full of Voices: OnRobert Kelly. (Ed) Pierre Joris. Forthcoming.
“Somewhere Else in Buffalo: an Introduction to the &Now Awards.” The &Now Awards: The Best
Innovative Writing. Ed. Davis Schneiderman. Lake Forest College. 2013.
“Everything Begins with a Yes: Innovative Fictions by International Women.” Introduction to special issue of the American Book Review on innovative women writers.
Guest Editor: Christina Milletti. Sept/Oct 2009.
“Innovative Fiction and the Poetics of Power: Gertrude Stein and Christine Brooke-Rose ‘Do’ Language,” (Eds.) Ralph M. Berry and Jeffrey DiLeo, Fiction's Present: Situating Narrative Innovation, SUNY Press: 2007, p. 17-27. Solicited.
“Violent Words, Volatile Acts: Kathy Acker’s Terrorist Aesthetic.” (Ed) Jacqueline Foertsch. Studies in the Novel, Special Issue on Terrorism. June 2004, p. 353-372. (peer reviewed journal)
Book Reviews
“Why Am I Telling You All of This?”: a review of I’m So Into You, the email correspondence of Kathy Acker and MacKenzie Wark. American Book Review. Forthcoming 2016.
“Bluestockings and Bluebeards: A Murder Made for Fiction” (on Jayne Anne Phillips, Quiet Dell), The Buffalo News, November 24, 2013.
“Alissa Nutting’s Tampa Has Everyone Paying Attention,” The Buffalo News, Sept 1, 2013.
“Meg Wolitzer Gracefully Juggles Big Questions in The Interestings.” TheBuffalo News,
May 5, 2013.
“British Novelist Lawrence Norfolk Knows What He’s Doing,” ArtVoiceMagazine. 7:13, March 26, 2008
“The Equation of Loss: a review of Sara Greenslit’s The Blue of Her Body.” American Book Review 29:3, March 2008, p. 22.
“Lose Your Head: a review of Half-Life by Shelley Jackson.” ArtVoiceMagazine. March 2, 2007, p. 16.
“Tool Kits for the Future: a review of Ben Marcus’ Anchor Anthology of New American Fiction,” ArtVoice Magazine, October 2004, p. 25.
“The Myth of Amherst: Open Me Carefully: the Intimate Letters of Emily Dickinson to Susan HuntingtonDickinson.”American Book Review. Fall 1999, p. 25-26.
“The Logic of Madness: Emily Holmes Coleman's The Shutter of Snow.” American Book Review. June 1999, p. 31.
“Writing the New Mappamundi: Nathalie Blondel's Scenes from a Life, a biography of Mary Butts,” American Book Review. April 1999, pp. 1, 7.
REVIEWS OF PUBLISHED WORK
Mitra, Keya.“The Sublime Meets the Real,” American Book Review, 29.1, Nov./Dec. 2007, p. 18-19.
Tomasula, Steve.Context (RCF reprint), no. 21, April 2008.
Tomasula, Steve. Review of Contemporary Fiction, vol. XXVII , June 2007, p. 148
Pelton, Ted. ArtVoice, 6:11, March 22, 2007.
Pohl, R.D., The Buffalo News, March 23, 2007, p. 32.
Sandor, Meslissa. “Seven Artists You Should Know,” Spree Magazine, 38:6, October/November 2004, p. 91-93.
Pohl, R.D. “A Rising Star among Contemporary Fiction Writers,” TheBuffalo News, January 4, 2004, p. H-6.
West, Paul. “Christina’ Goth,” Master Class: Scenes from a Fiction Workshop, Harcourt: New York: 2001, p. 207-215.
On-Line Reviews: sunoasis.com, bookpleasures.com, curledup.com, compulsivereader.com
Interviews:
“Flore Chevalier Interviews Christina Milletti.” Submitted to San Diego University Press.
Mark Seinfelt. Word Patriots. “Paul West in the 1980s.” January 2, 2012.
Mark Seinfelt. “The Many Christina Milletti’s.” Webtalk Radio. September 2011.
Yoonha Shin. Interview for the Feminist Research Alliance. Available at
Gabe DiMaio, National Public Radio. 2003.
COMPLETEDMANUSCRIPT
Choke Box: a fem-noir
2nd Place Finalist, Quarterly West Novella Prize, 2015
2nd Place Finalist, Clarissa Dalloway Prize: Room of Her Own Foundation, 2014
When do words hurt us? How do they make us choke on, choke up, everything we think we know? In Choke Box, one woman comes to grips with a flawed book her husband wrote about their lives together...before he mysteriously disappeared. She discovers many surprising facts in his memoir: for instance, the larynx—-that anatomical “anomaly” of the human body—-makes humans the only animal that can choke to death on food. Language, she learns, is a dangerous, even violent, business. And, in her own corrective "counter-memoir," she gets down to work.Finished draft. Book has been submitted to various prizes and is now being viewed by agents for publication.
Currently Submitted to:
Coffee House Press
FICTION MANUSCRIPTS-IN-PROGRESS
Erratics
Short Story Collection
A collection of fiction that considers the isolated, often imaginary space of being human at our pivotal, climatological moment when the question of "being" itself is in question. “Erratics” are boulders left behind by ice age glacier movement,geologicallydistinct from their surrounding landscape. The narrators in the stories are equally isolated, abandoned, often intentionally remote, as they wonder how to evaluate key human questions when the sustainability of the human itself is at issue.Each storyoffers a porous relationship between the imaginary and the real, in situations that are uniquely irresolvable.
Room in the Hotel America
Novel
Based on the true story of a wealthy immigrant family who, having moved to New York City shortly before WWII, isolate themselves for forty years in a luxurious hotel suite. The novel is told from a variety of first person perspectives as the family's reclusive motives become the object of speculation.
SUBMITTED FICTION:
“The Tanner Scale is Always Wrong,” (short fiction), Boulevard
“House Porn Detourn,” (short fiction), Quarterly West
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & WRITING AWARDS (selected)
Humanities Institute Faculty Research AwardSpring 2017
Marble House Project ResidencyJune 2016
Pushcart NominationDecember 2015
Masters Review Award Anthology IVFall 2015
“The Erratic” (short story)
Judge: Kevin Brockmeier
Clarissa Dalloway Novel PrizeFall 2014
A Room of Her Own Foundation
Second Place Finalist: Choke Box
Schiff Fiction Award, The Cincinnati Review
Honorable Mention: “The Erratic”Fall 2014
&Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing (biennial prize anthology)
“Story-Net.” (fiction)
Ed. Megan Milks, Lake Forest College
The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing (biennial prize anthology)
Ed. Davis Schneiderman. Lake Forest College. September 2009
Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo GrantSpring 2009
Awarded to create a research-friendly video and audio archive for the Exhibit X Fiction Series website at
Italo Calvino Prize for FictionSpring 2008
Finalist (Judge: Michael Dirda)
Dr. Nuala M. Drescher Leave Program 2006
UB fellowship that grants a full course release for one year.
Spring/Summer Creativity Fellowship January-August 2003
Eastern Michigan University
$8000 grant
Provost New Faculty Research AwardSpring 2002
Eastern Michigan University
Fundacion Valparaiso (Mojacar, Spain) June 2000
One month residency (all expenses paid) awarded to work on short story collection.
Harcourt’sBest New American Voices May 2000
Fiction selected for competitive Harcourt anthology. Judge: Charles Baxter
Thayer Fellowship for the Arts Spring 2000
State University of New York
Finalist in Creative Writing. $7500 grant awarded to graduating student within the S.U.N.Y. system.
Patricia Kerr Ross Fellowship in the Arts Spring 2000
State University of New York
Juried Award for Fiction carrying a $1500 stipend.
Benevolent Grant Spring 1998
StateUniversity of New York at Albany
Awarded to support research on (and travel to) Djuna Barnes' collected papers at the University of Maryland.
Phyllis Hurd Liston Poetry Prize Spring 1998
The American Academy of Poets
Scribner’s Best of the Fiction Workshops Spring 1998
Fiction selected for competitiveScribner’santhology. Judge: Carol Shields
Presidential Fellowship 1996-1999
StateUniversity of New York at Albany
Research grant without teaching duties. Most prestigious and competitive award given to an incoming graduate student.
Beinecke Fellowship Spring1995
Brown University
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CONFERENCES & PUBLIC LECTURES (selected)
(Re)Figuring Voice: A Talk, a Screening, a Performance, and Two Readings
With Christine Hume, Miranda Mellis, and Claudia Rankine
&Now Conference. California Institute of the Arts, March 25-28, 2015
“Apocalypse Now, Or Nearly: Imagining the Climate Crisis”
With John Domini and Matt Bell
&Now Conference, California Institute of the Arts, March 25-28, 2015
Fiction Intensifying: Spin & Narratives of Authenticity in 21st-Century Culture
NEMLA, Ryerson University: Toronto, April 30-May 3, 2015
On the Edge: Buffalo Writers and Border Crossings
NEMLA, Ryerson University: Toronto, April 30-May 3, 2015
“Experimental and/or Innovative Writing? Trends in Contemporary American Fiction”
Quebec-USA Xperimental writing, University at Buffalo, March 29, 2014
“Language, Power, Resistance: Kathy Acker's Terrorist Texts”
&Now Conference. University of Colorado: Boulder. September 26-28, 2013.
“Poetics of Fiction in/at Buffalo.”
AWP Conference. Boston, MA March 6-9, 2013.
“Dark Matter: Cultural Narratives and the Fiction of Crisis”
&NOW Conference, Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France June 6-10, 2012
“What Writers Talk About When They Talk About Fiction”
English Department Alumni Reunion, April 14, 2012
“What Writers Talk About When They Talk About Novels: Parts I, II, & III”
Garret Club, Cleveland Avenue, Buffalo, March 2, 9, 23, 2012
“Spin Room Cycle: Politics, DARPA and the Return of the Narrator”
&NOW Conference, Univ. of California, San Diego, Oct 13-15, 2011
“Species Spectacle: The Hybrid Narratives of Bhanu Kapil and Djuna Barnes”
&NOW Conference, Univ. of California, San Diego, Oct 13-15, 2011
“Djuna Barnes’ Repulsive Women: Hybridity as Gender Performance”
Modernist Studies Association Conference, Buffalo, NY, Oct 6-9, 2011
“The Hybrid Narratives of Barnes and Lautreamont”
Poetics Plus Faculty Series, Spring 2011
“Gender, Writing, Innovation: an American Book Review Special Issue”
&Now Conference of Innovative Writing and Art, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY: October 16, 2009
“Covert Narrators: Fictional Language in the So-called Real World”
&Now: A Festival for Innovative Writing and Art, Chapman University: Orange, CA, April 15-17, 2008
“Who Poses the Question: What Is a Novel?”
Narrative Conference, Ottawa, Canada, April 6-9, 2006
“Fiction, Theory, and Everything In-Between”
&Now: A Festival for Innovative Writing and Art, Lake Forest College, April 5-7, 2006
“Towards a Theory of Fiction”
Attention/Inattention: Criticism and Creativity Conference, University of Denver, Oct 7-9 2005
“Fiction and the Writing of Failure”
The Associated Writing Programs Conference, Vancouver, Canada, Mar 28-Apr 3 2005
“Towards Difficulty: The Potential of ‘Performative Prose’”
The Associated Writing Programs Conference, Chicago, March 26, 2004
“Performing ‘Stupidity’: Kathy Acker’s Terrorist Texts”
Narrative Conference, Lansing, MI April 2002
“Stein’s ‘Lively Words’: Citing the Limits of Gender”
The Poetry of Plays: Women Poets at Barnard 2002 Two-Day Conference, New York, NY: April 2002
“Contaminated Subjects and Recycled Words in Christine Brooke-Rose's Amalgamemnon.”
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY March 2002
“Going on ‘As If’: Thinking Gender and Genre in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Amalgamemnon.”
Inside Theory/Outside Praxis, StateUniversity of New York atAlbany, Albany, NY: March 2001.
“‘No Sooner Said Than Dung’: Christine Brooke-Rose’s Recycled Words.”
Narrative: an International Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX: March, 2001.
“Kathy Acker's Terrorist Texts: Toward a Poetics of ‘Stupid’ Writing.”
Carto-Graphics, StateUniversity of New York atAlbany, Albany, NY: April 2000.
“Experimental Heuristics: Inventing New Models of Invention.”
Associated Writing Programs, Albany NY: April 1999
“Riding the Double Horse: Daimon and Dialectic in the Novels of Mary Butts.”
“Writing (Reading) Fiction in the Late Age of Print”
Border Crossings, StateUniversity of New York atNew Paltz, New Paltz NY: October 1998
“Djuna Barnes’ Beasts: Reinventing the Modernist Woman.”
Twentieth Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY: February 1998
NATIONAL/PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
NEMLA Board 2015-2018
Creative Writing, Editing & Publishing Director
Buffalo News 2013-Present
Freelance Book Reviewer
American Book Review 2010-Present
Associate Contributing Editor
&NowConference of Innovative Writing & Art 2005-Present
Executive Board Member
Traveling conference dedicated to innovative and experimental writing. Founded in 2003 at the University of Notre Dame. The Conference is coming to the University at Buffalo October 14-17, 2009. The conference website is:
AWP Novel Prize: Screener Spring 2008
Allegheny ReviewFiction Prize Judge Spring 2007
Allegheny College
DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Exhibit X Fiction Series 2003-Present
Co-Director
A new fiction reading series at the University of Buffalo with a mandate to showcase writers of innovative and experimental fictions to the Buffalo campus and community. Guests thus far: (2004-2005) Lydia Davis, Kathryn Davis, Ben Marcus, Steve Tomasula. (2003-2204) Brian Evenson, Paul Lafarge, Mary Caponegro, Shelley Jackson. (2005-2006) Rikki Ducornet, Diane Williams, Lance Olsen, Samuel R. Delany. (2006-2007) Percival Everett, Dave Kress, Shelley Jackson, Joanna Scott. (2007-2008) Nathaniel Mackey, Cris Mazza, Lawrence Norfolk. (2012-2013) Tom McCarthy (UK), Lawrence Norfolk (UK), Lydia Millet, David Matlin, Christine Hume, Mikhail Shishkin (Russia). 2013-2014: Laird Hunt, Mark Shechner, Amanda Michalopoulou (Greece), Victor LaValle, Martin Nakell, Rebecca Goodman. 75-100 people attend each event. The Exhibit X website and sound archive is available at:
NAME Magazine2012-Present
Faculty Editor
Director: Undergraduate Creative Writing Certificate Program Fall 2013
Director: MA Certificate in Innovative Writing Fall 2013
Director: Creative Writing Focus 2009-2013
In 2012, submitted a proposal to initiate a new undergraduate Creative Writing Certificate Program. As Director, I sit on the Literature & Summer Course Selection Committee, the Scheduling Committee, and work in an advisory capacity to Undergraduate Review Committee.
Creative Writing Certificate Proposal 2012-2013
Wrote and submitted documents proposing UB’s Creative Writing Certificate for undergraduates. Walked the Certificate proposal through several stages of development, and met with multiple committees (departmental, CAS, Associate Deans) to secure the Certificate’s approval. The Creative Writing Certificate was approved in Spring 2013, and will be implement in Fall 2013.
Graduate Student Contemporary Fiction Conferences Advisor
Divergent Histories Colloquium Spring 2007
Samuel R. Delany Symposium Spring 2006
William Gaddis Conference Spring 2005
—Advised new graduate student conferences in contemporary fiction. Invited keynote speakers included Steven Moore, Samuel R. Delany, Joseph Tabbi, Jeff Tucker, Carl Freedman, Larry McCaffery, and Brian McHale.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
WBFO Visiting Professor of the Arts 2015-2016
Shelley Jackson
Successfully proposed bringing writer & conceptual artist, Shelley Jackson, to Buffalo in 2015-2016. With Media Studies and the Department of Art.
Gender Institute Affiliate2014-present
EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE
NAME Magazine2013-present
Undergraduate English Department Literary Magazine
Faculty Editor
BathHouse
Contributing Editor & FounderSpring 2002—Present
On-line journal of hybrid writing at
publishing poetry, fiction, hypermedia, and work that resists such categories. First issue release date: December 2002.
The Little Magazine
Editor September 1996-2002
Ground-breaking “turn of the century” hypermedia journal devoted to publishing poetry, prose, and hypertext in experimental forms. Published exclusively on CD-ROM and on-line at: 2001 publication: The Hypertext Mechanic. 1999 Publication: Gravitational Intrigue: an anthology of emergent hypermedia—CD-ROM collection of international multimedia writing representing the most cutting edge work in the field from Argentina, Australia, England, Canada and the USA. Contributors include: Stuart Moulthrop, Mark Amerika, Eduardo Kac, Christy Sheffield Stanford, Judith E. Johnson, and the Critical Arts Ensemble, among many others.
GRADUATE COURSES
Gender, Narrative, Experimentation: Punk, Pirate & Guerilla Girl Fictions
Fall Fiction Colloquium (Fall 2014)
Narrative In(ter)ventions (Spring 2012)
Sentenced to Gender (Spring 2011)
Invention, Deception, Betrayal: A Seminar on the Sentence (Spring 2008)
The Language of Gender in Women’s Innovative Novels (Spring 2007)
Subjectivity and the Sentence: Women’s Experimental Fiction (Spring 2006)