Judith E. Goldman
Curriculum Vitae
Department of English514 Main St., #501
306 Clemens HallBuffalo, NY 14202
University at Buffalo(917) 414-6928 (cell/permanent phone)
Buffalo, NY
Current Position
Assistant Professor, Poetics Program, Department of English, University at Buffalo
Education
Ph.D. in English Literature, Columbia University, 2007
M.Phil. in English Literature, Columbia University, 2000
M.A. in English Literature, Columbia University, 1997
B.A. in Modern Culture & Media (Magna Cum Laude, with Honors), Brown University, 1994
Poetry Books
(Blank Mount. [chapbook] Little Red Leaves, Fall 2013.)
l.b.; or, catenaries. Krupskaya, October 2011
The Dispossessions. [chapbook] Atticus/Finch, June 2009
DeathStar/rico-chet. O Books, June 2006
Vocoder. Roof Books, May 2001
Dissertation
Title:Visible Hand: “System,” Method, and Suasion in the Human Natural Science of Adam Smith
Summary: This interdisciplinary project focuses on the concept of “society as system” and the science of human nature developed in Enlightenment thinker Adam Smith’s social philosophy. My thesis theorizes the logic and rhetoric of the “invisible hand explanation,” a prestigious 18th-century genre of science writing Smith consolidated, which, in disclosing the complex causality of human natural social orders, also authorized social science as properly “scientific.” The dissertation investigates Smith’s theories of language, rhetoric, affective interiority, and political economy as human natural systems, revealing his role in developing the key concepts we still use to conduct trans-disciplinary inquiry into sociability and social control.
Teaching and Research Interests
Contemporary American and British poetry; avant-garde poetries and poetics; documentary and investigative poetics; theory of lyric; prosody, sound, performance in poetry; sound and performance art; theory of language and rhetoric; material history of poetry cultures; ecopoetics; biopolitics; vernacular and heteroglot literatures; anthropology of economics; law and literature studies; twentieth- and twenty-first-century art history; literary and critical theory; the long eighteenth century in Britain; psychoanalysis and theory of affect; gender and queer theory; critical race theory.
Honors, Fellowships, and Artist Residencies
Roberta C. Holloway Lectureship in the Practice of Poetry, University of California, Berkeley, Fall 2011
Norma Millay Ellis Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, June 2010
Harper Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago, Fall 2007-Spring 2011
“Book of the Year” award, Small Press Traffic, Winter 2002
James Van Dyck Card Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University, Fall 2001-Spring 2002
University Prize awarded to Honors Thesis, Brown University, May 1994
Anthology Publications
“Sonnet 28.” The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare. Eds. Sharmila Cohen and Paul Legault. Brooklyn: Telephone Books, 2013.
“Prince Harry Considers Visiting Auschwitz.” “I’ll Drown My Book”: Conceptual Writing by Women. Ed. Laynie Browne, Vanessa Place, and Caroline Bergvall. Les Figues Press 2011.
“Dicktée” and excerpts from “r’pture/CENTaur.” Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. Ed. Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith. Northwestern University Press 2011.
Excerpt from “Fatboy/DeathStar/rico-chet.” The &Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing. Ed. Robert Archambeau, Davis Schneiderman, and Steve Tomasula. &Now Books 2009.
“r’pture/CENTaur.” Ghosting Atoms: Poems and Reflections 60 Years After the Bomb. Ed. Lyn Hejinian and Olivia Friedman. University of California, Berkeley Consortium for the Arts 2005.
“if all else fails.” Bay Poetics. Ed. Stephanie Young. Faux Press 2005.
“proprioceptive commands.” An Anthology of New (American) Poets. Ed. Lisa Jarnot, Christ Stroffolino, and Leonard Schwartz. Talisman House, 1998.
Poetry Print and On-line Journal Publications (recent)
“untitled [after Dihedrons].” Aufgabe 12. (Summer 2013.)
“Concilia.” They Will Sew the Blue Sail. The Volta. Web. March 2013.
4 poems from Civilian Border Patrol. Berkeley Poetry Review 42 (UC, Berkeley). Fall 2012.
“Negentropics,” “weak messianic power,” “Session Tapes,” “Are you.” Fence. Fall 2012.
“Stress Positions”; “Shock & Awe.” textsound 13. Web. July 2012.
“Austerity Measures”; “In Just-.” The Claudius App 3. Web. Spring 2012.
“The Waste Line,” “[untitled],” “[untitled],” “work diary.” Mandorla 14. (Illinois State U) 2011.
“[WATCH IT I’M GOING TO] dream within a dream.” Second Annual Sussex Poetry Festival Magazine (University of Sussex, UK). Summer 2011.
“extension cord.” Make Magazine 10. Winter 2010.
“We are in a mill,” “Pamphlet,” “Tech Support,” “The Independence of the substrate.” Little Red Leaves 5. Web. Fall 2010.
“Mutate repeat,” “[untitled].” Western Humanities Review LXV: 2 (U of Utah). Summer 2010.
“Session Tapes.” Rabbit Light Movies 11. Summer 2010.
“In the Research Phase.” Esopus 14. Spring 2010.
“Good for it,” “Motorcade,” “Noli Me.” West Wind Review 2010 (Southern Oregon U).
“[WATCH IT I’M GOING TO] dream within a dream.” Mrs. Maybe 3. Spring 2010.
Excerpts from Domination Matrices. Wig 2:1. Spring 2010.
“Pamela Anderson Lee; with a prosody in which she was concerned.” Moonlit 4. Spring 2010.
“The text interviews itself.” Sous Rature 3. Summer/Fall 2009.
“But to me [redo] Ad Terminem.” War and Peace 4. Summer 2009.
“Night sweats.” Parameter 4. Spring 2009.
“The spirits of the letters.” 580 Split 10 (Mills College). Summer 2008.
“Poems, 8-25.” Onedit 10. Summer 2008.
Excerpts from “Domination Matrices.” Cannot Exist 2. May 2008.
“Interviewing,” “Invoice Behavior.” Model Homes 2. Winter 2008.
Excerpt from “Fat Boy/DeathStar/Rico-chet.” Viz.: Inter-Arts Magazine 1 (UC Santa Cruz). Winter 2006.
Readings and Performances (recent)
Mar 2013Featured reader. Muriel Rukeyser Symposium. Eastern Michigan University. Ypsilanti, MI
Sep 2012Featured reader. Poetics Plus series. Poetics Program, University at Buffalo. Buffalo, NY
Feb 2012Featured reader. Launch for“I’ll Drown My Book”: Conceptual Writing by Women. University of Arizona Poetry Center. Tucson, AZ
Dec 2011Featured reader. Open House for Small Press Distribution. Berkeley, CA
Nov 2011Featured reader. Holloway Reading. Holloway Poetry Series, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA
Nov 2011Featured reader. Launch for Krupskaya Press 2011 publications. The Green Arcade gallery. San Francisco, CA
Oct 2011Group reading. Modernist Studies Association. Buffalo, NY
Sep 2011Group reading.Faculty Reading. English Department, University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA
Jul 2011Featured reader. House reading, home of Barry Schwabsky. London, UK
Jul 2011Featured reader. Sussex Poetry Festival, sponsored by University of Sussex. Brighton, UK
Jun 2011Featured reader. Woman Made Gallery. Chicago, IL
Jun 2011Featured performer, “neo-benshi” program. Red Rover series, in collaboration with Chicago Poetry Project. Chicago, IL
Apr 2011Featured reader. Poem Present series. Creative Writing Program, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL
Jan 2011Featured reader. Bonk series. Racine Arts Council. Racine, WI
Nov 2010Group reading. Launch for Little Red Leaves 5. Open Book Bookstore. Chicago, IL
Oct 2010Featured reader. Day and Night Symposium. Notre Dame University. Notre Dame, IN
Sep 2010Featured reader. Poetry Time series. Shape Shape. Brooklyn, NY
Sep 2010Group “Loteria” reading. Sponsored by the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College and the Poetry Foundation. Center for Book and Paper Arts. Chicago, IL
May 2010Featured reader. Shape series. Madison, WI
Feb 2010Featured reader. Miami University. Oxford, OH
Jan 2010Featured reader. Segue series. Bowery Poetry Club. New York, NY
Nov 2009Featured reader. Danny’s series. Chicago, IL
Oct 2009 Featured reader. Salacious Banter series. House reading. Milwaukee, WI
Jun 2009 Host and reader in group reading. Launch for War and Peace 4. Moe’s Books. Berkeley, CA
Jun 2009 Featured reader. The New Reading Series. 21 Grand Performance Space. Oakland, CA
Jan 2009Featured reader/performer. Memory as Innovation Festival. Links Hall. Chicago, IL
Invited Talks
“Extinction Sinks and Posthumanism(s) in Contemporary Poetry.” Inaugural Lecture. The Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics. University of California, Berkeley. April 2013.
“Archival Desire in Susan Howe’s Thorow.” Panel on “Contemporary Documentary Practice.” Muriel Rukeyser Symposium. Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI. March 2013.
Talk on Hannah Weiner. Hannah Weiner Symposium. Poetics Plus series. Poetics Program, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. October 2012.
Talk on use of chance and procedure in contemporary poetry and my own craft. Panel on “Happy Accidents: Chance as Strategy and Aesthetic.” Center for Book and Paper Arts/Poetry Foundation, Columbia College, Chicago, IL. February 2011.
Talk on Gwendolyn Brooks’ Bean Eaters. Poetry in 1960 – A Symposium . The Kelly Writer’s House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. December 2010.
“Re-thinking ‘non-retinal literature’: citationality, ‘radical mimesis,’ and phenomenologies of reading in Conceptual Writing.” Culture after Postmodern Culture Conference (a celebration for the 20th anniversary of Postmodern Culture). University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA. October 2010.
“Epitaphic Siting and Dislocation: Re-thinking Inscription in Print and Digital Culture.” Night and Day Symposium. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN. October 2010.
“Epitaphs, Deixis, and Technologies of Writing.” Chicago Poetry Project Talk Series. Green Lantern Gallery, Chicago, IL. March 2010.
Other poetry-related talks and publications
[“Dysachrony: Temporalities and their discontents, in new and old Romanticisms.” Active Romanticism: Innovative Poetry and Poetics from the Late Eighteenth-Century to the Present. Eds. Jeffrey C. Robinson and Julie Carr. University of Alabama Press, forthcoming Fall 2013.]
Review of kathryn l. pringle, fault tree. Galatea Resurrects 19 (Dec 2012).
“Re-thinking ‘non-retinal literature’: citationality, ‘radical mimesis,’ and phenomenologies of reading in Conceptual Writing.” Postmodern Culture 21:1. Fall 2012.
Participant in round table: “Poetry and Interdisciplinarity.” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Buffalo, NY October 2011.
“Failed Snapshot [instantané rate]: On Nathanael [Nathalie Stephens], Sisyphus Outdone. Theatres of the Catastrophal.” Postmodern Culture 20:3. June 2011.
“On Brandon Brown, ‘Sparrow,’ from The Poems of Gaius Valerius Catullus.” Postmodern Culture 20:2. March 2011.
Participant in recorded panel on H.D.’s “Sea Poppies” and Jennifer Scappettone’s “Vase Poppies.” Poem Talk 36. October 2010.
“The Homophonic Uncanny: Body and Language in Pinnocchio and Kim Rosenfield’sTráma.” Panel on “The Critical Challenges of the Very Contemporary.” Modern Language Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA, December 2009.
“Poetry: Language, Sound, Vision.” Society of Fellows Fall Symposium: Borders, Boundaries, Identities, and Genres. University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2009.
“Apostrophe, Sound, and Voice in Two Poems.” Paper on “Other People’s Poems” Panel. Series A Conversations Conference. Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, September 2009.
Interview with Marjorie Welish. War and Peace 4. 2009. 33-49.
Respondent. Paper by Liesl Olson, “Gertrude Stein’s Chicago Visit.” Chicago Poetry Symposium, University of Chicago Library, Special Collections, Chicago, IL, April 2009.
Correspondence with Leslie Scalapino. Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics, and Community. Dana Teen Lomax and Jennifer Firestone, eds. Saturnalia Press 2008. 191-228.
Review of Hannah Weiner’s Open House. Crayon 5. 2008. 423-8.
“Representing the Global War on Terror.” Paper given at Poetry in a Time of Crisis Conference. University of California, Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA, April 2004.
“Hannah=hannaH: Politics, Ethics, and Clairvoyance in the Work of Hannah Weiner.” differences12.2. 2001. 121-168.
Poetry Guest Teaching and Workshops
May 2013Guest teaching and reading at “Theory of the Archive” senior seminar. Meeting with Contemporary Literature Fellows. Department of Literature, New York University
Oct 2012Guest teaching/discussion at “Experimental Women Poets” Phd seminar. Poetics Program, University at Buffalo
May 2010Guest reading and presentation at MFA poetry seminar. Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Iowa
Summer 2009Workshop leader: “Parasitic Writing: Translation, Plagiarism, Subversion, Imitation, and Response.” Northwestern University Summer Writers Conference, Northwestern University
March 2008Guest reading and presentation at advanced undergraduate workshop. University of Chicago
March 2007Guest presentation at graduate poetry workshop. Mills College
April 2005Guest reading and presentation at undergraduate poetry workshop. California College of the Arts
March 2004Guest seminar teacher at MFA poetry workshop. San Francisco State University
Feb 2004Guest teacher at undergraduate poetry workshop. San Francisco Art Institute
Editorships
(Fall 2013)Co-editor, with E. Tracy Grinnell and Alicia Cohen, featured collection of essays on the
work of Leslie Scalapino, Jacket2
Present - Poetry Feature Editor, Postmodern Culture Journal
Summer 2010
Summer 2009 -Co-editor, with Leslie Scalapino, War and Peace 2-4
Fall 2004
Spring 2004 -Editorial board, Krupskaya Press
Fall 2002
Teaching Experience (recent)
Spr 2013ENG 583: Poetics: EcopoeticsBiopolitics. University at Buffalo
Spr 2013 ENG 339: American Poetry: “21C U.S. Poetries.” University at Buffalo
Fall 2012ENG 362: Poetry Movements: “Some Contemporary Constellations.” University at Buffalo
Fall 2012ENG 392: Literature, Writing, & Practice: “Riddles, Riddling, & Reading.” University at Buffalo
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Fall 2011Adjunct Asst. Prof.,“The Poetics of Sound, Voice, & Performance” (Advanced/ Inter-
mediate Undergraduate Poetry Workshop). English Department, University of California,
Berkeley. Designed and am teaching this poetry workshop based on intensive engagement
withsonic and rhythmic aspects of verse and other media; focused work on scoring and
performance of poetry. Materials includesound studies articles from an array of disciplines,
performance, sound, visual, and otherpoetries, music, critical articles on poetics. Students
do weekly creative exercises, critical reading responses, and workshops of independent work;
they will present a final portfolio with a short critical essay. Extensive use of electronic
blackboard for student discussion, materials distribution; mirror monitor used in classroom.
Spring 2011Collegiate Asst. Prof., “Media Aesthetics.” College Humanities Core, University of
Fall 2007Chicago. Partly designed and taught this inter-arts humanities core seminar, a three-quarter
course comprising Image, Sound, and Text units. Syllabus features painting, film, poetry,
photography, music, visual scores, philosophy, and fiction. The course focuses on the
theory, form, and social ramifications of artistic media and is taught through close readings
of art objects and critical texts. Extensive use of electronic blackboard for student posts and
materials distribution; mirror monitor used in classroom.
Spring 2011Collegiate Asst. Prof., Independent Study: “Psychoanalysis and Film,” University of Chicago.
Wint 2011Collegiate Asst. Prof., Independent Study: “Conceptual Poetics,” University of Chicago.
Wint 2010Collegiate Asst. Prof., “Figuring Sound and Voice” (Intermediate Undergraduate Poetry
Workshop). Creative Writing Department, University of Chicago. Designed and taught this
workshop based on intensive engagement with prosody and other acoustic resonances of
verse,as well as sonic aspects of other media. Materials included traditional and avant-garde
poetries; performance and sound poetries, music, visual musical scores and visual poetry,
and critical articles. Students did weekly assigned creative exercises and critical reading
responses; they also produced a final portfolio with a short critical essay. Extensive use of
electronic blackboard for student discussion and materials distribution; mirror monitor used
in classroom.
Spring 2006Lecturer, “Violence and Representation.” Creative Writing Program, English Department,
San Francisco State University. Designed and taught this advanced MFA creative seminar.
Course featured theoretical texts across disciplines addressing the problem of representing
violence, and creative works including poetry, fiction, painting, and film foregrounding in
thematic and formal ways the difficulties of portraying violence “faithfully.” Responsible for
mentoring students in theorizing and producing poetry projects based on course materials
and their own research.
Doctoral Thesis Committees (University at Buffalo)
Jose Alvergue, “The Poetics of Impermanence: Experimental Poetics and Politics.” Third reader. Defense: April 2013,
Orals Committees (University at Buffalo)
Emily Anderson, list: “Postmodern and Contemporary American Poetry and Poetics.” Orals committee, member. Exam: Spring 2014.
Adam Drury, list: “Contemporary Post Colonial Poetries and Poetics.” Orals committee, member. Exam: Spring 2014.
Alison Fraser, list: “Postwar to Contemporary African American Poetry and Poetics.” Orals committee, member. Exam: Spring 2014.
Travis Matteson, list: “Contemporary Poetry and the Problem of Medium.” Orals committee, chair. Exam: Spring 2014.
Honors Thesis Direction (University at Buffalo)
Paige Melin. “Feminist Aesthetics in the Poetry of Rachel BlauDuPlessis, Alice Notley, and Rosmarie Waldrop.” Spring 2013.
Academic and Creative Thesis Direction (University of Chicago)
Fall 2010 -Director of creative BA thesis, University of Chicago. Gave direction to and regularly met
Spring 2011with student completing thesis for BA degree in interdisciplinary, performance studies major. Responsible for mentoring student, commenting on drafts, and giving a grade.
Spring 2010Director of two creative MAPH theses, University of Chicago. Gave direction to and
regularly met with students completing theses for the Masters of Arts Program in the
Humanities. (One thesis poetry, one creative non-fiction.) Responsible for commenting on
initial proposal and drafts and for giving a grade and commenting on the final thesis.
Spring 2009Director of academic MAPH thesis, University of Chicago.
University Service (University at Buffalo)
Spr 2013Judge, Scribblers Prize.
Fall 2012Guest speaker, Placement Workshop.
Fall 2012 – Curation, publicity, hosting, introducing through 2 semesters of the Poetics Plus series.
Spr 2013[These events included a mini-symposium on Leslie Scalapino and a screening of Konrad
Steiner’s way that I planned, coordinated, publicized, and hosted myself; in excess of 50 people attended both events.]
Fall 2012-Curriculum work, faculty coverage and coordination, etc. for Creative Writing Program.
Spr 2013