Kurt Russell Cline
Assistant Professor of English, American and Comparative Literature
Department of English
NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology
1, Section 3, Chung-Hsiao East Road
Taipei 106
Taiwan, R.O.C.
Office: Room 406, GeneralEducationBuilding
Office Telephone: 886-02-2771-2171 Ext. # 3943
Fax: 886-02-2776-5084
Home Telephone: 886-02-2660-9052
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EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
PH.D. in English: BinghamtonUniversity (2004)
M.F.A. in Writing and Poetics: The Naropa Institute (1995)
M.A. in English with an Emphasis in Creative Writing: San FranciscoStateUniversity (1987)
B.A. in English: San FranciscoStateUniversity (1984) cum laude
CaliforniaCommunity College Teaching Certificate: Language Arts and Literature (Lifetime)
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
American and British literature; poetry; drama;film; cultural studies; mythology and religion; creative writing.
DISSERTATION
Legerdemain of God: Shamanic Praxis, Gnostic Speculation and the Poetics of Liminality
This work traces historical and a-historical continuities and discontinuities between the shaman's song as it appears inits original context of the shamanic seanceand mystical, visionary, avant-garde and experimental poetries within the Western tradition. Legerdemain of God places alongside close readings of poetic, philosophical, mythic and ethnographic texts, phenomenological descriptions of films, paintings, rituals and performances to show the shaman's perennial theme of the Otherworldly Journey ever reconfigured according to the artist's relationship to a specific culture, and that culture's relationship to the shamanic paradigm. [ISBN# 0496799073]
Committee: Luiza Moreira, Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit, Elizabeth Tucker, Gayle Whittier [Director]
AWARDS FOR POETRY
Newhouse Prize, BinghamtonUniversity: 2000. [Judge: Ruth Stone]
Celia B. Wagner Award, Poetry Society of America: 1995. [Judge: Charles Bernstein]
Browning Society Dramatic Monologue Award: 1986.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Board of Directors: Society for Phenomenology and the Media. 2009-present
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Voyage to the Sun: Poems and Translations. Boston: Boston Poet Publishing, 2008. [ISBN#9780981810904]
“Formosan Snake Mythology.” Staging Formosa. Llyn Scott, ed. Bochum, Germany: Studia Formosiana and Harrassowitz Publishing Company. [Forthcoming: Fall, 2009.]
Scholarly Articles Accepted in Peer Reviewed Journals
“Troubled Visions: Black Elk’s Crisis Journey and the Romantic Otherworlds of Blake, Coleridge, Poe and Rimbaud.” Journal of NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology. Volume 41-1, 2008: pp. 163-190. [ISSN#1029-3981]
“Unmasking the Simulacrum: Harry Houdini’s Exposes and the Modernist Meta-Poetics of Confronatation and Exposure.” Glimpse: Phenomenology and Media. Vol 9, 10; 2007 & 2008. pp. 85-89.
“Magic and Legerdemain: The Wonder Worker Behind the Charlatan’s Mask.”Outis: Deception. Volume Four, 2006: pp. 9-14. [ISBN#09716583010]
"Chaos and the Creation of Meaning:The Modernist Avant-Garde and the Evolution of Human Consciousness.” Communication, Comparative Civilization and Cultures. Vol II. [Forthcoming.]
Journalistic Writing
“The Kennedys and Me.” Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. Sept, 2009.
“The Astonishing But True Story of a Most Remarkable Cat, Part Two.”Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. May, 2009.
“The Astonishing But True Story of a Most Remarkable Cat, Part One.” Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. April, 2009.
“America: Land of the Giddy and Home of T.V.” Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. March, 2009.
“From the Vulgar to the Obscene.” Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. January, 2009.
“An American Professor’s Christmas in Taiwan.” [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. December, 2008.
“An American in Taipei.” Dr Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column]. NTUT Gazette. November, 2008.
“Falling Asleep in Class.” Dr. Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column.]. NTUT Gazette. December, 2007.
“The Fine Art of Losing One’s Head.” Dr. Fishbone’s Magic Wishing Hat [Humor Column.]. NTUT Gazette. July 2007.
"Marjorie Perloff on Ginsberg and the Beats." [interview]Poetry Flash.May, 1994: pp.1
Poetry (Recently Published in Literary Journals)
“God Is Not a Thought (But I Am).” Pressed: Taiwan’s Literary Journal Vol. 7 (2008): 34-37.
“Forever Time,” “Solid Clouds & Climbing,” and “Plastic Actuality.” Pressed: Taiwan’s Literary Journal Vol. 6 (2007): 26-28.
“The Only Music” and “Jailbreak.”Pressed: Taiwan’s Literary Journal Vol. 4 (2006): 16-17.
"Train Lines" Eclipse 14 (2004): 63-64. [ISSN#1530-5066]
"Looking Out the Window Involves More than the Scenery." Into the Teeth of the Wind.4:1 (2003): 68-69.
Poetry (Published Before 2000, Selected)
Dance With Death. E.G. Press. [chapbook]
"Every River of Tears Was an Ocean Once." E.G. Press. [broadside]
"One Time Visitation." Beatitude.
“Presque Vu." Poetry Society of America News.
"Sixth Street." Haight-Ashbury Literary Journal.
"Seven Sketches of the Moon." Rhino.
“Memory Trainwreck.” In the Margins.
"Remembering and Forgetting." Minotaur.
"Contemporary Thinktank Interlude." IceRiver.
“Serious Art,” “Schizoid Schemata” and other poems. If.
“Sentimental Crap,” Domesticity & Diamonds,” and other poems. Athena Incognito.
"The Metal Rose," “Valley of Echoes” and other poems.Maybe Mombasa.
"Hiroshima Only More So." Swale.
Fiction
“The Reliquary.” Pressed: Taiwan’s Literary Journal Vol. 3 (2005): 20-22
"Film." The New Censorship.
"Strange Ocurrences” and “Destination: Unknown.” Ink.
“The Act of Making Explicit.” Co-Lingua and NRG.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
“Now You See it, Now you Don’t: The Role of Theatrical Legerdemain in Shaping Early Silent Cinema.” Tenth Annual Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and the Media. February, 2010. Mexico.
“The Shaman’s Song in Epic Poetry.” Spring 2007 Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness, a section of the American Anthropological Association. April 7, 2007. San Diego, California, U.S.A.
“Not Just an Ordinary Horse: Shamanic Praxis in the Works of Leonora Carrington.” The 122nd Modern Language Association Annual Convention. Panel on “The Surrealist Image” convened by the Assocation for the Study of Dada and Surrealism. December 28, 2006. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
“Black Elk’s Crisis Journey and the Problematics of Vision for Blake, Coleridge and Poe” The Sixth Wenshan International Conference on English and American Literature: Literature of Belief, Believing and the Unbelievable. March 11, 2006. NationalChengchiUniversity, Taipei, Taiwan.
“Unmasking the Simulacrum: Harry Houdini’s Exposes and the Modernist Meta-Poetics of Confrontation and Exposure.” Eighth International Conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media. February 25, 2006. NationalUniversity, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
“The Real YuwipiMan.” Fourth International Conference for the Outis Project of the Society for Phenomenology and Media. February 25, 2006. NationalUniversity, San Diego, California, U.S.A.
"Literature and Chaos:The Modernist Avant-Garde and the Evolution of Human Consciousness.” The XXXIV Annual Jean Gebser Conference, presented by the Jean Gebser Society for the Study of Consciousness and Culture. October 28, 2005. RiceUniversity, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
Presenter: “Poetry and Divination.” NTUT English Department Symposium. June 22, 2009. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Presenter: “We Want the World and We Want It Now: 1968 in the U.S.A.” NTUT Foreign Language Club. April 22, 2008. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Presenter: “Consciousness Studies Today.” NTUT English Department Theory Colloquium. November, 2008. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Presenter: “Lenny Bruce and Language: A Commentary on David Barton’s Pornography of the Emotions.” April 30, 2007. NationalCentralUniversity, Jongli, Taiwan.
Presenter: “Why is a Raven Like a Writing Desk?: Poe and the Gnostic Problem of Revelation nd Deception.” Fourth Annual Literature and Language Symposium.” NTUT English Department Symposium. June 21, 2007. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Presenter: “The Shaman’s Song in Myth and Epic Poetry..” Third Annual Symposium on Language Learning and Literary Analysis. June 23, 2006. . NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Presenter: “Poetry As Magic.” English Department Theory Colloquium. May 23, 2006. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Presenter: “Modernist Art and the Evolution of Human Consciousness.” NTUT English Department Symposium. June 20, 2005. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
PARTICIPATION IN M.O.E. SPECIAL PROJECTS
Lecturer: “Deception and Revelation in Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane.” Ministry of Education Special Project. May 17, 2007. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Instructor: English Corner. Ministry of Education Special Project. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Lecturer: “Essay Writing: Principles and Examples.” Ministry of Education Special Project. October 16, 2006. NatonalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Lecturer: “The Writing Muse.” Ministry of Education Special Project. May 4, 2006. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
CREATIVE ACTIVITIES
Producer and director: Waiting for Godot. [senior play] NTUT English Department. Spring, 2009.
Producer and director: The Queen of Spades. [student film] NTUT English Department. Fall, 2008.
Producer and director: Oedipus Rex. [senior play] NTUT English Department. Spring, 2008
Producer and director: The Cosmic Wonder Show. State Street Theatre, Ithaca, NY. April, 2004
Producer and director: Magic at the State. State Street Theatre. Ithaca, NY. April 2003.
Coordinator: State of the Art Poetry. [series] State of the ArtGallery. Ithaca, NY.
Producer/director/performer: The Dark Side of the Sun. Intersection for the Arts. San Francisco, CA.
Coordinator: P.O.W.: Performance Oriented Writing. [series] Artists’ Television Access. San Francisco, CA.
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Coordinator: Third Annual Symposium on Language Learning and Literary Analysis. June 23, 2006. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Coordinator: What’s Past Is Prologue: Medieval and Early Modern Writings. English Department Theory Colloquium. May 23, 2006. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Panel Moderator: International Conference on Sustainability and the Literary Imagination. November 18, 2006. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Judge: Annual Student Speech Contest. Ministry of Education Special Project. October, 2006; October, 2007. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Judge: Non-English Major Drama Competition. May, 2008.NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
Judge: Role Playing Contest for English major and non-majors. March 20, 2008. NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology.
Test Writer: Graduate School Entrance Examination [composition portion]; English Proficiency Examination [reading comprehension portion].
Committee Chair: Committee for Library Book Selection. 2007-2008. NTUT English Department.
Committee Member: GraduateSchool Curriculum Development Committee. 2007-2008. NTUT English Department.
Committee Member: Academic Research and Development Committee. 2005-2008. NTUT English Department.
GRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT
Creative Writing (NTUT)
World Poetry and its Cultural Applications (NTUT)
Modern American Poetry (Fu JenCatholicUniversity)
English Romantic Poetry (Fu JenCatholicUniversity)
Experimentation in Film, Text and Performance (Fu JenCatholicUniversity)
The Beats and Beyond (Fu JenCatholicUniversity)
GRADUATE THESIS DEFENSE COMMITTEES
Lin, Carol Yi-Wei. Abjection and Transgression: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Mina Loy’s Avant-Garde Poetics. Taipei: Fu JenCatholicUniversity, 2006.
Wu, Andrea Yi Hsueh. Domains of Horror: Spatial Identity and Narrative Resolution in Edgar Allen Poe’s Tales. Taipei: Fu JenCatholicUniversity, 2007.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES TAUGHT (Selected)
Western Drama (NTUT)
Literature and Film (NTUT)
Modern Western Literature (NTUT)
Cross-Cultural Studies (NTUT)
Pop Culture (NTUT)
English and American Short Fiction (NTUT)
Approaches to Literature (NTUT)
Public Speaking and Debate (NTUT)
Feminist Literary Theory(Hobart and WilliamSmithColleges)
American Literature to Melville (Hobart and WilliamSmithColleges)
Madness and Civilization: Foucault, the Beats and Postmodernity (BinghamtonUniversity)
The Mythic Imagination (BinghamtonUniversity)
Surrealism and its Accomplices (BinghamtonUniversity)
Modern Incarnations: The Anti-Hero in Film and Fiction (BinghamtonUniversity)
Creative Writing (BinghamtonUniversity, The Naropa Institute, College of San Mateo)
Introduction to Literature (SUNY Cortland, IthacaCollege, MetropolitanStateCollege of Denver)
Introduction to Drama (SUNY Cortland, IthacaCollege, MetropolitanStateCollege of Denver)
Academic Writing (SUNY Cortland, IthacaCollege, MetropolitanStateCollege of Denver)
UNDERGRADUATE SENIOR PROJECTDIRECTION (Selected)
Wu, Daniel. “The Contradictory Relationship between Rationality and Irrationality in Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ ‘The Black Cat,’ and ‘The Cask of Amontallado.’” Taipei: NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, 2007.
Hu, Robin. “Language and Feeling.” Taipei: NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, 2007.
Hsu, Christy. “Ang Lee’s Film Language.” Taipei: NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, 2007.
Fang, Mindy. “Futurist Art.” Taipei: NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, 2007.
Liu, Evelyn. “The Negative Eye: Rene Magritte.” Taipei: NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, 2007.
Hsueh, Kay. “Perspective in Alice in Wonderland and the Relationship between Human Beings and Animals.” Taipei: NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, 2007.
Chen, Irene. “The Heroine: Her Role and Value in Myth, Biblical Lore and History.” NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, 2007.
Su, Joanna. “What Happened to Punk Rock?: Punk Culture in Film, Fashion and Politics.” Taipei: NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, 2007.
Wang, Prince. “The One Who Crosses the Line: From Chivalric Knights and Bushido Warriors to the Contemporary Anti-Hero in the Films of Akira Kurosawa.” Taipei: NationalTaipeiUniversity of Technology, 2007.
[LAST UPDATE: September, 2009]