Academics
Davis Schneiderman
Associate Professor
English
Chair, American Studies
Phone 847-735-5282
E-mail dschneiderman@lakeforest.edu
Web http://www.davisschneiderman.com
Specialization
Creative Writing
American Literature
Postmodernism
Experimental and Avant-Garde Literature
Cultural Studies
Contemporary Music Criticism
Interests
William S. Burroughs; Postmodernism; any creative writing topic, particularly prose-related; globalization (and literature and/or music); experimental writing; American literature; Chicago literature and history; virtuality
Education
Ph.D., Binghamton University
M.A., Binghamton University
B.A., The Pennsylvania State University
Courses Taught
First-Year Studies 175: Literature, Art & Rebellious Consumers
American Studies 223: The American Avant-Garde: 1960-1980
Masters of Liberal Studies: Chicago Dreaming
English 110: Introduction to Literature
English 205: 20th-Century American Literature
English 235: Creative Writing
English 250: Contemporary Literature and the Marketplace
English 326: Postmodernism
English 360: Advanced Fiction Writing
English 440: Senior Writing Seminar
Blog
Now What: a collective blog by alternative prose writers & publishers
Books
Multifest A Henri d’Mescan Reader. Spuyten Duyvil Press. Limited edition art book, 2006; commercial edition 2007.
Abecedarium. [co-authored with Carlos Hernandez] (Chiasmus Press, forthcoming 2007).
DIS. (BlazeVox Books, forthcoming 2007).
Exquisite Corpse: Creativity, Collaboration, and the World’s Most Popular Parlor Game. Eds. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger. (U. of Nebraska Press, forthcoming).
Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization. Eds. Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh. Pluto Press, (May 2004).
E-Book
The City of Omni+Baal, or, Nature is an Infinite Dodecahedron Whose Centre is Everywhere and Whose Circumference is Nowhere. BlazeVox Books. 2004
Articles
“Raymond Federman and the Pla(y)giarism of Re-Writing.” Federman at 80: From Surfiction to
Critifiction. Ed. Jeffrey Di Leo. (SUNY Press). Commissioned.
“Gentlemen, I will slop a pearl: The (Non)Meaning of Naked Lunch.” Commissioned for a
collection honoring the 50th Anniversary of Naked Lunch. Eds. Harris, Oliver and Ian
MacFadyen. Southern Illinois University Press. Commissioned.
“The Paste Pot and Inlaying Knife: Extra-illustration and Plagiary in the Burroughs Legacy.”
Commissioned for “Quién Es?: William S. Burroughs Revisited” Five-day symposium on
William S. Burroughs at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (Mexico City),
September 4-8, 2006. Part of 8-essay journal proposal currently under consideration at
several journals.
“Exquisite Mori: Corpse and Contiguity.” (w/ Tom Denlinger) in Exquisite Corpse: Creativity,
Collaboration, and the World’s Most Popular Parlor Game. Eds. Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Denlinger. (U. of Nebraska Press, forthcoming).
“Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Lawsuit: William S. Burroughs, DJ
Danger Mouse, and the Politics of ‘Grey Tuesday.’” Plagiary: Cross-disciplinary Studies in
Plagiarism, Fabrication, and Falsification. (online). 1.13 (2006): 1-18. Plagiary 2006 (print). 1 (2006): 191-206. Also, forthcoming for proposed anthology, Cutting Across Media: Interventionist Collage and the Politics of Appropriation. Eds. McLeod, Kembrew and Rudolph Kuenzli.
“Notes from the Middleground: On Ben Marcus, Jonathan Franzen, and the Contemporary
Fiction Combine.” Electronic Book Review. 8. Sept. 2006.
“We got Heads on Sticks/You got Ventriloquists: Radiohead and the Improbability of Resistance.” In The Music and Art of Radiohead. Ashgate Press. (2005): 15-37.
“Disable the "Mute" Button: Classroom, Creativity and the Cult of the Author.” (interview w/ Henri d’Mescan). Entertext: An interactive interdisciplinary e-journal for cultural and historical studies and creative work. 4.3 (2005). [part of a suite of three essays].
“Introduction: Millions of People Reading the Same Words” (co-written with Philip Walsh) and “Nothing Hear Now but the Recordings: Burroughs’s ‘Double Resonance’” in Retaking the Universe: William S. Burroughs in the Age of Globalization. Eds. Davis Schneiderman and Philip Walsh. Pluto Press, 2004. 1-9; 146-160.
"Cell my Last Words Everywhere: Filmic Fiction in Leni Riefenstahl, Jean Genet, and William S. Burroughs." In Literary Modernism and Photography. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2003. 235-250.
"The Making of Amalgams: Sampling the ‘Narrative’ of Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader." Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 39 (2000): 61-78.
Review-Essays
“Weird Sisters.” Review of Shelley Jackson’s Half Life. American Book Review. 28.5 (2007): 17-18.
Review of William S. Burroughs Jr. Cursed from Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S.
Burroughs Jr. Ed. and compiled by David Ohle. Econoculture.com. May 4, 2007.
Review of Rob Johnson’s The Lost Years of William S. Burroughs: Beats in South
Texas. American Book Review. 28.2 (2007). Forthcoming.
Review of William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg’s The Yage Letters Redux, ed. Oliver Harris.
American Book Review. 28.1 (2006) 22-23.
Review of Oliver Harris’s William S. Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination. Econoculture.com.
6 Nov. 2006.
“Gysin the THERE.” Review of Nothing is True: Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin
American Book Review. 27.5 (2006): 30
"Queer Burroughs and Burroughs Live." Electronic Book Review. May 2004.
"Review of Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader." Samizdat. 10 (2004): 15-16.
"'Disability Studies Grows Up, And Apart' on Lennard J. Davis, Bending Over Backwards: Disability, Dismodernism, and Other Difficult Positions." The Minnesota Review. 58-60 (2003):
317-322.
"Scatalogical Imperatives" (Review of History of Shit). Criticism. 44.4 (2003):407-412.
"Review of The Novel: Language and Literature From Cervantes to Calvino." Studies in the Novel. 32.4 (2000): 519-521.
"Watership Dim!: A Review of Ted Kaczynski’s ‘Ship of Fools’" (as Henri d’Mescan). to the QUICK 2 (2000): 76-80.
"Send in the Clowns, They’re Already Here" (Review of The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets). Iowa Review 29.3 (1999): 158-162.
"Review of Reading Lessons: The Debate over Literacy." Radical Teacher 56 (1999): 40-41.
Creative Publications
“Cover Letter.” Clackamas Literary Review. Forthcoming. 2007.
“dream caused by the contusion of your brain around a pixilation, one second before cluster
bombing.” 5_Trope. Forthcoming.
“First paragraph of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way, (Translated from the French by C. K. Scott
Moncrieff), Alpabetized.” The Iowa Review. Forthcoming.
“Fex at the Carnival” (with Carlos Hernandez). The Journal of Experimental Fiction. Forthcoming.
“As Fex Falls, so Falls Fex” (with Carlos Hernandez). The Journal of Experimental Fiction.
Forthcoming.
“Monument to Indian Native First Nations American Tenacity in the Stacked Face of Continual
Misrepresentation” (w/Tom Denlinger and Donald C. Meyer). Premiered at “Third Mind—An Evening of Rock and Roll, Hip Hop, and Film Inspired by the Cut-Up technique of William Burroughs.” April 14, 2007. Forthcoming from Mad Hatters’ Review. From The Memorials
to Future Catastrophes Distant Early Warning System series.. Also on YouTube.com.
“Trans-Continental Pacific Air.” (w/Donald C. Meyer) Mad Hatters’ Review. From The Memorials
to Future Catastrophes Distant Early Warning System series. 7 (2007).
“Letter from Chicago: Windy City Olympiad.” Econoculture.com. 13 April. 2007.
“Sonnet 55” (as Henry Mescaline). Spread. Issue XV (Hit) 2007.
“I'm thankful for blanks…” in “Opium Thanksgiving 2006.” Opiummagazine.com. Nov. 22, 2006
“Fex at the Bowie County Fair’s 143 Annual Steak-A-Rama” (w/ Carlos Hernandez). Other Voices
19.45 (2006):
“Sequencing E F X” (with Carlos Hernandez). Fiction International. 39 (2006): 75-80.
“A Fex in the Celestial Order of Things.” (with Carlos Hernandez). Pennsylvania English. 25.1-2
(2006): 135-141.
“Eternal Returns: Lance Olsen and the (Un)Steady State of Contemporary Writing.” EconoCulture.com. May 30, 2006.
“NC-17 Flesh on a TV-14 Frame” (w/ Donald C. Meyer). Mad Hatters’ Review. 5 (2006).
“S=The=I/=Snytax=/Y=of=N=Resoan=T=Pruocdes=A=Mnotsres=X” (w/ Donald C. Meyer). Mad Hatters’ Review.5 (2006).
“Superlatives” (w/ Donald C. Meyer). Mad Hatters’ Review. 5 (2006).
“Open Letter to J.D. Salinger on the Occasion of his Literary Decomposition” (w/ Donald C. Meyer). Mad Hatters’ Review. 5 (2006).
“Sonnet 55” (as Henry Mescaline) (w/ Donald C. Meyer). Mad Hatters’ Review. 5 (2006).
“Preview on the Edge of the Plasma Lagoon” (w/ Tom Denlinger and Donald C. Meyer). Mad Hatters’ Review. 5 (2006).
“Some Kind’a Joke.” Opium Magazine.Print 2. 2 (2006): 63.
“Sonnet 29” (as Henry Mescaline). LitVision. 12 (2005).
“Sonnet 55” (as Henry Mescaline). Sleepingfish. 0.75 (2005): 15.
“Sonnet 118.” (as Henry Mescaline) Sleepingfish. 0.75 (2005): 16.
“Cease and Desist.” (as Henry Mescaline) Sleepingfish. 0.75 (2005): 17-19.
“Cinema Nervosa.” Happy. 19 (2005): 84-89
“How not to Sublet, or, Post-American Lease Negotiations.” Near South. 5 (2005): 22-24.
“The Great Bookworm Implosion.” (w/ Tom Denlinger) Notre Dame Review. 19 (2005).
“Monument…” (w/ Tom Denlinger) Notre Dame Review. 19 (2005): 43-44.
“Brainwaves Keep Falling on my Head.” (w/ Tom Denlinger) Notre Dame Review. 19 (2005): 42.
“Viral Message #1045.” Match Book. 1 (2004): 17-18.
“Post Colonialism.” BlazeVOX 2K4. Fall 2004.
“Sputnik” BlazeVOX 2K4. Fall 2004.
“Report from the commission to the committee.” BlazeVOX 2K4. Fall 2004.
“Grease Trap.” Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics. 2 (2004): 160.
“Marginalia: 1939.” Fiction International. 36 (2004): 108-109.
“What Are You Doing in Front of Decent People?” Slope. 20 (2004).
“The Unholy Grammar of Unabashed Sentence Words.” English Studies Forum. 1.2 (2004).
“Summary Execution.” Absinthe Literary Review. (with Henri d’Mescan) Reprint in “The Best of ALR, 1999-2004.” Archived in the Stanford University-based LOCKSS system. Summer
2004.
"The Dearth of the Author." Spread. Issue XI (Score) 2004.
"Post-America: Last Drop." In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself. Cary, NC: MWE Enterprises, 130-131.
"To Complete the Candidate's Dossier." Defenestration. 7.1 (2004)
"Eight or Several Footnotes, from Multifest A Henri d'Mescan Reader," (with/as Henri
d'Mescan). Pindeldyboz.com. November 2004.
"The Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time." 3AM Magazine. October 7, 2003.
"Fex on Trial before the Inter-textual War Crimes Court Muse Apprentice Guild (with Carlos Hernandez). Muse Apprentice Guild (M.A.G.) First Anniversary Issue. Fall 2003.
"Summary Execution" (with/as Henri d'Mescan). Absinthe Literary Review. Summer 2003.
"Footnote 33." Unpleasant Event Schedule. Summer 2003.
"False Font." Clackamas Literary Review. 8.1 (2003): 81-92.
"Bibliographic Abstract(s/ions)" (with/as Henri d'Mescan). 3rd Bed. 8. (2003): 103-113.
"French Kismet." Spread. Issue IV (Hash) 2003.
"Black is the Color/None is the Number." The Diagram. 2.6. 2003.
"Set Sun Set." Magazine Minima. 0.4 2003.
"Isn't it Reli(e)ving?" Sudden Stories: A Mammoth Anthology of Minuscule Fiction. DuBois, Pennsylvania: Mammoth. 93.
"Fex’s Contractual Obligations and Fearful Symmetry" (with Carlos Hernandez). BathHouse 1. Dec. 13, 2002.
"Tupeat, Frompeet, Repeit." Gargoyle 45 (2002): 112-117.
"Our Day with Jerry Springer." The Iowa Review Web (2002). Nov. 1, 2002.
"Fex Falls" (with Carlos Hernandez). Word Riot. October 2002.
"The Circle, or Appendisectomy: From an (Aging) Book About a Writer You've Never Heard of--A.K.A. Henri d’Mescan." 3AM Magazine. June 19, 2002.
"The Standard Old World Model." Happy 17 (2002): 97-101.
"Always Crashing in the Same AlwaysCrashingCar." Exquisite Corpse 11 (2002).
"L’Empire: Une bibliographie annoteé." Trans. Cynthia Hahn. Collage (2002): 20
"Empire: An Annotated Bibliography." Collage (2002): 21
"On the Origin of the Specious." Neotrope: Progressive Fiction 2 (2002). 93-96
"Sound and (Re:)Vision." Neotrope: Progressive Fiction 2 (2002). 97-115.
"RADICAL Birth of a DISINTEGRATION Notion." Esoteric-Sensationalism. An experimental, electronic composition Web site. February 19, 2002.
"The Letter-Writing K.ampaign." Entertext: An interactive interdisciplinary e-journal for cultural and historical studies and creative work. 1.3 (2002).
"Fex During the Occupation of France." (with Carlos Hernandez) Happy 16 (2001): 72-79.
"Post-America: Last Drop." RealPoetik: A Little Magazine of the Internet. November 4, 2001.
"The Breakers-Newport, RI." (as Henri d’Mescan) to the QUICK 4 (2001): 73-74.
"Forecast Calls For More of the Same." Quarter After Eight. vol. 7 (2001): 116-134
"Rinse, Repeat, Sanitize and a Propaedeutic Sight Gag." (With Matt Kirkpatrick) The Little Magazine. Literary journal of SUNY Albany 22.2 (2000).
"So Tell Us About Your Dissertation?" The Café Irreal: International Imagination 4 (2000).
"Loose Lips Sink Ships." The Café Irreal: International Imagination 4 (2000).
"Kafka Redux or Please take your Card and Receipt." Re-Visions (2000): 47-49.
"The Last Time We left our Hieroglyph" Re-Visions (2000): 49-50.
"Reform Party Redux." to the QUICK 2 (2000): 81.
Other Talks
“Alternative book publicity techniques, Other Voices/UIC.” Invited Panelist. Barbara's Bookstore at
UIC. March 20, 2007.
Keynote speaker. Tongue and Ink conference. Fiction reading and workshop: “Pla(y)giarism
and You: A ‘How To’ Sampler.” Illinois Wesleyan. February 23-24, 2007.
“The Paste Pot and Inlaying Knife: Extra-illustration and Plagiary in the Burroughs Legacy.”
Invited Presenter/Plenary Speaker. “Quién Es?: William S. Burroughs Revisited.” Five-day
symposium on William S. Burroughs at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
(Mexico City), September 4-8, 2006.
“Tastes Like Chicken: A Multifesto for Experimentalism in 13 Parts.” Presenter and
Panel Organizer. “The Next Big ‘Small’ thing; or Why do Some People Hate Experimental Fiction?” Association of Writing Programs Conference. Austin, Texas, March 8-11, 2006.
“Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Lawsuit: DJ Danger Mouse, William S. Burroughs, and the Politics of ‘Grey Tuesday.’” Presenter. Collage as Cultural Practice Conference. University of Iowa. March 24-26, 2005.
“If I hold a conch shell to my ear, do I owe a royalty to Neptune? Scribbles on the a-history of pla(y)giarism.” Presenter and Panel Organizer: “Anyone Can Write Anything Nowdays: Pla(y)giarism, Theft, and The Pleasures of the Text,” Association of Writing Programs Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, March 30-April 2, 2005.
"Encouraging Creativity in Virtual Space." Invited Presenter, Voyage to Ithaka: Technology, Collaboration, and the Future of Liberal Arts Colleges, Lisle, IL, November 7-9, 2004.
"Modernist Antirationalism," Seminar Leader, Modernist Studies Association Conference 6, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 21-24, 2004.
"Technology and Pedagogy: Beyond the Grave: The Exquisite Corpse Project," Presenter, New Media Consortium Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 16-19, 2004.
"Pulling Your Leg or Pulling the Plug: Writers' Uneasy Relationships with the Media in the Post-Pop Era", Invited Roundtable Participant, Association of Writing Programs, Chicago, IL, March 24-27, 2004.
"Experimental Prose and the Contradiction of 'Aesthetic' Truth." Guest Lecturer. DePaul
University, Lake Forest, IL, Nov. 7, 2003
"We’re all on the same BANG: Junk Globalization and the Image of Resistance." Invited Speaker, International Conference on New Directions in The Humanities, Rhodes, Greece, July 2-5, 2003.
"Scrambles is the American Way: Fiction and Politics." Presenter, Association of Writing Programs Annual Conference, Baltimore, MA, Feb. 26-March 1, 2003.
"Mummified Mushroom Clouds and Angry Ah Pook: Notes on Burroughs, Modernism, and the ‘Extreme.’" Seminar Participant (Modernism and the Extreme), New Modernisms IV Conference (Modernist Studies Association), University of Wisconsin, Madison, Oct. 31-Nov. 2, 2002.
"Set Sun Set" and "Grease Trap." "The Prose Poem," Panel Participant, Twelfth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, Cortland, NY, Oct. 28, 2002.
"Whither Film and Media Studies?" Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Workshop Participant, Carleton College, April 19-20, 2002.
"Time, Space, and the Anti-Classroom." Presenter, Association of Writing Programs Annual Conference, New Orleans, March 6-9, 2002.
"1951: Burroughsian Rhizomatics, or, The Year that Never Happens Again and Again." Presenter, Luminous Details Panel, New Modernisms III Conference (Modernist Studies Association), Rice University, Oct. 12-15, 2001.
"Triumph of the Film: Notes on Riefenstahl and Genet." Seminar Participant (Fascism and the Avant-Garde), New Modernisms II Conference (Modernist Studies Association), University of Pennsylvania, Oct. 12-15, 2000.
Special Session on William S. Burroughs. Panel Organizer and Chair, Tenth Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature Conference, Cortland, NY, Oct. 29, 2000.
"Small Press and Magazine Editorial Round Table." Panel Participant, Fourth Annual Writing By Degrees Conference, Binghamton, NY, April 14-16, 2000.
"See My Last Words Everywhere: Filmic Fiction in the Cells of William S. Burroughs." Presenter, Poetics of Space Conference, Binghamton University, March 10-11, 2000.
"The Disappearance of the ‘Invisible Man’: Narrative Politics in the Juneteenth Manuscript." Presenter, Ninth Central New York Conference on Language and Literature Conference, Cortland, NY. Oct. 3-5, 1999.
"The Place of Dead Words: Identity Conflation in Burroughs’s The Western Lands." Presenter, Identity, Ethnicity, Origins Conference, Binghamton University, March 5-6, 1999.
"‘Oriental’-ism and the Empire of Discourse: ‘Marco Polo’-Call and Response." Panel Organizer and Presenter, Group for Early Modern Studies Conference, Newport, RI. November 21, 1998.
"Hot Lips and Rhetoric: Inserting the Burroughsian Dildo into the New Frontier." Presenter, Academic Apocalypse Now: Envisioning the Year 2000 Conference, University of Virginia, March 28, 1998.
Popular Work
Featured Reader, John Fowles Center for Creative Writing, Chapman University, Orange, CA,
2008.
“The Beats & Burroughs.” Invited Speaker. Sedgebrook Retirement Home. Lincolnshire, IL. April 9, 2007.
“Copyright and Authorial Identity.” Invited Speaker. Highland Park Public Library Lecture Series.
Highland Park, IL. March 28, 2007.
Featured Reader, MMLA Prose Panel, Chicago, IL, November 9-12, 2006.
Featured Reader, Powell’s North bookstore, Chicago, IL, October 5, 2006.
Featured Reader, “Quién Es?: William S. Burroughs Revisited” Five-day symposium on William
S. Burroughs at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) (Mexico City), Café
Cueste, September 8, 2006.
Featured Reader, Series A, Hyde Park Arts Center, August 22, 2006.
Featured Reader, Myopic Books Reading Series, June 4, 2006.
Featured Reader, The Spareroom, Chicago, April 8, 2006.
Featured Reader, American Book Review, Illinois State University, December 2, 2005.
Featured Reader, Happy Reads, Medicine Show Theater, New York, NY, May 10, 2005.
Featured Reader, Lake Forest Learning and Teaching Workshop, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, June 26, 2004.
"Memorials to Future Catastrophes" (Multimedia performance with Tom Denlinger), &NOW Festival, Notre Dame University, April 5-6, 2004.
"Memorials to Future Catastrophes" (Art Installation with Tom Denlinger), Potion
magazine kick-off event, Gallery 312, Chicago IL, March 26, 2004.
"Tupeat, Frompeet, Repeit" and "Black is the Color/None is the Number." Featured Reader, 2004 20th Century Literature Conference, Louisville, KY, February 27-March 1, 2004.
"Some Kinda Joke and Other Texts." Featured Reader, Happy Reading, Gallery 312, Chicago, IL, October 15, 2003.
"Isn't It Reli(e)ving." Featured Reader, Benefit for Sudden Stories: A MAMMOTH Book of Miniscule Fiction. Ear Inn, New York City, October 11, 2002.
"Fry the Beloved Country and Other Texts." Invited Reader, Lake Forest Learning and Teaching Workshop, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, June 24, 2003.
Featured Reader, Artists on the Bluff, Lake Bluff, IL, June 21, 2003.
"Chicago Radio Works." Invited Critic for radio, Chicago Arts Program, Radio Program, WXMX 88.9 FM, May 1, 2003.
"Choice Chunks and Prime Cuts: A Prose Reading (that Eats Like a Meal)." Invited Reader, Shimer College, Waukegan, IL, April 25, 2003.
"Dead City Burroughs." Invited Lecturer for radio, Chicago Arts Program, Radio Program, WXMX 88.9 FM, Nov. 21, 2002.
"J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Invited Lecturer, No-Name Book Club,Lake Forest, Nov. 21, 2002.
"Always Crashing in the Same AlwaysCrashingCar." Featured Prose Reader in the Creative Writing Section, Midwest Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, MN, Nov. 9, 2002.
"Fex at the Bowie Country 143rd Annual Steak-a-Rama." Featured Reader, An Evening of Words and Music, Shimer ArtWorks Gallery, Waukegan, IL, April 13, 2002.
"Not Your Father’s Corpse." Selections of literary and photographic texts constructed with Tom Denlinger. Albright Room Gallery. Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, Il. January 22- February 10, 2002.
Three Excerpts from Multifesto. Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL, November 20, 2001.
"Fex and the Occupation of France." Exit Art gallery, NYC, September 25, 2001.
"On the Origin of the Specious." Tompkins Cortland Community College Reader’s Corner, Invited Lecture series, April 21, 2000.
"Cinema Nervosa." The Fourth Annual Writing By Degrees Conference, Binghamton, NY, April 15, 2000.
"Last Night We Slept on A Broken Bed." Tenth Annual Share Our Strength Writer’s Harvest, Binghamton, NY, Nov. 9, 1999.
"We Travel the Spaceways!" Tompkins Cortland Community College Reader’s Corner, Invited Lecture series, Oct. 22, 1999.
Awards and Honors
Illinois Arts Council award to fund Lake Forest Literary Festival, co-project director, Lake Forest College ($850), 2006-7
William L. Dunn Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarly Promise, Lake Forest College, 2006.
Learning and Teaching Center Grants for Innovation, “Re-Writing Chicago” course, Lake Forest College.
2006 Summer Research Award (Grant-in-Aid), Lake Forest College
“How to Start a Novel,” Ragdale Foundation Seminar, Invited Fiction Instructor; Lake Forest, IL, Sept. 12 –Oct. 17, 2005.
Illinois Arts Council award to fund Lake Forest Literary Festival, co-project director, Lake Forest College ($4590), 2005-6
2005 Summer Research Award (Grant-in-Aid), Lake Forest College
Grant from the Midwest Instructional Technology Center, “Exquisite Corpse” project with Monmouth, Colorado, Kenyon, Oberlin Colleges and DePauw University, lead grant writer, ($29,761), 2005
Illinois Arts Council award to fund Lake Forest Literary Festival, co-project director, Lake Forest College ($4300), 2004-5
“Express Lane” grant from the Midwest Instructional Technology Center, grant writer, ($5000) Summer 2004
2004 Summer Research Award (Grant-in-Aid), Lake Forest College
Faculty Asia-Studies Development Grant, Lake Forest College
Hotchkiss Fellowship, competitive one-semester leave for spring 2005, Lake Forest College.
Learning and Teaching Center Grants for Innovation, "Psychogeography Lab," Lake Forest College
2003 Summer Research Award (Grant-in-Aid), Lake Forest College
2003 Summer Research Expense Award, Lake Forest College
Grant from the Midwest Instructional Teaching Center, "Exquisite Corpse" project with Monmouth College and Colorado College, lead grant writer, ($20,032)
"Express Lane" grant from the Midwest Instructional Teaching Center, grant writer, ($2650)
"Revealing the Inner Writer: Short-Story Workshop," Ragdale Foundation Seminar, Invited Fiction Instructor; Lake Forest, IL, July 25-August 29, 2002.
Lake Forest College/Victory Gardens Theater Alliance, grant-writing committee member, ($15,000)
2002 Summer Research Award (Grant-in-Aid), Lake Forest College
2002 Summer Research Expense Award, Lake Forest College
Nominee, 2001 Pushcart Prize for "Fex During the Occupation of France" in Happy #16
Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching; Binghamton University, 2000.
Dissertation Year Fellowship; Binghamton University, 2000-2001.
Studio Session at the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts; Ithaca, NY, Spring 2000.
College Teaching Center Incentive Award for Special Teaching Projects; Tompkins Cortland Community College, Spring 2000.
On-Line Links
Editorial projects
Lake Forest Literary Festival / &NOW: A Festival of Innovative Writing and Art
On the Run Lecture Series (Co-coordinator)
Exquisite Corpse (collaborative project with Colorado College and Monmouth College)
to the QUICK (Co-Founder and Editor)