I wrote a little “newsletter” for UCLA concerning M/ELT related events and announcements. Thought I’d share it here:
1. Jeremy Schmidt recently won one of Boston Review’s “Discovery Poetry Prizes” for which he will receive a cash prize, publication in the Boston Review and a reading at the 92nd Street Y in New York.
http://bostonreview.net/blog/daniel-evans-pritchard-2014-discovery-poetry-prize-winners-announced
2. Tara Fickle, Jacquelyn Ardam and myself have essays in the new “Poetry Games” issue of Comparative Literature Review, a UCLA hat trick!
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/comparative_literature_studies/toc/cls.51.1.html
3. As some of you know, Tara Fickle was recently hired by the University of Oregon to teach Asian American Literature and Digital Humanities but even more exciting (to me, because I just discovered it) she has a really nice website! We’ll certainly miss her!
http://ficklet.wordpress.com/
4. I’m honored to have been asked to give the keynote lecture for the UCSB Conference “Composition: Making Meaning through Design.” May 15-16 (my talk is at 1:45 on the 15th). It’s hosted by their History of Books & Material Texts group. My talk is titled “Establishing and Dispelling Ground in Print and Screen Design” and I’m eager to find out what I mean by that. I’ve attached the draft brochure.
http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/meaning-through-design/
5. I’ll also be giving a talk on my research and art at the Digital Humanities Working Group on May 28th at 4pm in the YRL Research Commons. The talk will center around my book project “Comedies of Separation” which outlines a theory of text/algorithm interaction as it relates to literature, politics and philosophy.
http://www.digitalhumanities.ucla.edu/about/news.html
6. In addition to UCLA students Lisa Mendelman and Renee Hudson, M/ELT has two outside scholars coming in to talk about their research, Arne DeBoever of CalArts regarding “Creatures of Panic: On Robert Harris’ The Fear Index,” and Jessica Lewis Luck of CSUSB on “Experimental Sound Poetry and the Catchiness of the Avant-Garde.” Here’s the detailed schedule. Please write to me if you’d like to receive the papers.
http://www.arras.net/wordpress-melt/category/melt-schedule/
7. And as a reminder, M/ELT is sponsoring a reading by poet and Pulitzer-winner Rae Armantrout on May 12th, 4pm, in Humanities 193. The reading will be followed by a Q&A.
http://www.arras.net/fscIII/?p=2407
8. Not to get all me on you again, but for those of you interested in my research (since I’m sure it’s a bit mystifying) a few other essays of mine have been published recently and are available online:
“Against Desire: Excess, Disgust and the Sign in Electronic Literature”
http://www.electronicbookreview.com/thread/electropoetics/disgust
“Conceptual Writing: The L.A. Brand”
http://poeticresearch.tumblr.com/post/75590878009/area-sneaks-sheets-1-2014-download-purchase
9. Other M/ELT-related student publications include Jacquelyn Ardam’s essay “”Too Old for Children and Too Young for Grown-ups”: Gertrude Stein’s To Do: A Book of Alphabets and Birthdays” in Modernism/modernity (this was the first essay we workshopped, actually):
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/summary/v018/18.3.ardam.html
Jay Jin’s “The Physics of Voice in Joyce’s ‘Ithaca’” appeared last year in the Joyce Studies Annual:
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/joyce_studies_annual/summary/v2013/2013.jin.html
Tara Fickle’s essay on Amy Tan is forthcoming in MELUS (39.3 Fall 2014). This obviously isn’t online yet but here’s an abstract:
http://ficklet.wordpress.com/publications/
10. And lastly, Jacquelyn Ardam, Sarah Nance, Jay Jin and Jeremy Schmidt will be partaking in a roundtable at this year’s Southland Conference called “Reading Matters” at UCLA on May 29-30. This isn’t a M/ELT panel but I think “melt’ and “material” will appear in the title once they choose one.
http://www.english.ucla.edu/news-a-events-/southland