Lisa Samuels – Brief CV
Education
Ph.D. in English, University of Virginia , 1997
M.A. in English, University of Virginia , 1991
B.A. in English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , 1984
Academic employment
The University of Auckland, Department of English, Associate Professor, 2006-
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of English, Associate Professor, 2003-2006, Assistant Professor, 2000-2003
Eastern Michigan University, Department of English, Assistant Professor 1999-2000
University of Louisville, Department of English, Visiting Assistant Professor 1998-99
University of Alabama, Department of English, Visiting Assistant Professor 1997-98
Books and editions
The Invention of Culture (poetry), Shearsman Books 2008.
Increment /a family romance (poetry chapbook), Bronze Skull Press 2006.
Paradise for Everyone (poetry), Shearsman Books 2005.
War Holdings (poetry chapbook), Pavement Saw Press 2003.
Editor. Anarchism Is Not Enough. By Laura Riding. An annotated critical edition. University of California Press 2001.
The Seven Voices (poetry), O Books 1998.
Guest Editor. Special Issue, “Poetry and the Problem of Beauty.” Modern Language Studies 27.2 (1997).
LETTERS (poetry chapbook), Meow Press 1996.
Selected recent print poems
“Occident,” “Everyone agrees and you have culture.” Aufgabe 7 (2007)
“The five enslavements (a novel in four parts.)” /nor 2 (2007)
“Open your eyes to the terrible sculpture of bedclothes.” New American Writing 25 (2007)
“Intimacy parabola,” “Box kite (romantic poetry),” “Choose me,” “Maze: a play in the round.” Hambone 18 (2006)
“Anacoluthon.” Denver Quarterly 40.4 (2006)
“Upwind.” Court Green 2 (2005)
“Something for you,” “Latitude,” “The end of distance.” Shearsman 63 & 64 (2005)
“After math,” “‘That which is not remembered stays fresh.’” Call: Review 2 (2004)
“The doctrine of equivalents,” “Scout.” New American Writing 22 (2004)
“Historical girl,” “The garden of love.” Hotel Amerika 3.1 (2004)
“War is a way to find out what you want,” “Tiger Lily listens to the bombs,” “The host of questions.” Crayon 4 (2004)
Selected essays and interviews
“Leslie Scalapino and the Implicated Flaneur.” American Women Poets in the 21st Century. Vol. 2. Edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell. Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming 2008.
“Why I Hate Realism.” Aufgabe 7, 2007.
Author interview for Poets on Place. Edited by W. T. Pfefferle. Utah State University Press, 2005.
“Laura (Riding) Jackson e o absoluto poético” (“Laura (Riding) Jackson and the poetic absolute”). Afterword for Mindscapes: Poemas de Laura Riding. Edited and translated by Rodrigo Garcia Lopes. Brazil: Editora Iluminuras, 2004.
Author interview for WUWM 89.7 FM, Milwaukee , November 2003.
“Relinquish Intellectual Property.” New Literary History 33.2, 2002.
“The T-function in Laura Riding’s Though Gently.” Delmar 8, 2002.
“And yet events accumulate, something happens.” Leslie Scalapino interview. The Cream City Review 26.2, 2002.
“If meaning, shaped reading, and Leslie Scalapino’s way.” Qui Parle 12.2, 2001.
“Poetics and community in Lyn Hejinian’s ‘Reason.’” Verdure 2, 2000.
“Deformance and Interpretation.” With Jerome McGann. New Literary History 30.1 (1999). Reprinted in Radiant Textuality by Jerome McGann (Palgrave, 2001) and in Poetry and Pedagogy, edited by Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr (Palgrave, 2006).
Selected recent talks and poetry readings
“Comparative poetics in some American and New Zealand poetries,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Puebla, April 2007
Poetry reading, St. Paul’s Street Gallery, Auckland, April 2007
“Reading the gap in experimental poetry,” for Panel on Deformative/Reformative Critical Practices,” Modern Language Association Convention, Philadelphia, December 2006
Poetry reading, Cambridge Experimental Women's Poetry Festival, Cambridge, England, October 2006
“Laura Riding and Poetic Satire,” Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, Tasmania, July 2006
Poetry reading, University of Georgia, December 2005
“Reading for quantum mimesis: two types of imitation, and Gertrude Stein,” Modern Studies Association, Chicago, November 2005
Poetry reading, Prairie Lights, Iowa City, September 2005
Poetry reading, Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry, England, April 2005
“Translation and representation in Laura Riding,” Poet’s House, New York, November 2004