AMY SARA CARROLL
Department of American Culture and Department of English Language and Literature,
The University of Michigan, 505 South State Street, 3700 Haven Hall, Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-1045
[email protected]
EDUCATION
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Duke University
Ph.D. Literature (2004)
Certificates in Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Women’s Studies
Dissertation: “The Allegorical Performative: Mexican and U.S. Transnational Tactics for Representing and
Reinventing the ‘New World Border’” (Directors Fredric Jameson and Antonio Viego; committee members
Alberto Moreiras, Janice Radway, and Irene Silverblatt)
M.A. Literature (2000)
Cornell University
M.F.A. English, Creative Writing (Poetry) (1995)
Thesis: “Secession” (Directors Archie Ammons and Kenneth McClane)
University of Chicago
M.A. Anthropology (1993)
Masters Paper: “Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas: Contemporary Intersections of Race, Sexuality, and
Gender” (Directors Jean Comaroff and Terence Turner)
Princeton University
A.B. Anthropology and Creative Writing (Poetry), magna cum laude (1990)
Senior Thesis: "Cartography: Merging Anthropology and Poetry" (Directors Jorge Klor de Alva and James
Richardson)
Junior Paper: "Legacies and Transformations of the Myth of Quetzalcoatl" (Director John Kelly)
Richard King High School, Corpus Christi, Texas
Valedictorian (from a class of 500) (1986)
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
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Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico City), Summer 2000
Curso Avanzado de Performance
Colegio de México (Mexico City), Summer 1999
Programa Interdisciplinario de Estudios de la Mujer
Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico), Summer 1989
EMPLOYMENT
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Fall 2006-present
Assistant Professor of American Culture and English Language and Literature
Core faculty, Program in Latina/o Studies
Affiliate, Digital Studies
Affiliate, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Affiliate, Center for World Performance Studies
Duke University, Spring 2005
Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department
Cornell University, Fall 1995-Spring 1997
Lecturer in Creative Writing, English Department
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Latin/x American twentieth and twenty-first century cultural production (art, literature, cinema, and performance),
critical theory, American and border studies, postcolonial and ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies,
digital cultures and e-literatures, creative writing (poetry and creative nonfiction)
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PUBLICATIONS
Critical Monographs
“Global Mexico’s Coproduction,” manuscript in preparation.
REMEX: Toward an Art History of the NAFTA Era. Austin: The University of Texas Press (Mellon Latin American
and Caribbean Arts and Cultures Publishing Initiative), in production, forthcoming 2017.
Spanish translation
REMEX: Hacia una Historia del Arte de la era del TLC. México: Siglo XXI Editores (Serie Zona Crítica),
manuscript in preparation.
Poetry Collections
FANNIE + FREDDIE/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography (with a foreword by Claudia Rankine). New
York: Fordham University Press, 2013 (distributed by Fordham and Oxford University Presses). (104
pages) Winner of Fordham University’s 2011-2012 Poets Out Loud Prize, selected by Claudia
Rankine
SECESSION (a full color collection of poems and prints with an introduction by Holly Hughes, two critical
essays by Laura Gutiérrez and Evie Shockley, and two interviews with Amy Sara Carroll by Heidi Bean
and Carlos Amador and Rachel Price). San Diego: Hyperbole Books (an imprint of San Diego State
University Press), 2012. (194 pages) Winner of the 2013 Louis I. Bredvold Prize for Scholarly or
Creative Publication, University of Michigan, Department of English Language and Literature;
Winner of the 2013 Golden Crown Literary Society (GCLS) Poetry Award
Collaboratively Authored Hybrid Works (Poetry/Code/Creative nonfiction)
“CODESWITCH: The Transborder Immigrant Tool,” Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, coedited by
Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez, manuscript in preparation.
[({
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license), Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, computer code by Brett Stalbaum and Jason
Najarro, poetry and statement by Amy Sara Carroll, Spanish translations by Francheska AlersRojas, Julieta Aranda, Elizabeth Barrios, Iván Chaar-López, Natasha Hakimi Zapata, Orquídea Morales,
Omar Pimienta and Mary Renda. Ann Arbor: The Office of Net Assessment (The University of Michigan
Digital Environments Cluster Publishing Series, coordinators Tung-Hui Hu and John Cheney-Lippold),
2014. (88 pages)
Digital redistribution
• CTHEORY and CTheory Books BLUESHIFT series, edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. University of
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 2015.
http://ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=744
http://pactac.net/ctheory-books/blueshift-series/the-transborder-immigrant-toolla-herramientatransfronteriza-para-inmigrantes/
• Electronic Literature Collection 3, edited by ELC3 Collective Stephanie Boluk, Leonardo Flores, Jacob
Garbe, and Anastasia Salter, 2016.
http://collection.eliterature.org/3/
• CONACULTA E-Literatura/Centro de Cultura Digital Editorial and Revista 404 (Mexico City, Mexico),
with interview with Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez by Lorena Gómez Mostajo, Mónica Nepote, and
Ximena Atristain, “La herramienta transfronteriza para inmigrantes,” 2016.
http://editorial.centroculturadigital.mx/es/publicacion/de-la-ecopoetica-y-los-medios-dislocativos.html
http://editorial.centroculturadigital.mx/es/descargable/la-herramienta-transfronteriza-para-inmigrantes.html
• Truthdig, Arts & Culture section, complete set of poems published serially, 2016.
http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/transborder_immigrant_tool_series_poetry_survival_us_mexico
_border_20160808
• HemiPress (Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Publications, New York University, New
York, NY), multilingual TOME edition (Gestures series) with added Nahuatl translations of poetry by
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Martín Vega Olmedo and Eduardo de la Cruz Cruz, Mixe translations of poetry by Luis Balbuena Gómez,
and essays by Ashley Ferro-Murray and Sergio Delgado, 2017.
http://tbt.tome.press
Refereed Essays
“National Matrimony: Jesusa Rodríguez and Liliana Felipe’s Molcajete Cabaret,” Journal of Narrative Theory
(JNT) (“Women’s Experimental Forms” special issue, edited by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein), forthcoming
2018
“Mexican Orientalism? Sergio De La Torre’s Nuevo Dragon City,” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural
Production of the Luso-Hispanic World (“Mexican Orientalisms” special issue, edited by Ignacio Corona),
forthcoming 2017
“If School Is a Factory, Where is Ana Mendieta?” The Volta, “Evening Will Come: A Monthly Journal of Poetics”
(“Poetry and Power” special forum, edited by Evie Shockley), forthcoming 2017
“[The Fiction of a Doorframe] Further Notes on Undocumentation,” Media Fields Journal 12 (“Media and
Migration” special issue, edited by Bianka Ballina and Carlos Jiménez), January 2017.
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/707453/27416587/1484690251200/CarrollPDF.pdf?token=peMMzNrzPx4pbz%2BDyPxumG0kgug%3D
“From Papapapá to Sleep Dealer: Alex Rivera’s Undocumentary Poetics,” Social Identities: Journal for the
Study of Race, Nation and Culture 19.3-4 (“Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America: Concepts,
Histories, Experiences” special issue, edited by Kristi Wilson and Antonio Traverso), May-July 2013: 485500. Reprint: Wilson, Kristi and Antonio Traverso, eds. Political Documentary Cinema in Latin America.
New York and London: Routledge, 2014. 211-226.
“Global Mexico’s Coproduction: Babel, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Children of Men,” The Journal of Transnational
American Studies 4.2 (2012) (“Revolutions and Heterotopias” special issue, edited by Micol Seigel, Lessie
Jo Frazier, and David Sartorius).
http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4bp4x1sg
“EDT 1.0, EDT 2.0, EDT 3.0” and selection of poetry from the Transborder Immigrant Tool, Errata# Revista de
Artes Visuales 3 (“Cultura Digital y Creación/Digital Culture and Creation” special issue), December 2010:
40-64.
http://issuu.com/revistaerrata/docs/errata_3_cultura_digital_creaci_n
“Muerte sin fin: Teresa Margolles’s Gendered States of Exception,” The Drama Review (TDR) 54.2 (T206),
Summer 2010: 103–125.
“‘Accidental Allegories’ Meet ‘The Performative Documentary’: Boystown, Señorita Extraviada, and the BorderBrothel→Maquiladora Paradigm,” SIGNS: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 31.2, Winter 2006:
357-396.
“A Critical Regionalism: The Allegorical Performative in Madre por un día and the Rodríguez/Felipe Wedding,” emisférica 2.2 (“Sexualities and Politics in the Americas” special issue, edited by Antonio Prieto
Stambaugh), November 2005.
http://hemi.nyu.edu/journal/2_2/carroll.html
“Incumbent upon Recombinant Hope: EDT’s Strike a Site, Strike a Pose,” The Drama Review (TDR) 47.2 (T178),
Summer 2003: 145-150.
Essays in Edited Volumes
“Lesbianism-Poetry//Poetry-Lesbianism,” The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature, edited by Jodie Medd.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 188-203.
“Codeswitch: The Transborder Immigrant Tool” and selection of poetry from the project (with translations by
Yanoula Athanassakis [Greek], Lili Hsieh and Zona Yi-Ping Tsou [Mandarin Chinese], and Tatiana
Sizonenko [Russian]), Somatic Engagement, edited by Petra Kuppers. San Francisco: Chain Links, 2011.
19-35.
“La lateralización de la historia, Maquilapolis y el efecto de los años 2000 y 2001,” Representación y fronteras:
el performance en los límites del género, edited by Hortensia Moreno and Stephany Slaughter. México:
UNAM/PUEG/UNIFEM, 2009. 187-201.
Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries
Review of Diana Taylor and Roselyn Costantino, eds., Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform and Mónica
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Mayer, Rosa chillante: mujeres y performance in México, Revista de Estudios Hispánicos, Winter 2005:
232-234.
“‘Nobody is so Rude/Not to Remember Gertrude’ (On the Work of Gertrude Stein),” Reader’s Guide to Lesbian and
Gay Studies, edited by Timothy Murphy, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000. 570-572.
Catalogue and Exhibition Essays
“Post-DF/Pre-CDMX? Periodizing Mexico’s 1990s,” catalogue essay for Aesthetic Experiments and Social
Agents: Renegade Art and Action in Mexico in the 1990s, curator Irene Tsatsos. Armory Center for the
Arts, Pasadena, CA (“Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA,” The Getty Foundation), forthcoming 2017
“El derecho de réplica: Performance—Lorena Wolffer—Performatividad,” exhibition essay for Lorena Wolffer /
Expuestas: registros públicos (July-October 2015), Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico, 2015.
23-27.
http://www.museoartemoderno.com/lorena-wolffer#/catlogo/
“Tina Modotti’s ‘Wonderfull’/Lo ‘Wonderfull’ de Tina Modotti,” commissioned post on Open Space in response to
the exhibit Photography in Mexico, the SFMOMA blog, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA, June 2012.
http://blog.sfmoma.org/2012/06/a-berlin-no-mexico-city-childhood/
“Todos Somos Echolalia: A Response to Becoming Transreal,” The Transreal: Aesthetics and Politics of Crossing
Realities, edited by Zach Blas and Wolfgang Schirmacher. New York/Dresden: Atropos Press, 2012. 8589.
“EDEMA y el/la ciudadano/a ‘posmoderno/a,’” video catalogue essay for the work of Ema Villanueva and Eduardo
Flores, June 2001.
“Los juegos representacionales de Luis Orozco,” catalogue essay for Homenaje a Joan Brossa (solo show of work
by Luis Orozco), L’Orfeó Catalá de Mèxic, A.C., October 2000.
“Contracciones,” program description for Contracciones, Centro Nacional de las Artes, México, D.F., September
2000.
“Performing Body-Politics: Belle Rogue Collection’s Runway Interventions,” catalogue essay for Belle Rogue
Collection, Neutral Ground Gallery, Regina, Canada, May 2000: 1-52.
http://www.neutralground.sk.ca/library/bellerogue_cat/BelleRogueCatalogue.pdf
Refereed Poetry
“re/D/act” and “BRRINNG!,” Affect and Audience in the Digital Age: Translational Poetics, curated by Amaranth
Borsuk. Los Angeles: Essay Press, Fall 2016
http://www.essaypress.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Borsuk_spreads_150.pdf
“Ze” and reprint of untitled poem, Aster(ix): A Journal of Literature, Art, Criticism (“What We Love” special
issue), December 2016
“MAY DAY || May 2nd” and “The Epic of American Civilization,” DATABLEED V, September 2016
http://www.datableedzine.com/#!amy-sara-carroll-may-day/draz0
http://www.datableedzine.com/#!amy-sara-carroll-epic/i4seh
“The Day José Died,” Pastelegram, November 2015
http://pastelegram.org/y/kegels-for-hegel/the-day-jose-died
“7 Lights after Paul Chan,” “Lumbar Puncture,” “Ganas de Canas,” “LICE,” “Still Life,” and “Escape//Hatch,”
POOL: a journal of poetry 14, August 2015
http://www.poolpoetry.com/poet-amy-sara-carroll.html
Two limited edition broadsides with untitled poems in English and Spanish (designer Jan Murray, University of
Mississippi Professor of Art and Associate Dean of Liberal Arts), distributed by the University of
Mississippi, June 2015
“Think Pink,” “‘I see Mexicans dead people,’” and “Beginnings,” Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion
7, October 2014
Nine poems from the Transborder Immigrant Tool’s “Desert Survival Series” and Statement by Carroll (in English
and Spanish) and interview with Carroll, Elizabeth Barrios and Mary Renda, Tiresias: Culture, Politics and
Critical Theory 6 (“Elements of Matter” special issue), October 2014, 2-26 and 133-151; Statement by
Carroll and select poems from the “Desert Survival Series” (in English and Spanish)
“Alegoría” and “Despierta,” The Capilano Review 3.23 (“Languages” special issue, edited by Sarah Dowling),
May 2014
“Lost Object,” “The Beets,” and “Speed Queen” (set of three image-poems distributed as limited edition postcards),
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Displaced Press, May 2011
“Built Environmental –isms,” two untitled poems from the Transborder Immigrant Tool (with translations by
Petra Kuppers [German] and Yanoula Athanassakis [Greek]), and two earth art poems from the Public
Poetry Project featured on Poets for Living Waters (a poetry action), June 2010
http://poetsgulfcoast,wordpress.com/2010/06/13/929/
“Pipe Dream” and “Family Portrait,” HOW2 (“Performance and Poetry” special issue), December 2009
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/vol_3_no_3/performance/index.html
“‘Lloro cuando se quema el arroz…’” and “The Beets,” Version, November 2009
http://version.org/
“What Is the Difference Between Globalization and Neoliberalism?,” “Corpus Christi Corrido,” and “Transition
(song of my cells),” vandal (“Borders and Walls” special issue, edited by Angie Cruz), September 2009;
Reprint: “What Is the Difference Between Globalization and Neoliberalism?,” Aster(ix): A Journal of
Literature, Art, Criticism, Fall 2013
http://asterixjournal.com/difference-globalization-neoliberalism-amy-sara-carroll/
“Arrested Development,” Jubilat 16, Summer 2009
“i” and “Process Note,” Rattle (“Tribute to Visual Poetry” special issue), Summer 2008
http://www.rattle.com/i-by-amy-sara-carroll/
“Transparent I” & “Transparent II” in “Anarcha-Anti-Archive” (website designed by Petra Kuppers and Jay
Steichmann), Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies 4.2 (2008)
http://liminalities.net/4-2/
“Let Down,” “Ovulation,” “Late Onset Particle Capitalism,” and “Thrombotic” in Not for Mothers Only:
Contemporary Poets on Child-Getting and Child-Rearing, edited by Catherine Wagner and Rebecca Wolff,
Fence Books, May 2007
“Imagine” and “Papantla,” Talisman (“Poetry from North Carolina” special issue, edited by Joseph Donahue), Fall
2005
“To Amuse,” Carolina Quarterly, Fall 2005
“Simultaneous Translation,” The Displayer (chapbook), Lucipo (Lucifer Poetics Group), Triangle Area, North
Carolina, June 2005
“March,” “San Patricio,” “Breathe,” and poem-prints “D,” “LL,” and “V/W” along with interview (by Heidi Bean),
The Iowa Review, June 2004
http://www.uiowa.edu/~iareview/tirweb/feature/carroll/index.html
“Tough Girl,” chapbook, Lucipo (Lucifer Poetics Group), Triangle Area, North Carolina, June 2004
“Una parábola de un paraguas,” Fusión, October 2002
Poem-print “Interracial,” This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation, edited by Gloria
Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating, Routledge, 2002
“Grief” and poem-print “Mama-Donna,” Mamibaile (chapbook), September 2001
Web page poem-print “G” for Women in Literature and Letters, 2001
“Kith and Kin,” “October,” and poem-print “Shhh” (formerly “S”), Big Allis, Fall 2000, Reissue: Jacket2, July 2013
https://media.sas.upenn.edu/jacket2/pdf/reissues/big-allis/J2_Reissues_BIG-ALLIS-9_2000.pdf
Web page poem-print “WILL” for Women in Literature and Letters, 2000
“Secession” (in English and Spanish translation) and poem-prints “O” and “Te extraño,” Les Voz (honorable
mention in “poesía erótica lésbica”), 1999
Poem-print “Q,” cover art for Crayon, 1999
“I,” “You,” “We,” “San Patricio,” and “Celos,” Mandorla, Spring 1999
“Tamarind for Cameron” and poem-print “M,” Chain 5 (“Different Languages”), Summer 1998
“Risky,” Bombay Gin, 1997
“July,” “August,” and “September,” Seneca Review, Fall 1996
“Life,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Fall/Winter 1995
“Cascarones” and “Travelers,” Faultline, Spring 1995
“Juchitán” and “Las Momias de Guanajuato,” Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly (16.2), 1991
Collaboratively Authored Plays, Essays, Portfolios, and Editorials
“Of Co-Investigation and Aesthetic Sustenance: A Conversation between Colectivo Situaciones and Electronic
Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab,” by Amy Sara Carroll, Ricardo Dominguez, and Colectivo
Situaciones, Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art 1995-2010, edited by
Grant Kester and Bill Kelley, Jr., Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming 2017
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Operation Faust & Furioso: A Trans [ ] border Play on the Redistribution of the Sensible, Electronic Disturbance
Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab with special guest appearances by Flavia Meireles, Alex Olson, Rolando Palacio,
and Katia Tirado, edited by Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez, Leonardo Electronic Almanac
(LEA) 21.1 (special issue coordinators Mimi Sheller and Hana Iverson), January 2016. 28-42.
Six nanopoems created with an electron force microscope plus collective statement, *particle group*, BathHouse
Journal 11.2 (“Radicalism: Part 2” special issue), May 2014.
http://www.bhjournal.net/11-2/particle-group/
“Media dislocativa, una historia de fantasmas (o como frotar piedras en el nombre de trans-cuerpos por convertirse)/“Dislocative Media, A Ghost Story (or how to rub two stones together in the name of trans [ ] bodies to
be/come),” by Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez, SITAC IX Teoría y práctica de la catastrophe
catalogue, edited by Eduardo Abaroa, Mexico City: PAC/SITAC, 2013. 124-141; 346-362.
“The Transborder Immigrant Tool,” Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab with Grant Wahlquist
(interview/essay), 2010 California Biennial (catalogue), curator Sarah C. Bancroft. Newport Beach,
California: Orange County Museum of Art and DelMonico Books, Prestel, 2010. 56-59.
Sustenance: A Play for All Trans [ ] Borders, Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, edited by Amy Sara
Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez. New York: Printed Matter, Inc., July 2010. Reprints: Vandal
(“[In]Security” special issue), December 2011, pp. 48-63, includes an interview with Carroll and
Dominguez by Aydé Enríquez-Loya, pp. 64-73; Manifesto Now! Instructions for Performance, Philosophy,
Politics, edited by Laura Cull & Will Daddario, Bristol, UK/Chicago, USA: Intellect Ltd., 2013, pp. 159174 (distributed by the University of Chicago Press).
Op-ed, Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0/b.a.n.g. lab, The San Diego Union-Tribune (respondent: Republican
Congressional Representative Duncan Hunter), March 2010.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/07/tooling-around-the-border/
Nanosférica, *particle group* portfolio, eds. Amy Sara Carroll and Ricardo Dominguez. “Multimedios,”
e-misférica 6.1 (special issue on “Contagion”), Summer 2009.
http://hemi.nyu.edu/hemi/en/particle-group-intro
“Particles of Interest,” *particle group* with Eduardo Nava (interview/essay), Specflic 2.6 and Particles of Interest
(catalogue), curator Eduardo Navas. San Diego: Gallery@Calit2, 2008. 25-38.
http://gallery.calit2.net/particleInterview.php
FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS
Research, Writing, and Teaching Awards
External Awards
Cornell University Society for the Humanities (Theme “Corruption”), Ithaca, New York, Society Fellowship, 20172018
NEH Seminar, “Walter Benjamin’s Later Writings: The Arcades Project, Commodity Culture, Historiography”
(convener Alexander Gelley), University of California, Irvine, Irvine, California, Fellowship, Summer 2011
Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias—UNAM (Cuernavaca,
Mexico), Program: “Cultural Dimensions of the Mexican Transition: Migration, Culture, Gender, and
Violence,” Summer 2006 (declined)
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Latino Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, English Department,
2005-2006
The School of Criticism and Theory Seminar, “Ritual, Play, and Performance” (convener Richard
Schechner), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, Fellowship, Summer 2004
Latin American Writers Conference, Taxco, Mexico, Fellowship, January 1997
Internal Awards
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, ADVANCE
Faculty Summer Writing grant, May-September 2016
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Nahuatl funds for the Transborder Immigrant Tool’s “Desert Survival Series, Fall 2014
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, UMS Mellon Faculty Institute on Arts-Academic Integration
Faculty fellowship, 2014-2016
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Faculty research/travel award, Winter & Summer 2013, Winter 2015
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University of Michigan, Sweetland Writing Center
Faculty fellowship, Winter 2012
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Travel grant, Summer 2010
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) and the College of LSA
Subvention funding award for the publication of Secession, Summer 2009
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for World Performance Studies
Research/writing/travel award, Summer 2009
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Comparative Literature Department
Global Ethnic Literatures fellowship, Fall 2008
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching
Teaching with Technology grant, Summer 2008
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Research award, Summer 2008
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Center for World Performance Studies
Research/writing/travel award, Summer 2007
Duke University Graduate School
Aleane Webb research award, 2003
Conference travel grants, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
Award for international research, 2001, 2002
Summer dissertation fellowship, 2002
Fellowship, 1997-1998
Duke University, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Latino/a Studies research grant, 2003
Travel grants, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
FLAS Fellowships, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001
Tinker Grant, 1999
Duke University, Women’s Studies
Graduate dissertation fellowship, 2002-2003
Travel award, 2002
Ernestine Friedl Award, 2002
Duke University, North American Studies Center
Research grant, 2003
Travel grant, 2002
FLAS Fellowship, Summer 1999
Duke University, Center for International Studies
Ford Research Grant, Summer 1999
Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences
Travel grant, January 1997
University of Chicago
Century and University Fellowships, 1991-1992 and 1992-1993
Princeton University
Senior thesis research fellowship, Summer 1989
Princeton University
Sophomore Creative Writing Award, 1988
Residencies and Writing Affiliations
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Aster(ix) writer/artist in residence, September 2016
University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
Summer Poet in Residence, 2015
SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico
Artist/writer in residence, July 2017
Artist/writer in residence, July 2016
Artist/writer in residence, July 2015
Artist/writer in residence, August 2014
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Artist/writer in residence, July 2013
Artist/writer in residence, July 2012
Artist/writer in residence, August 2011
Artist/writer in residence, July 2010
University of California, San Diego, Visual Arts Department, La Jolla, CA
Visiting scholar/artist, January-December 2010
Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, Spain
Writer in residence, June 2003
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA
Artist/writer in residence, August 1998
Saltonstall Arts Colony, Ithaca, NY
Artist in residence, August 1997
Writer in residence, July 1996
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Graduate Courses Designed and Taught
University of Michigan, Department of American Culture and/or Department of English Language and Literature
• “On the Neoliberal and the Global,” Winter 2016 (an interdisciplinary exploration of the course title’s
keywords)
• “Borderization: Global Flows and Stoppages After 1989,” Fall 2014 (a seminar focused on imagining a
global border studies)
• “Mexico/U.S. Border Arts & Literature After 1965,” Winter 2013 (for student projects related to an exhibit
at Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities, see: http://stateofexception.tumblr.com/tagged/
border_arts_and_literature), Fall 2015
• “Methodologies, Research, and Writing” (a required American Culture course designed to foster
independent research and writing in its graduate student participants), Winter 2012, Winter 2015
• “Toward a Benjaminian Cultural Studies” (a seminar that focuses on Walter Benjamin’s work and its
contemporary applicability for an inter-American cultural studies), Fall 2011
• “Performance/Performativity: Toward a History of the Proliferating Present,” (an inter-American
introduction to performance studies with attentions to gender and sexuality studies, global ethnic studies,
and visual cultural studies), Fall 2009
• “Postscripting the Post-?: Carbon-Footprinting the Global and the Neoliberal” (an interdisciplinary
exploration of the keywords “neoliberalism” and “globalization”), Fall 2008
• “Methodologies, Research, and Writing” (a required American Culture course designed to foster
independent research and writing in its graduate student participants), co-taught with Gregory Dowd,
Winter 2008
Undergraduate Courses Designed and Taught
University of Michigan, Departments of American Culture, Spanish, and/or English Language and Literature
• “Post-Contemporary Poetry” (a course that addresses 2010s debates in poetry that oppose the “conceptual”
and the “minority” and/or “lyric”), Fall 2016
• “Borderwork: Representing the Mexico-U.S. Border after 1965” (a course that introduces students to
border cultural production in the humanities, arts, and social sciences), Winter 2014
• “The Scene of Instruction? An Ethnic Studies Inflected Creative Writing Seminar” (a seminar that serves as
one response to Claudia Rankine’s “Open Letter: A Dialogue on Race and Poetry”), Winter 2014 (applied
for and received a “Course Enhancement Grant” to enable students to visit Diego Rivera’s industry murals
at the Detroit Institute of the Arts; student commentary on class: Sara Morosi, “We’re All in This
Together,” Michigan Daily, February 3, 2014, https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/02sara-morosiwere-all-together03); Department of American Culture featured course, Fall 2014 http://www.
lsa.umich.edu/ac/undergraduate/featuredcourse
• “Latinx Literature and Performance of the United States” (a seminar that offers students an introduction to
contemporary Latinx literature and performance), Winter 2012, Winter 2013, Winter 2015, Winter 2016
• “Latino/Latina Literature of the United States: Borders and Circuits” (a survey lecture course of
Latino/Latina literature that considers the stoppages and flows of goods, information, and people against
literary canon formation), Winter 2009 and Fall 2009, GSI: Samantha Force; Winter 2011, GSI: Erik
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Morales (applied for and received a “Teaching with Technology” 2008 summer grant from CRLT to
incorporate the students’ creation of electronic archives into the syllabus, see
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/latinolit/home)
• “Codeswitch: A Critical, Creative Writing Seminar” (a first year seminar that addresses literal and
metaphoric practices of code-switching), Winter 2009 (for an image by Jed Moch of the Michigan Daily of
one of the class’ performances, see http://www.michigandaily.com/content/2009-04-01/soapbox)
• “Latinos Ink/Latinos, Inc.’” (a survey lecture course of Latino/Latina literature that contemplates the
marketing, making, and re/presentation of Latina/o cultural production and subjectivities), Winter 2008,
GSI: Brittani Sonnenberg
• “Codeswitch: Spanish⇔English: Inter-American Thick Borders” (a hybrid, bilingual critical and creative
writing seminar that, through the motif of code-switching, maps an inter-American contemporary poetics),
Fall 2007, Winter 2011 (applied for and received grants from the Center for World Performance Studies,
Romance Languages and Literatures, English Department, Latina/o Studies, American Culture, Arts at
Michigan, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Center for Research, Learning, and Teaching, to
create a week residency for poet-artist-activist Cecilia Vicuña, Fall 2007; applied for and received grants
from American Culture, Comparative Literature, Screen Arts and Cultures, English, LACS, CRLT, and
Latina/o Studies, to create a three day residency for writer-artist-editor William Anthony Nericcio, Winter
2011), Fall 2011, Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Winter 2017
• “Latino/Latina Literature of the United States: Between the Transparent and the Opaque” (a survey lecture
course of Latino/Latina literature that troubles the terms of its title—“Latino/Latina” and “Literature”—and
the opposition of minority and experimental aesthetics), Winter 2007, GSI: Mariam Colón Pizarro
Northwestern University, English Department
• “Establishing Border Shots: Contemporary (Re)presentations of the U.S.-Mexico Border” (an
interdisciplinary examination of twentieth-century representations of the U.S.-Mexican borderlands with
special attention to the racialized and sexualized figure of working Woman), Winter 2006
• “Codeswitch: Spanish⇔English: Inter-American ‘Thick Borders’” (a hybrid, bilingual critical and creative
writing seminar that through the motif of code-switching maps an inter-American contemporary poetics),
Fall 2005 (applied for and received a “Course Enhancement Grant” to bring a guest speaker and to create
an exhibition of students’ work)
Duke University, Women’s Studies Department
• “Diva Citizenship: (Re)presenting the Female/Feminist Subject” (a combined critical reading and creative
writing seminar that addresses twentieth and twenty-first century female/feminist art, poetry, performance,
theory and criticism of the Americas), cross-listed with Literature, Summer 2005
• “Contemporary American Masculinities” (a course examining masculinity in terms of its shifting
configurations in relation to race, class, and sexuality in the United States and Mexico), cross-listed with
Literature, Fall 2004
Duke University, English Department
• “Performance Studies: An Inter-American Introduction” (a seminar that considers contemporary
performative cultural production—theatre, cabaret, poetry, performance, new media, installation, video,
political protest, music, and cinema—from across the Americas that has shaped the questions being asked
by performance studies as an interdiscipline), cross-listed with Literature, Spring 2005
Duke University, Literature Program
• “In Between: Creative Writing, Critical Theory, and Public Art” (a course with varied readings in all of the
above categories, whose final collaborative project entailed students’ designing poetry-in-motion posters
for the buses that connect East, West, and Central campuses—posters featured October 2004), cross-listed
in Women’s Studies (I solicited and received grants to finance the project from the Literature Program, the
Women’s Studies Department, the Office of the Dean of Summer School, and the Kenan Institute for
Ethics), Summer 2004
Cornell University, English Department
• “Beloved: Toni Morrison’s Remembering” (a survey of Morrison’s work that situates it within the U.S.
literary canon), cross-listed with Women’s Studies, Spring 1997, Fall 1997, Spring 1996
• “American Literatures and Cultures” (a pluralization of a survey seminar via an examination of
representational intersections of sexuality and race in U.S. nation-building), Fall 1995
• “Creative Writing” (a seminar that offers students practice-based exposure to several genres and generates
questions about aesthetic and political value judgments), Spring 1997, Fall 1996, Spring 1996, Fall 1995
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“Portraits of the Self” (a seminar revolving around the question of how a self is claimed in the age of
multiculturalism and identity politics), Spring 1995, Fall 1994
Universidad Veracruzana (Xalapa, Mexico), Facultad de Humanidades
• “Rememory in the Americas” (an in-depth analysis of Toni Morrison’s work that depends upon the trope of
comparison, i.e., reading Beloved alongside Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Páramo), Summer 1996
Cornell University, Anthropology Department
• “Encounters with Other Cultures” (co-teacher with Bernd Lambert) (an introduction to anthropology and
cultural studies), Summer 1994
Del Mar Community College (Corpus Christi, Texas), English Department
• Remedial English Composition (an intensive expository writing seminar organized around the thematic of
the U.S./Mexican borderlands), Fall 1990
•
Additional Teaching Experience
SOMA (Mexico City, Mexico)
• “SOMAtics: Performance’s Incorporation” (a week-long seminar on Mexico City performance, poetry, and
conceptual art, co-taught with Mariana Botey), July 2013
Hyde Park Jewish Community Center (Chicago, IL)
• “Creative Writing: The Art of Reminiscence” (an eight-week community based creative writing seminar
concerned with oral history and memory), Fall 1992
Independent Studies
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of English Language & Literature
• Eliza Cadoux, undergraduate student, Comparative Literature and Women’s Studies, and Carlina Duan,
undergraduate student, English, topic: “Nest and Network: Feminist Poetics and Rhetorical Protest,” Winter
2015
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Program in American Culture, Latina/o Studies
• Rolando Palacio, MFA candidate in Art & Design, topic: “Latin@ Literature and Artmaking”
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Screen Arts and Cultures, Winter 2009
• Kristy Rawson, Ph.D. candidate, topic: “Inter-American Cultural Studies and Media Studies”
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, Winter 2008
• Joanne Lipson, Ph.D. candidate, topic: “Postcolonial Theory, American Cultural Studies, and Other
Planetary Fictions”
Duke University, Women’s Studies Department, Fall 2004
• Julia Trant, graduate student, Divinity School, topic: “Masculinity and Pornography”
Cornell University, English Department, Fall 1996
• Kooi Pang, undergraduate student, School of Architecture, topic: “Homosexuality and Voyeurism”
Graduate PhD and Preliminary Examination Committees
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, American Culture, 2015-present
• Peggy Lee, second year review committee member (Winter 2015); preliminary examination committee
member (December 2015); prospectus committee member (March 2016)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, American Culture, 2015
• Meryem Kamil, second year review committee member (Winter 2015) and preliminary examination
committee member (December 2015)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, 2014-present
• Mary Renda, preliminary examination committee member (August 2015)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Comparative Literature Department, 2014-2015
• Hilary Levinson, Ph.D. candidate, dissertation committee member, dissertation: Disturbing Translations:
Distance, Memory, and Representation in Contemporary Latin American Literature (dissertation defended:
June 19, 2015)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, 2014-2015
• Autumn Lynch, MFA candidate (poetry), second reader
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of American Culture, 2012-present
• Orquídea Morales, second year review committee (Winter 2013), preliminary examination committee
member (December 2013), prospectus review (April 2014), dissertation committee member
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of American Culture, 2012-present
• Bonnie Applebeet Cameron, departmental advisor and chair of second year review (Winter 2013), chair of
preliminary examination committee (December 2013), prospectus review (April 2014), chair of dissertation
committee
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of American Culture, 2012-2014
• Hannah Noel, Ph.D. candidate, dissertation committee member (until June 2014), degree completed August
2014 (visiting assistant professor, Latin American and Latina/o Studies, Miami University, Oxford, OH)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Art and Design, 2012-2014
• Rolando Palacio, MFA candidate, outside advisor and committee member, final show Una vida linda,
degree completed May 2014
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Art and Design, 2012-2013
• Molly Dierks, MFA candidate, outside advisor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Art and Design, 2010-2014
• James Rotz, MFA, outside advisor/committee member, final show Kibbutz of Desire: The Chosen Place to
Raise the Final Tent, December 2012, degree completed May 2014
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of American Culture, 2008-present
• Robert LeVertis Bell, Ph.D. candidate, second year review (Winter 2009), preliminary examination
committee member (April 2011), and committee member, prospectus review (February 2012) (withdrawn)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Department of American Culture, 2008-2013
• Paul Farber, Ph.D. candidate, departmental advisor (Winter 2009), second year review committee member
(Winter 2009), and preliminary examination committee member (Fall 2009), and dissertation committee
member, prospectus review (March 2010), dissertation: Boundaries of Freedom: An American History of
the Berlin Wall (dissertation defended: February 15, 2013), degree completed May 2013 (postdoctoral
fellow, Haverford College, American and Urban Studies)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Screen Arts and Cultures (graduate certificate in Latina/o Studies), 2009-2012
• Kristy Rawson, Ph.D., co-chair with Johannes Von Moltke of dissertation committee, prospectus review
(December 2009), dissertation: A Trans-American Dream: Lupe Vélez and the Performance of
Transculturation (dissertation defended: April 2012), degree completed August 2012 (tenure track assistant
professor, Habib University, Communication Studies & Design, 2012-2014; (University of Chicago,
Graduate Student Affairs, Assistant Director, Graduate Career Development, 2014-present)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, 2009-2011
• Joanne Lipson Freed, Ph.D. candidate, dissertation committee member, dissertation: Haunting Encounters:
The Ethics of Global Reading, degree completed May 2011 (tenure track assistant professor, Oakland
University, English Department)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Program in American Culture, 2009
• Joanne Hsu, Ph.D. candidate, committee member (withdrawn)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, 2009
• Molly Hatcher, Ph.D. candidate, preliminary examination committee member (March 2009)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Art and Design, 2008-2009
• Aaron Johnson-Ortiz, MFA candidate, outside advisor
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Program in American Culture, 2007-2009
• Maritza Cardenas, Ph.D. candidate, dissertation committee member, dissertation: Third Word Subjects: The
Politics and Production of Central American-American Culture, degree completed September 2009 (tenure
track assistant professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, English Department)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Art and Design, 2007-2008
• Marta Cruz Sojo, MFA, committee member, Plowing the Wind, degree completed September 2008
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Art and Design, 2007-2008
• Nicole Marroquin, MFA, committee member, Your Body Is Your Homeland, degree completed May 2008
(tenure track assistant professor, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Art and Design, 2006-2007
• James Leija, MFA, committee member, Sins With All My Heart, degree completed September 2007
(Director of Education & Community Engagement at the University Musical Society, the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor)
University of Michigan, Program in American Culture, 2007
• Erik “Zach” Morales, Ph.D. candidate, second year review committee member
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Undergraduate Thesis Committees
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Comparative Literature, Women’s Studies, and Art and Design, 2016-2017
• Eliza Cadoux, senior honors thesis, “Feminist Performance Art of the Americas,” second reader
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Art and Design, 2016-2017
• Kayla Houdek, senior BA capstone project, “White America,” mentor
Bates College, Lewiston, ME, English Department, Winter 2016
• Jacqueline L. Paredes, senior honors thesis, “La Mujer en La Frontera: Gender and Assimilation in Pedro
Juan Soto’s Spiks, Joseph Foster’s Stephana, and José Antonio Villarreal’s Pocho,” outside reader
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, 2014-2015
• Kathryn Spencer, senior honors thesis director, “Gendering the Poetic Nation: Gabriela Mistral and Pablo
Neruda as Chilean Icons”
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, Winter 2015
• Carlina Duan, senior honors thesis “The Space Between: An analysis of code-switching within Asian
American poetry as strategic poetic device,” second reader
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, Winter 2014
• Hannah Weiner, senior honors thesis “The Authenticity of a Rapper: The Lyrical Divide Between Personas
and Persons,” second reader
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, 2011-2012
• Felix Shapiro, senior honors thesis director and independent study topic: “Race, Gender, and French
Caribbean Allegory: Aimé Césaire’s A Tempest and Maryse Condé’s I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem”
(high school instructor, Early College Alliance at Eastern Michigan University)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, Winter 2012
• Katherine Kosinski, senior honors thesis “Small Presses in the 21st Century Exploring Independent
Publishing Houses and the Communities They Build,” second reader
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, Winter 2011
• Ross Evan Freedenberg, senior honors thesis “Anticipating Anxiety: Jean Baudrillard’s non-event and
radical event in Donald Barthelme’s short fiction,” second reader
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, Winter 2009
• Kimberly Chou, senior honors thesis “‘This place being South Africa’: Reading race, sex and power in J.
M. Coetzee’s Disgrace,” second reader
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Comparative Literature Department, 2007-2008
• Samantha Force, senior honors thesis director and independent study topic: “Linguistic and Cultural
Incantations: An Analysis of Junot Díaz’s Integration of Code Switching”
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English Department, Winter 2008
• Manisha Chakravarthy, senior honors thesis “Reading Indian-American Women: Writers, Protagonists, and
Critics,” second reader
University of Michigan, English Department, Winter 2007
• Jennifer L. Beight, undergraduate honors thesis “Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu: The ubuntu philosophy and
the anti-apartheid rhetoric of Desmond Tutu,” second reader
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, English and History Departments, 2006-2007
• Susanna Groves, senior honors thesis director and independent study topic: “Embracing Liminality in Achy
Obejas’ Days of Awe” (winner of Virginia Voss thesis prize) (Associate Policy Analyst with the Migration
Policy Institute’s Migrants, Migration, and Development, and Refugee Policy programs)
Northwestern University, Anthropology Department, Spring 2006
• Yaneth Bello, undergraduate senior thesis co-director (with Mónica Russel y Rodríguez): “Sana, Sana
Colita de Rana: A Case Study of Generational Perspectives on Curanderismo in a Mexican American
Family”
Additional Student Mentorship
University of Michigan, Rackham Diversity in Graduate Education Project, “Diversity Allies” Intellectual
Community grant, Department of American Culture
• With Bonnie Applebeet and Orquídea Morales, winter/spring 2015
University of Michigan, Rackham Diversity in Graduate Education Project, “Diversity Allies” graduate mentor in
Department of American Culture
• Peggy Lee, summer 2016
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• Bonnie Applebeet Cameron, summer 2014, summer 2015
• Orquídea Morales, summer 2013, summer 2014
• Hannah Noel, summer 2012
University of Michigan, Program in American Culture, graduate mentor
• Natalie Lira, first year graduate student, 2008-2009
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP)
• Michaelene Marie Dye, International Relations and Political Science, 2008-2009
• Samantha Force, Comparative Literature, 2007-2008
• Danielle Taubman, undeclared major, 2007-2008
PRESENTATIONS
Invited Lectures, Papers, and Panels
“Bor/der/i/za/tion” (with Daniel Borzutzky), lecture following reading on previous day, Eastern Michigan
University, English Department and Creative Writing Program, Ypsilanti, MI, September 2016
“Mistranslational Poetics” (keynote presentation), “Affect & Audience in the Digital Age: Translational Poetics,”
Simpson Center for the Humanities (organizers Sarah Dowling and Amaranth Borsuk), University of
Washington, Seattle, WA, January 2016
“SPiR: Of Influence, or, Other Notes on Conceptualisms and the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo (MCAG),”
SPiR (Summer Poet in Residence) Salon Discussion, the University of Mississippi, English Department,
Oxford, MS, July 2015
Guest lectures in English 224 “Survey of American Literature since the Civil War” (instructors Maggie Woodward
and Autumn Bullard), English 412 “20th Century Poetry in English” (instructor Ann Fisher-Wirth), and
English 224 “Survey of American Literature since the Civil War” (instructors James Ardis and Josh-Wade
Ferguson), The University of Mississippi, English Department, Oxford, MS, June-July 2015
“Preoccupy Thirdspace,” Occupy Thirdspace exhibition (organizer Sara Soliamani), “Contemporary Transborder
Art History Panel,” UCSD and Space 4 Art Gallery, La Jolla and San Diego, CA, October 2014
“Undocumentation,” Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, May 2014
“Post-1968/Post-1994: Mexico City as ‘Social Sculpture,’” SOMA, Mexico City, July 2012
“Dislocative Media, A Ghost Story (or how to rub two stones together in the name of trans [ ] bodies to be/come),”
presented with Ricardo Dominguez, SITAC IX Teoría y práctica de la catastrophe (curator Eduardo
Abaroa), Mexico City, January 2011
Panelist with Ricardo Dominguez and Sandy Stone in Second Life in response to becoming transreal (a mixed
reality, biodigital performance) by Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand presented by UCLA Center for
Performance Studies and UCSD Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, UCLA Freud Playhouse,
Los Angeles, CA, November 2010
“From The Sixth Section to A Seventh Man: Alex Rivera’s Undocumentation,” Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational
History of the Americas, Tepoztlán, Mexico, July 2010
Discussant with Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand, “The Future of the Public University,” Department of Media
Study and Department of Visual Studies, State University of New York, Buffalo, May 2010 (via Skype)
“La maquila-golondrina: Feminine Details, Habitat Fragments, and the Documentary Performative,” The Newberry
Seminar in Borderlands and Latino Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago, IL, October 2009
“Forensic Prescience, Domestic Violence: ‘Death and the Idea of Mexico’ in Teresa Margolles’ Operativo I and II,”
“Violence, Technology, and Public Intervention” symposium (sponsored by UCDARNET), University of
California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, April 2009
“Side-streaming History, Maquilapolis, and the 2000-2001 Effect,” “Representación y Fronteras” Conference,
Programa Universitario de Estudios de Género, UNAM, Mexico City, MX, May 2008
“The Long Twentieth-Century and the Zapatista Transition: Muertos incómodos and the ‘Other Campaign’ as
Postscriptual Performance,” “Comparative Postcolonialities: Aesthetics, History, Locality” Conference
(organizer Shalini Puri), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2005
“Feliz Nuevo Siglo, Doktor Freud and Los hijos de Freud: Specters of Freud in Contemporary Mexican Lesbian
Cultural Production,” “Queer Imaginaries” Conference (organizers Sandra Soto and Miranda Joseph), Sex,
Race, and Globalization Project, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, April 2004
“EL METRÓNOMO PERFORMATIVO; y/o, ¿a dónde vamos ‘cuando la vida siempre vuelve a su forma
circular…’?,” “¿Por qué seguimos preguntando qué es el performance?” (organizer Lorena Wolffer),
Centro Nacional de las Artes, México D.F., June 2001
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“La literatura chicana,” Colegio Fray García de Cisneros, Mexico City, MX, April 2000
Lectures, Papers, and Discussions (within my affiliated institutions)
“Gravity’s Gravitas,” “Critical Visualities” Conference (organizers Peggy Lee and Kyle Frisina), University of
Michigan, April 2017
Moderator, “Environmental Encounters: Materiality, Sexuality, and Embodiment,” ASLE Graduate Student
Symposium “Toxic Borders and Bondages: Intersecting Ecology with Capitalism, Racism,
Heteropatriarchy, and (Dis)possession,” University of Michigan, October 2016
“Collaboration,” “Collaborative Feminist Scholarships and Activisms Roundtable” with Katherine Gibson, Nadine
Naber, Petra Kuppers, and Amber DiPietra, the Border Collective, University of Michigan, April 2016
“Between Dislocative Media and Ecopoetics: [({ })] The Desert Survival Series/La serie de sobrevivencia del
desierto,” guest lecture, English 420: “Electronic Literature” (instructor Tung-Hui Hu), University of
Michigan, December 2015
Moderator, “Mimesis” panel, “Any Way, Shape, or Form” conference, Reorientations Interdisciplinary Workshop,
University of Michigan, October 2014
Moderator, “Border Studies, Now and Then: A Lunchtime Discussion with Laura Gutiérrez and Claire F. Fox,” the
Border Collective, University of Michigan, November 2013
“Undocumentation: Mexico/U.S. Border Arts,” guest lecture, American Culture 213: “Introduction to Latina/o
Studies,” University of Michigan, (instructor Maria Cotera), December 2012; (instructor Anthony Mora),
December 2013; (instructor Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes), November 2014
“Codeswitch: The Transborder Immigrant Tool,” guest presentation, English 346: “Performance Studies:
Embodiment/Environment/Community” (instructor Petra Kuppers), University of Michigan, March 2012
“Border Studies/Border Arts,” guest lecture, American Culture 213: “Introduction to Latina/o Studies” (instructor
Anthony Mora), University of Michigan, December 2011
“History/Form/Theory” (guest visit with Joshua Miller), English 520: “Introduction to Graduate Studies”
(instructor Cathy Sanok), University of Michigan, November 2011
“Border Studies,” Latina/o Studies Colloquium: "New Trends in Latina/o Studies: A Roundtable Celebrating Our
Concentration, Minor, and Graduate Certificate" (with Silvia Pedraza, Teresa Satterfield, Lawrence La
Fountain-Stokes, John García, and Daniel Ramírez), Program in American Culture, University of
Michigan, September 2011
Discussion of the Transborder Immigrant Tool, American Culture 204.101: “Making a Difference: Education in the
Public Sphere” undergraduate seminar (instructor Alex Olson), University of Michigan, June 2011
“How We Learn From Images: A Visual Culture Workshop Discussion” (organizer Sara Blair), panelist with
Maya Barzilai, Giorgio Bertellini, and Victor Mendoza, English Department, University of Michigan, April
2011
"Approaching Collaborative Scholarship in Academia: The Transborder Immigrant Tool" (with Ricardo
Dominguez), “Human, Citizen, Foreigner” Rackham Reading Group, University of Michigan, February
2011
Discussion of work of Teresa Margolles and “Muerte sin fin: Teresa Margolles’s Gendered States of
Exception,” Visual Arts 202:“Trans [ ] infinites: aesthetics, performance, and interventions” graduate
seminar (instructor Ricardo Dominguez), UCSD, May 2010
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez and Micha Cárdenas, Transborder Immigrant Tool, Visual Arts/ICAM 140
“Digital Imaging: Image and Interactivity,” (instructor Benjamin Bratton), UCSD, March 2010
Informal discussion on “theory” and “voice,” guest visit, American Culture 850: “Advanced Research Colloquium”
(instructor Sarita Echavez See), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 2009
“Nanosférica,” Guest presentation (with Ricardo Dominguez), English 417 Senior Seminar: “Medical Visions”
(instructor Petra Kuppers), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 2009
“Latin/o American Performance Studies,” guest lecture, American Culture 213: “Introduction to Latina/o Studies”
(instructor Anthony Mora), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, November 2009
“‘Is Our Future a Thing of the Past?’: Sleep Dealer, A Seventh Man, and Latin@) Nodal Consciousness,” Latina/o
Studies Silver Symposium, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 2009
“Teach(ing)-In: An Era of Disaster Capitalisms” (co-presenter with Maria Cotera, Ricardo Dominguez, Rachel Afi
Quinn, and Jesse Carr), American Culture Workshop, University of Michigan, September 2009
“Performance Studies, Creative Writing, and Other Codeswitching Practices,” Guest Visit, English 417: Senior
Seminar, “Topics in Performance Studies” (instructor Petra Kuppers), University of Michigan, March 2008
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“NOT A Day Without a Mexican: Performing Latinidad as the United States’ Lost Object,” guest lecture, American
Culture 213: “Introduction to Latina/o Studies” (instructor Maria Cotera), University of Michigan,
December 2007, November 2008
“Magically Visceral Realisms, or, I’ll Get a Job When It Snows in South Texas,” “Preparing for the Jobmarket”
Panel, Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, December 2007 and October 2008
Respondent/participant, “Whose Performance Is It?” (with Cecilia Vicuña), Center for World Performance Studies,
University of Michigan, October 2007
“Allegorizing Origin Myths: Performance Studies and Other Interdisciplines,” “The Drama/Performance
Colloquium” (organizer Jonathan Freedman), English Department, University of Michigan, September
2007
“Bridging Latin American and Latina/o Studies via a Transnational Masculinity: Guillermo Gómez Peña’s ‘New
World Border’ and Dioramic Subjectivity,” guest lecture, American Culture 213: “Introduction to Latina/o
Studies” (instructor Maria Cotera), University of Michigan, October 2006
“‘Accidental Allegories’ Meet ‘The Performative Documentary’: Boystown, Señorita Extraviada, and the
Border-Brothel→Maquiladora Paradigm,” Women’s Studies Graduate Scholars Colloquium (respondent
Sean Metzger), Duke University/University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 2005
“El femicidio y la línea,” Guest lecture in Spanish 570 graduate seminar, “Mexican Thrillers” (instructor Alberto
Moreiras), Duke University, November 2004
“Selena and Latina Sexualities in Lourdes Portillo’s Corpus: A Home(-grown) Presentation,” Guest lecture,
Women’s Studies 90 “Gender and Everyday Life” (instructor Tina Campt), Duke University, Durham,
NC, September 2004
Breakout discussion group leader, “Race and Gender in Global Perspective” Conference, Women’s Studies, Duke
University, February 2003
“The Albatross of el alcatraz or the Burden of the political in Contemporary Mexican Cultural Production,
“Critical Articulations: Economies of Knowledge In and About Latin America” Symposium, Center for
Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC, April 2002
“Contemporary Mexican Performance,” Guest lecture in Spanish 530, graduate seminar “Las vanguardias del siglo
XX” (instructor Esther Gabara), Duke University, November 2002
Discussant for screening of Guillermo Gómez Peña’s Border Brujo and The Mojado Invasion, XV Latin American
Film & Video Festival, November 2001
Moderator/Respondent (for Rosemarie Waldrop), “Past, Present, Future Tense: A Conference on Contemporary
Poetry,” Cornell University, April 1995
Conference Papers and Discussions
“Mexican Orientalism? Sergio De La Torre’s Nuevo Dragon City,” Special session of Mexico Forum “Mexican
Orientalisms,” MLA Convention, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017
“Biutiful’s Sublime, or, Global Mexico’s Coproduction,” “Racing the Silver Screen,” ASA Conference, Denver, CO,
November 2016
“Undisciplinarity, or, the Incivility of Parentheses [Lines Drawn on Undocumentation, Fictive Doorframes, Latinx
Studies, and the Translucent],” Roundtable “Critical/Creative Latinidades” (organizer Desirée Martín),
Latina/o Studies Association Conference, Pasadena, CA, July 2016
“Reading ‘Like a Poet’: Hugo García Manríquez’s A-H Anti-Humboldt and Conceptual Writing’s Privileges of
Unknowing,” Special session “Race in and beyond Conceptual Writing” (organizers Seth Perlow and
Dorothy Wang), MLA Convention, Austin, TX, January 2016
“Borderlands, Culture, and the State: A Conversation Across Disciplines” (organizer Hannah Gurman), chair and
commentator, ASA Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 2015
“Culture: Wars,” “Sustainable Tools for Precarious Subjects: Performance Actions and Human Rights in the
Americas” (organizers Natalie Alvarez and Keren Zaiontz), Association for Theatre in Higher Education
Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 2015 (via pre-circulated text and Skype)
“Social Allegories of Reading: Francis Alÿs in the Age of Cuauhtémoc,” “The Expansion of the Arts II: Politics”
(second panel of a three panel series on contemporary Latin American art and literature, organizer Natalia
Brizuela), LASA International Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May 2015
“Of Home Depots and Octopus’s Tentacles: Yoshua Okón’s Art/History Lesson,” “The View From Both Sides: Art
and Transnational Latinidades” (organizer Desirée Martín), ASA Conference, Los Angeles, CA, November
2014
“The Bridge-ing of International Latino Studies/Global Border Studies: An Experiment in Collective Authorship” (a
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choral reading of a collaboratively written text with the University of Michigan Border Collective [Amy
Sara Carroll, Iván Chaar-López, Orquídea Morales] and special guest Ricardo Dominguez), Imagining
Latina/o Studies: Past, Present, and Future Conference, Chicago, IL, July 2014
“Reading in the Age of NAFTA” (organizer: Stephen Park), panel respondent, ASA Conference, Washington, D.C.,
November 2013 (via pre-circulated text and Skype)
“The PIAS Forms Reloaded: NAFTA Era Artmaking in Mexico City,” MLA Conference, Boston, MA, January
2013
Presentation of the book Representación y fronteras: El performance en los límites del género (organizer: Stephany
Slaughter), XII Congreso de la Asociación Internacional de Literatura y Cultura Femenina Hispánica,
Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI, November 2012 (via Skype)
“Habitat Defragmentation, or, Three Portraits of Disposability at the Mexico-US Border,”’ “Invisible Borders:
Migrants, Latinas/os, and Enviromental (In)Justice” (organizer Desirée Martín), LASA International
Congress, San Francisco, CA, May 2012
“inSITE Specificity,” “Barbaric Imaginations: Remapping Neoliberalisms through Transnational Literature and
Culture” (organizer Lili Hsieh), ASA Conference, Baltimore, MD, October 2011
“Undocumentation (Rosa Alcalá’s Undocumentaries meets Chantal Akerman’s De l'autre côté),” “Regions of
Practice: American Poetics of Relational Space” (organizer: Barrett Watten), The Louisville Conference on
Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2011 (paper read in absentia)
“Dislocative Media Circa 2010, or, A Waking Dream of Benjaminian Spacetime Travel” (presentation with Ricardo
Dominguez), ASA Conference, San Antonio, Texas, November 2010 (and panel organizer “Of Bordered
Saints and Other Speculative Fictions: Toward a Border Studies for the Twenty-First Century”)
“La maquila-golondrina, or, Neoliberalism’s Habitat-Fragmenting Habits,” ASA Conference, Washington, DC,
November 2009 (and panel organizer, “Borders and Circuits: Performative Geographies, Translation, and
the Sustainability of Belonging”)
“Post-contemporary Transcendental –isms: from net.art to nanopoetics,” co-authored/designed with Ricardo
Dominguez, MLA Conference, San Francisco, CA, December 2008 (presented electronically in preproduced video format)
“Leaving Las Vegas, Learning from Tijuana: Teddy Cruz’s Manifest Densities and Living Rooms on the Border,”
ASA Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, October 2008
“Projective Verse, Performative Affect: Consuming ‘Cultural Collaboration’ in Maquilapolis and Tijuana
Projection,” MLA Conference, Chicago, IL, December 2007
“Global Mexicos, 2006: Babel, Pan’s Labyrinth, Children of Men,” LASA International Congress, Montréal,
Canada, September 2007
“Teresa Margolles’s Muerte sin fin: Imagining a Corporeal Poetics after Neoliberalism’s Globalization,”
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2007 (submitted
electronically)
“A Day Without a Mexican’s Melancholia: Performing Latinidad as the United States’ Lost Object,” ACLA
Conference, Puebla, Mexico, April 2007
“Generational Conflicts? Continental Shifts? Guillermo Gómez Peña and Alex Rivera’s Objectivist Border
Poetics,” ASA Conference, Oakland, CA, October 2006
“Borderline Woman: Nao Bustamante’s Americanidad,” ASA Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2004
“Coyoacán Will Be More Exotic This Fall: Frida and the Gendered Politics of Importing Import Substitution,”
LASA International Congress, Las Vegas, NV, October 2004
“A Critical Regionalism: The Allegorical Performative in Madre por un día and the Rodríguez/Felipe Wedding,”
“El cuerpo descifrado” Conference, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, October 2003
“A Farcical Periodization: Pastiche and Parody in Los hijos de Freud,” NYU Hemispheric Institute of Performance
and Politics, New York, NY, July 2003
“Bajo California: The Trope of Peregrination and (Trans)National Masculinity” (and panel organizer), LASA
International Congress, Dallas, TX, March 2003
“Televising the Allegorical and the Performative: (Re)Reading the Distance Between the Visual and the Verbal in
Contemporary Mexican Performance,” MLA Conference, New York, NY, December 2002
“The (Re)location of Hope and Digital Citizenship in Mejor Vida Corp. and Electronic Disturbance Theater’s
Performance Art,” MLA Conference, New York, NY, December 2002
“Autorechazos and the Public Poetry Project: Visualizing a Performative Poetics,” ASA Conference, Houston, TX,
November 2002
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“The Life of the Corpse: Teresa Margolles’s Engendering Material Ethic-aesthetic,” NYU Hemispheric Institute of
Performance and Politics, Lima, Peru, July 2002
“In Los nichos públicos, Soy totalmente de hierro: Female/Feminist Artistic Production in Mexico City,” LASA
International Congress, Washington, D.C., September 2001
“Postmodernizing Mexican/Sexual Citizenship: EDEMA’s Collaborative/Performative Politics,” NYU Hemispheric
Institute of Performance and Politics, Monterrey, México, June 2001
“Silvia Gruner’s Re-Visions of Feminism, Anthropological Nationalism, and Jewish Self-Identification,” AAA
Meetings, San Francisco, CA, November 2000
“Influential Border-Crossings: Chicana Queer and Mexican Lesbian Feminist Cultural Production,” ASA
Conference, Detroit, MI, October 2000 (electronic website presentation)
“In Defense of the So-Called Obvious: The Belle Rogue Collection and Soy Totalmente de Hierro” (and panel
moderator), XI Congreso Internacional de Literatura Feminina Hispánica, Toronto, Canada, September
2000
“Performing Citizenship and Subjectivity in Mexico City,” LASA International Congress, Miami, FL, March 2000
“Detected Friction: Lorena Wolffer’s Performance of Shame and the Woman-Nation,” National Feminist Graduate
Student Conference, Austin, TX, March 1999
“Translation and Transnational Exchanges of Women and Capital in Midaq Alley and El callejón de los milagros,”
ACLA Conference, Austin, TX, March 1998
“Peacocks, Peeing Cocks, and Queer Subjectivity in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon,” SUNY-Buffalo’s
“Preaching to the Converted: An Interdisciplinary Queer Studies Conference,” November 1996
Poetry, Performance, and Installation
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez, Contemporary Writers Series (organizer Cristina Rivera Garza), PhD in
Creative Writing in Spanish Program, Department of Hispanic Studies, University of Houston, Houston,
TX, April 2017
Reader, Contemporary Writers Series (curator Stephanie Young), English Department and Creative Writing
Program, Mills College, Oakland, CA, October 2016
Reader with Daniel Borzutzky, BathHouse Writers Series (organizer Christine Hume), Eastern Michigan University,
English Department and Creative Writing Program, Ypsilanti, MI, September 2016
Reader/coordinator with Ricardo Dominguez, “Undocumentation || reSOMAticization,” SOMA, Mexico
City, Mexico, July 2016
Reader, “Hybrid Genres” (organizer Tung Hui-Hu), Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI, November 2015
Reader, “Seamus Heaney and the Art of Ekphrasis: Poets Read Heaney’s Poems” in coordination with exhibit
Rocks, Paper, Memory: Wendy Artin’s Watercolor Paintings of Ancient Sculptures (organizer Linda
Gregerson), Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, September 2015
Reader, Off Square Books in conjunction with the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, June 2015
Reader, “Islands Meet Borderlands: A Hemispheric Literary Reading” (organizer Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes),
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, January 2015
FANNIE +FREDDIE/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography, featured in The Material Word exhibition,
Southbank Centre, Saison Poetry Library, Open Day, London, England, November 2014
Reader, four image permission forms for REMEX (in collaboration with the artists Mónica Mayer, Victor Lerma,
Yoshua Okón, and Vicente Razo), “Tercera Jornada de Poesía Administrativa,” SOMA, Mexico City,
August 2014
Reader, “Work/Life” (from Secession and FANNIE +FREDDIE/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography),
Visual Arts Department, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, May 2014
Reader (pre-recorded), selections from FANNIE +FREDDIE/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography (part of
a series of coordinated artistic interventions, organizer Ricardo Dominguez), ASA Conference,
Washington, D.C., November 2013
Reader/coordinator with Mariana Botey, “Performative Incorporations: Extravaganza de films, telepatía y
poesía (infrarrealista)/Performative Incorporations: An Extravaganza of Films, Telepathy and Infrarrealista
Poetry,” SOMA, Mexico City, Mexico, July 2013
Reader (virtual and pre-recorded, coordinator Elizabeth Chaney), selections from Secession and FANNIE
+FREDDIE/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography, 31 Feria del Libro de Tijuana, Centro Cultural
Tijuana, Mexico, June 2013
Reader, Voices Up! Series (presentation of musical composition commissioned by Fordham University’s Poets Out
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Loud—by Contemporaneous and Ryan Chase—based on poems from FANNIE +FREDDIE/The
Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography), Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, April
2013
Reader with Nicolas Hundley and Evie Shockley, Poets Out Loud Book Launch, Fordham University, Lincoln
Center, New York, NY, March 2013
http://www.fordham.edu/campus_resources/enewsroom/archives/archive_2773.asp
Presenter, Fordham University, ENGL 3607 “The Body in Contemporary Women’s Art & Literature” (Instructor
Elisabeth Frost), Fordham University, English Department, March 2013
Presenter/reader (with Nicolas Hundley, Amy Catanzano, and Michelle Naka Pierce), AWP Conference,
Fordham University’s Poets Out Loud Book Launch & Reading, Boston, MA, March 2013
Video reader (from Secession), Melodrom: The Making of a Rebellious Telenovela (Austrian/Mexican theatrical
production), director Gin Müller, Brut Wien (Vienna)/Laboratorio Arte Alameda and Museo Universitario
de Chopo (Mexico City), October 2012, February 2014
Reader/presenter with Denise Leto, Lisa Steichmann, Sadashi Inuzuka and Petra Kuppers, “Somatic Engagement:
Collaborations” (book launch), Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2012
Reader with Marie Buck, Eastern Michigan University House Reading (organizer Rob Halpern), Ypsilanti, MI, May
2011
Sound file selections from Secession (a poetry reading, played in my absence), somatic SENSOR (curators Micha
Cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand, and Dino Dinco), Highways Performance Space and Gallery, Santa Monica,
CA, January 2011
http://www.highwaysperformance.org/
Presenter, “Recent works,” Poetry and Poetics Workshop, English Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
December 2009
Reader, “Art and the Body” (curator Linda Gregerson), Arts on Earth initiative, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor, October 2009
Writer, “Haiku,” The Mobile Textualism Anthology (one of thirty poems selected in an international competition),
Melbourne Writers Festival, Melbourne, Australia, August 2009 (distributed via Twitter, the web, and
projected live in various locations in the city)
Writer/participant, “Repro Narratives/Subprime Mortgages” and “Sign Age Signage” in Economy of Gesture
(curator Felipe Zúñiga), San Diego/Tijuana, May 2008
http://www.economyofgesture-economyof gesture.blogspot.com/
Participant (work read in absentia), Not for Mothers Only Reading, NYU Creative Writing Program Spring 2008
Reading Series, Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, NY, NY, February 2008
Poem-print “Petit à Petit” in Manual Labors (curator Jake Adam York), The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at
Belmar, Denver, CO, October-December 2007
http://www.belmarlab.org/manuallabors_amy_sara_carroll.php
Reader with Christine Hume, Cathy Wagner, and Carla Harryman, Not for Mothers Only (book launch), Shaman
Drum Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI, May 2007
Reader in cellular collaboration with La línea, “La primavera de los poetas” Festival, Monterrey, México, March
2007
Poem-prints “C,” “i,” and “J” and digital poems “All things return to Ithaca,” “Granada,” “Performance Study,” and
“Choosy” in SoundVision/VisionSound III, Nave Gallery, Somerville, MA, July 2005
http://navegallery.org/nave/2005/soundvision/soundvision_Howe.pdf
Reader, Carrboro Poetry Festival, Carrboro, NC, May 2005
Reader (on video with statement concerning “Another South”) in An Othered South, Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery,
Atlanta, GA, May 2004
Reader, Sizl Gallery, Carrboro, NC, March 2004
Reader, Fundación Valparaíso, Mojácar, Spain, July 2003
Reader, Audre Lorde Project, Brooklyn, NY, October 2002
Poem-prints “Q,” “LL,” “Sh,” “S,” “T,” “X,” “B-B,” “i,” “Zzz…,” “n/ñ,” “V/W,” and “Interracial” in
“Connections/Crossings: Feminist of Color Legacies,” Audre Lorde Project, Brooklyn, NY, October 2002
Reader, NYU Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Lima, Peru, July 2002
Poem-prints “H,” “O,” “Speculation,” and “Choosing” in WORD-IMAGE Exhibit, Schweinfurth Memorial Art
Center, Auburn, NY, Spring 1999
Reader, Duke University English Department’s “Creative Colloquium,” April 1999
Performer, Final Performance of Holly Hughes’s “Gender and Performance” class, Duke University, Durham, NC,
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February 1999
Reader, Duke University Women’s Studies Graduate Conference, October 1998
Poem-prints “M” and “R & R” in State-of-the-Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY, September 1998
Poem-print “Fuck-up” in Duke University Museum of Art’s New Art in the Triangle Exhibit, August 1998
Reader, Lesbian Avengers’s D.C. Dyke March, Malcolm X Park, Washington, D.C., June 1998
Poem-prints “sic,” “Interracial,” and “Q” in Duke University’s KWEER-2-U Exhibit, March 1998
Reader, WILL (Women in Literature and Letters)/NYU’s Emerging Women Writers Reading Series, New York,
NY, March 1998
Reader, Saltonstall Arts Colony, Ithaca, NY, August 1996
Reader, Cornell University Literature Conference, May 1996
Reader, Cornell University M.F.A. Reading, May 1995
Two untitled ceramic sculptures in Visual Arts Senior Show (curator Toshiko Takaezu), Princeton University, MayJune 1990
Reader, Princeton University Creative Writing Department Final Reading, May 1990
COLLABORATIONS
The Transborder Immigrant Tool, 2008-present
Writer of forty poems uploaded onto six cell phones, Future Now/Futura Ahora (curated by Atomic Culture),
Loisaida Center, February-March 2017 (Skype panel presentation, February 2017)
Writer of forty poems uploaded onto six cell phones, Dispatches (curator Cora Fisher), Southeastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, November 2016-February 2017
“Permission/Slip” (poem for collaborative performance and sound files digital redistribution), Recording and
[({ })] The Desert Survival Series/La serie de sobrevivencia del desierto book release party (organizer
John Cheney-Lippold), American Culture and Digital Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April
2016
Reader (pre-recorded poem) with Brett Stalbaum, Patricia Montoya, and Omar Pimienta, Presentation of [({ })]
The Desert Survival Series/La serie de sobrevivencia del desierto and inclusion of book in exhibition
“Recent Works,” University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, May 2015
Writer of forty poems uploaded onto six cell phones, Body Practices (curator Trish Stone), gallery@calit2,
UCSD, La Jolla, CA, November 2014-January 2015
Writer of forty poems uploaded onto six cell phones, Waterscapes: The Politics of Water (curator Hyewon Lee),
Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea, November-December 2014; Pohang City Museum of Art, Pohang,
Korea, January-March 2015
http://activate.zone/waterscapes-pohang-2015/
Writer of forty poems uploaded onto six cell phones, Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns
(curator Claire C. Carter), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, September 2014January 2015 and San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, August 2015-January 2016, presenter at the San
Jose Museum of Art, October 2015
Writer of forty poems uploaded onto six cell phones, The Wall in Our Heads (curator Paul Farber), GoetheInstitut Washington, Washington, DC, October 2014-January 2015, Haverford College, Cantor Fitzgerald
Gallery, Haverford PA, October-December 2015
Writer of forty poems uploaded onto six cell phones, By Invitation Only (curator Lucía Sanromán), InstantHERLEV
institute (IHi), Copenhagen, Denmark, August-November 2014
Writer of forty poems uploaded onto six cell phones, In Motion: Borders and Migrations, Utah Museum of
Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah, May-September 2014
Reader in the documentary The Tinaja Trail, director Bryce Newell, The Humanitarian Film Initiative, released
April 2014
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3095228/
Writer of forty poems uploaded onto six cell phones, global aCtIVISm, ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art,
Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, December 2013-March 2014
Keynote speaker with Ricardo Dominguez, Art and Social Justice symposium, Drexel University, October 2013
Writer of twenty-five poems uploaded onto four cell phones, The Musée des Tapisseries, L'antiAtlas des frontiers/
The AntiAtlas of Borders show (curator Isabelle Arvers), Aix-en-Provence, France, October-November
2013
Writer of twenty-five poems uploaded onto four cell phones, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, July
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2013
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez, Queens Museum of Art, Arte Útil Lab (organizer Tania Bruguera), New
York, NY, March 2013 (TBT also included in Arte Útil Lab exhibit, March-June 2013; Van Abbemuseum,
Amsterdam, Netherlands, December 2013-March 2014)
Writer of twenty-five poems uploaded onto four cell phones, Cultural Hijack (curators Ben Parry and Peter
McCaughey), AA School of Architecture Gallery, London, England, April-May 2013
Respondent, War on Immigrants Report (radio show), WBAI (New York, New York), April 2013
Writer of twenty-five poems uploaded onto four cell phones, Temporary Services: Socialized Media–Designated
Drivers, Interactive Records and a Booklet Cloud, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, March-April
2013
Writer of twenty-five poems uploaded onto four cell phones, Cadre Show, Haldon Art Gallery, San Jose State
University, San Jose, CA, January-March 2013
Writer of twenty-five poems uploaded onto four cell phones, Double Visions: Contemporary Collaborative Artists,
Grossmont College Hyde Art Gallery, El Cajon, CA, January-February 2013
Writer of thirty-five poems uploaded onto six cell phones, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Encuentro CITIES | BODIES | ACTION Exhibition, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil, January
2013
Presenter, The Transborder Immigrant Tool, “Network Society: Global and Local” (first year seminar) (instructor
Rachel Price), Princeton University, November 2012 (via Skype)
Performer with Elle Mehrmand, “Apart from water, we want poetry!” in Occupy Art: Variedades (A Performance
Salon on ‘Anarchy’!) (curators Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez), Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA,
May 2012
http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/occupy-art-immigration-nation/id548445146
Writer of twenty-five poems uploaded onto four cell phones, LA Re.Play (An Exhibition of Mobile Media Art in
conjunction with the College Art Association Conference, curators Hana Iverson, Mimi Sheller, and
Jeremy Hight), Broad Art Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, February 2012 (and presenter on the CAA
panel “The City/Space and Creative Measure,” February 23, 2012)
Writer of twenty-five poems uploaded onto four cell phones, Immigrant/Emigrant (curator Lara Bullock), Angels
Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, Spring 2012
Writer of twenty-five poems uploaded onto four cell phones, DisFluency, Parsons, The New School for Design, NY,
NY, November-December 2011
Writer/co-designer of poems, “Precession” and “Transition” included in NOISE: Trans-Subversions in Global
Media Networks (curator Jian Chen), MIX 24 queer experimental film festival, New York, NY, November
2011
Photographer/writer of three images included in Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 “Archive of
Socially Engaged Practices,” Creative Time, 2011 (note: the text on this was not written by EDT 2.0 and
includes various factual errors regarding the project)
http://www.creativetime.org/programs/archive/2011/livingasform/archive.htm#!prettyPhoto[pp_gal]/2/
Writer of twenty-five poems uploaded onto four cell phones, Curatorial Interventions symposium (curator Lissette
Olivares), New York University, New York, NY, November 2011
Presenter (via Skype) with Micha Cárdenas, Ricardo Dominguez, Elle Mehrmand, and Brett Stalbaum, University of
Southern California (organizer Mark Marino), Los Angeles, CA, October 2011
Writer of thirty-five poems uploaded onto six cell phones, Ecologías Correlativas, Chimera+, Brooklyn, NY,
October 2011
Performer with Micha Cárdenas, Ricardo Dominguez, and Elle Mehrmand, demo and selections of poetry from
TBT, &Now Festival of New Writing 2011: Tomorrowland and Forever! (organizers Anna Joy Springer
and Amina Cain) (Skype), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, October 2011
Writer of thirty-five poems uploaded onto six cell phones, Subversive Technologies show (curator Arlan
Londoño, with Gabriel Roldos and Federica Matelli), Toronto Free Gallery (in conjunction with Digital
Event ’11), Toronto, Canada, September-October 2011
Performer with Ricardo Dominguez, Flavia Meireles, Brett Stalbaum, and Brian Whitener, Sustenance: A Play for
All Trans [ ] Borders, Oi Futuro (Performance Art and New Media Festival), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
September 6, 2011 (Skype), with the distribution of a translation of one of the desert survival poems into
Portuguese at the performance
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Writer/performer with Micha Cárdenas, Ricardo Dominguez, Elle Mehrmand and special guest Ilka Kressner,
Variedades: Anarchy! featuring A Performance Salon (curators Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez),
The Echo, Los Angeles, CA, July 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H14zq-bR_w
Writer/co-designer of poetry included in performance for Political Equator 3(Conversations on Co-Existence:
Border Neighborhoods as Sites of Production) and writer of text (read in my absence), organizer Teddy
Cruz, San Diego/Tijuana, June 2011
http://www.politicalequator.org/
Writer/co-designer of video essay/fragments, “Codeswitch: A Ghost Story,” 2011 International E-Poetry Festival,
SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, May 2011
Writer/co-designer of video poem, “Transition (song of my cells),” included in Outdoor Video Screenings (curator
Trish Stone), Art Produce Gallery, San Diego, CA, May 2011
Writer/co-designer of video poems, in TRANS/BORDER Art Exhibition, UCSD (in conjunction with the
“Racialization, Neoliberalism and Queering Public Spheres” Symposium), La Jolla, CA, April 2011
Writer/co-designer of images and text projected onto wall for MFA + MFA show (curators Darrel Alejandro
Holnes and Colin McRae), North Quad Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, April 2011
Writer of various poems and texts uploaded onto a flash drive included in Designated Drivers show (curators
Temporary Services, Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, Marc Fischer), The Block Museum of Art,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, April 2011
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez, “Mobile: Reflexión y experimentación en torno a los medios locativos en el
arte contemporáneo en México,” Centro Nacional de las Artes-Centro Multimedia, Mexico City, January
2011
Writer of various poems uploaded onto a cell phone included in Collective Show Los Angeles 2011, Los Angeles,
CA, January 2011
Writer of twenty-two poems uploaded onto five cell phones included in A Modular Framework/Un Marco Modular
Show (curator Eduardo Navas), Centro Cultural de España, San Salvador, El Salvador, November 2010
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez, “La geopoética de The Transborder Immigrant Tool,” Semana de Aniversario:
Traslaciones, Escuela de Artes, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana, México, October 2010
Writer of forty-eight poems uploaded onto nine cell phones chosen for inclusion in the 2010 California Biennial,
Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) (curator Sarah Bancroft), October 2010-March 2011 (opening
weekend October 22-24, 2010)
Writer of twelve poems uploaded onto two cell phones included in Art and Social Justice show (curator A.A.
Bronson), Institute for Art, Religion, and Social Justice, Union Theological Seminary, New York, NY,
October-December 2010
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez and Brett Stalbaum, “The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and
Digital Civil Disobedience: What’s ‘In’? What’s a Sin?,” my presentation: “404 Files-Not-Found: Between
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and ‘The United States of America versus Daniel J. Millis’,” UCLA
Department of Art History and Los Angeles County Bar Association, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, September
2010
Photographer/co-designer, billboard/mural/poem, Aguas, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, September 2010
Writer of twelve poems uploaded onto two cell phones on display in El Grito (The Cry for Independence) at the
University of Arkansas, Little Rock, Art Museum, in collaboration with the Arkansas/Mexico 2010
Celebration, Little Rock, AK, August-October 2010
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez, “The Transborder Immigrant Tool,” SOMA, Mexico City, July 2010
Performer with Micha Cárdenas, Ricardo Dominguez, Elle Mehrmand, Chloe Sanossian, Brett Stalbaum, Felipe
Zúñiga, Sustenance: A Play for All Trans [ ] Borders, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco, CA, June 2010
Reader/group presenter/writer with Micha Cárdenas, Ricardo Dominguez, Elle Mehrmand, Chloe Sanossian, Brett
Stalbaum, “City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool,” City Centered: A Festival of Locative
Media, KQED, San Francisco, CA, June 2010
Writer of twenty-two poems uploaded onto five cell phones on display in KQED station, City Centered : A
Festival of Locative Media (curator Paula Levine), KQED, San Francisco, CA, June 2010 (also
presenter with Micha Cárdenas, Ricardo Dominguez, Elle Mehrmand, Chloe Sanossian, Brett
Stalbaum, “City Decentered: The Transborder Immigrant Tool”)
Writer of twenty-two poems uploaded onto four cell phones on display in the galleries, Here Not There show,
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (La Jolla) (curator Lucia Sanroman), June 2010 (with a
separate performance June 19, 2010)
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Writer of blues song “The Devil’s Highway Blues (Another Conceptual Poem for the Transborder Immigrant Tool)”
(by invitation), performed with original musical composition by Steve Willard, Summer Salon Series, San
Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, May 2010
Reader of poems for the Transborder Immigrant Tool, National Estuarine Research Reserve System, “Speaker
Series,” Imperial Beach, CA, May 2010
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez, “Entre la Difunta Correa y el difunto correo: The Transborder Immigrant Tool”
English Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, April 2010
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez, “Off the Radar, On the Fence: The Transborder Immigrant Tool’s
Geoaesthetic,” “Radars and Fences” Symposium, NYU, March 2010
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez, Transborder Immigrant Tool, V95.0550.001 “New Borderlands in Latin
America and Spain” (instructor Jill Lane), NYU, Spanish Department, March 2010
Respondent with Ricardo Dominguez to Bob Dane of FAIR (topic: U.S./Mexico border, immigration, the
Transborder Immigrant Tool), MSNBC live with Contessa Brewer, December 2009
Participant/Speaker with Ricardo Dominguez, Basekamp (Philadelphia, PA) Skype Chat, December 2009.
http://basekamp.com/about/events/potluck-chat-electronic-disturbance-theater-mcenter-and-breadboard
Writer with Micha Cárdenas, Ricardo Dominguez, and Brett Stalbaum, (presented by Cárdenas), “The
Transborder Immigrant Tool: Violence, Solidarity, and Hope in Post-NAFTA Circuits of Bodies
Electr(on)ic,” Workshop at Mobile HCI09, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, September 2009.
http://www.uni-siegen.de/locatingmedia/workshop.html
Writer/co-designer of poems, “Al-Khwārizmī,” “Precession,” “Transition,” and “Dubliners,” and writer of the
project statement, “A Global Poetic/Positioning System: The Transborder Immigrant Tool,” Space is the
Place, Dublin National College of Art and Design, Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA), Dublin,
Ireland, August-September 2009, also featured on “Moving Poems: the best video poetry on the web”
http://movingpoems.com/
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez, “Transcendental –isms and the Digital Humanities: The Transborder
Immigrant Tool,” Digital Humanities Mellon Seminar, UCLA, March 2009
*particle group,* 2007-present
Nanopoems (projected onto façade of Herbert F. Johnson Museum) and “Illuminated Nanoscripts” (projected onto
interior walls of Jill Stuart Gallery, Human Ecology Building), *particle group*, Intimate Cosmologies:
The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology, Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial 2014 (curator
Stephanie Owens), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, September-December 2014
http://cca.cornell.edu/?p=2014%20Biennial
“Illuminated Nanoscripts,” a *particle group* video installation for NanoMacroMega exhibition (curator Lucía
Sanromán). Structural Materials and Engineering Research Center, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, September 2012
“The Particularities of *particle group*’s Poetry: Of Nanotopias/Nanocausts and Electron Force Microscope
Lithography” (lecture with Ricardo Dominguez), SOMA, Mexico City, July 2012
Presenter with Ricardo Dominguez, “Poetry and Other Lo-Fi Technologies,” “Science of the Oppressed” panel,
Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI, July 2012
Co-writer, “Trans_Patent Tales: a play for particles,” Speculative (exhibition catalogue curators/editors Zach Blas
and Christopher O’Leary), LACE, Los Angeles, CA, June-August 2011
Writer/co-designer of poems uploaded onto a nano-iPod included in Collective Show Los Angeles 2011, Los
Angeles, California, January 2011
Writer/co-designer, “NANO BANANA,” “NÃO→NANO-OBJETO,” “Post-Pangea Incontinence,” and “TIN Y
PLURI- BUS [+ UNAM],” included in show CONTROverse: Contemporary Visions of the US-Mexico
Border (curator Perry Vasquez), Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA, October-November
2010
Writer/co-designer/Performer, “Nano caminantes,” e-poetry International Festival, Barcelona, Spain, May 2009
Writer/co-designer, “NANO BANANA,” “NÃO→NANO-OBJETO,” and “TIN Y PLURI- BUS [+ UNAM]” for
“Particles of Interest” installation, UCDARNET “Scalable Relations” Exhibit, Cal Nanosystems Institute,
UCLA, January 2009
Writer/co-designer/Participant, *particle group* featured on/in “<<arte. (nuevo) {interactivo}+[2009]>>/
<<Net.Arte.Latino Style__1994-2009>>,” Spring 2009
Writer/co-designer, “The Absence of Field,” an interactive performance-poem commissioned by the University of
California, San Diego, for the new Structural and Material Engineering Building’s groundbreaking
ceremony, October 2008
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Writer/co-designer, “NANO BANANA” and “TIN Y PLURI- BUS [+ UNAM]” for “Particles of Interest”
installation, gallery@calit2, University of California, San Diego, August-October 2008 and participant in
“Panel Discussion/Exchange,” October 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxjhNt4IhZc
Writer/co-designer, “NANO BANANA,” “TIN Y PLURI- BUS [+ UNAM],” and “NÃO→NANO-OBJETO,”
presented as a single computer access installation, FILE 2008 (New Media Festival), São Paulo, Brazil,
August 2008
Writer/co-designer, “NANO BANANA,” “TIN Y PLURI- BUS [+ UNAM],” and “NÃO→NANO-OBJETO,” a
streaming presentation on three walls, Oi Futuro 2008 (Performance Art and New Media Festival), Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, August 2008
Reader/participant, San Diego Museum of Art (Contemporary Art Gallery, part of Inside the Wave), March-July
2008 (wrote/co-designed two iPod nano poems, “Nano Banana” and “TIN Y PLURI-BUS [+ UNAM],”
participated in gallery performance)
Reader/participant with Ricardo Dominguez, Diane Ludin, and Nina Waisman, “Particles of Interest: Tales of the
Matter Market” (part of Nomadic New York Performances, curator André Lepecki), Haus Der Kulturen der
Welt, Berlin, Germany, October 2007 (participated in gallery and Berlin site-specific performances)
El automóvil gris/The Grey Automobile, 2003-2008
Melbourne International Arts Festival, Melbourne, Australia, October 2008
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, Texas, August 2007
High Line Festival, New York, New York, May 2007
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, NY, May 2007
University of Texas, Performing Arts Center, Austin, TX, January 2007
Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, University of California, Davis, January 2007
Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, June 2005
Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Demarco Roxy Art House, Edinburgh, England, August 2005
Santa Barbara Latino CineMedia Festival, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, April 2004
Ford Amphitheatre, Los Angeles Arts Commission, Los Angeles, CA, June 2003
Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, October 2003
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, October 2003
Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts, Portland, OR, September 2003
Goodman Theatre Latino Theatre Festival, Chicago, IL, July 2003
The Anglo Mexico Foundation, Mexico City, May 2003
Ebert Film Festival, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2003
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., March 2003
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, February 2003
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, February 2003
Duke University, Durham, NC, February 2003
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Diversity Committee, Department of English Language and Literature, 2015-2016
Graduate Committee, Department of English Language and Literature, 2014-2015
Undergraduate Committee, Department of American Culture, 2014-2015
Judge, Arthur Miller Award, Hopwood Awards Program, February 2014
Faculty sponsor, the Border Collective (a Rackham graduate school interdisciplinary graduate student and faculty
workshop), 2012-present
Committee member, Rackham Graduate School Pre-doctoral Fellowship Awards Committee, 2012-2014
Salary Review Committee, Department of American Culture, 2012-2013
Annual Review Committee and Awards Committee, Department of English Language and Literature, May 2011April 2013
Executive Committee, Program in American Culture, 2011-2012
Judge, Sweetland Prize for Excellence in Upper-Level Writing, Gayle Morris Sweetland Center for Writing, Winter
2012
Judge, Tyson Award in Fiction, Department of English Language and Literature, March 2012
Co-convener with Petra Kuppers, Clare Croft, and Shelly Manis, Performance Studies Interest Group, 2011-2012
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Invited critic for graduate reviews for Master of Science Design Research (Coordinators: Jason Young and
Etienne Turbin), Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, December 2011
Executive Committee, Department of English Language and Literature, January-May 2011
Lecturer Review Committee (Convener for Review Committee of Richard Meisler and Review Committee member
for Esther Newton), Program in American Culture/Women’s Studies, January-May 2011
Conference Advisory Team, “Movement, Somatics and Writing: A Practice-Based Research Symposium,” 20102011
Awards Committee, Department of English Language and Literature, 2009-2010
Judge (internal), graduate poetry awards, Hopwood Awards Program, February 2009
Latina/o Studies and Screen Arts and Cultures Search Committee, Program in American Culture, 2008-2009
Third Term Review Committee, Department of English Language and Literature, 2008-2009
Salary Review Committee, Program in American Culture, 2007-2009
Grader, Department of English Language and Literature, Graduate Spanish Language Exams, Fall 2008
Lecturer Review Committee, Department of English Language and Literature, 2007-2008
Conference Advisory Team, “Touching Time: Bodies/Writing/Histories: A Practice-Based Research Symposium,”
2007-2008
Judge, Cowden Fellowship Competition (creative writing), Hopwood Awards Program, December 2007
Latina/o Studies Advisory Board, Program in/Department of American Culture, 2006-present
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE
Reviewer for Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship program, Social Science Research Council, 2015
Evaluator for the Fellowships program, American Studies panel, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2015
Supporting council member and advisory editor, Aster(ix): A Journal of Literature, Art, Criticism, 2013-present
Manuscript reviewer, Poets Out Loud Prize, Fordham University English Department and Fordham University
Press, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Peer reviewer for Comparative Literature, 2015; meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, 2013; PMLA, 2011;
Feminist Studies, 2009; Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2015
Invited critic for studio visits with students, SOMA, Mexico City, July 2012, July 2013, August 2014, July 2015,
July 2016
Research assistant for Michael Hardt, Duke University, Literature Program, 2003-2004
Research assistant for Barbara Herrenstein-Smith, Duke University, Literature Program, Spring 2002
Research assistant for Antonio Viego, Duke University, Literature Program, Fall 2001
Research assistant for Wahneema Lubiano, Duke University, Literature Program, 1998-1999
Archivist, Asa and Elna Spaulding Collection, Duke University Library Special Collections, Durham, NC,
Summer 1998
Reporter, News Service, Cornell University, Summer 1995
Assistant editor, Epoch, 1993-1994
Assistant archivist, Dr. Hector P. García Collection, Texas A & M, Corpus Christi, Library (Special Collections),
Corpus Christi, Texas, 1990-1991
Research assistant for Dr. Hector P. García, Corpus Christi, Texas, Summer 1988
AFFILIATIONS
American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
American Studies Association (ASA)
Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP)
College Art Association (CAA)
Latina/o Studies Association (LSA)
Latin American Studies Association (LASA)
Modern Language Association (MLA)
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REPRESENTATIVE REVIEWS AND CITATIONS
El automóvil gris/The Grey Automobile
• Roger Ebert, “The Grey Automobile (review),” Roger Ebert.com, July 11, 2003.
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-grey-automobile-2003
• Chris Jones, “Automóvil gris, a provocative blend of stage, screen,” Chicago Tribune, July 13, 2003.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-07-13/news/0307130520_1_screen-characters-movie
• Johannes H. Birringer, “El automóvil gris (review),” Theatre Journal 56.3 (October 2004): 479-480.
SECESSION
• Evie Shockley, The Volta, “Best Books of 2012,” 2012.
http://www.thevolta.org/fridayfeature-bestbooksof2012-eshockley.html
• Third Factory/Notes to Poetry, “Attention Span 2012 | Evie Shockley,” 2012.
http://thirdfactory.wordpress.com/2012/10/07/attention-span-2012-evie-shockley/
FANNIE + FREDDIE/The Sentimentality of Post-9/11 Pornography
• Evie Shockley, “The Audience is Present [Part I],” Harriet: a poetry blog, April 2013.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/04/the-audience-is-present-part-i/
• Adam Crothers, “Making and Erasing: on Amy Sara Carroll’s FANNIE + FREDDIE/The Sentimentality of
Post-9/11 Pornography,” PN Review 214 40.2 [November-December 2013]: 73-74.
• Emily Blumfeld, Mom Egg Review: Literature and Art 11, December 2013.
http://www.momeggreview.com/themomegg/Book_Reviews/Entries/2013/12/4_AUTHORS_NOTE__Fan
nie_%2B_Freddie_The_Sentimentality_of_Post9_11_Pornography_by_Amy_Sara_Carroll%3B_Review_by_Emily_Blumenfeld.html
• Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Bookslut blog, December 23, 2013 (Best Books of 2013).
http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2013_12. php#020458
• Evie Shockley, “My Poetry Picks for 2013,” Harriet: a poetry blog, December 2013.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/12/my-poetry-picks-for-2013-7/
• Julia Bloch, “2013 Disinhibitions” (Favorite Things of 2013) on The Disinhibitor, December 2013.
http://disinhibitor.blogspot.com/2014/01/2013-disinhibitions-julia-bloch.html
• Julia Bloch, make/shift: feminisms in motion 15 (Spring/Summer 2014): 34.
• H.V. Cramond, review, NewPages Book Reviews, February 3, 2014.
http://www.newpages.com/bookreviews/2014-02-03/#Fannie-and-Freddie-Amy-Sara-Carroll
• Cody Walker, “Wreckage,” Kenyon Review, September 14, 2014.
http://www.kenyonreview.org/2014/09/wreckage
• Catherine Wagner, “US Experimental Poetry: A Social Turn?,” Primerjalna književnost (Ljubljana) 37.1
(2014): 235-246.
• Dee Morris and Stephen Voyce, “Tactical Mapping, II: Mapping Dark Sites,” Jacket2, April 2015.
http://jacket2.org/commentary/tactical-mapping-ii-mapping-dark-sites
• Stephen Voyce, “Reading the Redacted,” Amodern 6 (“Reading the Illegible”), 2016.
http://amodern.net/article/reading-the-redacted/
The Transborder Immigrant Tool and [({ })] The Desert Survival Series/La serie de sobrevivencia del desierto
• Hugh Hart, Review of 2010 California Biennial, WIRED magazine, November 2010.
http://www.wired.com/2010/11/california-biennial/
• Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Review of 2010 California Biennial, ARTFORUM January 2011: 229.
• Mark Marino, “Border Codes,” NEH Vectors (Scalar edition), October 2011.
http://scalar.usc.edu/nehvectors/border-codes/poetry-2
• Mark Marino, “Code as Ritualized Poetry: The Tactics of the Transborder Immigrant Tool,” Digital
Humanities Quarterly 7.1 (2013).
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/7/1/000157/000157.html
• Marcela A. Fuentes, “Zooming In and Out: Tactical Media Performance in Transnational Contexts,”
Performance, Politics, and Activism, edited by Peter Lichtenfels and John Rouse, New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2013, 32-55.
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Karen O’Rourke, Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2013,
232-234.
Paula Levine, “On Common Ground: Here and There,” The Mobile Story: Narrative Practices with
Locative Technologies, edited by Jason Farman, New York: Routledge, 2014, 143-158.
Mimi Sheller, “Mobile Art: Out of Your Pocket,” The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media, edited by
Gerard Goggin, Larissa Hjort, New York: Routledge, 2014, 197-205.
Lytton Smith, “Answers on a Postcard: Mobile Citizenship,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2014.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/answers-postcard-mobile-citizenship/#!
Roopika Risam, “Water, Poetry, and the Transborder Immigrant Tool,” “Postcolonial Digital Poetics,”
Jacket2, April 2015.
http://jacket2.org/commentary/water-poetry-and-transborder-immigrant-tool
Alison Reed, “Queer Failures: Mapping the Generative Failures of the Transborder Immigrant Tool,”
Lateral, Summer 2015.
http://csalateral.org/wp/issue/4/queer-provisionality-mapping-the-generative/
Grant Kester, “Water Works: Politics, Public Art, and the University Campus,” A Companion to Public Art,
edited by Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie, UK/USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016, 191-204.
Barbara Sostaita, “These 24 Poems May Help Women Survive the Border Crossing,” Feministing, August
2016.
http://feministing.com/2016/08/22/these-24-poems-may-help-women-survive-the-border-crossing/
Harriet: a poetry blog, August 2016.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2016/08/truthdig-reports-on-poetry-at-the-u-s-mexico-border/
Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright, Practice of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture, Third Edition,
Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2017
Updated January 2017