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Carla Harryman

Senior Lecturer

Office: 10201.3, 5057 Woodward
Hours: By Appointment
Phone: 313-577-4988
E-mail: c.harryman@wayne.edu

Area of Specialization
20th century avant-garde; feminist utopias; gender studies; poetics of modernist and contemporary poetry and prose; women and surrealism; interdisciplinary approaches to theater and performance; 20th century childhood- literature and theory; "mixing genres" in literature and art; art writing

Education

M.A., Creative Arts Interdisciplinary (terminal degree), San Francisco State University 1978
B.A. Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara

Representative Publications

"Residues or Revolutions of the Language of Acker and Artaud" (San Diego State University Press, forthcoming 2003)

Gardener of Stars (Berkeley: Atelos, 2001)

The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre (Berkeley: O books, 2000)

There Never was a Rose Without a Thorn (San Francisco, CA: City Lights, 1995)

Memory Play (Oakland, Calif.: O Books, 1994)

In the Mode Of (Tenerife, Canary Is., Sp.: Zasterle Press, 1991)

Animal Instincts: Prose, Plays, Essays (Berkeley, CA: This Press, 1989).

The Middle (San Francisco: Gaz Press, 1983)

Property (Berkeley, Calif.: Tuumba Press, 1982)

Under the Bridge (San Francisco: This Press, 1982)

Percentage (Berkeley, Calif.: Tuumba Press, 1979)

"The Nadja and Nanette of Gail Scott's Main Brides," in Assembling Alternatives, ed. Romana Huk (Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming 2001)

"Rules and Restraints in Women's Experimental Writing,"in We Who Love to Be Astonished: Women Experimenters and Performance Writing, ed. Cynthia Hogue and Laura Hinton (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, forthcoming 2001)

Publications Available Through Amazon.com

The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul Sartre

There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn

Animal Instincts : Prose and Plays

Middle

Vice

Gardener of Stars

Work Performed

Performing Objects Stationed in the Sub World, Oxford Brooks University, 2001, Zeitgeist Theater, Detroit, 2002; The Lab, San Francisco; 2003
Third Man, University of Auckland Theater, New Zealand, July 1995
Fish Speech, The United States of Poetry, Washington Square Films, New York, 1996
Memory Play, The LAB, San Francisco, May 1994

Dramatic Readings

Norwich College of Art, U.K., with Carla Harryman and cris cheek, July 1996
University of California at San Diego, with Jerome Rothenberg, Michael Davidson, Cole Heinowitz, Harry Polkinhorn, John Granger, and Shiba Abud-Nazar
Playwright's reading, Articule/Playwright's Theater, Montreal, April 1993
Play­wright's reading, Submit Theater, San Francisco, May 1992
Memory solo performance, The LAB, San Francisco, July 1991
There Is Nothing Better Than a Theory, New Langton Arts, February–March 1989, Carla Harryman, Director; Mark Durant, Artist; David Barrett, Composer; and Gina Hyams and Amy Brosnahan, Performers


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