Education
B.A., University of California Berkeley, 1976
Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, 1983
Current Projects and forthcoming publications :
From Claude McKay to Huey Newton : Black Revolutionary Letters (Princeton University Press contract)
[research conducted and funded: Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, 2000; Beinecke Library, Yale University , 1997]
Detroit Voices: The Black Laboring Left , collaboration with Todd Duncan and Beth Bates
[research conducted and funded: Humanities Center , Wayne State University , Joint Project Grant ($1,000 x2); collaboration]
Guerilla Theater: Using the Spectacle of Contemptuous Courts to Reform the Legal System collaborative project with Zanita Fenton
[research conducted and funded: Richard J. Barber Fund for Interdisciplinary Legal Research, Wayne State Law School ] project: “Guerilla Theater: Using the Spectacle of Contemptuous Courts to Reform the Legal System” ($12,646); collaborative project with Zanita Fenton, Wayne State Law School
Representative Publications:
Reading Pound Reading: Modernism After Nietzsche. Oxford University Press, 1987.
(edited volume) Bobweaving Detroit: The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson , ed. with Postscript, Ted Pearson and Kathryne V. Lindberg ( Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2003).
Essays and excerpts available on-line:
The Continuity of Living for Change (With L. Todd Duncan):
An Interview with Grace Lee Boggs" part of Rethinking Black Marxism Dossier, Social Text 67 (Summer 2001), 43-73.
Prosthetic Mnemonics and Prophylactic Politics:
William Gibson Among the Subjectivity Mechanisms," boundary 2 23:2 (Summer 1996) 47-83.
"Whose Canon? Gwendolyn Brooks: Founder at the Center of the Margins," Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers , eds. Margaret Dickie and Thomas Travisano (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1996), 283-311.
Excerpt, re: "We Real Cool":
Mass Circulation versus The Masses:
Covering the Modern Magazine Scene," boundary 2 20:2 (Summer 1993), 51-83. REPRINTED in National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives , ed. Donald E. Pease (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994), 279-311.
A Battle of the Wills and the Extra Pound:
Joyce and Pound over Shakespeare's Authorizing Will ," boundary 2 18:1 (Spring 1991), 157-73.
Depejorating 'Uplift' and Re-Centering Race Poetry:
Lorenzo Thomas's Extraordinary Measures ," boundary 2 , 28:2 (Summer 2001), 21-32.
Entries on Bob Kaufman, Mae Jackson, and Ted Joans, The Oxford Companion to African American Literature , 1997. Re: Kaufman
Publications Available Through Amazon.com
America's Modernisms: Revaluing the Canon: Essays in Honor of Joseph N. Riddel (Horizons in Theory and American Culture)
Chapters in the following books from Amazon.com:
“Rebels to the Right/Revolution to the Left: Ezra Pound and Claude McKay in the Syndicalist Year, 1912,” pp. 11-77, Ezra Pound and African American Modernism (Ezra Pound Scholarship Series) by Michael Coyle (Editor)
"Cleaver, Newton and Davis , Re: Reading of Panther Lyrics, " pp.547-75, The World in Time and Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry, 1970-2000 by Edward Foster (Editor), Joseph Donahue (Editor)
“Bob Kaufman, Sir Real, and his Revisionary Surreal Sell-Presentation,” pp. 163-83, Reading Race in American Poetry: An Area of Act
by Aldon Lynn Nielsen (Editor)
“Raising Cane on the Theoretical Plane: Jean Toomer's Racial Personae,” pp. 49-74 , Cultural Difference and the Literary Text: Pluralism & the Limits of Authenticity in North American Literatures by Winfried Siemerling (Editor), Katrin Schwenk (Editor)
“Whose Canon? Gwendolyn Brooks: Founder at the Center of the ‘Margins,'” pp. 283-313 , Gendered Modernisms: American Women Poets and Their Readers by Margaret Dickie (Editor), Thomas Travisano (Editor)
"Mass Circulation versus The Masses : Covering the Modern Magazine Scene," pp. 279-311, National Identities and Post-Americanist Narratives (New Americanist)
by Donald E. Pease (Editor)
