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Barrett Watten Professor Office: 9204.4, 5057 Woodward Hours: By Appointment Phone: (313) 577-3067 E-mail: b.watten@wayne.edu Class Website

Area of Specialization:
American modernist and postmodernist literature; modernism and social modernity; linguistics and poetics; subjectivity and literary form; cultural politics; historical narration and national identity; the avant-garde; contemporary poetry and poetics, especially language-centered writing; conceptual and post-conceptual visual art

Education

AB, Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 1969
MFA, English, University of Iowa, 1972
University of California, Berkeley, 1995

Representative Publications

"Nonnarrative and the Construction of History," The Ends of Theory (Wayne State UP, 1995).

"New Meaning and Poetic Vocabulary," Poetics Today (1995).

"Post-Soviet Subjectivity in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Ilya Kabakov," in Essays in Postmodern Culture (Oxford, 1994).

"Making the Social Sublime: Doug Hall's Recent Work in the Public Sphere," Exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery (1994).

The Conduit of Communication in Everyday Life," in Aerial (Washington, D.C., 1995).

Frame: 1970-1990, collected poems (Sun & Moon Press, 1994).

Total Syntax (Southern Illinois UP, 1989).

Publications Available Through Amazon.com

Frame (1971-1990) (Sun & Moon Classics, 117)

Aerial 8 : Barrett Watten

Bad History

Leningrad/American Writers in the Soviet Union

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