PUBLICATIONS:

Books:  
Avant-garde Orientalism: The Eastern 'Other' in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.  Reviewed in the online editions of American Literary History, Postcolonial Studies, Ariel: A Review of International English Literature and The French Review.

Jean Baudrillard, The Divine Left. Introduced by Jean-Louis Violeau. Sémiotext(e). 2014. English translation of the book La Gauche divine: Chroniques des annees 1977-1984. Bernard Grasset, 1985. 

Savage Sight/Constructed Noise: Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes (Studies in the Romance Languages & Literatures, 276). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Reviews in Modern Language Quarterly (MLQ), French Studies, Symposium, South Atlantic Review. 

Jean Cocteau and 'The Testament of Orpheus' With Lucien Clergue (photographer). Viking Studio, 2001.

Essays & articles:
"Another Kind of Colonial," Gianna C. T. Quach. Paris Lit Up, #8, 2020. Provided editorial advice and some revisions. The story is a modified version of a chapter from The Delightful Territory: A Chronicle of Displacement, a book I am co-authoring with Ms. Quach.   

Review of The Spiritual Imagination of the Beats by David Stephen Calonne.  American Literary History Online Review Series. Oxford University Press, 2018. 

“Orientalist Divagations: Four French Authors in Egypt.” Studies in Travel Writing (Routledge/Taylor & Francis) 14.2 (June 2010): 197-213. Refereed journal.

"Absentminded Prolepsis: Global Slackers before the Age of Terror in Alex Garland's The Beach and Michel Houellebecq's Plateforme." Comparative Literature 59.2 (Spring 2007): 158-176. Refereed journal.

“A Reel Around the Fountain.” Al-Ahram Weekly (English edition). No. 799 (15-21 June 2006): 13. Book review of Egyptian Palaces and Villas by Shirley Johnston and Sherif Sonbol.

“Edward Said and the Avant-Garde.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics 25 (July 2005): English section, 149. Refereed journal.

Introduction. The Turn of the Screw, The Aspern Papers & Two Stories. By Henry James. New York: Barnes & Noble Classics, 2003.

“Plastic Language: John Ashbery’s ‘Europe.’” Word & Image (Taylor & Francis) 18.3 (April - June 2002): 153-161. Refereed journal.

“Max Jacob.” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Modern French Poets. 258. Boston: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2002.

“Tracing Masterpieces.” Art in America 4 (April 2002): 39-41. Book review of Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters by David Hockney and Vermeer’s Camera by Philip Steadman.

“A. I. at Universal U.” The Nation 273.4 (July 23/30, 2001): 42-43. Book review of Thinks, a novel by David Lodge.

“Parodic Nostalgia for Aesthetic Machismo: Frank O’Hara and Jackson Pollock.” Journal of Modern Literature 23.3/4 (Summer 2000): 375-391. Refereed journal.

“‘And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name’: John Ashbery, the Plastic Arts, and the Avant-Garde.” Comparative Literature 50.4 (Fall 1998): 316-332. Refereed journal.

“Mary Kelly.” Artscribe (Summer 1990): 82-83.

"Inge Mahn." Artscribe (January-February 1990): 79.

“Rasheed Araeen.” Artscribe (May 1989): 75.

“Palazzo Grassi.” Travel & Leisure (November 1986): 76-78.

“Earth in the Works.” Art & Auction (June 1986): 72-76.

“Corporate Patronage.” Art & Auction (October 1985): 156-159.

Translations: 
Henri Lefebvre, The Missing Pieces (prose poem).  Sémiotext(e), 2014.  English translation from the French of Les Unités perdues. Manuella, 2011. Included in Whitney Museum Biennial display, 2014.  

Baudrillard, Architecture: Truth or Radicalism?  Los Angeles: Sémiotext(e), 2014.  English translation from the French of Vérité ou radicalité de l’architecture? Sens & Tonka, 2013. Whitney Museum Biennial, 2014.  

Félix Guattari. “Institutional Practice and Politics,” “The Left as a Process Passion,” “The Postmodern Impasse” and “Nature at Issue” in Between Chaos and Complexity (anthology). Sémiotext(e), 2018 (anticipated publication date).  New translations from the French.

Félix Guattari, “Capitalism: A Very Special Delirium,” “La Borde: A Clinic Like No Other,” “Cinema of Desire,” “Cinéma Fou,” “Molecular Revolutions” and “Desire is Power, Power is Desire” in Chaosophy: Texts and Interviews 1972-1977. Sémiotext(e), 2009.  Translations from the French.

Félix Guattari. “Popular Free Radio” in Soft Subversions. Sémiotext(e), 1996. From the French.

Michel Foucault. “History and Homosexuality.” Foucault Live: Collected Interviews, 1961-1984. Semiotext(e), 1996. From the French (misattributed).

Antoine le Hardÿ de Beaulieu and Thierry Lamant. The Illustrated Guide to Oak Trees (book). English translation of Le Guide illustré des chênes. Geers, Belgique: Edilens, 2010. Ongoing.

F. T. Marinetti, The Allure of Egypt. English translation from the Italian of Il Fascino dell’Egitto. Mondadori, 1933. Ongoing. 

Essays, reviews, and translations for The Personal Review (blog): 

Multiple zoom classes at SVA and Pace University in the course of the pandemic, 2020-2022.

“Savage Sight/Constructed Noise."  Revised and expanded lecture on my first book, first given at the American University in Cairo, 2004.  

“Avant-garde Orientalism: Daniel Vukovich, Andy Warhol and Don Delillo." Excised discussion of Vukovich's book China and Orientalism from my Avant-garde Orientalism. Post August 19, 2019.  

      “Avant-garde Orientalism: An Introduction.”  Lecture based on my new book Avant-garde Orientalism: The Eastern ‘Other’ in Twentieth-Century Travel Narrative and Poetry.  Posted November 24, 2018.  

      “Transcendence in Marcel Proust: Reading Swann’s Way.”  Originally given as lecture at the School of Visual Arts, New York City, November 1917.

“The Mask of Valery Larbaud: Vehicles of Poetry and the Sadness of Travel.”  Book review of The Poems of A. O. Barnabooth by Valery Larbaud (Black Widow Press, 2008).  Translated by Ron Padgett and Bill Zavatsky.  Posted June 18, 2017. 

“Alternative Futures: Baudelaire’s ‘Le Voyage.’”  An excerpt from Avant-garde Orientalism (formerly Alternative Futures).  Posted September 2015. 

“American Voices: Zora Neale Hurston.  Vernacular Artifice in Their Eyes Were Watching God.”  Pedagogical essay for online course in American literature.  Posted May 2015. 

“The Concupiscence of Cubism.” Exhibition review of “Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 20, 2014 – February 16, 2015.  Posted February 2015. 

“Henri Michaux: ‘Seize the Landscape.’”  Translation of “Empoigner le paysage.”

“American Voices:  T. S. Eliot.  Allusions, Quotations, Footnotes, Translations.”  Pedagogical essay for my online course in American literature.  Posted January 2014. 

“The Fine Line Between Art and Accident.” Exhibition review of “Drawing Surrealism” at the Morgan Library and Museum, New York, Jan. 21 – April 21, 2013.  Posted March 2013

“Robert Desnos: ‘I Have Dreamed of You So Much.’”  Translation of “J’ai tant rêvé de toi” (poem).

“American Voices: Ernest Hemingway.  Indian Giving.”  Essay on Hemingway’s “Indian Camp” from In Our Time.  Posted November 2012. 

“Mughal Miniatures and English Enlargements.” Exhibition review of “Princes and Painters of Mughal Delhi, 1707 – 1857” at The Asia Society Museum, February 7 – May 6, 2012.  Posted May 2012.

“Invitation to the Voyage.” Translation of “L’Invitation au voyage” (poem) by Charles Baudelaire. 

“Boy-O-Rama.”  Film review of Stephen Lennhoff’s Rhythm & Blues.

“Subordinate Conjunctions.”  Book review of French Lessons (novel) by Ellen Sussman. 

“One Act Play.” Book review of Second Acts (novel) by Tim Brown.

FULL-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

2013-2015:
Lecturer, Department of English, Pace University, 41 Park Row, New York, New York 10038. Three to four undergraduate courses per semester:

Undergraduate courses: 
The Individual & Society: Poetics of Travel (modern world literature)
The Individual & Society: Colonial Representations (modern world literature)
Theories of Translation (undergraduate seminar)
American Voices (modern American fiction and poetry--lecture and on-line versions)
Critical Writing
Freshman Composition

2007-2010:
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Northern Illinois University,
1425 Lincoln Highway, DeKalb, Illinois, 60115 (Tel.: 815-753-0611). One 3-credit graduate course and four 3-credit undergraduate courses per year; graduate advisement and examination committees (PhD and MA programs); departmental and university service.

Graduate courses:
Interpretation of Literary Texts: Literary Theory
Topics in Literature: The Poetics of Travel
Topics in Literature: Literature and the Visual Arts: The Trans-Atlantic Avant-garde

Undergraduate courses:
Non-Western/Third World Literature
Literary Classics (modern novels)
Literary Classics (Western civilization)
Literary Criticism (introductory course on literature and criticism)

2002-2006:
Assistant Professor, Department of English & Comparative Literature, The American University in Cairo, Egypt. New York office: 420 Fifth Avenue, Third Floor, New York, NY 10018-2729 (Tel.: 212-730-8800). Three 3-credit courses per semester; thesis and comprehensives adviser, reader, and examiner for MA degree candidates; departmental and university service.

Graduate and upper-level undergraduate survey courses (combined):
Modern Poets
Modern American Literature (2 semesters)
Modern European & American Literature
Modern Literary Criticism
Contemporary Literature (2 semesters)
Third World Literature (2 semesters)
Literature & the Plastic Arts: The Trans-Atlantic Avant-garde
Literature & Urban Culture
Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Eighteenth-Century Literature (2 semesters)

Lower-level undergraduate courses:
Approaches to Literature
American Literature & Imperialism (2 semesters)
Introduction to Literature (multiple semesters)
Core Seminar (2 semesters)

1999-2000:
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Baruch College, The City University of New York, One Bernard Baruch Way, New York, NY 10010-5585 (Tel.: 646-312-3910). Three 3-credit undergraduate courses per semester.

Undergraduate courses:
Twentieth-Century American Writers in Paris
Great Works of Literature (Parts I & II)
Introduction to Literature

PART-TIME ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE:

2015-2021:
* Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Sciences, The School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, New York.  "Culture Survey I & II."  Themes for this multi-disciplinary, multi-media course for junior-level illustration and cartoonist majors for AY 2019-2020 will be "Monsters"; for Fall 2020, "Families"; in Spring 2021 I will be taking an interdisciplinary approach to literature and the arts.  

* Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English, Pace University, New York, New York. Undergraduate courses: “The Individual and Society” (a survey of modern world literature); “Romanticism and the Modern World” (English, French, German and American authors).  Literary survey courses have been taught in both lecture and on-line formats.  “Writing in the Disciplines” (an inter-disciplinary approach to writing in the arts and literature); “Critical Writing.” 

2010-2013:
*Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English, Pace University, New York, New York. Undergraduate courses: "Romanticism and the Modern World" (English and American poetry and poetics); "American Voices" (modern American literature); "The Individual and Society" (modern world literature). Also freshman composition (multiple sections).

*Adjunct Assistant Professor, Humanities and Sciences Department, The School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, New York. Undergraduate courses: Literature and Writing I & II (three sections).

*Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English, St. John's University, Staten Island, New York. Undergraduate courses: Introduction to English Studies; Eighteenth-Century Novel (British); Special Topics: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century Literature of Travel (British, French, American).

2000-2001:
*Lecturer, Department of English, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. Under-graduate precepts: American Best Sellers (for William Gleason, Fall), Twentieth-Century Fiction (for Maria di Battista, Spring).

*Adjunct Assistant Professor, Humanities Department, The New School, New York. Undergraduate courses: Twentieth-Century American Literature (Fall), Paris in the American Imagination (Spring).

1999-2000:
*Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English, St. John’s University, Staten Island, New York. Undergraduate course: Contemporary Fiction (Fall).

1998-1999:
*Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York. Core-curriculum world-literature survey “Literature/Humanities: Parts I & II (Fall & Spring).

*Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English, Baruch College, The City University of New York. Undergraduate course: Literature and Composition (Spring).

*Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of English, The College of Staten Island, New York. Continuing education course: Literature and composition (Spring).

1997-1998:
*Adjunct Assistant Professor, American University of Paris. Undergraduate course: Literature and Composition (Fall, Spring & Summer intensives).

*ESL instructor, Institut de Formation Permanente: Langues & Affaires, Paris, France. All levels of English as a foreign language, from beginners to advanced students. Also “business” English. (RSA/UCLES certification to teach English as a foreign language, January 1995.)

EDUCATION AND DISSERTATION:

Education:
Ph.D., 1997, Comparative Literature, Columbia University, New York.

M.Phil., 1991, Comparative Literature, Columbia University. Examination fields: poets and painters of the French and American Avant-Gardes; novels of postcolonial and British India; William Blake. Passed M.Phil. examination with distinction.

M.A., 1987, English, Columbia University. M.A. essay: “The Genealogical Method of Vico and Nietzsche.” Sponsor: Edward Said.

B.A., 1983, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. English major. Graduated magna cum laude. Editor, The William & Mary Review.

Dissertation:
"Poetic Adaptations of Painterly Techniques in the French and American Avant-Gardes: Five Exemplary Cases." The dissertation examines the relationship between the poetry and art criticism of Guillaume Apollinaire, Pierre Reverdy, André Breton, Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery, as a function of avant-garde theory and practice and to demonstrate the influence of the French on the Americans. Sponsors: George Stade, Sylvère Lotringer. Readers: David Shapiro, Arthur Danto, Serge Gavronsky.

RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Thesaurus Editor. Modern Language Association International Bibliography, New York, Spring 2002.

Editor, Ursus Press, New York, 1995-96. Managed a book publishing program
specializing in reprints of classic texts in art history, collecting, and garden design. Selected titles for the program; commissioned experts in the field to write original introductions to the works (including John Russell, John Dixon Hunt, David Alan Brown); edited introductions and primary texts; hired and supervised design and production consultants; wrote promotional copy; liaison on sales and marketing issues.

Associate Editor, Art & Auction, New York, 1985-86. Edited manuscripts from contributing editors and freelance writers; assigned articles and auction previews/reviews; wrote feature and news articles, book and auction reviews; performed copy-editing, fact-checking, and caption-writing.

Copy Associate, Esquire, New York, 1984-85. Copy-edited, proofread, and coordinated features among editorial, research, and production departments to final review.

Freelance writer, editor, consultant, 1984-90: United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 1994; Retirement Advisors, Hearst Business Communications, Inc., 1993; Charles Scribner’s Sons, Macmillan, 1993; American National Biography, The American Council of Learned Societies, 1989-90; Artscribe, Art & Auction, Travel & Leisure, Connoisseur, Arts, Architectural Record, Kirkus Reviews, Interview, The Nation, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., and The New Museum of Contemporary Art.