Areas of Research/Interest: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Literature; Contemporary Poetry; Art History; Theory, Urbanism

Select Publications:

Specimen Box.  Periscope Books. Forthcoming.

19 Lines: A Drawing Center Writing Anthology, ed./Introduced.  The Drawing Center/Roof Books.  2007.

Frank O’Hara: The Poetics of Coterie.  University of Iowa Press.  2006.

“Whitman’s Urbanism” in The Cambridge Companion to New York Writing, eds. Bryan Waterman and Cyrus Patell (forthcoming, 2010)

“Gesture in 1960: Toward Literal Situations,” in New York Cool, ed. Pepe Karmel.  Grey Art Gallery, 2008.

“The Utopian Past,” in The Present Tense Through the Ages: on the Recent Work of Gerard Byrne.  Koenig Books. 2007.

“Faulting Description: Clark Coolidge, Bernadette Mayer and the Site of Scientific Authority,” in Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing Beyond “The New York School,” ed. Daniel Kane.  Dalkey Archive. 2006.

“Smithson, Writer,” in Robert Smithson: Spiral Jetty, eds. Lynne Cooke and Karen Kelly.  DIA Center for the Arts/University of California Press.  2005.

“The Moral Storm: Henry Darger’s Weather Notebooks,” Cabinet, 3. 2001.

Affiliations: Contributing Editor, Cabinet; Founder/Co-editor, Shark; Founder/Curator, Line Reading Series at The Drawing Center; MLA: Modern Language Association.

Fellowships/Honors: Holloway Poet, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 2008; Getty Post-Doctoral Grant in Art History, 2003-2004; Millay Colony, 2001; MacDowell Colony, 2001; Vice Chancellor for Research Grant (UC Berkeley), 1998; Dean's Dissertation Fellowship (UC Berkeley), 1997-1998; Mellon Dissertation Fellowship (UC Berkeley), 1996-1997; Class of 1916 Honors Thesis Prize (Cornell), 1991.