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ACADEMIC ADDRESS:
Department of English
Box 354330
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-4330
Office: (206) 543-7606
Fax: (206) 685-2673
E-Mail: bmreed@u.washington.edu
EDUCATION:
Ph.D., Stanford University, in
English and American Literature. 1994-2000.
B.A., Oxford University, with first-class honours in Modern History.
1992-94. A.B., Harvard University, summa cum laude in English
and American
Literature. 1988-92.
EMPLOYMENT:
Associate Professor of English,
University of Washington. 2006-present.
Adjunct Assoc. Professor of Slavic, University of Washington. 2006-present.
Assistant Professor of English, University of Washington. 2000-06.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
UW English Dept. Annual Teaching Award. 2008-09.
Fulbright Scholar, Federal Republic
of Germany. 2009.
Society of Scholars, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of
Washington. 2005-06.
Univ. of Washington Royalty Research Scholar. 2002-03.
Higgins Dissertation Fellowship. 1999-2000.
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities. 1998-99.
Graduate Fellowship in residence at the Stanford Humanities Center.
1998-99.
Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. 1994-95.
Elected a Demy-Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. 1993.
Rhodes Scholarship at Magdalen College, Oxford University. 1992-94.
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Hart Crane: After His
Lights. Tuscaloosa, AL: U of Alabama P, 2006.
Reviewed in American Literature, Bookforum,
Foreign Literature
Studies [Wai Guo Wen Xue Yan
Jiu], Gay & Lesbian Review
Worldwide, Journal of the Midwest
Modern Language Association,
Modern Language Quarterly, and Rocky
Mountain Review.
Collections Edited:
Situating El Lissitzky:
Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow. Co-edited with
Nancy Perloff. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute,
2003. Reviewed
in Art Book, Ballast Quarterly
Review, Leonardo Digital Reviews,
and Slavic Review.
Essays and Articles:
"Visual Experiment and Oral Performance." The
Poetry of Sound / The
Sound of Poetry, eds. Marjorie
Perloff and Craig Dworkin. Chicago:
U of Chicago P, 2009. 270-84.
"Tom Raworth Between Two Avant-Gardes: The British Poetry Revival
and the New American Poetry." Another
Language: Poetic
Experiment in Britain and North America.
Eds. Kornelia Freitag
and Katharina Vester. Berlin: LIT-Verlag,
2008. 161-71.
"On the Style and Philosophy of Robert Frost's 'Nothing Gold Can Stay.'"
With Ping Guo. Foreign Literature
Studies 30.4 (Fall 2008): 112-19.
"Modernist Ohio: Hart Crane and the Challenge of Akron." Hiram Poetry
Review no. 69 (Spring 2008): 47-62.
"Now Not Now: Gertrude Stein Speaks." English Studies in Canada
33.4
(Dec. 2007): 103-13.
"The Dark Room Collective and Post-Soul Poetics." African American
Review 41.4 (Winter 2007):
727-47.
"'Lost Already Walking': Caroline Bergvall's 'Via.'" Jacket
no.34 (Oct.
2007). 25 paragraphs.
"A Reader's Guide to Hart Crane's 'Voyages.'" Poetryfoundation.org.
Sept. 2007. 11 paragraphs.
"The Time Has Come to Talk of Queens: John Ashbery's 'Coma Berenices.'"
The Seattle Review 1.1 (Summer
2007): 159-77.
"Queer I-Love-You's." Poetryfoundation.org.
February 2007. 12 parags.
"Carry on England: Tom Raworth's 'West Wind,' Intuition, and Neo-Avant-
Garde Poetics." Contemporary
Literature 47.2 (Sum. 2006): 170-206.
"Locating Zaum: Mnatsakanova on Khlebnikov." Jacket no.
27 (Apr. 2005).
13
paragraphs.
"Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art
World." A Concise
Companion to Twentieth-century American
Poetry, ed. Stephen
Fredman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
113-34.
Entries for "Imaginary Letters," "Patria Mia," "Pavannes and Divisions,"
"Poems 1918-1921," and "Profile."
Ezra Pound Encyclopedia,
eds. Demetres Tryphonopoulos and Stephen
J. Adams. Westport, CT:
Greenwood, 2005.
"Carl Sandburg's The People, Yes, Thirties Modernism, and the
Problem
of Bad Political Poetry." Texas
Studies in Language and Literature
46.2 (Summer 2004): 181-212.
"'Eden or Ebb of the Sea': Susan Howe's Word Squares and Postlinear
Poetics." Postmodern
Culture 14.2 (Jan. 2004). 56 paragraphs.
"Hart Crane's Aberrant English." Lingua Humanitatis (June 2003):
167- 92.
"'Splice of Life': Rosmarie Waldrop Renews Collage." How2
no. 8 (Fall
2002). 38 paragraphs.
"The Baseness of Robert Grenier's Visual Poetics." Verdure no.3-4
(Winter-Spring 2001): 67-70.
"Hart Crane's Victrola." Modernism / Modernity 7.1 (Jan. 2000):
99-125.
"Ezra Pound's Utopia of the Eye: The Chinese Characters in the Rock-
Drill Cantos." Paideuma 26 (Fall-Winter
1997): 111-21.
Reviews:
Rev. of Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura
(Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson:
The American Cratylus by
Carla Billitteri. NBOL-19. Sept. 2009.
Rev. of Beyond Maximus by Anne Day Dewey, A Vocabulary of Thinking
by Deborah Mix, Women, the New York
School, and Other Abstractions
by Maggie Nelson, and John Ashbery
and You by John Emil Vincent.
American Literature 80.3 (Sept.
2008): 617-20.
Rev. of Rita Dove's Cosmopolitanism by Malin Pereira. African
American Review 41.3 (Fall 2007):
590-92.
"She Follows Them How Else? By Flying." Rev. of A History of Twentieth-
Century British Women's Poetry by
Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle.
Contemporary Literature 48.3 (Fall
2007): 460-67.
Rev. of Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption
in Contemporary Poetry by Peter Middleton.
Modern Language
Quarterly 68.4 (Dec. 2007): 586-89.
Rev. of The Geometry of Modernism: The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis,
Pound, H.D.,
and Yeats by Miranda B. Hickman. Modernism /
Modernity
14.2 (Apr. 2007): 365-67.
Rev. of Ugly Feelings by Sianne Ngai, Integral Music by
Aldon Lynn
Nielsen,
A Poetics of Impasse by Susan Schulz, and Expressionism
and Modernism
in American Theatre by Jane Walker. American
Literature
79.1 (March 2007): 216-19.
Rev. of Poetry After Auschwitz: Remembering What One Never Knew
by
Susan Gubar. Modern Language Quarterly 67.3 (Sept. 2006):
411-16.
"When All the Pieces Fail to Fit: The
Puzzle of the Postmodern Long
Poem." Rev. of The Obligation
toward the Difficult Whole:
Postmodernist Long Poems by
Brian McHale. Contemporary
Literature 46.2 (Summer 2005): 340-45.
Rev. of Modern Enchantments: The Cultural Power of Secular Magic
by Simon During. Modern Language
Quarterly 65.4 (Dec. 2004):
605-08.
Rev. of Death's Jest Book by Thomas Lovell Beddoes. 2003 ed.
of 1850
MS. Ed. Alan Halsey. The
Gig no. 17 (Oct. 2004): 55-56.
Rev. of Literary Modernism and Musical Aesthetics: Pater, Pound,
Joyce, and Stein by Brad Bucknell.
English Studies in Canada 30.3
(Sept. 2004): 192-96.
Rev. of Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Literature, Music, and
Other Arts by Daniel Albright. Modern
Language Quarterly 63.1
(March 2002): 130-33.
"Let Sounds Be Themselves." Rev. of Wireless Imagination, eds.
Douglas
Kahn and Gregory Whitehead, and Sound
States: Innovative Poetics
and Acoustical Technologies, ed.
Adalaide Morris. Stanford
Humanities Review 7 (Summer 1999):
158-62.
ACCEPTED:
Essays and Articles:
"Hand in Hand: Jasper Johns and Hart Crane." Forthcoming in Modernism/
Modernity in Jan. 2010.
"'Footprints of a Wild Ballet': The Poem-Paintings of Frank O'Hara
and
Norman Bluhm." Forthcoming in Frank
O'Hara Now: New Essays on
the
New York Poet. Eds. Will Montgomery and Robert Hampson.
Liverpool: Liverpool UP.
"Grammar Trouble." Forthcoming in boundary 2.
"Hard Going: Resisting the Fantasy of Distance's Irrelevance."
Forthcoming
in Hyperrhiz.
"Reginald Shepherd at Hart Crane's Grave." Forthcoming in Callaloo.
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
Books:
"The Imaged Word: Visual-Verbal Relations in American
Poetry Since 1950."
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Conferences, Lectures, Readings:
"'OMG I Like Totally Love Brooke': Flarf Poetics and Vernacular English in
the Digital
Age." Universität Paderborn, Germany, July 2009.
"Twenty-First Century American Poetry: An Overview." Universität Rostock,
Germany, May
2009.
"Chant and Native American Poetics from Washington Matthews to Sherman
Alexie." Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, Germany, May 2009.
"American Poetry Since 9/11: The Case of Flarf." Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
Freiburg, Germany, Apr. 2009.
"Freeing Russian Verse: Poetry and the Book-as-Such from Futurism
to Neo-Futurism."
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 2009.
"Mikhail Kuzmin's 'First Blow': Anti-Soviet Self-Fashioning in
Forel' raz-
bivaet
led." Modernist Studies Association (MSA) annual conference,
Nashville,
TN, Nov. 2008.
"The
State of Poetry Today?" "Conceptual
Poetry and Its Others" symposium.
The University of Arizona Poetry Center,
Tucson, AZ, May 2008.
"Visual Rhetoric in Hughes's Ask Your Mama." American
Literature
Association (ALA) annual conference, San
Francisco, May 2008.
"Crossing the Page: Gennady Aigi's Free Verse." Modernist
Studies
Association (MSA) annual conference,
Long Beach, CA, Nov. 2007.
"Looking at Verse." "Visible Language" panel. University
of Washington,
Bothell, May 2007.
"Workshop on Russian Avant-Garde Book Art." Participant. Getty
Research
Institute, Los Angeles, CA, April 2007.
"Porphyro in Akron: Hart Crane's Ohio Years." Invited lecture.
Hiram
College, Ohio, March 2007.
"Hart
Crane's Compositional Process." Invited lecture. Kelly Writers
House,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
PA, Jan. 2007.
"Oral Performance and Visual Experiment." Modern Language
Association
(MLA) annual convention, Philadelphia,
PA, Dec. 2006.
"Frank McCourt's Trilogy." Public lecture preceding McCourt's
talk in
Seattle Arts and Lectures series, Nov.
2006.
"Hart Crane's 'Repose of Rivers' and the Irrelevance of Melville."
"Reckoning
with Hart Crane" event. Humanities Center
at the CUNY Graduate
Center, NY, Oct. 2006.
"Elizbeth Bishop's Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments." A roundtable
with Alice Quinn and Linda Bierds. Seattle,
WA, Apr. 2006.
"Still Stein: Robert Duncan's 'Turbine, Veil, Cord & Bird'." "(Re:)Working
the Ground" conference. SUNY-Buffalo,
NY, Apr. 2006
"Constructivist Davenport." Modern Language Association (MLA) annual
convention, Washington, DC, Dec. 2005.
"I've Been Thinking a Lot about Sestinas." American Literature Association
(ALA) conference "Poetic Form," San Diego,
CA, Oct. 2005.
"Tom Raworth Between Two Avant-Gardes: The New American Poetry
and the British Poetry Revival."
"Another Language" conference, Ruhr-
Bochum Universität, Germany, to
be given in July 2005.
"Locating Zaum: Mnatsakanova on Khlebnikov." Modernist Studies
Associ-
ation (MSA) annual conference,
Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 2004.
"The Word as Such Revisited: Elizaveta Mnatsakanova's Poetry in an
International Context." Invited
lecture, Harvard U. Slavic Dept., Oct. 2004.
"Professor Roethke." "Poetry of the 1940s" conference, U. of Maine,
Orono,
June 2004.
"Who Is Billy Collins?" Public lecture preceding Collins's talk in Seattle
Arts
and Lectures series, Jan. 2004.
"'Ubi Amor Ibi Oculus': From Pound's Ideograms to Cobbing's Soundsignals."
Modern Language Association (MLA)
annual convention, San Diego, CA,
Dec. 2003.
"Preposterous Classicism from Ezra Pound to Lisa Robertson." Twentieth-
Century Literature Conference,
U. of Louisville, KY, Feb. 2003.
"Assemblage and the Return of Narrative: Jasper Johns's Passage."
Modernist
Studies Association (MSA) annual
conference, Madison, WI, Oct. 2002.
"What Susan Howe Saw in Agnes Martin." Twentieth-Century Literature
Conference, U. of Louisville, KY, Feb.
2002.
"Collage in / and Sound, or, Listening to Joseph Beuys's Ocean-symphony,
1964." Modernist Studies Association
(MSA) annual conference, Houston,
TX, Oct. 2001.
"James Merrill, Courtier Poet: A Response to J.D. McClatchy and Stephen
Yenser." Counterbalance Poetry Series, Seattle,
WA, Aug. 2001.
"A Spectacle of Failure: Thomas Lovell Beddoes's Death's Jest-Book."
North
American Society for the Study of Romanticism
(NASSR) annual
conference, U. of Washington, Seattle,
Aug. 2001.
"Performing American Studies in the Classroom: A Roundtable Discussion."
American Studies Conference, U. of Washington,
Seattle, Apr. 2001.
"Broken Baroque: On John Ashbery, AIDS, and a Double Sestina." American
Studies Colloquium, U. of Washington,
Seattle, Feb. 2001.
"'Disastrous to Civilization': Hart Crane and Yvor Winters Revisited."
Yvor
Winters Centenary conference, Stanford
U., Palo Alto, CA, Nov. 2000.
"On Beyond Language Poetry: From Ron Silliman to C.D. Wright." Twentieth-
Century Literature Conference, U. of
Louisville, KY, Feb. 2000.
"Some Reflections on SGML, Visual Poetics, and Ezra Pound's Cantos."
American Comparative Literature Association
(ACLA) annual conference,
Montréal, Canada, Apr. 1999.
"A Son Rebels: George Oppen's Discrete Series as a Response to
Williams
and Pound." Modern Language Association
(MLA) annual convention,
San Francisco, CA, Dec. 1998.
"'His Appetite Is Not Experimental': Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein."
American Literature Association conference,
San Diego, CA, May 1998.
"Steve McCaffery's Cheat of Words and Nostalgia for the Lyrical."
"Nostalgia" conference, Stanford U. Art
Dept., Palo Alto, CA, Oct. 1997.
"John Ashbery's 'Litany' and the American Academy's Resistance to Visual
Poetry." "Eye-Rhymes" conference, U.
of Alberta, Edmonton, June 1997.
"Ezra Pound's Utopia of the Eye: The Chinese Characters in Rock-Drill."
"American Poetry of the 50s" conference,
U. of Maine, Orono, June 1996.
Service to the Profession:
Editorial Board of American Literature. 2009-present.
Book Review Editor (Poetry) for Contemporary Literature. 2008-present.
Editorial Board of Modern Language Quarterly. 2006-present.
Service to the University of Washington:
Director of Graduate Studies, English Dept. 2009-present.
Executive Board of the Simpson Center for the
Humanities. 2008-present.
UW Faculty Senate. 2008-present.
English Dept. Graduate Studies Committee. 2008-2009.
Undergraduate Scholarship Office. Vetted applications and conducted
both
mock interviews and interview preparation
sessions for university-level
Rhodes, Marshall, and Mitchell Scholar
candidates. Fall 2000-present.
Selection Committee for the UW Royalty Research
Fund. 2006-2008.
UW Digital Humanities Task Force. 2007-2008.
English Dept. Placement Committee. 2001-2003 and 2007-2008.
Selection Committee for the Roethke Memorial
Poetry Reading. 2000-01,
2006-07, and 2007-08..
English Dept. Chair Search Committee. 2005-06.
Instructor, "Teachers as Scholars." Designed and led two-weekend seminars
on contemporary poetry for Seattle-area
secondary school teachers.
Winter 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
English Dept. Executive Committee. 2003-05.
Secretary of the English Dept. Executive Committee. 2003-04.
English Dept. Senior Search, Field Open. 2003-04.
English Dept. Junior Search in Romanticism. 2000-01.
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