EDUCATION
Ph.D., English Literature and joint Ph.D. in Theory and Criticism, University of Washington, 2010
M.A., English Literature, University of Washington, 2006
B.A. with Great Distinction, English, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, 2003
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of Literature, Lawrence Technological University, 2019-present
Assistant Professor of Literature, Lawrence Technological University, 2014-2019
Full-time Lecturer, Department of English, Case Western Reserve University, 2011-14
Acting Instructor, Department of English, University of Washington, 2010-11
Teaching Assistant (Instructor of Record), Department of English, University of Washington, 2004-10
INSTITUTIONAL POSITIONS
Chair, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communication, July 2022-ongoing
Director of Honors, Lawrence Technological University, 2020-2022
Acting Faculty Senator (sabbatical replacement), Lawrence Technological University, Fall 2019
Co-founder and co-director, “Humanity+Technology” lecture series, Lawrence
Technological University, 2018-ongoing
PUBLICATIONS
Scholarly Monograph
Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital, Cambridge University Press, 2017. Reviews in Modern Language Quarterly, Modernism/Modernity; Journal of Modern Literature; reviews forthcoming in Pacific Coast Philology
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Spectral Affordances of the Catalogue,” Comparative Literature 70.2 (2018): 160-175
“Virtual Worlds: Hypothetical Focalization in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!,” Journal of Foreign Languages and Culture 2.1 (2018): 114-127 (invited submission)
“Speaking and Making: Arendt, Stevens, and the Poetics of Public Discourse,” New Literary History 45.4 (2014): 665-85
“The Poetics of Midrash in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts,” Contemporary Literature 53.1 (2012): 114-42
“Charles Olson Keeps House: Rewriting John Smith for Contemporary America,” Journal of Modern Literature 34.1 (2010): 107-24
“‘Allow Intelligence to Survive’: Life’s Language in Williams and Tzara,” William Carlos Williams Review 28.1-2 (2008): 17-33
Book Chapters
“Nathaniel Mackey’s Late Style,” in Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out: Essays on His Work, edited by Jeanne Heuving, University of Iowa Press, 2021, 105-21 (invited submission)
“Articulating Community: Speaking and Silence in George Oppen’s ‘Of Being Numerous,’” in A Wilderness of Signs: Ethics, Beauty, and Environment after Postmodernism, edited by Joe Jordan, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2006, 117-32
Co-Authored Article
Lorri Lewis, Paul Jaussen, Michael Scrivener, Daniel Shargel, Eric Meyer, Franco Delogu, Lior Shamir, Sibrina Collins. “Frankenstein 200 Years Later: Chemistry, Literature and Pop Culture,” Chemical Educator, 24 (2019): 162-65
Edited Volumes
Mary Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, and Paul Jaussen, eds. A Companion to American Poetry, Wiley Blackwell (forthcoming, 2022)
Edward Alexander, Richard Dunn, and Paul Jaussen, eds. Robert B. Heilman: His Life in Letters, University of Washington Press, 2009. Reviews in The Sewanee Review, Academic Questions, and The Key Reporter
Reference Works
“Charles Reznikoff,” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, 2017
“The Long Poem,” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, 2017
“The Objectivists,” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, 2016
“H.D. (Hilda Doolittle),” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, 2016
In Progress
Article: “Forensic Poetics” (under review); “Distinction” (invited contribution to a New Literary History cluster on “Literary Cybernetics”)
Book manuscript: Rumors of Utopia: Contemporary Literature’s Public Language
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Untitled Shot,” Three Fold Press, threefoldpress.org/untitledshot, 2021
“No Shelter,” Six Feet of Distance: Meditations & Resources on Art & Social Practice, sixfeetofdistance.org, May 2020
“Hybrid Humanities at Polytechnic Universities,” PMLA Forum, PMLA 134.1 (2019): 201-2
Review of The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science, Materialist Poetics by Nathan Brown (Fordham UP, 2017), ASAP/J, 2019
“Shots Fired,” review of Exit Theater by Mike Lala (UP of Colorado, 2016), Jacket2, 2018
Review of Late Arcade by Nathaniel Mackey (New Directions, 2017), Chicago Review, 2017
“Ending, Beginning,” review of recent works by Rachel Blau DuPlessis, The Volta, 2017
“Detroit Poetries: Field Notes,” invited series of commentaries for Jacket2, 2015
INVITED TALKS
“Form, Forum, Forensic,” invited plenary for “Rethinking the North American Long Poem: Matter, Form, Experiment” conference, University of Basel, Switzerland, September 2021
“Plague Literature in the Time of Coronavirus,” panel participant, Lawrence Technological University, May 8, 2020
“Pillars of Course-Based Research,” faculty training workshop, Lawrence Technological University, October 28, 2019
“Teaching Course-Based Research in the Humanities,” faculty training workshop, University of Puerto Rico at Humacao, November 15, 2019 (Skype presentation)
“Emergent Poetics,” Dacha Garlandia Reading Series, Ypsilanti, MI, May 7, 2018
“Emergent Form: The Long Poem as a Complex Adaptive System,” English Department Colloquium Series, Case Western Reserve University, February 9, 2018
“The Poetics of Emergence,” College of Arts and Sciences Colloquium Series, Lawrence Technological University, February 1, 2018
“The Catalogue as a Transhistorical Device,” Poetry and Poetics Workshop, University of Michigan, November 20, 2015
“Emergent Poetics,” graduate seminar on “Critical ‘-isms,’” Department of English, University of Michigan, April 16, 2015
“A List, not a Map,” Woodward Line Poetry Series, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI, March 18, 2015
“Hypotheses on the Modern Epic,” given during the “Poetics Ancient and Modern” roundtable, Department of Classics/Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, April 24, 2014
RECENT CONFERENCE ACTIVITY
“Frankenstein’s Sutures,” Association for Philosophy and Literature conference, May 2022
“Love in the Body Politic; or, the Poetics of Bad Romance,” American Comparative Literature Association conference, April 2021
“Literary Cybernetics,” roundtable participant, Modern Language Association convention, Toronto, ON, January 2021
“Poetry as Social Practice: The Case of C. D. Wright,” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2020
“On Weak Practice; or, Transcription in Public,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Toronto, ON, October 2019
“Nathaniel Mackey’s Late Style,” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2019
“Approaches to Teaching William Carlos Williams,” roundtable participant, Modern Language Association convention, Chicago, IL, January 2019
“Experimenting with Poetry: Inclusion, Identity, and Student-Led Research in the Literature Classroom,” Equity in the Classroom Conference, Southfield, MI, March 19, 2018
“C.D. Wright’s Forensic Poetics,” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2018
“Arendt’s Judgment and the Totality to Come,” Modern Language Association convention, New York, NY, January 2018
Seminar participant, “George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present conference, University of California, Berkeley, October 2017
“Boundary Conditions of the Long Poem,” roundtable participant, Modern Language Association convention, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017
“Noir Hypotheses,” Modern Language Association convention, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017
“Writing the Future Anterior, Making the Past Conditional,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Sacramento, CA, November 2016
“Hypothetical Focalization in Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, March 2016
“Cultural Representations of Violence: A Course Case Study,” Michigan College English Association Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, October 2015
“On Appearance: Visibility and Virtuality in Contemporary Poetry,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Conference, Greenville, SC, September 2015
“Some Versions of the Polis,” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2015
“Emergent Poetics: Systems, Environments, Autonomy,” Modernist Studies Association Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, November 2014
“Making and Speaking: Toward a Political Theory of Poetics,” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2014
“Revisiting Device,” Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, IL, January 2014
“Walking as Social Practice in American Urban Poetry,” Association for the Study of Arts of the Present Conference, Detroit, MI, October 2013
“Creative Space in Wallace Stevens and Hannah Arendt,” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900, Louisville, KY, February 2013
“Messianic History in the Diasporic Life Poem,” National Poetry Foundation Conference. Orono, ME, June 2012
“Poetic Networks and Public Spheres,” Modern Language Association Convention. Seattle, WA, Panel on “Northwest Poetry and Poetics” selected as part of the MLA Presidential theme, “Language, Literature, Learning,” January 2012
“Crushing Repetition: Defamiliarization and the Catalogue in the Modern Epic,” American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, March 2011
“‘M’apping’ the Voyage: Displacement as Composition in Nathaniel Mackey’s Poetics,” Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association Conference, Honolulu, HI, November 2010
“Olson’s Poetic Homelessness,” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 2009
GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS
Primary Investigator, “Humanity+Technology Lecture Series,” Michigan Humanities Council Grant, ($6,800), Lawrence Technological University, 2019-2020
Co-PI (beginning 2020), Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence Initiative Grant ($1 million), Lawrence Technological University, PI: Lior Shamir, 2017-2021
Senior Personnel, National Science Foundation Major Research Instrument Grant, Lawrence Technological University, PI: Franco Delogu, 2019. Project: Eye-tracker investigations into literary reading
Course-Based Research Experience (CRE) Student Researcher Award, “Translating Contemporary Poetry,” ($600), Lawrence Technological University, 2019-2020
Faculty Excellence Award for Student Support for the College of Arts and Sciences, Lawrence Technological University, Spring 2020
Excellence in Honors Instruction Award, Lawrence Technological University, 2020
Student Recognition Award, College of Arts and Sciences, Lawrence Technological University, 2016
Baker-Nord Humanities Seminar Fellow, Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, Case Western Reserve University, 2014
Excellence in SAGES Writing Instruction Award, Case Western Reserve University, 2012
Nominee, Carl F. Wittke Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Case Western Reserve University, 2012
Graduate Fellow, Joff Hanauer Endowment for Excellence in Western Civilization, University of Washington, 2010
Susanna J. McMurphy Dissertation Fellowship, Department of English, University of Washington, 2010
Joseph and Yetta Blau Award for Excellence in Research, Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, 2009
Honorable Mention, Joan Webber Teaching Prize, University of Washington, 2008
SELECT TEACHING AND ADVISING
Lawrence Technological University
“Modern Poetry” (supported by LTU’s Course-Based Research Experience/HHMI grant)
“Literary Criticism, Theory, and Cultural Studies”
“Literature and Technology” (supported by the Teagle Foundation’s “Grand Challenge” initiative)
“Cultural Representations of Violence”
“The Art of the Expatriate City: Americans in Paris” (experiential learning course conducted in Paris)
“Modernism and Modernity in Paris” (experiential learning course conducted in Paris)
“English Composition: On Love”
“World Masterpieces II”
Directed studies/senior thesis topics: oral performance in African-American poetry; Hannah Arendt, trauma, and world-making; illness and violence in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club; Deleuze, the virtual, and digital art; person, persona, and hip-hop
Advisor, B.A. in English and Communication Arts
Founding Faculty Member, B.S. in Technological Humanities
Case Western Reserve University (2011-2014)
“On Love” (first-year seminar)
“Thinking Through Literature” (first-year seminar)
“Cultural Representations of Violence”
Graduate student microseminar, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Form”
Graduate student teaching mentor
Generalist faculty advisor
University of Washington (2004-2011)
“Paradoxes of the New: British Modernism, 1900-22,” (included supervising two senior capstone projects)
“American Literature, 1800-1865”
“History of Literary Criticism and Theory II”
“The Specters of American Literature”
“‘What about all this writing?’: Readings in the Twentieth Century”
“Reading Literature”
“First-Year Composition: Exposition”
SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Referee, Contemporary Literature, PMLA, Humanities, ANQ, Literature and Theology, Genre, AModern, Cambridge University Press, Vernon Press
Chair, Vivian Kao Tenure Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Lawrence Technological University, 2021
Member, Margaret Glembocki Midtenure Review Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Lawrence Technological University, 2021
Member, Julia Kiernan Midtenure Review Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Lawrence Technological University, 2021
Co-organizer, Bachelor of Science in Technological Humanities undergraduate degree program, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communications department (HSSC), Lawrence Technological University, 2018-ongoing
Member, Dan Shargel Tenure Committee, HSSC, Lawrence Technological University, 2019
Member, Lillian Crum Midtenure Review Committee, College of Architecture and Design, Lawrence Technological University, 2019
Member, HSSC search committee (assistant professor in technical communication), Lawrence Technological University, 2019
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee, Lawrence Technological University, 2018-2019
Member, World Masterpieces 2 curriculum redesign committee, HSSC, Lawrence Technological University, 2017-2018
Co-founder and co-director, “Idea Factory: A Monthly Symposium on Research in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Communications,” Lawrence Technological University, 2014-2018
Chair, Honors Committee, Lawrence Technological University, 2020-2022
Chair, HSSC search committee (assistant professor and director of composition), Lawrence Technological University, 2015
Chair, University Core Curriculum Committee: Composition, Lawrence Technological University, 2014
Founding Member and Organizer, Poetics Working Group, Case Western Reserve University, 2012-14
Member, Modern Language Association, Association for the Study of Arts of the Present, Modernist Studies Association, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, American Association of University Professors, IEEE Society on the Social Implications of Technology
COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Curriculum Consultant, Books@Work, a non-profit continuing education program, Cleveland, OH, www.booksatwork.org, 2014-ongoing
Reading Group Facilitator, Hamtramck Free School, Hamtramck, MI, 2018 (Fred Moten, Black and Blur), 2019 (Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, The Undercommons)
References available upon request.