Carrie J. NolandProfessor, French & Italian Affiliate Faculty, Comparative Literature Affiliate Faculty, Anthropology |
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Research Interests |
Twentieth-century French literature and theory | |
| URLs | www.hnet.uci.edu/frenchanditalian/faculty/noland/index.html | |
| Agency and Embodiment | ||
| Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement | ||
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Academic Distinctions | I am honored to have received fellowships and grants from the National Endowment of the Humanities; the Camargo Foundation; the American Philosophical Society; the International Center for Writing and Translation; the UCI Humanities Center; California Poets & Writers; and the Council on Research, Computing and Libraries for Cultural Diversity Studies. | |
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Research Abstract |
Field of Interest: European and American avant-garde literary and artistic production, performance theory, phenomenology, and postcolonial poetry and poetics. My undergraduate courses focus on 19th- and 20th-century French poetry, Surrealism, and Negritude. I situate literary and artistic works in their historical contexts, such as the rise of a consumer society in 19th-century France; the blossoming of technology at the beginning of the 20th; the crisis of colonialism in the 1960s. Graduate seminars offered include close studies of Rimbaud, Char, Césaire, Bataille, Artaud, Merleau-Ponty, and Fanon. Recent courses on "Modernist Primitivism," "Black Paris/Paris Noir," and "Race and Embodiment" investigate the diasporic context of the avant-garde. My first book, Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology (Princeton UP, 1999), explores the poetry of Rimbaud, Cendrars, Char, and American performance poets Patti Smith and Laurie Anderson through the lens of cultural studies and the Frankfurt School critique of aesthetic autonomy. Since finishing the book, I have published articles on poetries composed by means of digital processing or electronic recording technologies (French sound poetry, the remediated works of Kamau Brathwaite, French digital poetry). Recently, I have written two essays on francophone poets from Martinique, Aimé Cesaire and Edouard Glissant, as well as an Introduction to "Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement," a co-edited volume (see below) that attempts to define an experimental poetics within the context of diasporic experience. My interest in the category of experience (and the theoretical treatment it has received) inspires my most recent book, "Agency and Embodiment" (Harvard University Press). Here, I develop a theory of agency that places emphasis on kinesthesia, or feeling the body move. I am currently writing a book entitled "Not a Dancing Bear: Writing Poetry in the French Caribbean" and beginning research for a project on Adorno, modern dance, and the sensorium. |
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BOOKS Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology" (Princeton University Press, 1999).
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 "Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture" (Harvard University Press, 2009)
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 "Migrations of Gesture" (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), co-edited with Sally Ann Ness.
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 "Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental Poetics and Cultural Displacement" co-edited with Barrett Watten (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
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SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS "The Human Situation on Stage: Merce Cunningham, Theodor Adorno, and the Category of Expression" in Dance Research Journal (forthcoming, 2009). "Edouard Glissant: A Poetics of the 'Entour'" in Poetry and Cultural Studies (Iowa UP, forthcoming). "Poésie et typosphère chez Léon-Gontran Damas" in Poésies et Médias du XXe siecle (Nouveau Monde, forthcoming) "Eric Suchère: Meaning and Momentum" in Dalhousie French Review (fall 2009). "Red Front/Black Front: Aimé Césaire and the Affaire Aragon" in Diacritics (Fall 2007) "Motor Intentionality: Gestural Meaning in Bill Viola and Merleau-Ponty" in Postmodern Cultures (Fall 2007) "Miming Signing: Henri Michaux and the Writing Body" in Migrations of Gesture, eds. Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness. University of Minnesota Press (2008). "Digital Gestures" in New Media Poetries, eds. Thomas Swiss and Adalaide Morris. MIT Press (2006). "Phonic Matters: French Sound Poetry, Julia Kristeva, and Bernard Heidsieck" in PMLA, Special Issue on Poetry (January 2005) "Cursive Dermisache" (on the Argentinian graphic artist Mirtha Dermisache) in New (no. 1, 2005). "Graffiti and the Reinvention of Space" in Word & Image, (Summer, 2005). "Bataille Looking" in Modernism/Modernity, (March, 2004). "Le Graffiti, la ligne, et la lettre chez René Char" in Pleine marge, (no. 35, June 2002). "The Metaphysics of Coffee," in Modernism/Modernity, (Fall 2000). "High Decoration: Blaise Cendrars, Sonia Delaunay, and the Poem as Fashion Design," in Journal X, (Spring 1998). "Poetry at Stake; Blaise Cendrars, Cultural Studies, and the Future of Poetry in the Literature Classroom," in PMLA, (January 1997). "Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance," in Critical Inquiry, (Spring 1995). |
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| Grant | NEH (1995); Camargo Foundation (2004); American Philosophical Society (2005) | |
| Research Center | Member of the Critical Theory Institute, Faculty Representative for Imagining America, Director of Humanities-Arts Major | |
| Link to this profile | http://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2770 | |
| Last updated | 11/19/2009 | |