Craig Dworkin is an American poet, critic, editor, and Professor of English at the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

. He is founding senior editor of Eclipse, an online archive of 20th-century small-press writing and 21st-century born-digital publications.

Education and career

Dworkin received his BA from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

and his PhD from

the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant univ ...

. He was an assistant and

associate professor Associate professor is an academic title with two principal meanings: in the North American system and that of the ''Commonwealth system''. Overview In the ''North American system'', used in the United States and many other countries, it is a ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

from 1998–2004 before joining the faculty at

the University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

, where he is a Professor of English. Dworkin has written a number of books of poetry, including ''Helicography'' (Punctum Books, 2021), ''The Pine-Woods Notebook'' (Kenning Editions, 2019), ''Def'' (Information as Material, 2018), ''Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact'' (IAM, 2016), ''Alkali'' (Counterpath Press, 2015), ''The Crystal Text (After Clark Coolidge)'' (Compline, 2012), ''Motes'' (Roof Books, 2011), ''The Perverse Library'' (IAM, 2010), and ''Strand'' (Roof, 2005). Dworkin is the author of four scholarly monographs: ''Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality'' (

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

, 2020); ''Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography'' ( Fordham, 2020); ''No Medium'' (

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the mo ...

, 2013), in which he discusses works that are "blank, erased, clear, or silent"; and ''Reading the Illegible'' ( Northwestern, 2003). Edited collections include ''Against Expression'' (co-edited with

Kenneth Goldsmith Kenneth Goldsmith (born 1961) is an American poetry, poet and critic. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb and since 2020 is the ongoing artist-in-residence at the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing (CPCW) at the University of Pennsylvani ...

, Northwestern, 2011), in which he coined the term "conceptual writing"; ''The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound'', co-edited with

Marjorie Perloff Marjorie Perloff (born September 28, 1931) is an Austrian-born poetry scholar and critic in the United States. Early life Perloff was born Gabriele Mintz into a secularized Jewish family in Vienna. The annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany exacer ...

(Chicago, 2009); and ''The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics'' (Roof, 2008). He has published articles in such diverse journals as ''October'', ''

Grey Room ''Grey Room'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal published quarterly, in print and online, by the MIT Press. Founded in 2000, it includes work in the fields of architecture, art, media, and politics. To date it has featured contributions by such ...

'', ''

Contemporary Literature Contemporary literature is literature which is generally set after World War II in the English-speaking world. Subgenres of contemporary literature include contemporary romance. History Literary movements are always contemporary to the writer dis ...

'', '' PMLA,'' and ''

Critical Inquiry ''Critical Inquiry'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal in the humanities published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Department of English Language and Literature (University of Chicago). While the topics and historica ...

''. Dworkin is the founding senior editor of Eclipse, an online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from the last quarter of the 20th century. The archive has expanded to publish selected new works and include born-digital publications.

Works

Scholarly monographs

* * * *

Edited collections

* * Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, eds. * Craig Dworkin and Marjorie Perloff, eds. * * * Craig Dworkin and María Eugenia Díaz Sánchez, eds.

Poetry books and pamphlets

* * * * * * * * * Craig Dworkin and Madeline Gilmore. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

References

External links

Eclipse Editor

Eclipse Archive
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dworkin, Craig University of California, Berkeley alumni 21st-century American poets Stanford University alumni 1969 births Living people American male poets 21st-century American male writers University of Utah faculty