Craig Dworkin is an American poet, critic, editor, and Professor of English at the
University of Utah
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.
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 ...
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He was an
assistant and
associate professor
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Overview
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at
Princeton University
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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
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, 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
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'', ''
Contemporary Literature
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History
Literary movements are always contemporary to the writer dis ...
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PMLA,'' and ''
Critical Inquiry
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''.
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
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Poetry books and pamphlets
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References
External links
Eclipse EditorEclipse Archive
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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