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| Paul Vangelisti - Department Chair |
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| BA Univ. of San Francisco; MA, ABD, USC. Author of twenty books of poetry. Translator, Journalist, and former Cultural Affairs Director at KPFK radio. NEA Translator Fellow, and NEA Poetry Fellow. Co-Editor of the literary magazine Invisible City, and Editor of Ribot, the annual publication of the College of Neglected Science.
Currently, he is editing, with Luigi Ballerini, a five-volume anthology of contemporary American poetry, from 1960 to the present, Nuova poesia americana, for Mondadori publishing in Milan. |
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| Guy Bennett - Associate Professor |
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| BA, PhD in French, University of California Los Angeles. Author of four books of poetry, most recently Drive to Cluster (2003), and co-author, with Béatrice Mousli, of Charting the Here of There: French and American Poetry in Translation in Literary Magazines, 1850-2002 (2002). Noted translator from French, including books by Mostafa Nissabouri, Michel Leiris, Nicole Brossard, Valère Novarina and Jacques Roubaud. |
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| Peter Gadol - Associate Professor |
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| A.B. Harvard College. He is the author of five novels, the most recent being The Long Rain (1997) and Light at Dusk (2000). His work has appeared in Story and Tin House, and been translated into several languages. For nine years before joining the faculty of Otis, he taught writing at CalArts. |
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| Brian Blanchfield - Senior Lecturer |
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| BA University of North Carolina; MFA Warren Wilson College. His debut collection of poems,
Not Even Then, was published by the U.C. Press in 2004. Before moving to Los Angeles, he taught in the B.F.A. creative writing program at Pratt Institute of Art. |
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| Lewis MacAdams - Senior Lecturer |
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| BA Princeton Univ; MA, State University of New York at Buffalo. Author of ten books of poetry, including The River (2005) and of cultural study, Birth of the Cool (2001). He served as the Director of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University, and is currently a board member. He is a contributing editor to the L.A. Weekly and writes on culture and ecology for Rolling Stone and Los Angeles Magazine. |
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| Douglas Messerli - Senior Lecturer |
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| BA Univ of Wisconsin; MA, PhD Univ of Maryland. Author of numerous books of fiction, poetry and drama, as well as Editor of Sun & Moon Press, one of the country's foremost publishers of international new writing. Currently he is the publisher of Green Integer Books, Los Angeles.
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| Béatrice Mousli-Bennett - Senior Lecturer |
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| PhD University of Paris-IV Sorbonne. She has written extensively on literary magazines and the history of publishing. Author of a biography, Valery Larbaud, which in 1998 won the Grand Prix de la Biographie de l'Académie Française. With Guy Bennett, she published Charting the Here of There: French & American Poetry in Translation in Literary Magazines, 1850-2002 (2002) and curated, at the New York Public Library in the fall of 2002, a companion exhibition to that volume, Reviews of Two Worlds; French and American Literary Periodicals, 1945-2002. She is writing a biography of the poet Max Jacob. |
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| Dennis Phillips - Senior Lecturer |
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| BFA, Cal Arts; MFA, Antioch University, Los Angeles. Author of ten books of poetry (among them Sand--2002, and Credence--1987) and one novel, Hope--2007. Former director of the Beyond Baroque Literary Center, Venice. Past Editor of book reviews for Sulfur, and poetry editor of the L.A. Weekly. Co-founded and co-edited Littoral Books. Phillips is a professor in the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Art Center College of Design and teaches creative writing regularly at Occidental College. |
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| Christopher Rice - Senior Lecturer |
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| Christopher Rice is the author of the New York Times bestselling novels, A Density of Souls, The Snow Garden and Light Before Day , the first of which was published when he was twenty-two. The Snow Garden received a Lambda Literary Award. He served as the fiction editor of Genre magazine and is currently a contributing columnist for The Advocate . Christopher Rice lives in West Hollywood. |
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| Martha Ronk - Senior Lecturer |
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BA Wellesley College, PhD Yale University.
Author of more than ten books of
poetry, among which State of Mind (1995), Eyetrouble (1998),
Why/Why Not
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Vertigo,
winner of the 2006 National Poetry Series Open Competition.
Her In a Landscape
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for poetry. She has
also published numerous articles on Shakespeare and is the Irma
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| James Sallis - Senior Lecturer |
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| Author of numerous novels, books of poetry, short stories, studies of jazz and blues, as well as an award-winning biography of Chester Himes. His new Griffin series of six rather unconventional crime novels set in New Orleans, published between 1992-2001, has won him praise here and abroad. His latest novel, Cypress Grove, also set in the South, appeared in 2003. He continues columns for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the literary website Web Del Sol, and the Boston Globe. |
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| Leslie Scalapino - Senior Lecturer |
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| BA UC Berkeley.Called by Library Journal "one of the most unique and powerful writers at the forefront of American Literature," she is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, essays, and plays. Wesleyan University Press has published her recent books, New Time (1999), The Public World/Syntactically Impermanence (1999) and The Front Matter, Dead Souls (1996). She is founder and editor of O Books in Oakland.
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| Benjamin Weissman - Senior Lecturer |
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| BFA California Instutute of the Arts. Writer and visual artist, author of two collections of short fiction, Headless (Akashic) and, Dear Dead Person (Serpent’s Tail). Exhibited art solo and in collaboration with Paul McCarthy and Jim Shaw at Kunsthalle, Vienna, Galerie Krinzinger, Essor Gallery, and Berkeley Art Museum. Lectured on and written extensively about art, books, music, skiing and pornography for M.I.T., MOCA, MOMA, Walker Art Center, as well as Artforum, Freeze, Frieze, Index, Los Angeles Times Book Review, Nerve, Parkett, Powder, Salon, and Spin. Hosts "New American Writing Series" at UCLA Hammer Museum. |
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