Maria Damon

Publications

• The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry. University of Minnesota Press, Damon, Maria, 1993.
• Avant-garde or Borderguard: (Latino) Identity in Poetry. Damon, Maria, Fall 1998.
• Post-literary 'America:' from Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries. University of Iowa Press, Damon, Maria, 2011.
• Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader. Ira Livingston, Illinois University Press, Damon, Maria, 2009.
• pleasureTEXTpossession.. Zasterle Press, Damon, Maria, 2005.
• Literature Nation. Bedford, Damon, Maria, 2003.
• "Electronic Poetry Assay: Diaspora, Silliness and "Gender": Cybertext Yearbook, Damon, Maria.
• "Writing, Social Science and Ethnicity in Gertrude Stein and Certain Others." : New York University Press, Damon, Maria, 2001.
• "Was That 'Different,' 'Dissident' or 'Dissonant'? Poetry (n) the Public Spear: Slams, Open Readings, and Dissident Traditions." : Oxford University Press, Damon, Maria, 1998.
• "Post-literary Poetry, Counterperformance, and Micropoetries." Class Issues: Pedagogy, Cultural Studies, and the Public Sphere: New York University Press, Damon, Maria, 1997.
• "Jazz-Jews, Jive and Gender: Ethnic Anxiety and the Politics of Jazz Argot." . University of Minnesota Press, Damon, Maria, 1996.
• "'Unmeaning Jargon'/ Uncanonized Beatitude: Bob Kaufman, Poet.": University of Alabama Press, Damon, Maria, South Atlantic Quarterly, 1998.

Activities

Awards

• Faculty Summer Research Stipend, University of Minnesota, 2000 - none
• McKnight Endowment for the Arts and Humanities Grant, none - none
• McKnight Matching Funds for Summer Research, 2000 - none
• Award for Outstanding Contributions to Post-baccalaureate, Professional, Graduate and Professional Education; Induction into Academy of Distinguished Teachers , 2007
• Imagine Fund Grant, University of Minnesota, 2009 - 2012

Courses

• EngL 3009 - Introduction to Modern Literary Theory
• EngL 8621 - Seminar on Writing for Publication
• Contemporary African American Poetry
• Advanced Workshop in Poetry (Creative Writing)
• Women Experimental Poets
• The San Francisco Renaissance
• Poetry Writing: Trauma, Play, Experiment (Creative Writing)
• Poetry/Culture/Power
• Contemporary American Poetry
• Writing the Body Politic(s)
• Unfinishing Your Work
• Poetry and Politics in Our Time
• Weird Books by Women
• Poetry as Cultural Critique
• Queer Poetry
• Jewish American Word Art: Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce
• Bob Dylan
• American Poetry Since 1900
• Diaspora Poetics
• Writing/Life/History: Creative Writing and Cultural Studies
• Beat Sensibilities