ProfessorDivisional Dean of HumanitiesMilliman Endowed Chair in the Humanities(206) 685-9969bmreed@uw.eduPersonal Website CV (685.9 KB)CMU 50Office Hours: By appointmentFields of Interest 20th Century 21st Century Art History Comparative Literature Experimental Modernism Poetry and Poetics Postmodern Textual Studies Translation and Interpretation AustralasiaBackground and ExperienceSummaryA.B., Harvard University, summa cum laude English Literature, 1992B.A., Oxford University, 1st-class honours in Modern History, 1994Ph.D., Stanford University, English and American Literature, 2000Activities and Interests Brian Reed is a specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry and poetics and a past Rhodes and Fulbright Scholar. He is the author of three books--Hart Crane: After His Lights (2006), Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics (2012), and Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics (2013)--and the co-editor of two essay collections, Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow (2003) and Modern American Poetry: Points of Access (2013). He has written widely on image-text relations in poetry, on sound in poetry, and on poetry in relation to other arts. He has served on the Executive Board of the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association and on the Executive Committee of the Poetry and Poetics Forum of the Modern Language Association. He is the Editor (Poetry) for the journal Contemporary Literature and is on the editorial boards of International Journal of Poetry and Poetics (China), Journal of English Language and Literature (South Korea), Journal of Poetics Research (Australia), and Modern Language Quarterly. A new book, A Mine of Intersections: Writing the History of Contemporary American Poetry, is forthcoming from the University of New Mexico Press. Awards: Fulbright Scholar 2009.Rhodes Scholar 1992.Professional Affiliations: Modern Language Association, American Comparative Literature Assocation, Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, Modernist Studies Association, American Association of Australasian Literary StudiesAffiliated Departments: Arts & SciencesHumanitiesComparative Literature, Cinema & MediaSlavic Languages & Literatures Research Publications, Book Chapters “Now That’s Poetry: Vito Acconci, Conceptual Writing, and Poetic Nominalism.” Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry, ed. Jeanne Heuving and Tyrone Williams. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. 192-224. Reed, Brian. "Give Them What They Want: Populist Rhetoric in Conceptual Art and Writing.” Postscript: Writing after Conceptual Art, ed.Andrea Andersson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 152-67. “The Shine and the Shadow: John Tranter Re-Views John Ashbery.” Recovery and Transgression: Memory in American Poetry, ed. Kornelia Freitag. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015. 139-56. “The New York School.” The Cambridge History of American Poetry, eds. Alfred Bendixen and Stephen Burt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 844-68. “Confessional Poetry: Staging the Self.” Modern American Poetry: Points of Access, ed. by Kornelia Freitag and Brian Reed. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. 99-114. “Poetics, Western.” Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 4th ed., ed. Roland Greene et al. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012. 1058-64. “Land’s End and Periscope (Hart Crane).” Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind’s Eye. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2012. 94-98. “Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein from Writing Writing to Ground Work II.” (Re:)Working the Ground: Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan, ed. James Maynard. New York: Palgrave, 2011. 169-92. “‘Footprints of a Wild Ballet’: The Poem-Paintings of Frank O’Hara and Norman Bluhm.” Frank O’Hara Now: New Essays on the New York Poet, ed. Robert Hampson and Will Montgomery. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2010. 211-28. “Visual Experiment and Oral Performance.” The Poetry of Sound/The Sound of Poetry, ed. Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 270-84. “Tom Raworth Between Two Avant-Gardes: The British Poetry Revival and the New American Poetry.” Another Language: Poetic Experiment in Britain and North America, ed. Kornelia Freitag and Katharina Vester. Berlin: LIT-Verlag, 2008. 161-71. “Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art World.” A Concise Companion to Twentieth-century American Poetry, ed. Stephen Fredman. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. 113-34. Publications, Essays and Articles “Another Dimension: Sweeney Reed’s Visual Poetics.” Antipodes 32.1-2 (2018): 195-208 “Poet, Tree: Martin Harrison’s ‘Red Gum’.” Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature 18.2 (2018). Web. “’Feels Deeply / Cannot Understand’: John Ashbery, The Tennis Court Oath and Queer Affect.” Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures 2.1 (June 2018): 1-7. Reed, Brian. “Visual Poetry and the Poetics of Data Visualization.” Journal of English Language and Literature 63.4 (2017): 659-74. Reed, Brian. "Setting a Poem: A. J. Carruthers’ ‘Music, After Michael Dransfield.’" Waiguo Wenxue Yanjiu [Foreign Literature Studies] 39.3 (June 2017): 7-15. Reed, Brian. “Postdigital Global Literary History: On the Fourth Edition of The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.” Boundary 2 44.2 (May 2017): 213-39. Reed, Brian. "Idea Eater: The Conceptual Lyric as an Emergent Literary Form." Mosaic 49.2 (June 2016): 1-15. “Stanisław Dróżdż: From Conceptual Poem to Concept-Shape.” Jacket2. University of Pennsylvania. 5 February 2016. Web. “Somewhere Bluebirds Fly: Jackson Mac Low Directs a Poetry Reading.” Amodern no. 4 (Spring 2015). Web. “To Venture Outward: Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s ‘Korea’.” Arcade, Stanford University, August 2015. Web. “On Mary Ellen Solt’s ‘Forsythia.’” Coldfront. 9 November 2015. Web. Reed, Brian. “Null Appropriate: On the Untimeliness of the Avant-Garde.” Lana Turner no. 7 (2014): 315-19. “Some Old Dream of Kinship: Christopher Brennan’s Poems (1913) and Modernism’s Place.” Lingua Humanitatis 15.3 (December 2013): 123-39. “Becoming Marjorie Perloff.” Jacket2. Kelly Writers House, 8 November 2012. Web. “Lisa Robertson, Ezra Pound, and Preposterous Classicism.” Open Letter 14.5 (Spring 2011): 42-52. “In Other Words: Postmillennial Poetry and Redirected Language.” Contemporary Literature 52.4 (Winter 2011): 756-90. “Hand in Hand: Jasper Johns and Hart Crane.” Modernism/modernity 17.1 (January 2010): 21-45. “Hard Going: Resisting the Fantasy of Distance’s Irrelevance.” Hyperrhiz no.7 (Spring 2010). Web. “Mechanical Form and Twenty-First Century American Poetry.” Co-authored with Ping Guo. Foreign Literature Studies. 32.2 (April 2010): 10-25. “Grammar Trouble.” Boundary 2 36.3 (Fall 2009): 133-58. “Reginald Shepherd at Hart Crane’s Grave.” Callaloo 32.4 (Fall 2009): 1274-92. “Modernist Ohio: Hart Crane and the Challenge of Akron.” Hiram Poetry Review no. 69 (Spring 2008): 47-62. “On the Style and Philosophy of Robert Frost’s ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay.’” Co-authored with Ping Guo. Waiguo Wenxue Yanjiu [Foreign Literature Studies] 30.4 (Fall 2008): 112-19. “The Time Has Come to Talk of Queens: John Ashbery’s ‘Coma Berenices.’” Seattle Review 1.1 (Summer 2007): 159-77. “The Dark Room Collective and Post-Soul Poetics.” African American Review 41.4 (Winter 2007): 727-47. “‘Lost Already Walking’: Caroline Bergvall’s ‘Via.’” Jacket no.34 (October 2007). Web. “Now Not Now: Gertrude Stein Speaks.” English Studies in Canada 33.4 (December 2007): 103-13. “Carry on England: Tom Raworth’s ‘West Wind,’ Intuition, and Neo-Avant-Garde Poetics.” Contemporary Literature 47.2 (Summer 2006): 170-206. Publications, Reviews Rev. of Among the Nightmare Fighters: American Poets of World War II by Diederik Oostdijk. William Carlos Williams Review 31.1 (Spring 2014): 88-92. Publications, Edited Collections Modern American Poetry: Points of Access, ed. Kornelia Freitag and Brian Reed. Heidelberg: Winter, 2013. Situating El Lissitzky: Vitebsk, Berlin, Moscow, ed. Nancy Perloff and Brian Reed. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2003. Publications, Books Brian Reed, Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2013. Brian Reed, Phenomenal Reading: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Poetics. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012. Brian Reed, Hart Crane: After His Lights. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2006. Research Advised: Graduate Dissertations Grimmer, Chelsea. Global Fluidity: Coalitional Worldbuilding in the Afterlife of Posthumanism. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Lin, Hsinmei. The Poetics of Worlding: Nonhuman Cartographers and the Becoming of Histories. 2019. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Malone, Jennifer A. Encounters With the Modernist Food-Object. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Youell, Ryan. The Architecture of Anti-Utopias: Critiques of Modern Public Housing from London to Orwell. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Van Houdt, Jennifer. Delenda Est: World and Belief in Apocalyptic Thought. 2018. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Burgund, Nicole. Trying to Say the Whole Thing: Ludwig Wittgenstein and the Ethics of Autobiography. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Helterbrand, Ryan. Plastic/Explosive: Claude Cahun and the Politics of Becoming Otherwise. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Babbie, Raymond Tyler. Issues of Modernism: Editorial Authority in Little Magazines of the Avant Guerre. 2017. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Bourbonnais, Alissa. Choreographing Memory: Performance and Embodiment in Multimodal Narrative. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Wong, Jane. Going toward the Ghost: The Poetics of Haunting in Contemporary Asian American Poetry. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Laynor, Gregory. The Making of Intermedia: John Cage to Yoko Ono, 1952-1972. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Lim, Tae Yun. Female Exiles in Language: Reading for New Poetic Subjects in Modern and Contemporary Feminist Experimental Poetry. 2016. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Zygutis, Linda. Critic, Reader, Fan: Modernism and Textual Poaching in H.D., Mina Loy and Gertrude Stein. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Warrior, Carol E. Baring the Windigo's Teeth: The Fearsome Figure in Native American Narratives. 2015. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Percinkova-Patton, Irena. Toast to Morrison: The Trickster Paradigm in African American Literature. 2013. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Miller, Megan A. Modernism’s History of the Earth. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Cohen, Sarah. School of Unlikeness: American Poetry and the Creative Writing Workshop. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Maestas, Nadine A. Calling Out the State: Postmodern American Anthropoetics. 2012. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Fitzgerald, Andrew. Millenial Fiction and the Emergence of Posthuman Cosmopolitanism. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Welsh, Timothy J. Immersive Fictions: Modern Narrative, New Media, Mixed Reality. 2011. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Golden, Amanda. Annotating Modernism: The Reading and Teaching Strategies of Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, and Anne Sexton. 2009. University of Washington, PhD dissertation. Research Advised: Undergraduate Symposia Joseph Frantz, "Donald Justice and New Formalist Poetry," 2011. Courses Taught Spring 2014 ENGL 443 A: Poetry: Special Studies: The Faerie Queene Winter 2014 ENGL 338 A: Modern Poetry Autumn 2013 ENGL 343 A: Contemporary Poetry: A World Perspective ENGL 544 A: World Literature In English: Anglophone Poetry & the Problem of World Lit News Related News Faculty Notes May 15, 2019 Lee Scheingold Lecture in Poetry and Poetics Nov 30, 2018 A Note From Our Chair / Brian Reed Jun 15, 2018 Faculty and Staff Notes May 30, 2018 Brian Reed Named Divisional Dean of the Humanities May 22, 2018 Recommended Reading: Creative Writing Grad Student Edition May 21, 2018 Brian Reed's Katz Lecture available for online viewing Mar 7, 2018 Chair Times Two Feb 14, 2018 A Note From Our Chair / Brian Reed Dec 14, 2017 Faculty and Staff Notes Nov 17, 2017 Recommended Reading / Faculty Suggest Winter Books Nov 16, 2017 A Note From the Chair / Brian Reed Jun 29, 2017 Book Recommendations / English Faculty Suggest Summer Reading May 28, 2017 Book Recommendations / English Faculty Suggest Winter Reading Nov 19, 2016 Chair's Letter 2016 Jun 1, 2016 Faculty Notes Aug 12, 2015 To Grow and Flourish May 14, 2015 Emerging Directions and Continuing Traditions in the English Department May 6, 2015 Ten Takes on Austen's World May 6, 2015 Noted by the Chair May 5, 2015 Faculty Notes Dec 13, 2013 Share: Print PDF
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