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Michael DAVIDSON - Ph.D. (SUNY, Buffalo)

Primary Office: LIT 442
Primary Phone: (858) 534-2101
Winter 2010 Office Hours : T 9:30-11:30 , Th 9:30-10:30
Winter 2010 Teaching Schedule:
Course: LTWR 8B Time: TuTh 800-920 Location: CENTR 113
Email: mdavidson@ucsd.edu

Professor - American Literature

Modern Poetry, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Disability Studies.

Selected Publications:

The Prose of Fact. Berkeley: The Figures, 1981.

The Landing of Rochambeau. Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck, 1985.

"Notes beyond the Notes: Wallace Stevens and Contemporary Poetics," Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism, ed. Albert Gelpi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.

The San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Post Hoc. Bolinas, Calif.: Avenue B, 1990.

"Dismantling 'Mantis:' Reification and Objectivist Poetics," American Literary History, 3.3 (Fall 1991): 521-541.

Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union (with Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Barrett Watten). San Francisco: Mercury House, 1991.

"Marginality in the Margins: Robert Duncan's Textual Politics," Contemporary Literature, 33.2 (Summer 1992): 275-301.

"'When the world strips down and rouges up:' Redressing Whitman," Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies, ed. Betsy Erkkila. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.

The Arcades. O Books, Fall 1998.

"The Lady from Shanghai: California Orientalism and 'guys like us,'" Western American Literature (Winter 2001).

"Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation." Beyond the Boundary: American Identity and Multiculturalism. Ed. Tim Powelll. New Brunswick: Rutgers U Press, 1999. 39-60.

"Hearing Things: The Scandal of Voice in Deaf Performance," Enabling the Humanities: A Disability Studies Sourcebook, eds. Sharon Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland Thomson. Forthcoming, New York: Modern Language Association, 2001.

Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics. U of Chicago Press, 2003.

"Tree Tangled in Tree: Re-siting Poetry through ASL."  SIGNS AND VOICES: DEAF CULTURE, IDENTITY, LANGUAGE, AND ARTS. Ed. Kristin A.. Lindgren, et al. Washington: Gallaudet University Press, 2008.

CONCERTO FOR THE LEFT HAND; DISABILITY AND THE DEFAMILIAR BODY. University of Michigan Press, 2008.