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Corina Copp

Unit 18 Lecturer

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Corina Copp is a poet, writer, translator, and curator invested in the movement across artistic discipline in relation to material collaboration, itinerancy, recuperation, and process. She is a Visiting Lecturer in UCSD's Literature Department, and Special Faculty in the School of Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts.

Languages: French, English

My Mother Laughs book coverThe Green Ray book coverPro Magenta book cover

Books

  • My Mother Laughs, memoir by Chantal Akerman translated from French (The Song Cave, 2019)
  • The Green Ray, poetry (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015)
  • Pro Magenta/Be Met, poetry (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011)

Articles & Book Chapters

  • "What’s the Time Being? On the Work of Deborah Stratman." LUX New Artist Focus, April 2024
  • "SPARKLE OF THE OUTSIDE." The Machine That Kills Bad People - ICA London, to accompany the March 15, 2023 screening of La nouba des femmes du mont Chenoua (The Nouba of the Women of Mount Chenoua), 1977, directed by Assia Djebar; and Assia Djebar, dir. Sarah Maldoror, France, 1987.
  • "Unfinished Histories: on 'No Master Territories: Feminist Worldmaking and the Moving Image.'" Film Comment, 2022
  • "Grief in Relief, on 'The Souvenir Part II.'" Film Comment, 2021
  • "'Head in the Clouds, on 'Anne at 13,000 ft.'" Film Comment, 2021
  • "Nowhere in Mind: Chantal Akerman's New York Films." America : Films from Elsewhere. Ed. Jhaveri, Shanay. Mumbai: Shoestring Publisher, 2019
  • "BARBARA HAMMER: 1939-2019. Be Mine, Barbara." Millennium Film Journal (Issue 70), 2019
  • "Barely Ruined: On So Mayer’s ‘Obsolute.'" Hix Eros 8. Brighton, UK: March 2018
  • "Goodnight, Chantal." Pelt: Feminist Temporalities. Eds. Anna Moser and Ada Smailbegovic. The Organism for Poetic Research (OPR) Brooklyn, NY: 2017
  • "Ataraxia: Freedom From Disturbance. On the Work of Jean Day." Cambridge Literary Review. Cambridge, UK: 2010

Shorter Creative Works

  • OUT OF EVERYWHERE 2: Linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK (Reality Street, 2015)
  • Corrected Slogans: Reading and Writing Conceptualism (Triple Canopy, 2013)
  • The Sonnets: Translating & Rewriting Shakespeare (Telephone Books, 2012)
  • Chicago Review, BOMB, The Poetry Foundation, The Daily Pen American, Boston Review, Fence, Prelude, Washington Square, &c.

Book Reviews

  • The Switch, by Shiv Kotecha (BOMB, Fall 2018)
  • Enduring Images: A Future History of New Left Cinema, by Morgan Adamson (Film Quarterly Vol. 72 Issue 3 2019)
  • Ph.D. candidate in Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California, 2025
  • Graduate Certificate in Visual Studies, University of Southern California
  • M.F.A. in Playwriting, Brooklyn College – CUNY, 2010
  • B.A. in English, Eugene Lang College of The New School, 2002