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David W. Clippinger, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English and American Studies
105 Dillon Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15243 412-429-9268 www.clippinger.com/david
Ph.D., English, Syracuse University, 1997. M.A., English/Interdisciplinary Studies, Shippensburg University, 1991. B.A., English, Pennsylvania State University, 1989.
Primary Research and Teaching Fields:
American Literature and Culture; Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Poetry; History of Literary Criticism and Postmodern Theory; and Composition and Rhetoric.
Professional and Academic Positions:
2004-present University of Pittsburgh Visiting Lecturer
2003-2004 Penn State University, Commonwealth College Associate Professor of English and American Studies
1997-2003 Penn State University, Commonwealth College Assistant Professor of English and American Studies
Books:
The Mind's Landscape: William Bronk and Twentieth-Century American Poetry, Dover: University of Delaware Press. (Forthcoming, 2005) Bursts of Light: Collected Later Poems of William Bronk, editor. New York: Talisman House, 2005. The Body of This Life: Reading William Bronk, editor. New York: Talisman House, 2001. Recepient of the William Bronk Award. Authors and Other Marketing Monsters: Representations of Literature and Writers in Postmodern American Culture. Under Invited Review, Routledge Press, Transatlantic Literary Studies Series, Susan Castillo, editor. Accumulating Position: The Selected Letters of William Bronk, currently under invited review for the Contemporary North American Poetry Series at the University of Wisconsin Press.
Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Books:
"The Crooked Path to Inadvertent Enlightenment: Popular Films, Martial Arts, and Buddhism." Finding the Ox: Buddhism and American Culture." Gary Storhoff and John Whalen-Bridge, eds. (2005). “Humbert Humbert’s Indoctrination into America: Lolita as a Lens to Explore American Culture.” Approaches to Teaching Lolita. Zoran Kuzmanovich, editor. New York: MLA Publications, 2005. (Forthcoming) “’Only Half Here’: Don DeLillo’s Image of the Writer in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Literature and the Writer. Chicago: Rodopi Press, 2004. 135-154. “The Hidden Life: Benjamin Britten's Reading of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw.” Literature and Music. Michael J. Meyer, ed. Chicago: Rodopi Press, 2002. 146-169. “Gone, Gone, Gone Beyond: Emptiness and Poetry.” The Body of This Life. New York: Talisman House, 2001. 182-191. “Between Silence and the Margins: Poetry and its Presses.” A World in Space and Time. Edward Foster, ed. Jersey City: Talisman House, 2002. 2-16. “Poetry and Philosophy at Once: Encounters between William Bronk and Postmodern Poetry.” A World in Space and Time. Edward Foster, ed. Jersey City: Talisman House, 2002. 100-114. “The Veil: H.D. and 1950s Women's Poetry” in American Women Poets of the 1950s. Burton Hatlen, ed. Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 2004. (Forthcoming). “The Continuity of Knowledge: A Survey of Theories of Meaning in the Twentieth Century,” the “Introduction” to the Project Advance Primer, Syracuse University, 1994. 12-24.
Essays in Encyclopedias: “Wallace Stevens.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, American Nature Writers, Poetry. Roger Thompson and Scott Bryson, eds. Chicago: Gale Research, 2005. (Forthcoming). “Peter Matthiessen.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, American Nature Writers, Prose. Roger Thompson and Scott Bryson, eds. Chicago: Gale Research, 2003. “Kenneth Rexroth,” “Gary Snyder’s ‘Burning the Small Dead,’” “Wallace Stevens’s ‘Sunday Morning,’” and “John Taggart.” A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry. Burt Kimmelman, ed. New York: Facts-on-File, 2003. (Forthcoming). “Leslie Scalapino.” Contemporary American Women Poets: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Catherine Cucinella, ed. New York: Greenwood, 2003. “David Antin,” “William Bronk’s The Force of Desire,” “H.D.'s Helen in Egypt,” “Susan Howe’s Pythagorean Silence,” “Michael Palmer,” and “Wallace Stevens’s ‘The Idea of Order at Key West.’” Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century. Eric Haralson, ed. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001. “Postmodern Poetry,” “Modernism,” “Canonicity,” “Metacriticism,” “Intertextuality,” “Referent,” “Sign, Signifier, Signified,” “Universality,” “Univocity,” “Trope,” “Giorgio Agamben,” and “Edmond Jabes.” Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. Victor Taylor, ed. New York: Routledge, 2001. “A.R. Ammons,” “John Ashbery,” “Robert Bly,” “Hayden Carruth,” “Robert Duncan,” “Robert Frost,” “Jack Gilbert,” “Allen Ginsberg,” “Jorie Graham,” “Barbara Guest,” “Michael Harper,” “Robert Hayden,” “Susan Howe,” “Galway Kinnell,” “James Laughlin,” “Denise Levertov,” “Nathaniel Mackey,” “Howard Nemerov,” “Alicia Ostriker,” “Michael Palmer,” “Carl Rakosi,” “Kenneth Rexroth,” “Laura Jackson Riding,” “Jerome Rothenberg,” “Muriel Rukeyser,” “Carl Sandburg,” “William Stafford,” “Wallace Stevens,” “Anne Waldman,” and “Louis Zukofsky.” Who's Who in Twentieth-Century World Poetry. Alan Michael Parker, ed. New York: Routledge, 2000. “Robert Bly” (104-105), “Robert Francis” (395-396), “Howard Moss” (790-791), “Kenneth Patchen” (871-872), and “Dave Smith” (1054-1055). Encyclopedia of American Literature. Stephen Serafin, ed. New York: Continuum, 1999.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
“Interview with Marjorie Perloff.” The Argoist. Summer (2005): http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Interviews%20index.htm. “Neither Us nor Them: Poetry Anthologies in the 1960s and the Silencing of William Bronk.”The Argoist. Spring (2005): http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/Clippinger%20essay.htm. “The Prophetic Gaze of Orpheus: Charting New Lands in Small Poetry Journals.” American Periodicals. 13 (2003): 107-118. “Breaking Against the Waves of Silence: The Voice of Being in Wallace Stevens and William Bronk.” Wallace Stevens Journal. 27.2 (Fall 2003): 205-224. “‘A Faithful Account of Where I Live’: The Letters of Cid Corman and William Bronk.” Titanic Opera: Poetry and New Materialities. Emily Dickinson Archives. 2001. http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/dickinson/titanic/ material/index.html. “Redrawing the Boundaries of Poetry: The Small Journal and the Example of John Taggart’s Maps.” FlashPoint 5 Winter (2001): www.flashpointmag.com/ clippinger.htm. “Between the Gaps, the Silence, and the Rubble: Susan Howe, Rosmarie Waldrop, and (Another) Pound Era.” Denver Quarterly. Spring/Summer 36.2 (2001): 21-38. “Resurrecting the Ghost: H.D., Susan Howe, and the Absent Center of Poetry.” Sagetrieb. A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist/Objectivist Tradition. 19.2 (2000): 1-32. “Abnegation: Desire and Denial of Form in Postmodern Poetry.” Pre/Text: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory. (2005): 25 manuscript pages. “Material Encoding and Libidinal Exchange: The Capital Culture Underneath Don Delillo's Underworld.” Review of English Studies. 39 (1999): 79-91. “Against the Grain: Poetry, Profit, and Presses.” Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. (1999): 2-16. “Shorter American Memory: The Emergence of a Bronk Tradition.” Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. (1999): 100-114. “The Act and Place of Poetry: William Bronk's Our Selves.” Sagetrieb: A Journal Devoted to Poets in the Imagist/Objectivist Tradition. 16.3 (1997): 75-89. “Making the Dust Rise: Michael Palmer's Interrogation into Being.” Salt Hill, Winter. 2 (1996): 48-60. “Public Accountability: Ethics and Environmental Law.” P2: Pollution Prevention Review. 6.2 (1996): 63-69. “Luminosity, Transcendence, and the Certainty of Not Knowing.”Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. 14 (1995) 9-30. “The Force of the Verb 'To Be': William Bronk's The Mild Day.” Salt Hill. 1 (1994): 48-55.
Essays Submitted and Under Review:
“Neither Us nor Them: Poetry Anthologies in the 1960s and the Silencing of William Bronk.”Under Invited Revised Submission, American Literature..“The Test of Truth’s Convictions:Disputing the Ground of Poetry in George Oppen and William Bronk.” Under review, Boundary 2. “What Remains: The Future (Poetic) Life and Death of William Bronk.” Under review, New Literary History.
Works in Progress:
Writing to Mindfulness: Buddhism and Writing. Boston: Shambhala, 2006. Where Words End: Benjamin Britten’s Operatic Rereading and Transformation of Literature.
Reviews:
“Postmodern Hermes: Robert Pinksy’s Jersey Rain.” Harvard Review. 19 (2000): 121-122. “Letters to the World: Joyce Peseroff’s Mortal Education.” Harvard Review. 19 (2000): 149- 151. “Classical Dreams: Tom Sleigh's The Dream House.” Harvard Review. 18 (2000): 131-133. “Poetic Apocalypse: Sue Owen's My Doomsday Sampler.” Harvard Review. 18 (2000): 152-154. “Manic Laughter: Harriet Murphy’s Canetti and Nietzsche: Theories of Humor in Die Blendung.” International Review of Modernism. 3.1 (1999): 34-35. “Poetry After the Fall: Bruce Weigl's After the Others and Archeology of the Circle.” Harvard Review. 17 (1999): 155-156. “Re-envisioning a Feminist Ethics: Somer Brobribb’s Nothing Mat(t)ers.” Rain Taxi. 4.2 (1999): 41. “Toward Invisibility: Rachel Hadas' Halfway Down the Hall: New and Selected Poems.” Harvard Review. 16 (1999): 123-124. “When Theory Was King: The Tel Quel Reader.” Raintaxi. 3.3 (1998): 42. “From Modern to the Postmodern.” International Review of Modernism. 1.2 (1998): 15. “The New Edge: Kathleen Fraser's il cuore.” Chicago Review. 43.4 (1997): 162-165. “Tracing the Paths: Helene Cixous's Rootprints.” Rain Taxi. 2.4 (1997): 27. “Deeper in Babble: Reyoung's Unbabbling.” Rain Taxi. 2.4 (1997): 17. “The Happy World: Bruce Fleming's Twilley.” Rain Taxi. 2.3 (1997): 35. “Light of Memory: Keith Waldrop's The Silhouette of the Bridge.” Rain Taxi. 2.3 (1997): 32. “Untameable: F.T. Marinetti's Selected Poems and Related Prose.” International Review of Modernism. 1.1 (1997): 27-28. “Kicking Away the Ladder: Marjorie Perloff's Wittgenstein's Ladder.” Chicago Review. 43.2 (1997): 117-121. “Some New York Poets.” Hudson Valley Regional Review. 14.1 (1997): 95-97. “My William Bronk: William Bronk's Selected Poems.” Harvard Review. 14 (1997): 112-113. “Susan Howe's Frame Structures.” Traffic. 19 (1997): 10. “The Force of Desire: Fanny Howe's Poem From a Single Pallet and The Quietist.” Traffic. 18 (1996): 9. “A Further Succinct Life: Poetry from Talisman House Press.” Traffic. 17 (1996): 7-8.
Poems:
“Two Waves.” Pennsylvania English. 22.1&2 (1999): 36. “When the World sleeps, things reposition themselves.” Poetry New York #9. Winter (1997): 16. “Starry Night” and “To Peel away the Earth.” Forthcoming in LVNG #8
Conference Presentations and Professional Lectures:
“The Art of the Afterword: Representations of Silence and Death in Japanese Poetry.” Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. January 7, 2005. "Humbert Humbert and the Five D’s: Dramatics, Dance, Debating, Dating, and Democracy.” AATSEEL, San Diego, December 27-30, 2003. “The Ghost of (Homo)Social Anxiety in Henry James and Edgar Allen Poe.” American Gothic Symposium, American Literature Association, Puerta Vallarta, Mexico, December, 2002. “The ABCs of Readership,” Poetry, Politics, and Pedagogy,” Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Madison, WI, October–November, 2002. “The Signature of All Things: Writing Nature and Divine Immanence in H.D. Thoreau, Kenneth Rexroth, and Gary Snyder,” Religion and Literature Society, American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May, 2001. “‘So Large in His Singleness’”: The Question of William Bronk in Twentieth- Century American Poetry,” American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May, 2001. “Redrawing the Boundaries of Poetry: The Small Journal and the Example of Maps,” “To Gather Us In: A Symposium on Poetry and Poetics,”Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, April 2001. “Outside of the Anthologies but at the Heart of Origin: Poets of the 1960s,” National Poetry Foundation Conference, Orono, Maine, June, 2000. “Resuscitating the Dead Art: Teaching Poetry to Unwilling Audiences,” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Buffalo, April, 2000. “The Actual and the Real Mind: Emptiness, Nihilism, and Poetry,” William Bronk Symposium, New York City, November, 1999. “A Poetry of Blanks: Rosmarie Waldrop, Susan Howe, and Women Poets of the Pound Tradition,” American Literature Association Conference, Baltimore, May, 1999. “To Make it Flow Thru, or the Trouble with Poetic Influence,” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Pittsburgh, April, 1999. “Affinities, Continuities, and Traditions: From Modern to Postmodern Poetry,” Chair, Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Pittsburgh, April, 1999. “Ellipsis and Silence: The Poetry of George Oppen,” Chair, Modern Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, December, 1998. “The Disclosures of Time: William Bronk and Hayden Carruth,” American Literature Association Contemporary Literature Symposium, Los Cabos, Mexico, November, 1998. “The Fate of Age and Poetics,” Chair, American Literature AssociationContemporary Literature Symposium, Los Cabos, Mexico, November, 1998. “Honoring the Veil: Uncertainty and Subjectivity in H.D.'s Helen in Egypt,” Northeast Modern Language Association Conference, Baltimore, April, 1998. “Collision or Collusion: Poetic Agency and/or Historic Force,” Poetry and the Public Sphere: A Conference on Contemporary Poetry, Rutgers University, April, 1997. “The Roots of Words: Ethics in Literature,” Mythology and Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Cornell University, March, 1997. “The Mind's Landscape: Accumulating Position in the Poetry of William Bronk and Charles Olson,” National Poetry Foundation Conference, Orono, Maine, June, 1996. “Poethics: The Postmodern Crisis in Ethics and the Ethical Imperative in the Poetry of Susan Howe,” Prospect: The Second Festival of Russian and American Poetry and Poets, Hoboken, NJ, May 23-26, 1996. “Accounting for a Human Universe: The Place of Reading in a Composition Classroom,” The Future of Composition and Rhetoric Conference, Syracuse, NY, April 13, 1996. “Approaching Ph.D. Qualifying Exams,” English Graduate Student Conference, Syracuse University, 1995. Speaker, Teaching Assistant Teaching Conferences, Syracuse University Writing Program, 1994 and 1995. “Professional Writing: A Career Outlook,” Syracuse University Career Development Conference, April 12-14, 1994. “The Living Classroom,” Project Advance Teaching Conference, Syracuse University, 1994. “Cross-Reading Poetry and the Visual Arts: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Arts,” presented as one of four colloquium seminars on scholarly approaches to the arts, Shippensburg University, April, 1992.
Director, "One Book, One Community" Pennsylvania County Library Project. 2004-present Consultant, American Jewish Museum, “From Home to Home: Jewish Immigration to America,” 2002-present. External Evaluator, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Pennsylvania Humanities Council, “Humanities-and-the-Arts Grants Initiative,” 2000-present. External Evaluator and Consultant, Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Arts and Humanities Educational Programs, 2001-present. Consultant, “Pennsylvania Rural School Project,” Heinz Foundation and the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, 2002-present. Research Consultant for a special edition of Religion and Ethics, a PBS newsweekly, on Shanksville, PA, July and August, 2002. Co-organizer and Director for the Conference on the Work of William Bronk, November 12-14, 1999, New York City.
Commonwealth Speaker, Pennsylvania Humanities Council, 2005-2007. Lecture on “The Philosophy and Practice of Taoism and Buddhism—in Action!” Professional Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “Detecting Women,” Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Beaver Memorial Library, Fall 2005. Professional Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “American Life Stories,” Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Dormont Public Library, Fall 2005. Professional Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “Big Ideas—Small Packages: Amerian Short Stories,” Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Dormont Public Library, Spring 2005. Commonwealth Speaker, Pennsylvania Humanities Council, 2004-2005. Lectures on “Prize Writers: Nobel Prize Winning Authors” and “Inspirational Pennsylvania: Representations in Word, Song, and Image.” Commonwealth Speaker, Pennsylvania Humanities Council, 2002-2003. Lectures on “Inspirational Pennsylvania: Representations in Word, Song, and Image” and “Sing Heavenly Muse: The Poetry of Pennsylvania.” Professional Lecturer and Discussion Leader, "Read About It!," Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Chippewa Municipal Center, Spring, 2004. Professional Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “Detecting Women,” Pennsylvania Humanities Council, B.F. Jones Library, Aliquippa, PA, Fall/Winter 2001. Consultant and Discussion Leader, “Read About It!”, Pennsylvania Humanities Council, Beaver, PA, Fall, 2000. Commonwealth Speaker, Pennsylvania Humanities Council, 2000-2001. Lectures on “Pennsylvania in Poetry” and “Pennsylvania in the Literary Imagination” presented throughout Pennsylvania. Lecturer, “Living at the Speed of Bytes,” Technology Forum Lecture Series, Pittsburgh, September 10, 1998. Lecturer and Discussion Leader, “Technology, Communications, and Community,” Pennsylvania Humanities Council Five Part Lecture Series and Community Forum, Pittsburgh, September through November, 1998.
· Research and Development Grant, Penn State University, 2003. · Research and Development Grant, Penn State University, 2002. · Undergraduate Student Rearch Grant for Collaborative Learning Environments, Penn State University, 2002-2003. · Pennsylvania Council of the Arts, Special Opportunity Stipend, 2001-2002. · Research and Development Grant, Penn State University, 2001. · Undergraduate Student Rearch Grant for Collaborative Learning Environments, Penn State University, 2001-2002. · Woolaway Foundation Research Fellowship, 2000. · University of California, San Diego, Friends of the Library Research Fellowship, Summer, 2000. · Research and Development Grant, Penn State University, 2000. · Institute for Arts and Humanistic Studies Grant, 2000. · Research and Development Grant, Penn State University, 1999. · Undergraduate Student Rearch Grant for Collaborative Learning Environments, Penn State University, 1999-2000. · Empower: Innovations in Teaching and Technology Grant, 1998. · Undergraduate Student Research Grant for Collaborative Learning Environments, Penn State University, 1998-1999. · Research and Development Grant, Penn State University, 1998. · Global Travel and International Research Grant, Penn State University, 1998.
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Research and Development Grant, Penn State University, 1997.
2002 Penn State University Commonwealth College Excellence in Teaching Award. 2001 William Bronk Prize for The Body of This Life: Reading William Bronk, $5,000. 2001 Penn State Excellence in Teaching Award. 2000 Penn State Faculty Research Award. 1999 Distinguished Alumni, Shippensburg University. 1997 Syracuse University Dissertation Prize. 1996 Poems and Essays nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Literature. 1995 Essays nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Literature. 1994 Elson Prize for Outstanding Teaching, Syracuse University. 1995 Syracuse University Certificate of University Teaching. 1995 Ph.D. Qualifying Exams passed with Distinction. 1992-1996 Sarah and Warren Welch Foundation Fellowship.
2004-present University of Pittsburgh Courses Taught: · Composition: “The American Dream” · Composition: “Question. Write. Discover.” · Composition: “Writing and Meditation Inquiry” · Professional Writing and Communication
1997-2003 Penn State University, Commonwealth College Courses Taught: · Contemporary American Literature and Culture · American Poetry Seminar · American Popular Culture · Introduction to American Studies · Introduction to Literature · Survey of American Literature I and II · Modern Novel in World Literature · The Short Story · Technical Writing · Business Writing · Advanced Business Writing · Writing in the Humanities · Freshman Composition · Basic Writing
1996-1997 Syracuse University Courses Taught: · History and Reception of Poetry Seminar · Advanced Rhetoric and Composition
1996-1997 Lemoyne College Courses Taught: · Introduction to Literature · Freshman Composition
1996-1997 State University of New York, Onondaga College Courses Taught: · Freshman Composition · Basic Writing
1992-1996 Syracuse University Courses Taught: · Introduction to Cultural Theory · 20th Century Literature and Culture · Rhetorical Analysis · Freshman Composition · ESL Composition
1990-1992 Wilson College Courses Taught: · Shakespeare Seminar · Introduction to Literature · Business Writing · Freshman Composition
1991 Shippensburg University Courses Taught: · Advanced Composition · Expository Writing · Freshman Composition
1989-1992 Shippensburg University Courses Taught: · ESL Composition
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Freshman Composition
Psychology Search Committee, Penn State University, 2002-2003. English Consortium Committee, Penn State University, 1997-2003. Communications Degree Curriculum Committee, Written Expression Sub-Committee, Commonwealth College, 2002. Faculty Senator, Penn State University, Commonwealth College Senate, 1998-2002 (Faculty Elected Position). Teaching and Faculty Outreach Committee, Penn State University, Commonwealth College Senate, 2000-2002. Honors Committee, Penn State University, 1999-2001. Academic Affairs Committee, Penn State University, 1999-2000. Research, Scholarship, and Creative Works Committee, Penn State University, Commonwealth College Senate, 1998-2000. Quarterly Recognition Awards Committee, Penn State University, 1998-1999. Scholarship Committee, Penn State University, 1998-1999. Library Committee, Penn State University, 1997-1999, Chair. Curriculum Committee, Penn State University, 1997-1999, Chair. Business Affairs Committee, Penn State University, 1998-2000. Executive Committee, Syracuse University. 1995-1996. Curriculum Committee and Hiring Committee, Wilson College, 1992.
External Reviewer, PMLA, 2004-present. William Bronk Foundation, Board of Directors, 2001-2004.
Other Professional Experience:
Technical Writer, Philips Broadband Inc., Manlius, New York, 1996-1997. Director of Technical Writing and Grants, Atlantic States Legal Foundation, Inc.,Syracuse, New York, 1993-1997. Technical Writer and Editor, Economics Department of Shippensburg University, 1989-1990.
Modern Language Association National Poetry Foundation American Literature Association Robert Frost Society Charles Olson Society Ezra Pound Society H.D. Society Wallace Stevens Society Religion and Literature Society Modernist Studies Association
References:
Keith Waldrop Henry Weinfield Professor, Brown University Professor, University of Notre Dame Bernard_Waldrop@Brown.edu Weinfield.1@nd.edu (401) 863-3271 (574) 631-7483
Norman Finkelstein Burt Kimmelman Professor, Xavier University Associate Professor, NJIT finkelst@xavier.edu burt.kimmelman@njit.edu (513) 745-2041 (973)-596-3376
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