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Tony Brinkley
Professor of English
Faculy Associate, Franco-American Centre
403 Neville Hall
(207) 581-3810
tony.brinkley(nospam)@umit.maine.edu
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**Office Hours for Fall 2008: Monday and Wednesday 8:30 - 9:30,
and By Appointment.**
Tony Brinkley has taught at the University of Maine since 1983. He is a graduate of Yale University (BA) and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (PhD). He teaches British Romantic Poetry, Critical Theory, Fascist Studies (particularly in the National Socialist and Bolshevik contexts), Poetics, and Film.
He is member of the Flat Bay Collective. He is also actively involved in a range of economic and community development initiatives through his work with the Franco-American Centre. This work focuses on community as a rhizomic and creative reality that balances private and public institutions. He is presently working with ConnectME and the Town of Hermon to find ways of providing networks for community computer connectivity and internet access in rural Maine. He is a member of the board of the Maine Center for Economic Policy, a corporator of Eastern Maine Health Systems, and a founding member of the Forum Francophone des Affaires (USA).
Courses Taught
Graduate
ENG 556: English Romanticism
ENG 529: Studies in Literature - Philosophy and Literature
ENG 529: Studies in Literature - Traditions and Legacies
Undergraduate
ENG 480: Topics in Film - The Camden Film Festival
ENG 460: Major British Authors
ENG 456: The English Romantics
ENG 429: Topics in Literature - Literature and Meditation
ENG 429: Topics in Literature - Reading as Gardening
ENG 271: The Act of Interpretation
ENG 252: English Literature Survey - Romanticism to the Present
ENG 251: English Literature Survey – From the Beginnings to Neoclassicism
ENG 101: College Composition
Professional Experience
1980-1983: Assistant Professor, English, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg.
1983-1987: Assistant Professor, English, University of Maine.
1987- : Associate Professor, English, University of Maine.
1988- : Faculty, Honors, University of Maine.
1991-1994: Faculty Associate, Office of the Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of Maine.
1996-1998: Coordinator, Commercial Initiatives, Franco-American Centre, University of Maine.
1999-2004: Chair, Department of English, University of Maine.
2004-2005: Assocate Chair, English, University of Maine.
2005-2006: Coordinator, Graduate Studies, English, University of Maine.
2006-2007: Interim Director, Franco-American Studies, University of Maine.
2006- : Faculty Associate, Franco-American Centre, University of Maine.
2008- : Promoted to Professor, English, University of Maine.
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Selected Works
Editor. Mississippi Review 33 (1983), A Special Issue on Literary Criticism (contributors: Robert Dyer, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Mikhail Bahktin, Jonathan Goldberg, Jean-Franois Lyotard, Jean-Loup Thebaud, and Luce Irigaray). Translated with Ruth Brinkley, "What is a Minor Literature?" by Deleuze and Guattari; "The Insistence of the Pragmatic," by Lyotard and Thebaud.
Romantic Revisions. Ed. with Keith Hanley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Stalins Eyes. Poems and Translations. Orono: Puckerbrush Press, 2002.
"Returns Home." With Robert Dyer. Semiotext(e) 2 (1977): 159-71.
Contributor, 1980-1985. The Romantic Movement: A Selective and Critical Bibliography. Published Annually. Ed. David Erdmann et al. New York: Garland.
"The Incident in the Simplon Pass: A Note on Wordsworths Revisions." The Wordsworth Circle 12 (1981): 122-25.
"Spenser's 'Muiopotmos' and the Politics of Metamorphosis." ELH 48 (1981): 668-76. Reprinted Edmund Spenser's Poetry. Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Hugh Maclean and Anne Lake Prescott. New York: Norton, 1993.
"Plato's Third Man and the Limits of Cognition." Australasian Journal of Philosophy 60 (1982): 152-57.
"The Dilemma of Paradise Lost." Explorations in Renaissance Culture (1982): 1-12.
"Blake and the Prophecy of Satan." New Orleans Review 9 (1982): 73-76.
"Rembrandt and the Pragmatics of Self-Reference: The 1660 Self-Portrait in the Louvre." New Orleans Review 11 (1984): 47-53.
"'The Leech-Gatherer' Revisited." The Wordsworth Circle 16 (Spring 1985): 98-105.
"Vagrant and Hermit: Milton and the Politics of 'Tintern Abbey'." The Wordsworth Circle 16 (Summer 1985): 126-33.
"The Cunning of Dialectic: Platos Mastery." New Orleans Review 12 (Winter 1985): 61-69.
"On the Composition of 'Mont Blanc': Staging a Wordsworthian Scene." ELN 24 (Spring 1986): 45-57.
"'Our cheerful faith': On Wordsworth, Politics, and Milton." The Wordsworth Circle 18 (Spring 1987): 57-60.
"Narrative Mimicry: Citizen Kane and the Function of the Gaze." With Sara Speidel. New Orleans Review 14 (Summer 1987): 72-80. Reprinted in Focus on Citizen Kane. Ed. Ronald Gottesman. New York: G. K. Hall, 1996.
"Writing 'Mont Blanc'." The Wordsworth Circle 18 (Summer 1987): 108-114.
"Toward an Indexical Criticism: On Coleridge, de Man, and the Materiality of the Sign." With Michael Deneen. In Revolution and English Romanticism. Ed. Keith Hanley and Raman Selden.London: Harvester, 1990.
"Documenting Revision: Shelley's Lake Geneva Diary and the Dialogue with Byron in History of a Six Weeks Tour." Keats-Shelley Journal 39 (1990): 66-82.
"The Shoah, Annihilation, With Respect to the Sublime." With Joseph Arsenault. The Centennial Review 35 (Fall 1991): 479-500.
"Spaces Between Words: 'Writing Mont Blanc'." In Romantic Revisions. Ed. Brinkley and Hanley. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
"The Limits of Formalization." With Joseph Arsenault. In Narrative and Dialectic. Ed. Dalia Judovitz and Tom Flynn. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.
"[D]ialectic at a standstill." With Joseph Arsenault. International Studies in Philosophy 27:1 (1995): 1-20.
"Toward an Indexical Criticism." With Joseph Arsenault. Postmodern Culture . May 1995.
"Tracing Shoah." With Steven Youra. PMLA (January 1996): 108-127.
"Reading 'Tintern Abbey': Toward A Politics Of Cultural Production." With Aled Ganokcsik-Williams. Romantic Masculinities. Ed. Tony Pickney, Keith Hanley, Fred Botting. News from Nowhere. Vol. 2 Keele: Keele University Press, 1997.
"Traumatized Words, Trees, A Farmhouse: In Response to The Angel of History." With Joe Arsenault. Sagetrieb 16:3 (Winter, 1997): 103-114.
"Mandelstam's Ravines." A sequence of poems. Another Chicago Magazine 37 (Fall 2000): 32-62.
"A Small Cutting." A sequence of poems. Puckerbrush Review 19:2 (Winter/Spring 2001): 21-24.
"Lines on the Unknown Soldier." By Osip Mandelstam. Trans. with Raina Kostova. Backwoods Broadsides Chaplet Series, 65.
Five Poems from the Russian by Osip Mandelstam. Trans. with Raina Kostova. Puckerbruch Review 21:1 (Summer/Fall 2002): 68-75.
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"The Road to Stalin: Mandelstams 'Ode to Stalin' and 'The Lines on the Unknown Soldier'." With Raina Kostova. Shofar 21:4 (Summer 2003): 32-62.
Poems from the Voronezh Notebooks. By Osip Mandelshtam. Trans. with Raina Kostova. New Review of Literature 1:2 (2004).
From Gomorrah, a Sequence. Beloit Poetry Journal 56:2 (Winter 2005/2006): 40-41.
From Gomorrah, a Sequence. New Review of Literature 3:2 (April 2006): 137-141.
"Dialogic Imaginings: Stalins re-reading in the 1930s of The Brothers Karamazov." With Raina Kostova. The Dostoevsky Journal. (Forthcoming.)
"Posthumous Writing: Mandelshtams Poetics." With Raina Kostova. Modernism/Modernity. (Forthcoming.)
From Saccades, a sequence. Beloit Poetry Journal. 58:2 (Winter 2007/2008): 36-38.
"'This is where the serpent lives': Wordsworthian Poetics and Contemporary American Poetry." With Joseph Arsenault. Paideuma (forthcoming).
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