Carla Billitteri
5752 Neville Hall
Room 311
Orono, ME 04469
(207) 581-3836
email: carla.billitteri@umit.maine.edu
Education
Ph.D., English, State University of New York at Buffalo, April 2001
M.A., English, State University of New York at Buffalo, September 1995
Laurea, magna cum laude, Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Catania, Italy, July 1989
Areas of Specialization
Critical Theory, Feminist Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Drama, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century American and European Literature
Dissertation
"Substantial Logic and Referential Desire: Realism in the Works of Laura (Riding) Jackson, Charles Olson, and Language Writing." Committee: Charles Bernstein (chair), Rodolphe Gasché, Henry Sussman, Don Byrd.
Articles and Translations
“Riding-Graves: The Meaning of Collaboration,” Gravesiana, Autumn 2002 (forthcoming)
"The West or Christianity" (Gianni Vattimo, "L'Occidente o la Cristianità"), Thinking God Otherwise: Theology and Philosophy in Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, ed. Jill Robbins (Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming)
"Patrizia Vicinelli," How2, September 2000
"Five Italian Poets: Introductory Remarks," 99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium, ed. Charles Bernstein, published as Boundary2 26:1, Spring 1999
"Five Italian Authors: Gianni D'Elia, Mara Cini, Milli Graffi, Flavio Ermini, Renato Barilli," translations. 99 Poets/1999: An International Poetics Symposium, ed. Charles Bernstein, published as Boundary2 26:1, Spring 1999
"Cieli" and "Finisterre" (translations from Nanni Balestrini's Ipocalisse), Private Arts, Spring 1998
"Doomsday—Passages in Laura Riding's Poetics," Chloroform: An Aesthetics of Critical Writing, no. 1, Spring 1997
"Partage of Realities: A Logic of Infra_modal Destinerrance," Rif/t, no. 4, January 1995
"Sommerbird" and "Vortex" (translations from Nanni Balestrini's Ipocalisse), Rif/t, no. 4, January 1995
"Turchese" (translations from Gianni D'Elia's Non per chi va), I Am a Child: Poetry After Robert Duncan and Bruce Andrews, ed. William R. Howe (Buffalo: Tailspin Press, 1995)
Teaching
Eng 529, William Carlos Williams (Fall 2002) -- class taught with Robert Creeley
Eng 242, Survey of American Literature: The Realist Paradigm (Spring 2002)
Eng 481, Modern and Contemporary Experimental Women Writers (Spring 2002)
Eng 529, Charles Olson (Fall 2001) -- class taught with Robert Creeley
Honors 101, 102 (Fall 2001, Spring 2002)
Eng 471, Feminist Theory: Feminist Critique of Language (Spring 2001)
Eng 459, Contemporary British Literature (Fall 2000)
Honors 397, Phenomenology and Semiotics of Meaning (Fall 2000)
Eng 170, Foundations of Literary Analysis (Fall 1999-Spring 2001)