CV

Dani Spinosa
Curriculum Vitae
April 2020

Education

2015
PhD (Defended 13 March 2015), Department of English Language and Literature, York University
Dissertation: [generic pronoun] creates: Anarchism, Authorship, Experiment
Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Weaver
2009
MA, Department of Literature and Film, Wilfrid Laurier University
2008
BA (Hons. – cum laude), Department of English Language and Literature, Specialized Major: English Literature, York University

Scholarly Publications

Books

2018
Anarchists in the Academy: Machines and Free Readers in Experimental Poetry, University of Alberta Press, 273 pps.

Edited Volumes

2018
“Essays from the Arabic E-lit Conference.” Gathering. Electronic book review. 2 December.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

2018
“Introduction: Essays from the Arabic E-lit Conference.” Electronic book review, 2 December.
“Literary Readers in Cognitive Assemblages.” Electronic book review, riPOSTe to N. Katherine Hayles, 2 December.
“Jim Andrews Drifting to (and from) Seattle.” Canadian Literature, special issue on “The Concept of Vancouver,” vol. 235, Winter 2017, pp. 91-106.
“Vulva Zombies: Authorship in Erin Moure’s Pillage Laud.” Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal, vol. 51, no. 2, June 2018.
“Towards a Theory of Canadian Digital Poetics.” Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 42, no. 2, May 2018.

2017
“Postanarchist Literary Theory: Some Preliminary Notes.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 83-111.

2016
“John Cage and the Comunis of Communication.” Canadian Review of American Studies, vol. 46, no. 1, Spring 2016.

2015
“Freely Revised and Edited: Anarchist Authorship in Jackson Mac Low’s The Stein Poems.” ESC: English Studies in Canada, vol. 41, no. 2-3, June/September 2015, pp. 91-108.

2014
“No Authors: Writing and Supervising in the Digital Common.” #Alt-Ac, MediaCommons

Interviews

2017
“In Digital Ether: W. Mark Sutherland in Correspondence with Dani Spinosa.” Jacket2, 21 September

Book Reviews

2019
“All in All: Rev. of Poetry by Caroline Szpak and Kate Braid.” Canadian Literature.

2018
“Algorithms of Oppression and Hopeful Intervention: Rev. of Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble.” The New Americanist, no. 238
“Silver Fish: Rev. of Poetry by Andrew McEwan and Fenn Stewart.” Canadian Literature, vol. 235, Winter 2017, pp. 168-169.
“Review: Screening Images of American Masculinity in the Age of Postfeminism.” Canadian Women’s Studies, vol. 32, iss. 1-2, p. 148+.
“Loop Limbo: Rev. of Poetry by Aaron Kreuter, Jacqueline Valencia, and Sarah Pinder.” Canadian Literature, no. 233, Summer 2017, pp. 152-154.

2017
“Rev. of Illegal Literature: Toward a Disruptive Creativity.” electronic book review, 2 December 2017.

2015
“Tired Time Travelling: Rev. of Traversing Leonard by Craig Savel.” Canadian Literature, no. 227, Winter 2016, pp. 177-8.

2014
“Group Review: It’s Complicated by dana boyd.” HASTAC

2013
“Review: The Democracy Project by David Graeber.” Political Media Review

2012
“Review: Revolt!: The Next Great Transformation from Kleptocracy Capitalism to Libertarian Socialism through Counter Ideology, Societal Education, & Direct Action.” Political Media Review.

2011
“Review: My Darling Nellie Grey by George Bowering.” (co-authored with Melissa Dalgleish). The Bull Calf.

2010
“Review: Another Dinner is Possible.” (co-authored with Charles Boyes). Political Media Review.

Encyclopaedia Entries

2019
“Nodes,” “Hyper-text,” “Ergodic,” “Born-Digital,” “(Mal)Content.”
“Electronic Literature Collection Volume One.” Electronic Literature Directory (all).

2018
“C. T. Funkhouser, Prehistoric Digital Poetry,” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, Bloomsbury, pp. 431-432.
“Joyce, Michael, Of Two Minds: Hypertext, Pedagogy, and Poetics,” The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature, Bloomsbury, pp. 434-435.
“Dietrich ‘Squinky’ Squinkifer’s Quing’s Quest VII: The Death of Video Games.”
“Generative Poetry.”
“Mez Breeze’s _cross.ova.ing 4rn.blog.2.log.”
Electronic Literature Directory (all).

2017
“Mez Breeze and Andy Campbell, The Dead Tower.”
“Damian Lopes, Sensory Deprivation/Dream Poetics.”
“Darren Wershler, NICHOLODEONLINE.”
“Christopher Funkhouser, Prehistoric Digital Poetry: An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995.”
“Michael Joyce, Of Two Minds: Hypertext, Pedagogy, and Poetics.”
“W. J. T. Mitchell, ‘Ekphrasis and the Other.’” (co-authored with Robert P. Fletcher)
“J. R. Carpenter, in absentia.” (co-authored with Kent Aardse)
Electronic Literature Directory (all).

2016
“W. Mark Sutherland, Code X.” Electronic Literature Directory.

Creative Publications

Books

2020
OO: Typewriter Poems, Invisible Publishing (April 1)

Chapbooks

2020
Centre Folds, Happy Monks Press (pamphlet)

2018
Glosas for Tired Eyes: Vol. 2, above/ground press
Chant Uhm (Sound Poem for Kathleen Hanna), No Press
Incessantly (for Mariah Carey), No Press

2017
Glosas for Tired Eyes, No Press

Poetry

2020
“Cassandra” and “Danae.” Train: a poetry journal.

2019
“Two Visual Poems.” Not Your Best, edited by Eric Schmaltz for knife|fork|book
“From Greek Mythology.” Women in Concrete, edited by psw.
“Selections from Betical for Jon.” ToCall, vol. 3, p. 3, March.
“I’m a nation, too.” Here Comes Everyone: An Instanthology, edited by Andrew MacEwan, p. 24, 25 April.
“from Anxious Influence: Reading John Cage Theoretically: Introduction, 1837, 1874, 1914, and Conclusion.” Avant Canada: Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries, edited by Gregory Betts and Christian Bok.

2018
“Mirella Bentivoglio,” “Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt,” “Eric Schmaltz,” “Franz Mon,” “Nico Vassilakis.” Touch the Donkey, iss. 18, July.
“Steve McCafferey.” Small Po[r]tions, iss. 8, 22 April.
“Paula Claire.” NōD, vol. 22, p. 52.
“John Riddell,” “Zdenek Barborka,” “Marianne Holm Hansen,” “Cavan McCarthy,” “Jiri Valoch,” “Shant Basmnajian,” and “M. Hachette.” Ottawater, no. 14, January 2018, pp. 25-27.

2017
“Two Shots.” Canadian Literature, no. 230-231, Autumn/Winter 2017, p. 248.
“Errata,” “Unrest,” and “Rebelling.” The Maynard, Fall 2017.
“Yeah Right,” Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance, Dispatches Poetry Anthology, 2017, p. 622,

2007
“Jesse II: Science/Stigmata,” Bywords.ca

2005
“Dear Sylvia,” The Charlatan (Carleton University).

2004
“Untitled,” In/Words Magazine, vol. 4, no. 3

Visual Poetry in Gallery Shows

2020
“Dangerously Close to Meaning,” co-authored with Eric Schmaltz and Kate Siklosi, installation in York University English Department Offices.
“Coding Practice,” “Rebelling,” “Eschaton,” “Mean Mean Mean,” and “Errata.” (Russian translations by Pavel Zarutskiy). Type-In Exhibit of Typewriter Poetry, St. Petersberg, Russia.

2018
“Riddle” and “Fill Up.” Concrete is Porous, Secret Handshake Gallery, October

2017
“Betical” (digital poem installation), co-authored with Jon Orsi, =SUM(things), University of Waterloo Critical Media Lab annual symposium, 7 April

Short Fiction

2005
“Art and Suicide,” In/Words Magazine, vol. 4, no. 4

Non-fiction

2020
“12 or 20 Questions with Dani Spinosa.” rob mclennan’s blow, April.
““A Title Is Like a Doorbell, Not a Doorway” April Writer-In-Residence Dani Spinosa On Her Subversive New Collection.” Open-Book.ca Interview, April.
“Interview with Dani Spinosa.” Train: a poetry journal,
“Proper Tales Press 40^th Anniversary Essay.” Forty Proper Tales, 23 January.

2019
“Inter-View.” The Maynard, August.

2018
“seven questions for Dani Spinosa.” Touch the Donkey – Supplement, 14 August.
“Statement” and four poems for “Spotlight series #27: Dani Spinosa.” Medium@robmclennan, 2 July.

2017
“12 or 20 (small press) questions with Kate Siklosi and Dani Spinosa on Gap Riot Press.” rob mclennan’s blog, 14 November
“How to Start a Small Press, from People who are Still Learning.” Hook & Eye, 25 September (co-authored with Kate Siklosi)
“‘This Book is an Action’: Notes on Creating a Feminist Small Press.” Hook & Eye, 18 September (co-authored with Kate Siklosi)

Readings

2020
Poetry Reading, Launch of Gary Barwin’s For it is a Surprise and a Pleasure to Breathe, knife|fork|book

2019
Poetry Reading, Launch of Shaun Braune’s Dendrite Balconies, 27 September
Invited Speaker, “Studies in Technology and Culture: Electronic Literature,” Graduate Course taught by Dene Grigar, Washington State University, 18 March

2018
Poetry Reading, On the Line: A Special Night of Readings in Solidarity, Wisebar, Toronto, 14 June
Poetry Reading, Invisible Launch, The Brandscape, Toronto, 10 May
Poetry Reading, Koncrete Kanada, Ottawa, May

2017
Poetry Reading, EGSA Spring Reading, Voodoo Child, Toronto, 20 April

2016
Poetry Reading, Launch of Sean Braune’s The Vitamins of an Alphabet, Grey Tiger, Toronto, 11 April

Awards and Honours

2016
Toronto Arts Council Emerging Writers Grant ($5000)
ACCUTE Travel Bursary, ACCUTE Congress Calgary ($400)

2015
Graduate Program in English Nominee, Faculty of Graduate Studies Dissertation Prize, York University

2013

CUPE 3903 Travel Bursary, York University ($600)

2012-13

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant ($30,000)

2012
CIPBA (Canadian-Italian Business and Professional Association) Education Foundation Award

2011-12
Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($20,000)

2009
York University Graduate Scholarship

2008
Wilfrid Laurier University Graduate Scholarship
Ernest Daniel Stong Essay Prize
Avie Bennett Prize in Canadian Literature

Conference Participation

Forthcoming Papers

2020
“Watch Where You Point That Thing: The Strange Case of Digital Supplements in the Late 1990s.” Future Horizons: Canadian Literature and Public Debate in the Digital Age (Accepted)

Papers Presented

2019
“Oceans too must change: Canisia Lubrin’s Voodoo Hypothesis and the Anthropocene.” Text/Sound/Performance, Dublin, Ireland, 27 April.

2018
“‘The code might not necessarily be the text’: Mark Sutherland’s Code X.” Kanada Koncrete, Ottawa.

2017
“A Purely Financial Collaboration: Joyce as Computer in John Cage’s Writing Through Finnegans Wake.” Diasporic Joyce: NORTH AMERICAN JAMES JOYCE CONFERENCE
“Oversharing: Canadian E-Lit and the Lyric Subject.” “TrashCan: An Anti-Canon Manifesto (Roundtable).” ACQL Conference.

2016
“I want you to do me: Jim Andrews and New Media Poetry.” “The Concept of Vancouver.” Two Days of Canada Conference, St. Catherines, ON, 13-14 October
“Towards a Theory of Canadian Digital Poetics.” “Digital Textualities/Canadian Contexts.” CWRC Conference, Calgary, AB, 22 September
“Détours: Resistant Geographies in JR Carpenter’s in absentia.” ACCUTE Congress, 18 May
“Subsequent Screenings: The Legacy of bpNichol in Canadian Digital Poetry & Elit.” Poetics: (The Next) 25 Years, SUNY Buffalo, 9 April
“Code X: Experiment as Digital in Canadian Elit.” NeMLA Annual Convention, Hartford, CT, 19 March

2015
“A Troll with Tenure: Kenneth Goldsmith’s ‘The Body of Michael Brown.'” EGSA Colloquium, York University, 7 May

2014
“No Authors: Writing the Online Dissertation with a [generic pronoun].” Modern Language Association Annual Convention, Chicago, IL. 9 January

2013
“No Authors: A Postanarchist Reading of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov.” Beyond the Border: The Vancouver Poetry Conference, University of East Anglia. Norwich, UK. 23 November
“Can’t Buy Me Love: Robert Duncan’s Politics & Poetics of ‘Plagiarism.'” CAAS Conference, University of Waterloo. 26 October
“Waterfalls or Ideograms: John Cage’s ’62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham’ as Failed Experiments.” EGSA Colloquium, York University, 11 May
“Inging: Writing for the Second Time Through John Cage’s ’62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham.'” UofT English Colloquium, University of Toronto, 9 May

2012
“Dead Man Walking: Frenzied Masculinity in AMC’s The Walking Dead.” EGSA Colloquium, York University, 9 November

2010
“Illegible Poems, Intelligible Bodies: John Cage’s ’62 Mesostics re Merce Cunningham,'” SAGE Colloquium, University of Waterloo, 18 June 2010

Panelist Talks

2019
“Small Press, Big Ideas: Roundtable.” Toronto International Festival of Authors. Harbourfront Centre, 26 October

Panels Moderated

2017
“Trans/forming the Machine: Feminist Interventions in Digital Poetics.” ACCUTE Congress, Toronto, May
“Decoding Canadian Digital Poetics.” NeMLA, Baltimore, March

2014
“Gender, Identity and Society: Revisiting Womanhood,” EGSA Colloquium, York University, 9 May

Volunteer and Organization

2018
Meet the Presses Indie Literary Market (Curator and Organizer), 17 November
Sounds Like an H of a Night (Organizer), 4 November

2017
Meet the Presses Indie Literary Market (Organizer), 18 November
An H of a Night for bpNichol (Organizer), 1 November

2015
Digital Pedagogy Institute: “Digital Pedagogy & the Student Experience.” Toronto, August 19-20 (University of Toronto Scarborough), August 21 (Ryerson University)

Teaching Experience

As Course Director

2020
EN4181: Writers and Drugs (Online, York University)
LITT10918G: World Mythology (Sheridan)

2019-20
EN2240: Postcolonial Literatures (York University)

2019
HUMN18448G: Folk and Fairy Tales (Sheridan) (2 sections)
EN2260: Introduction to World Literature (Online, York University)
LITT19798GD: Classical Mythology (Sheridan) (2 sections)
COMM19999: Essential Communication Skills (Sheridan) (3 sections)
LITT10918G: World Mythology (Sheridan) (2 sections)

2018
COMM19999: Communication Essentials (Sheridan College, Davis)
EN2011: Gender Studies I (York University, Online)
LITT19798GD: Classical Mythology (Sheridan College, Davis)
ENGL17889: Composition and Rhetoric (Sheridan College, Davis)

2017-18
EN2240: Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures (York University)

2017
EN3350: Harlem Renaissance (York University)
LITT19798GD: Classical Mythology (Sheridan College, Trafalgar)
LITT26367GD: Gender & Sexuality in Literature (Sheridan College, Trafalgar)
EN2240: Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures (York University)

2016
EN2260: Introduction to World Literature (York University)
EN2240: Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures (York University, Online)
EN4400: Diaspora Literatures (York University, Online)

2015
EN2260: Introduction to World Literature (York University)
EN2011: Gender Studies I (York University)

As Teaching Assistant

2019-20
EN2100: Gender Studies (Online, York University)
2014-15
EN3100: Contemporary Literature (York University)
2014
EN2002: Literary Theory 2 (York University)
2013
EN2001: Literary Theory 1(York University)
2012-13
EN2010: Gender Studies (York University)
2010-12
EN2100: Poetry (York University)
2010
EN2010: Gender Studies (York University)
2009-10
EN2220: Introduction to Canadian Literature (York University)
2009
EN121: Reading Drama (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON)
2008
EN120: Reading Poetry (Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON)

As Marker/Grader

2019
EN4400: Diaspora Literatures (York University)

2017
EN2240: Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures (York University)
EN4400: Diaspora Literatures (York University)

2014-15
EN2250: Introduction to British Literature (York University)

Other Instructor Experience

2016-2017
Private Tutor: ESL Language Skills (Undergraduate & Graduate Students)
2013-14
TACT (Teaching Assistant Certificate in Teaching); SEDA Accreditation
2008-2017
Private Tutor: Reading, Writing, &c (Grades 6-Undergraduates)

Research Experience

2014-16
DHSI: Digital Humanities Summer Institute (University of Victoria)
2014
FDSW14: Feminist Digital Scholars Workshop (HASTAC Initiative)
2011
“New Wave Canada Redux” under Victor Coleman, Toronto New School

Professional Service

2019-20
Electronic Literature Organization Fellowship
2019
Judge, Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Contest (Exile)
Judge, Gwendolyn MacEwan Poetry Prize (Exile)
2018
Judge, Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Contest (Exile)
Judge, Gwendolyn MacEwan Poetry Prize (Exile)
Peer-Reviewer, The New Americanist (U of Warsaw, Dept. of American Studies)
2017
Judge, Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Contest (Exile)
Judge, Gwendolyn MacEwan Poetry Prize (Exile)
Founding Co-editor, Gap Riot Press
2016
Managing Editor, Electronic Literature Directory
2015
Reception and social media, Digital Pedagogy Institute (University of Toronto, Ryerson University)
2013-2015
Co-editor, Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought
2011-2015
Copy-editor and Blind Peer-Reviewer, Pivot: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies and Thought
2007-2008
Senior Poetry Editor, Existere Journal of Arts and Literature (York University)

University Service

2013-15
Professionalization Workshop Leader: Applying for Funding (York University)
2013
Hiring Committee: Post-1945 Fiction CLA (York University)
2012-13
English Graduate Students’ Association Social Committee (York University)
2011-12
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (York University)
2010-12, 14-15
EGSA Colloquium Committee (York University)

Professional Affiliations

MLA and NeMLA (CAITY Caucus and Women’s Caucus)
HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory)
ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English)
ACQL (Association of Canadian and Quebecois Literatures)
CWILA (Canadian Women in the Literary Arts)
CSDH (Canadian Society of the Digital Humanities)
ELO (Electronic Literature Organization)