Craig Dworkin

Dworkin received his BA from Stanford University and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He was an assistant{{cite web |title=Assistant professors join faculty |url=https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/98/1116/join.htm |website=Princeton Weekly Bulletin |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=16 November 1998}} and associate professor{{cite web |title=Board approves 14 promotions |url=https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/04/0419/2b.shtml |website=Princeton Weekly Bulletin |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=2004}} at Princeton University from 1998 to 2004 before joining the faculty at the University of Utah, where he is a Professor of English.

Dworkin has written a number of books of poetry, including Helicography (Punctum Books, 2021),{{cite web |last1=Sacksteder |first1=Joe |title="Helicography by Craig Dworkin" |url=https://www.therupturemag.com/rupture/helicography |website=The Rupture |access-date=24 December 2022 |date=April 2022}} The Pine-Woods Notebook (Kenning Editions, 2019),{{cite web |title=Al Filreis and Danny Snelson discuss The Pine-Woods Notebook |url=https://www.kenningeditions.com/kenning-editions/al-filreis-and-danny-snelson-discuss-the-pine-woods-notebook/ |website=Kenning Editions |access-date=1 July 2021}} Def (Information as Material, 2018),{{cite web |title=From DEF – A Long Poem |url=https://arcade.stanford.edu/dibur/def-long-poem |website=Arcade: A Digital Salon |publisher=Stanford |access-date=1 July 2021}} Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact (IAM, 2016),{{cite web |last1=Liberty |first1=Megan N. |title=Reading as Art & Publishing as Artistic Practice |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2017/04/art_books/Simon-Morris-Ed-Reading-as-Art-Annette-Gilbert-Ed-Publishing-as-Artistic-Practice |website=Brooklyn Rail |access-date=24 December 2022 |date=April 2017}} Alkali (Counterpath Press, 2015),{{cite web |last1=Brunvand |first1=Amy |title=Poetry as Mineralogy: Craig Dworkin's Conceptual Poetry Crystalizes in Alkali |url=http://artistsofutah.org/15Bytes/index.php/poetry-as-mineralogy-craig-dworkins-conceptual-poetry-crystalizes-in-alkali/ |website=Artists of Utah |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=3 April 2016}} The Crystal Text (After Clark Coolidge) (Compline, 2012),{{cite web |last1=Williams |first1=Tyrone |title=Dworkin after Coolidge: 'The Crystal Text' stripped bare ... |url=http://jacket2.org/commentary/dworkin-after-coolidge |website=Jacket2 |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=9 June 2014}} Motes (Roof Books, 2011),{{cite web |last1=Burt |first1=Stephanie |title=Games About Frames: Minimalists Craig Dworkin and Michael O'Brien |url=http://bostonreview.net/poetry/games-about-frames-0 |website=Boston Review |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=7 February 2013}} The Perverse Library (IAM, 2010),{{cite web |title=Exhibitions and events: The Perverse Library |url=http://laurencesternetrust.org.uk/exhibition.php?id=84 |website=The Laurence Sterne Trust |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=2010}} and Strand (Roof, 2005).{{cite journal |title=Self-Portrait in a Context Mirror: Pain and Quotation in the Conceptual Writing of Craig Dworkin |last1=Stephens |first1=Paul |journal=Postmodern Culture |date=2009 |volume=19 |issue=3 |doi=10.1353/pmc.2009.0004 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press}}

Dworkin is the author of four scholarly monographs: Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (Chicago, 2020);{{cite web |last1=Jackson |first1=Virginia |title=Virginia Jackson reviews Radium of the Word |url=https://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/virginia_jackson_reviews_radium_of_the_word/ |website=Critical Inquiry |access-date=24 December 2022 |date=December 2022}}{{cite web|title=Dworkin discusses Radium of the Word|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlChq3cm6d0&t=4s|website=YouTube|access-date=12 June 2023|date=May 2021}} Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (Fordham, 2020);{{cite web |last1=Malyszek |first1=Chelsea |title=The Poet and the Dictionary |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-poet-and-the-dictionary/ |website=The Los Angeles Review of Books |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=7 November 2020}} No Medium (MIT, 2013),{{cite web |last1=Drucker |first1=Johanna |title=Understanding Media: Craig Dworkin's "No Medium" |url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/understanding-media-craig-dworkins-no-medium/ |website=The Los Angeles Review of Books |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=9 July 2013}} in which he discusses works that are "blank, erased, clear, or silent";{{cite web |last1=Leong |first1=Michael |title=Reading the "Nothings that Are": Craig Dworkin's "No Medium" |url=https://hyperallergic.com/72790/reading-the-nothings-that-are-craig-dworkins-no-medium/ |website=Hyperallergic |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=8 June 2013}} and Reading the Illegible (Northwestern, 2003).{{cite web |last1=Khalip |first1=Jacques |title=Harder to See |url=https://bostonreview.net/archives/BR29.5/khalip.php |website=Boston Review |access-date=1 July 2021 |date=October 2004}} Edited collections include Against Expression (co-edited with Kenneth Goldsmith, Northwestern, 2011), in which he coined the term "conceptual writing";{{cite journal |last1=Reed |first1=Brian |title=Idea Eater: The Conceptual Lyric as an Emergent Literary Form |journal=Mosaic|date=June 2016 |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=1–18 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44030581 |access-date=1 July 2021 |publisher=University of Manitoba|doi=10.1353/mos.2016.a621125 |jstor=44030581 }} The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, co-edited with Marjorie Perloff (Chicago, 2009); and The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (Roof, 2008). He has published articles in such diverse journals as October,{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig Douglas |title=Fugitive Signs |journal=October |date=Winter 2001 |volume=95 |pages=90–113 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/779201 |access-date=24 December 2022 |publisher=The MIT Press|jstor=779201 }} Grey Room,{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=Whereof One Cannot Speak |journal=Grey Room |date=Fall 2005 |volume=21 |issue=21 |pages=46–69 |doi=10.1162/152638105774539798 |url=https://direct.mit.edu/grey/article/doi/10.1162/152638105774539798/10461/Whereof-One-Cannot-Speak |access-date=1 July 2021}} Contemporary Literature,{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=The Imaginary Solution |journal=Contemporary Literature |date=Spring 2007 |volume=48 |issue=1 |pages=29–60 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4489188 |access-date=1 July 2021 |publisher=University of Wisconsin Press|doi=10.1353/cli.2007.0023 |jstor=4489188 }} PMLA,{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=The Poetry of Sound |journal=PMLA |date=May 2008 |volume=123 |issue=3 |pages=755–761 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25501896 |access-date=1 July 2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press|jstor=25501896 }} and Critical Inquiry.{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=Poetry in the Age of Consumer-Generated Content |journal=Critical Inquiry |date=Summer 2018 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=674–705 |doi=10.1086/698173 |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/698173 |access-date=1 July 2021}}

Dworkin is the founding senior editor of Eclipse, an online archive focusing on digital facsimiles of radical small-press writing from the last quarter of the 20th century. Dworkin started the archive in 2002 to provide readers and scholars with access to avant-garde works that were no longer available in print from their original publishers; Eclipse later expanded to publish selected new works and born-digital publications in the spirit of those earlier presses.{{cite web |last1=Higgs |first1=Christopher |title=Helping to Redraw the Map of 20th Century Literature: In Conversation with Craig Dworkin, editor of Eclipse online archive of avant-garde writing |url=https://entropymag.org/helping-to-redraw-the-map-of-20th-century-literature-in-conversation-with-craig-dworkin-editor-of-eclipse-online-archive-of-avant-garde-writing/ |website=Entropy Mag |access-date=27 March 2024 |date=1 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170301191214/https://entropymag.org/helping-to-redraw-the-map-of-20th-century-literature-in-conversation-with-craig-dworkin-editor-of-eclipse-online-archive-of-avant-garde-writing/ |archive-date=2017-03-01 }} The archive's name is an homage to Douglas Messerli’s Sun & Moon press.

Eclipse includes high-resolution scans of every page of its included texts, most from Dworkin's personal collection, in an attempt to "conserve ... the facture and material specificity of the book or printed document as an object."{{cite journal |last1=Dworkin |first1=Craig |title=Hypermnesia |journal=Boundary 2|date=Fall 2009 |volume=36 |issue=3 |pages=77–95 |doi=10.1215/01903659-2009-021 |url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinHypermnesia.pdf |access-date=27 March 2024 |publisher=Duke University Press}} Dworkin co-manages the archive with Danny Snelson, assistant professor of English at UCLA.{{cite web |last1=Snelson |first1=Danny |title=An Elegy for Jimmy & Lucy's House of "K" (1984–1989) |url=https://post45.org/2023/06/an-elegy-for-ijimmy-and-lucys-house-of-k-1984-1989/#footnote_8_20645 |website=Post45 |access-date=27 March 2024 |date=6 June 2023}}

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• {{cite book| title=Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year=2020| url=https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo68659686.html}}
• {{cite book| title=Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography| publisher=Fordham University Press| year=2020| url=http://www.fordhampress.com/9780823287987/dictionary-poetics/}}
• {{cite book| title=No Medium| publisher=MIT Press| year=2013| url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/no-medium}}
• {{cite book| title=Reading the Illegible| publisher=Northwestern University Press| year=2003| url=http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/reading-illegible-0}}

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• {{cite book| title=Nothing: A User's Manual| publisher=Information as Material| year=2015| url=http://www.informationasmaterial.org/portfolio/nothing-a-users-manual/}}
• Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, eds. {{cite book| title=Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing| publisher=Northwestern University Press| year=2011| url=http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/content/against-expression}}
• Craig Dworkin and Marjorie Perloff, eds. {{cite book| title=The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound| publisher=University of Chicago Press| year=2009| url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo7873526.html}}
• {{cite book| title=The Consequence of Innovation: 21st-Century Poetics| publisher=Roof Books| year=2008| url=http://www.seguefoundation.com/roofbooks/books/dworkin.html}}
• {{cite book| title=Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci| publisher=MIT Press| year=2006| url=https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/language-cover-page}}
• Craig Dworkin and María Eugenia Díaz Sánchez, eds. {{cite book| title=Architectures of Poetry| publisher=Rodopi| year=2004| isbn=90-420-1892-5| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9p1ESXfoioC}}

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• {{cite book| title=Lagniappes.| publisher=Hiding Press| year=2022| url=https://www.hidingpress.com/books/lagniappes/}}
• {{cite book| title=Helicography.| publisher=Punctum Books| year=2021| url=https://punctumbooks.com/titles/helicography/}}
• {{cite book| title=Clock.| publisher=Inscription: the Journal of Material Text| year=2020| url=https://inscriptionjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/2296_Inscription_Journal_12ppBooklet.LowRes_Digital.pdf}}
• {{cite book| title=The Pine-Woods Notebook.| publisher=Kenning Editions| year=2019| url=https://www.kenningeditions.com/kenning-editions/craig-dworkins-the-pine-woods-notebook/}}
• {{cite book| title=In Two Dimensions.| publisher=Sync| year=2019| url=https://sync.abue.io/issues/191122cd_sync2_45_in2d.pdf}}
• {{cite book| title=Def.| publisher=Information As Material| year=2018| url=http://www.informationasmaterial.org/portfolio/def/}}
• {{cite book| title=Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact| publisher=Information As Material| year=2016| url=http://www.informationasmaterial.org/portfolio/twelve-erroneous-displacements-and-a-fact/}}
• {{cite book| title=Alkali| publisher=Counterpath Press| year=2015| url=http://counterpathpress.org/alkalicraig-dworkin}}
• Craig Dworkin and Madeline Gilmore. {{cite book| title=An Attempt at Exhausting a Space in Williamstown| publisher=Publication Studio| year=2015| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinExhausting.pdf}}
• {{cite book| title=Remotes| publisher=Little Red Leaves| year=2013| url=http://www.textileseries.com/shop/remotes-by-craig-dworkin}}
• {{cite book| title=Chapter XXIV| publisher=Red Butte Press| year=2013| url=https://lib.utah.edu/collections/red-butte-press/publications/chap-xxiv.php}}
• {{cite book| title=The Crystal Text (After Clark Coolidge)| publisher=Compline| year=2012| url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2013/01/craig-dworkins-homage-to-clark-coolidges-the-crystal-text}}
• {{cite book| title=A Handbook of Protocols for Literary Listening| publisher=Arika| year=2012| url=http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/library/Dworkin_Craig_A-Handbook-of-%20Protocols-for-Literary-Listening.pdf}}
• {{cite book| title=Emblem of My Work| publisher=Laurence Sterne Trust| year=2011| url=https://www.laurencesternetrust.org.uk/shop-item.php?id=116}}
• {{cite book| title=Copys| publisher=No Press| year=2011| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/COPYS/copys.html}}
• {{cite book| title=Motes| publisher=Roof Books| year=2011| url=http://www.seguefoundation.com/roofbooks/books/dworkin.html}}
• {{cite book| title=The Perverse Library| publisher=Information As Material| year=2010| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinPerverse.pdf}}
• {{cite book| title=Unheard Music| publisher=Information As Material| year=2009| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinUnheard.pdf}}
• {{cite book| title=Parse| publisher=Atelos| year=2008| url=http://www.atelos.org/parse.htm}}
• {{cite book| title=Maps| publisher=Editions Ubu| year=2007| url=http://www.ubu.com/ubu/unpub/Unpub_009_Dworkin_Maps.pdf}}
• {{cite book| title=Strand| publisher=Roof Books| year=2005| url=https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/1931824142/strand.aspx}}
• {{cite book| title=Smokes| publisher=Editions Ubu| year=2004| url=http://www.ubu.com/ubu/dworkin_smokes.html}}
• {{cite book| title=Dure| publisher=Cuneiform Press| year=2004| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinDure.pdf}}
• {{cite book| title=Index| publisher=housepress| year=2002| url=http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/DworkinIndex.pdf}}
• {{cite book| title=Signature—Effects| publisher=ghos-ti-| year=1997| isbn=978-1-891190-51-3| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0zghAQAAIAAJ}}

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• [http://eclipsearchive.org/Editor/ Eclipse Editor]
• [http://eclipsearchive.org Eclipse Archive]

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