Dimitri Anastasopoulos
University at Buffalo, SUNY
Department of English
306 Clemens Hall
Buffalo, NY 14260
716-877-7299
Academic
Employment:University at Buffalo, S.U.N.Y.
Associate Professor of English, Fall 2012-Present
Assistant Professor of English, Fall 2007-2012
University of Rochester
Assistant Professor of English, 2004-2007
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 2000-2003
Education:Ph.D., English, University at Albany, S.U.N.Y., August 2000
M.F.A., Fiction, Pennsylvania State University, May 1995
B.S., Mass Communications, Boston University, May 1990
Publications:Novels:
A Larger Sense of Harvey, June 2002 by Mammoth Books
Farm for Mutes—by Mammoth Books(forthcoming June 23, 2013)
Fiction & Hypermedia:
“The Bubble Man of Allentown,” Buffalo Noir, Akashic Books, Noir Series, Releases 8/6/13
“Riot Dog,” Stolen Island, Spring 2013, 127-132. (University of Maine).
“Story Net,” American Letters and Commentary, issue 23, Spring-Summer 2012, co-author.
“On Returning Home in the Early Evening,” Barzakh, Summer 2011, 10 pages.
“Signs of Intrauterine Life,” &Now Awards Anthology, Northwestern University Press, Fall 2009, solicited excerpt, 160-164.
-- Previously published in Notre Dame Review. Winter 2007-2008. No. 22, 89-97.
“The Work of Art as Seen From Barnard’s Star,” PP/FF: An Anthology. Starcherone Books. Winter 2006.
Solicited, 133-137.
“Llacko’s Inanimate Log,” 3rd Bed, vol. 7, Winter 2004, hypermedia.
“A Foreign X,” Sudden Stories: An Anthology of Minuscule Fiction, 2003, 22-23.
“The Pupils of Gotse D.,” Black Warrior Review, vol. 26 no. 2, Summer 2001, 47-60. “Nods to Queneau,” Rafters, vol.1 no.2, Fall 1997, 9-16.
“Yesterday’s Bread for Spiro,” Willow Springs no. 35, Spring 1996, 94-115.
Articles & Reviews:
“Present Without Memory: Self-Forgetfulness, Omniscience and Non-Narration in Lautreamont’sMaldororand the 2003 State of the Union Speech,” Journal of Narrative Theory, 2011 volume 41.1, 12-33.
“Chanting Down the Law: Nathaniel Mackey’s DjbotBaghostus’s Run,” in Callaloo: a Journal of
African- American and African Arts and Letters,vol. 23 no. 2, special issue, Fall 2000, 784-795.
“Terrestrial Stylist,” in Pennsylvania English, vol. 21, n. 2, Winter 1998, 7-15.
“Science Fiction in Reverse,” in American Book Review, vol. 20, n. 1, November 1998.
CD-ROM Hypertext Editor:
Gravitational Intrigue: An Anthology of Emergent Hypermedia, The Little Magazine vol. 22CD. (Eds.) Dimitri Anastasopoulos and Christina Milletti, New York: April 1999.
Reviewed in American Book Review by Steve Tomasula: “E-Operas and Yo-yos,” (21.3) Spring 2000.
Interviewed by Jeffrey Selingo in the Chronicle of Higher Education: January 6, 1998.
Public Demonstration: AWP Tech Fair, Albany, NY, April 15, 1999.
Work In Progress:
Fiction
Italian Hall—novel
New Crimes of the Terrorist—novel
Dissertation:Dissertation: Asymptotic Novel: The Language of Fiction and Its Limits
Reviews of A Larger Sense of Harvey:
Samet, Matt. “A Larger Sense of Language” The American Book Review, 24:2, January 2003.
Vatopoulos, Nikos. “A Greek American Author in New York.” Kathimerini March 23, 2003.
(Greece’s largest circulating daily newspaper)
Czyz, Vincent.“A Larger Sense of Harvey (a review).” Rain TaxiVol. 6:4, Winter 2002.
Madden, David.“A Larger Sense of Harvey (a review).”Context , November 2002.
Madden, David.“A Larger Sense of Harvey (a review).” The Review of Contemporary Fiction, v XXI:3, September 2002.
Sandor, Melissa. “Seven Artists You Should Know,” Spree Magazine, 38:6, October/November 2004.
Conferences and Presentations:
“Credibility and Disbelief, Praxeology and Fiction,” University of Maine, Orono, March 22, 2013.
“Fiction Writing in the City of Buffalo,” AWP Conference & Bookfair, Boston, MA, March 6-9, 2013.
“Intersections: Community, Politics and Art,” Forum (with Rachel Levitsky and Camille Roy), Bathhouse Reading Series, Eastern Michigan University, Nov. 29, 2012.
“Dark Matter: Narratives of Crisis,” &Now Festival of Literature and Arts, Paris, France, Sorbonne, June 6-10, 2012.
“The Difference Today Makes: DARPA and Storytelling,” &Now Festival, San Diego, CA, University of California at San Diego, Oct. 13-16, 2011.
“Present Without Memory: Omniscience and Non-Narration in the 2003 State of the Union Speech,” MSA (Modernist Studies Conference), Oct. 6-9, 2011.
“Narrative and Hybridity: the Influence of Lautreamont on Contemporary Innovative Fiction,” Poetics Affiliate Faculty at Work, Karpeles Museum, Buffalo, NY, February 18, 2011.
“Purple Brain: Paul West’s Response to Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello,” &Now Conference, Buffalo, NY, Oct. 14-17, 2009.
“We are Unconscious: the End of Dreams and the Surreal,” &Now Conference, Buffalo, NY, Oct. 14-17, 2009.
“The No-Narrator in New Fiction,” &Now Conference, Los Angeles, CA, April 14-17, 2008.
“Outside of Fiction, We Live,” University of Maine Microconference on Fiction, November 2, 2006
“Information by Fiction Machines,” &Now Conference, Chicago, IL, April 5-7, 2006.
“Fiction and the Ontology of Failure,” AWP Conference, Vancouver, Canada, April, March 30-April 3, 2005.
“Master Class on the Contemporary American Novel,” Writers & Books ( April 24 & 25, 2005, Rochester, NY.
“Fiction Writing Machines: an Aesthetics of Simulation,” AWP Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 24-27, 2004.
“Surrealist Fiction in France During the 1920s and 1930s,” Writers & Books, Rochester, New York, May 2, 2002.
“Asymptotic Jazz in Nathaniel Mackey’s From a BrokenBottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate,” Narrative: An International Conference, April 11-12, 2002, Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan.
“Chanting Down The Law: Nathaniel Mackey’s DjbotBaghostus’s Run,” 20th-Century Literature
Conference, February 21-23, 2002, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
“9-Way Mind,” a hypermedia panel, E-Poetry 2001: An International Digital Poetry Festival, April 18-22,
2001, SUNY-Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
“Constructing National Identity,” (PanelModerator), Narrative: An International Conference, March 8-11,
2001, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
“The Grammar of Hypertext Links,” AWP Conference, April 14-17, 1999, Albany, New York.
“Heuristics in the Experimental Novel,” (Panel Moderator) AWP Annual Conference, April 14-17, 1999,
Albany, New York.
“Gravitational Intrigue: CD-ROM Presentation by The Little Magazine,” AWP Annual Conference,
April 14-17, 1999, Albany, New York.
“Rationality and Suicide in Thomas Bernhard’s Novels,” Thomas Bernhard Panel, SAMLA Conference,
November 5-8, 1998, Atlanta, Georgia.
“Clearing in Heidegger’s Thinking and in Thomas Bernhard’s Novels,” 20th-Century Literature
Conference, February 26-28, 1998, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
“Peer Response in Graduate Workshops,” AWP Annual Conference, March 9-11, 1995, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Awards:Fundacion Valparaiso
Mojacar, Spain, June 2001
One month residency (all expenses paid) awarded to work on short-story collection.
Eugene Garber Prize
For Short Fiction, Spring 2000
Associated Writing Programs Intro Writers Award
Associated Writing Programs, 1996.For Short Fiction. Judge: Diane Glancy
Teaching Interests:
Fiction Writing, Contemporary American Fiction, Postmodern Novel, Narrative Theory, Avant-Garde Fiction and the Modernist Novel, Continental Fiction, Hypertext Theory/Writing, Digital Culture.
Department Service:
Committees:
CAS Policy Committee 2012-Present
Undergraduate Review Committee 2012-2013
Fiction Target of Opportunity Hiring Committee 2012-2013
Poetics Search Committee 2011-2012
Creative Writing Committee 2007-Present
Executive Committee, 2008-2010
Composition Director Search Committee, 2008-2009
Graduate Review Committee, 2007-2008
Service:Creative Writing Curriculum Revision Group
Co-Director Exhibit X Fiction Reading Series, University at Buffalo English Dept., 2007-Present
Judge for Cook, Hammond, Logan Prizes, 2013
Judge: Joyce Carol Oates Prize, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011
Director of the Journalism Certificate, 2008-2009
Journalism Certificate Curriculum Revision, 2007-2008
Student Advising:
Doctoral Student Oral Exam/Dissertation Committee:
Nicholas Frangipane, University at Buffalo
Chi-Wei Hsu, University at Buffalo
Rae Muhlstock, University at Buffalo
Jennifer Douglas, University of Rochester
Martin Boyden, University of Rochester
Amy Fenstermaker, University of Rochester
Masters Student Theses:
Cassandra Olson
Josh Newman
Jennifer Stachura
Michael Mahoney
Patricia Pantano
Stephen Boyd
Thomas Perry
Brandon Ford
Brandon Rudroff
Professional Service:
Conference Co‑Organizer: &Now Conference of Innovative Writing & the Literary Arts. Buffalo, NY, October 15-18, 2009
Board Member, Board Member/Editor, Starcherone Books. October 2009 - Present.
Judge: University of Maine, Orono Fiction Writing Prize, 2009
Judge: New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fiction Prize, Spring 2008
Executive Committee, &NOW: Festival of Innovative Writing and Art, October 2007-Present
Executive Board, &Now Books/Northwestern University Press, Summer 2009-Present
Judge: Heidinger-Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman, 2003-2006
Reader for MELUS: the Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature in the US, 2002.
Community:
Lecture on Surrealist Writing and Literature at Writers & Books ( May 9, 2002, Rochester, NY.
Master Class on the Contemporary American Novel at Writers & Books ( April 24 & 25, 2004, Rochester, NY.
Editorial: The Little Magazine: located at Editor: 1996-2001
Public Readings & Interviews:
--New Writing Series, University of Maine at Orono, March 21, 2013
--Bathhouse Reading Series, Eastern Michigan University, Nov. 29, 2012.
--Webtalkradio.net, Word Patriots Show, “Langoo-Adj Project,” Summer 2011,
URL:
--AWP conference, New York, NY, February 1st, 2008.
--University of Maine at Orono: Fall 2006
--&Now Literary Arts Festival, Chicago, IL, April 2006
--Bathhouse Reading Series, Ypsilanti, MI, February 2006
--Writers & Books, Rochester, NY April 26, 2004
--The Write Thing Reading Series, Medaille College, Buffalo, NY, February, 25, 2004.
--New Visions Reading Series, Rochester, NY, March 21, 2003
--Reading Tour with Mammoth Books Authors: April 16-22, 2002
Writers & Books, Rochester, NY.
Shaman Drum Bookstore, Ann Arbor, MI
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
Quimby’s Bookstore, Chicago, IL
--Writer’s Harvest Reading, Rochester, NY: 2000, 2001
--Jawbone Series, SUNY-Albany Writing Program: 1996, 1997, 1998
--Solomon Reading, Brown University: 1996
--Central Pennsylvania Poetry Circle: 1993, 1994; Penn State M.F.A. Reading Series: 1992, 1993, 1994