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Fall 2010

Carrie Noland

"Poetry and Performance: Rancière's Model of 'Aesthetic Revolution' and
the Case of Martinique."
On Tuesday, October 26, at 3:30 at the Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall.

Pierre Alferi, a leading figure of the new generation of French poets / writers / cinematographers born after 1960 is Professor of visual studies at the Beaux-Arts in Paris (France). His writings and films are extremely concerned with the plasticity of the expression as they integrate graphic and sound components so as to produce a sort of textual and visual installation. He nurtures collaboration with other artists and often performs with musicians, painters and other poets. With Suzanne Doppelt, a photographer and professor at the European Graduate School, he co-founded the literary review Détail, and with Olivier Cadio La Revue de Littérature Générale. His collaboration with the sculptor Jacques Julien led to the production of the DVD Ça commence à Séoul (2007). Alferi has also written lyrics for the actress and singer Jeanne Balibar. He wrote two of the songs for Balibar's 2003 album, Slalom Dame ("Cinéma" and "Ton Diable"), in collaboration with Rodolphe Burger, who composed the music. Alferi is well-known for his translations of works by John Donne, Giorgio Agamben and Meyer Schapiro into French. His creativity on film was edited and published as a DVD, Cinépoèmes & films parlants (2003). A special issue of the journal SubStance devoted to Alferi's work will appear in November 2010.

November 2010

December 2010

October 2010

Melodia E. Jones
Chair
Activities

Pierre Alferi

" Sentimentale journée"

On Tuesday, September 21, at 3:30 at the Poetry Collection, 420 Capen Hall.
The Department of Romance Languages and Literature, the Poetics Program and the Melodia E. Jones Chair are sponsoring a bi-lingual reading by Pierre Alferi,

September 2010

                                                                               "Texts vs. Documents:
                                                                                  The case of
                                                                                  Pélagie-la-charrette"
                                                                             Winter 2009, Vol.49, No 4, 79-94

Thursday September 23
Film Seminar FR 341
"Cinépoèmes" de Pierre Alferi
117 Baldy

Carrie Noland teaches twentieth century literature and critical theory at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Poetry at Stake: Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology (Princeton, 1999) and Agency and Embodiment: Performing Gestures/Producing Culture
(Harvard, 2009). She is also co-editor with Sally Ann Ness of The Migration of Gesture (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), and co-editor with Barrett Watten of Diasporic Avant-Gardes: Experimental
Poetics and Cultural Displacement (Palgrave, 2009).
She has published two extremely important essays on literary plasticity : "Phonic Matters: Julia Kristeva, Bernard Heidsieck, and French Sound Poetry" PMLA, Special Issue on Poetry, v.120,n.1. January 2005 and "Graffiti and the Reinvention of Space" Word & Image (Fall 2005). She is currently writing a book supported by the American Council of Learned Societies entitled "Not a Dancing Bear: Poetry and Performance in Franco-Caribbean Poetry" and her lecture on Tuesday will take into consideration the problematics of this current work in progress.