Steve McCaffery

B.A. (Hull University, England); M.A. (York University); Ph.D. (State University of New York, Buffalo)

Steve McCaffery is author of fifteen books of poetry and one novel Panopticon. He has twice received the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry in 1993-94 and 1994-95. Theory of Sediment was nominated for the Governor General's Award in 1992 and The Black Debt was short-listed for the 1990 Before Columbus Award. In 1973 he co-founded with the late bp Nichol the Toronto Research Group and edited Rational Geomancy the collected in North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973-1986 (1986). He is co-editor with Jed Rasula of Imagining Language (MIT Press, 1998) a substantial, annotated anthology that gathers two millennia of conjecture on the written and spoken sign. His next collection of critical writings, Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics, is forthcoming. He is currently at work on three other books: Slightly Left of Thinking which will gather poems, interviews and critical essays, Seven Pages Missing (new and selected poems), and an annotated edition of his two decades of correspondence with Fluxus artist Dick Higgins. He has performed his poetry world-wide and his work has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Hungarian.

He teaches poetics, critical theory, and contemporary literature.

Steve McCaffery is an Assistant Professor of English.

Room: 347 Stong College

Phone: 416-736-2100, ext. 40675

Professor McCaffery will be on leave during the 2005/2006 academic year.

Steve McCaffery on the web:  http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/linebreak/programs/mccaffery/
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