Contact Information:
Office: 347 Stong College
Phone: 416-736-5166
E-mail: mccaffer@yorku.ca

Steve McCaffery is an active poet, performance artist and theorist whose teaching and research interests include poetics, twentieth-century poetry, and contemporary theory with a special focus on contemporary poetics, Deleuze and Guattari, grammatology, and the materiality of language and the appositions and divergences in current poetics and architectural theories.  His current research involves the interface, appositions and divergences in contemporary poetics and contemporary architectural theories.  He has published widely in scholarly and cultural journals and was a founding member in 1972 (with bp Nichol) of the Toronto Research Group, whose collected writings appeared as Rational Geomancy: The Kids of The Book Machine (Talonbooks, 1992).  He has published one novel and over seventeen volumes of poetry.  His earlier critical writings are collected in North of Intention: Critical Writings 1972-1986 (Roof Book, N.Y., 1986, 2nd ed. 2000).  Prior to Meaning: the Protosemantic and Poetics (Northwestern University Press, 200l) gathers the past decade of his theoretical writings and research, including chapters on Deleuze, Derrida, the Marquis de Sade, and Levinas.  He is also co-author (with Jed Rasula) of Imagining Language (The MIT Press, 1998; paperback edition 2001).  Seven Pages Missing, his selected creative writings, appeared in two volumes through Coach House Press 2001-03.  He is currently Director of NACIP (North American Centre for Interdisciplinary Poetics) with its URL at www.poetics.yorku.ca