Courses Taught in MALS: MALS 70000 - Introduction to Graduate Liberal Studies
Publications
Books and Chapbooks
The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 224 pages.
Thermae (poetry chapbook). New York: EOAGH, 2012.
The Next in Line (poetry). Raymond, New Hampshire: Slope Editions, 2008.
Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
“Vik Muniz’s ‘Pictures of Garbage.’ and the Aesthetics of Poverty.”
ArtMargins 6:3 (October 2017): 8–27.
“Andy Warhol’s Problem Project: The Time Capsules.”
Postmodern Culture 26:1 (2015).
https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/34265.
“The Utopian Textures and Civic Commons of Lisa Robertson’s Soft Architecture.” In
Reading the Difficulties: Dialogue with Contemporary Innovative American Poetry. Ed. Thomas Fink and Judith Halden-Sullivan. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014. 146–56.
“The Queer Nature of Waste in John Ashbery’s
The Vermont Notebook.”
Arizona Quarterly 68:3
(Autumn 2012): 71-102.
“The New Media Writer as Cartographer.”
Computers and Composition 28: 34 (Dec. 2011): 303-314.
“‘Baby, I
am the garbage’: James Schuyler’s Taste for Waste."
Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies
10/11 (2009): 57-73.
“‘From A to B and Back Again’: Warhol, Writing, Recycling.”
Intervalles 3/4 (F2008/W2009): 794-809.
“Kenneth Goldsmith’s Waste-Management Poetics."
SubStance 32
. No. 2 (2008): 25-40.
Special issue: “Waste and Abundance: The Measure of Consumption.”
“‘Viciousness in the Powder Room’: Camp, Misogyny, and the Erotics of Collaboration in
Phoebe 2002.”
Canadian Poetry 60 (Fall/Winter 2007–2008): 68-85.
Selected Reviews and Journalism
Review of Tirza True Latimer’s
Eccentric Modernisms: Making Differences in the History of American Art. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. 183 pgs
.)
Art Bulletin 100:1 (2018): 175-77.
Review of Brian Blanchfield’s
Proxies: Essays Near Knowing. {A Reckoning.} Bookforum. July 5, 2016.
“The New Spectator.” Review of Rebekah Rutkoff’s
The Irresponsible Magician.
Bookforum 23:1 (Apr/May 2016): 57.
“Why Are Dystopian Films on the Rise Again?”
JSTOR Daily. Jstor.org. 19 Nov 2014.
“Writing on the Wall: Graffiti Artists
Os Gêmeos Reimagine Urban Space.”
Time magazine. (13 Aug 2012): 58-59.
“The Practice of Everyday Life: Gertrude Stein’s
Stanzas.”
Boston Review. 20 June 2012.
“Natural Experiments: Embracing Poetry’s Failure.” Review of Peter Gizzi’s
Threshold Songs.
Boston Review 37:2 (March-April 2012): 68-71.
About Professor Schmidt
Christopher Schmidt is the author of two books: a critical study,
The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith, and the poetry collection
The Next in Line. Recent publications include peer-reviewed articles on Vik Muniz’s
Pictures of Garbage and
Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules; his writings have also appeared in
Bookforum,
Boston Review, Tin House, Postmodern Culture, ArtMargins, SubStance, JSTOR Daily, and
Time magazine. He is currently drafting a critical-creative study on representations of Brazilian landscape and urban space in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and the designs of Roberto Burle Marx. Since joining CUNY, he has been a faculty fellow at both the Center for Humanities and the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. From 2015 to 2018, he was co-PI for an NEH Humanities Initiative at LaGuardia Community College on Global Cities. In addition to twentieth-century literature and critical theory, his research interests include gender and sexuality studies, environmental humanities, new materialisms, visual culture, and interarts collaboration.