Readings & Lectures
Invited Fiction Readings:
Lecture Series and Fiction Reading at Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Lublin Poland. “Conceptual Literature,” May 26th, “The New-Materialism Novel,” May 29th, “from Ascension,” May 30th, 2023.
“from Ascension” at University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama. March 29, 2023, 4:00 PM. Marx Library Auditorium.
“from Ascension” at AWP Saturday, March 26, 2022. 1:45 PM–2:45 PM ET. Location: #AWP22 Virtual Conference Platform.
“from Ascension” at Department of English and American Studies, Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra, Slovakia. November 8, 2021.
“from Ascension” at University of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia. September 26, 2018.
“A Puddle, a Field, a Rock, a Mound of Dirt” at Bergen Public Library, Bergen, Norway. April 28, 2017.
“Vast Landscapes, Small Screens, and Altered Perspectives,” University of Bergen, Norway. April 28, 2017.
“Words Are Animals Are Words” at Université de Rouen, France. April 25, 2017.
“from Once Human” at University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri. February 4, 2016.
TOC at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, November 15, 2015.
“from Once Human” at BathHouse Reading Series, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. April 1, 2015.
“from Once Human” at Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan. February 26, 2015.
Keynote Reading, “TOC,” at Text/ures: les objets livres du papier au numérique, at Les Archives nationales / Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France. November 19, 2014.
“TOC,” 2014 Electronic Literature Organization Conference, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. June 19-21, 2014.
“TOC,” Society of Literature, Science and Art Annual Conference at University of Notre Dame, Digital Visualization Theater, October 3, 2013.
“TOC,” Counterpath Bookstore Reading Series, Denver. September 25, 2013.
“Medieval Times” reading to seminar on Steve Tomasula, ‘Journée spéciale Steve Tomasula,’ at Université de Paris 13, Paris, France. May 17, 2013.
“TOC,” Thomas Jefferson Building, The Library of Congress, Washington D.C. April 4, 2013.
From IN & OZ, Seminary Co-op Bookstore, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. April 2013.
From IN & OZ, American Book Review Reading Series, University of Houston-Victoria. TX. September 13, 2012.
“My America” at the Festival of Language, Chicago, IL. February 29, 2012.
“TOC” at An FC2 Flash Fiction Reading, Curtiss Hall, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL. March 1, 2012.
Featured Reader, “TOC,” &NOW Literary Festival, University of California San Diego. October 16, 2011.
“Book of Portraiture,” reading and discussion, invited by U.S. Department of State, U.S. Institute on Contemporary American Literature, Santa Fe, New Mexico. July 9-13, 2011.
“TOC” at University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut. February 16, 2011.
“TOC” at University of Notre Dame, Digital Visualization Theater, November 6, 2010.
“Fun with Language” at The Writers’ Center of Indiana, Marion University, Indianapolis. October 23, 2010.
“Endurance” at the Museum of Contemporary Art—Denver, Sponsored by Mandorla, Denver, CO. April 8, 2010.
“Fiction Reading” at IN(TER)VENTIONS: Literary Practice at the Edge: A Gathering (of Canadian and American Authors), The Banff Centre in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. February 20, 2010.
“TOC” Keynote reading at &NOW: A Festival of Innovative Art and Literature, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY. October 15, 2009.
“TOC” at The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah. September 10, 2009.
“TOC” at Observatoire de la Littérature Américaine (ODELA), Institut d' Anglais Charles V, Paris, France. June 29, 2009.
“VAS” at Shakespeare & Company, Paris, France. June 25, 2009.
“The Kingdom’s Good” at FC2 Fiction Reading, School of the Arts Institute, Chicago. February 12, 2009.
“TOC” at The Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY. March 4, 2008.
Keynote reading “Bodies in Flatland” at &NOW Festival, Chapman University, Orange, CA. April 16, 2008.
“The Color of Flesh,” South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN. December 7, 2007.
“EndTimes.2,” Brown University, Providence, RI. April 17, 2007.
“EndTimes.2,” KGB, 85 E. 4th St., New York, NY. March 23, 2007.
“Color of Flesh,” University of Maine, Orono, Maine. March 22, 2007.
“Book of Portraiture,” Powell’s North, Chicago. Sponsored by Lake Forest College and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. February 15, 2007.
“Defining Narratives,” Keynote Address, aesthetic INVASIONS/articulate EVASIONS conference, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA. October 21, 2006
“Book of Portraiture,” Temple University, Philadelphia. October 5, 2006.
“Book of Portraiture,” The Writers Place / Riverfront Reading Series, Kansas City. May 12, 2006.
“Visible Narratives” at The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. April 17, 2006.
“Book of Portraiture,” Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan. April 4, 2006.
“Book of Portraiture,” Florida State University, Tallahassee. March 28, 2006.
“Book of Portraiture,” University of Rochester, Rochester, NY. September 18, 2006. (forthcoming).
“Bodies in Flatland,” The Bowery Poetry Club, New York, New York. April 3, 2005.
“Bodies in Flatland,” State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York December 2, 2004.
“The Color of Flesh,” Illinois State, Normal, Illinois. Sponsored by the Illinois State English Honors Society. February 25, 2005.
“Bodies in Flatland,” University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. March 3, 2005.
“Bodies in Flatland,” Lake Forrest College, Lake Forrest, Illinois. December 1, 2004.
“IN & OZ & VAS,” University of Illinois, Chicago. April 1, 2004.
“Dog” at The Apollo Space Program, Plymouth, England. March 1, 2004.
“The Book of Portraiture,” sponsored by Columbia College Chicago, Department of Interdisciplinary Arts. November 20, 1998.
“TOC,” sponsored by The Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts, 1997.
“Literal Latte Award Reading,” Posman Books, New York, sponsored by Bass Ale and Literal Latté. September 1996.
Invited Lectures:
Lecture Series and Fiction Reading at Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II, Lublin Poland. “Conceptual Literature,” May 26th, “The New-Materialism Novel,” May 29th, “from Ascension,” May 30th, 2023.
“You Don’t Make Music like Your Grandparents, So Why Should You Write like Them?: Finding a Form that Fits a New World,” University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama. March 30, 2023, 2:00-3:15 PM. Marx Library Auditorium.
“Scale, Emergence and the Posthuman Novel,” address to Intersections: Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Encounters in English Studies, 29th Annual Conference of the Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Lublin, Poland. June 25, 2021.
“The Book of Nature as Media,” University of Virginia Tech, Blacksburg VA. September 25, 2018.
“Restaging the Body” presentation to “Staging the Body: A Seminar on the Body in the Fiction of Steve Tomasula,” Letters et Sciences Humaines, Université de Rouen, Rouen, France. November 18, 2014.
“Our Tools Make Us (Post)Human” address to seminar on Steve Tomasula, ‘Journée spéciale Steve Tomasula,’ at Université de Paris 13, Paris, France. May 17, 2013.
“Conceptualism(s)” address to Seminar on Steve Tomasula at Université de Paris 8, Vincennes-Saint-Denis. Paris, France. May 16, 2013.
“East Meets West: Samizdat vs. ‘BIC Cristal For Her Ballpoint Pens,’” Newberry Library/ Caxton Club "Provocateurs in Print” Symposium, (with Johanna Drucker, UCLA) Newberry Library, Chicago. April 6, 2013.
“Making a Digital Book” in “Tactics & Technologies: Artists’ Books and Means of Production, A Round Table Discussion (with Johanna Drucker and others), The Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College, Chicago. November 9, 2012.
Keynote Address and Reading, “If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, Why Is It a Saying?” at the Word and Image in Contemporary Culture Conference, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia. Nov. 12-16, 2012.
Author in Residence at In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge. The Banff Centre in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. Sponsored by Canadian Government, including the Canada Council for the Arts. February 11-26, 2012.
“The Future of Literature in the Age of Digital Media Symposium” (Invited lecture, and panel with Jay Bolter, Michael Joyce, Maria Engberg) University of Georgia Tech, Atlanta, Georgia. October 19-20, 2011.
Keynote Speaker, Literature, Science and Technology Conference at Western Illinois University, EGO Conference, Macomb, Illinois, October 21-22, 2011.
“The Shifting Role of the Author” invited lecture at Objets textuels non identifiés (OTNI), at Université Paris Diderot, Université Paris 8 Vincennes à Saint-Denis, Paris, France. June 27, 2009.
Keynote Address “Emergence and the Posthuman Novel” to Centre de Recherches en Littératue Américaine, Universite Paris Sorbonne, Dec. 5, 2008.
“Meaning from Form/Form in Being” at The School of the Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. April 17, 2006.
“The Multimedia Novel,” Lake Forrest College, Lake Forrest, Illinois. December 1, 2004.
“Body Literacy ” at Partly Writing, University of Southampton, England. February 27-29, 2004.
“The Body as Book/The Body of the Book,” University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, England. March 1, 2004.
Critic-respondent, “Newspoetry” sponsored by the ELO, and the Illinois Humanities Council, University of Illinois at Chicago. August, 2001.
Panel Member “The Material Concerns of Art and Literature,” sponsored by New Art Examiner at Art Chicago, Chicago Navy Pier. May 11, 2002.
“Poetics in the Paper Theater: A Fusion of Word and Image” at the School of the Art Institute. October 19, 2000.