{"id":1618,"date":"2016-10-13T10:42:03","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/?page_id=1618"},"modified":"2024-11-13T09:36:02","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T14:36:02","slug":"noa-saunders","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/noa-saunders\/","title":{"rendered":"Noa Saunders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>My scholarship explores the manifestations of everyday uncertainties in 20th century poetry and film. Reveling in the trivial, the quotidian, and the precarious, the artists I examine together\u00a0demonstrate the ways in which we receive meanings through words and bodies that we don\u2019t know what to do with. My dissertation illustrates how the uncertainty of twentieth-century life disrupts artistic production for poets and filmmakers in a way that not only has tangible impacts on form, but also electrifies our attention to cultural and political circumstance. By analyzing poetry and filmmaking as practices that occur in everyday life, I assert that both artist and text are vulnerable to material contexts, which results in uncertain, even unintended, forms of art. My poets and filmmakers therefore give shape to the experience of being confronted by what they cannot control and are nevertheless required to engage with. The project explores the work of poets and filmmakers across the century, including Gertrude Stein, Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Charlie Chaplin, Maya Deren, Chantal Akerman, Frank O\u2019Hara, Amiri Baraka, and Diane di Prima. Drawing on performance and affect studies, language philosophy, and media aesthetics, my project asserts that these artists\u2019 formal attention to and within states of confusion, clumsiness, and crisis underscores their adversity, constituting a disregarded political aspect of artistic production.<\/span><\/p>\n

Education:<\/strong>
\nPh.D., English and American Literature, Boston University, 2024<\/span>
\nM.A., English and American Literature, Boston University, 2017<\/span>
\nM.F.A., Poetry, University of Maryland, College Park, 2016<\/span>
\nB.A., English with Linguistics Minor, Ohio State University, 2013<\/span><\/p>\n

Recent Publications and Presentations:<\/span><\/b><\/span>
\n\u201c\u2018Improbable Life\u2019: Bain, the Baroness, and Public Photography.\u201d Modernism\/modernity: Visualities forum<\/i>, 2023.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dreamer\u2019s Modern Body: Slapstick and Winsor McCay in the Everyday Sensorium,\u201d\u00a0Comics and\u00a0Modernism<\/i>, ed. Jon Najarian, University of Mississippi Press (2024).<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Digger Archives as Digger Artifact.\u201d Roundtable. Modernist Studies Association, Brooklyn, NY. October 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCinematic Clumsiness: Chaplin’s Mutual Vulnerability.\u201d School of Criticism and Theory \u00a0 Symposium. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. July 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBob Ross and Chill.\u201d\u00a0Bitchin\u2019 Kitsch<\/i>, forthcoming January 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018With heat in their hands\u2019: Amiri Baraka and the Work of Performing Presence.\u201d Modern
\nLanguage\u00a0<\/span>Association, Washington DC. January 2022.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c(Un)certainty in Chantal Akerman and Cinematic Form.\u201d Modernist Studies Association, Portland, OR.\u00a0October 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYour Mother Dies.\u201d\u00a0Leavings<\/i>, August 2021.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStirring the Dust of Archives: Sarah Ehlers\u2019\u00a0Left of Poetry: Depression America and the Formation\u00a0of Modern Poetics<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0Against the Current<\/i>. May\/June 2021.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cUp Beacon Hill,\u201d \u201cShepherd.\u201d\u00a0The Shore<\/i>, March 2021.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Something is Happening to Me\u2019: Mediating Surprise, Fear, and Uncertainty in\u00a0Sanctuary.<\/i>\u201d\u00a0American Literature Association<\/i>, Boston. May 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSubversive Sentimentality and the Comic Body in Chaplin\u2019s\u00a0Monsieur Verdoux<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0Australasian\u00a0Modernist Studies Network<\/i>, Melbourne. October 2018.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Belated Kitty: Aura, Textuality, and Precarity of Anne Frank.\u201d University of Virginia: Making and Collecting, Charlottesville. April 2017.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA Sideways Confrontation of Death: Narcissus and Knowledge in Brenda Hillman\u2019s\u00a0Death Tractates<\/i>,\u201d Graduate English Organization Conference: Perversions, College Park, MD. April 2016.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSelf-Portrait,\u201d \u201cCannonballs.\u201d\u00a0Ninth Letter<\/i>,\u00a0December 2015.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTextuality and Reception of Nabokov\u2019s\u00a0The Original of Laura<\/i>: Bibliography is Fun,\u201d\u00a0British Modernists Group<\/i>, Urbana, IL. May 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

Courses Taught:<\/strong>
\nTufts University<\/span>
\nEN2: Digital Media Cultures<\/span>
\nEN1: Expository Writing<\/span><\/p>\n

Boston University<\/span>
\nEN195: Literature and Ideas
\nEN120: 20th Century Literature and Film: Images Beyond Imagism
\nWR150:\u00a0Poets, Pop Culture, and the Public Sphere
\nWR120: Poets, Pop Culture, and the Public Sphere<\/span><\/p>\n

University of Maryland, College Park
\nENGL 101: Academic Writing
\nENGL 101S: Academic Writing for Scholars
\nENGL 273: Beginning Poetry Workshop
\nENGL 280: Introduction to the English Language<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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