Joe Amato Mailing Address: Stevenson Hall 413N Department of English 4240 Illinois State University Normal, IL 61790-4240 County: Mclean Web site Genre: poetry, creative nonfiction, and screenplays

 

Periodical Publications:

• electronic book review (see ebr riPostes)
  (Summer 2001) "Reforming Creative Writing Pedagogy: History as Knowledge, Knowledge as Activism."
  
  With Kass Fleisher. For teachers AND students.
  
  ebr 11
  (Winter 2000/2001) "Both Sides Now."
  
  Review of O. Jam Atoe's My Friend, the Poet.
  
  Jacket 12
  (July 2000) "Comment faire, commenting fairly, and commencing with the alphabet L?"
  
  A response to Rob Wilson's "From the Sublime to the Devious: Writing the Experimental/Local Pacific."
  
  Jacket 11
  (May 2000) "It was the best of tomes, it was the worst of tomes: Cary Nelson's Anthology of Modern American Poetry."
  
  Review of (USA) Oxford UP's latest 1000+ page opus.
  
  milk (volume one)
  (February 2000) Poetry.
  
  Jacket 10
  (January 2000) Two Poems.
  
  Postmodern Culture 10.1
  (September 1999) "Technical Ex-Communication: How a Former Practicing Engineer Becomes a Former English Professor."
  
  An institutional how-to. Or how-not-to. Please note: If you do not have Project Muse access, you can reach this essay in text-only format at: Postmodern Culture Text-Only.
  
  ebr 5
  (Summer 1997) "Richard Powers after Louis Zukofsky: A Prospectus of the Sky."
  ebr 3
  (Fall 1996) "sokal text: another funny thing happened on the way to the forum."
  ebr 3
  (Fall 1996) "re-post: a funny thing happened on the way to the forum."
  ebr 2
  (Spring 1996) "who is michael berube and why is he saying these terrible things about us?"
  Postmodern Culture 6.3
  (May 1996) "Personal Effects, Public Effects, Special Effects: Institutionalizing American Poetry."
  Review of The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Effects, 1940-1990, by Jed Rasula. Please note: If you do not have Project Muse access, you can reach this review in text-only format at: Postmodern Culture Text-Only.
  
  Grist On- Line 1
  (October 1993) "Nous Refuse."
  EJOURNAL 1.2-1
  (October 1991) "The Brent-Amato Exchange."
  EJOURNAL 1.2
  (May 1991) "Re/View" of Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, by Jay David Bolter.

Book Publications

• Bookend: Anatomies of a Virtual Self -- SUNY Press, 1997
• Symptoms of a Finer Age -- Viet Nam Generation, 1994

Forthcoming Publications:

• Under Virga -- Chax Press, 2004

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Two screenplays coauthored with Kass Fleisher, BEAR RIVER and GOOD FENCES, advanced to the semifinal round of the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project fellowship competition in 2003

• "Training missions" was featured at the ELO Symposium State of the Arts Gallery session held in Los Angeles in 2002

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

Recent Workshops:

Present Employment:

• Illinois State University, Instructional Assistant Professor, English, 2003-present

Preferred Audience:

• No preferred audience

Willing to travel:

• Yes