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Gillian Huang-Tiller

Gillian
Huang-Tiller

Professor of English

Gillian Huang-Tiller received her PhD from the University of Notre Dame in 2000. Her research interests include genre studies as they relate to culture, gender, and race; sound and form in aesthetic and poetic modernism; the visual poetics of poet and painter E.E. Cummings’ avant-gardism in various forms such as meta-sonnets, his relations to other modernists, and his impact beyond modernism.  She teaches Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Modern and Contemporary Fiction, and American Survey of Poetry and Prose II at UVA Wise.  Among her other courses are Western Literary Traditions II, Literature of Diasporas, and Asian American Literature.  She likes to go to poetry/prose readings, help produce the College’s creative journal the Jimson Weed and premiere it at Coffee Night, and visit literary sites when her time allows.  She is also extremely fond of her “little innocence,” an adorable Bichon blitzing for attention.

Selected and Forthcoming Publications

Transforming Modernism: The Visual Poetics of E. E. Cummings (under contract, UPF)

“‘Baby-Talk’ or Artistic Precision: Cummings’ ‘Post Impressions’ in &[AND] and No Thanks to R. P. B.”  Forthcoming, SPRING: the Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, vol. 23, 2018-19.

“Cummings’ Typography and Literary Parody of Hawthorne’s ‘Letter A’ in ‘the Cambridge ladies’ Sonnet.”  SPRING: the Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, vol. 21-22, 2014-15, pp. 212-214.

“somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond” (an essay about Cummings’ poem).  The Nearest Poem Anthology.  Edited by Sofia Starnes, Cedar Creek Press, 2014, pp. 99-100.

“One Art: Intuition and Typography in E. E. Cummings’ Original Analysis of ‘r‐p‐o-p‐h‐e-s‐s-a‐g-r’ (1935).”  SPRING: the Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, vol. 20, 2013, pp. 110-115.

“A(r)mor amoris: Modernist Blason, History, and the Body Politic of Cummings’s Erotic Sonnetry in &[AND].”  SPRING: the Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, vol. 19, 2012, pp. 110-129.

“The Enormous Room: Seven Years after John M. Gill’s Final Visit to La Ferté Macé.” SPRING: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, vol. 16, 2007-2008, pp. 95-98.

“Reflecting EIMI (1933): The Iconic Meta-Sonnet, Manhood, and Cultural Crisis in E. E. Cummings’ No Thanks (1935).”  Word Into Pictures: E. E. Cummings’ Art Across Borders. Edited by Jioí Flajsar and Zénó Vernyik, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, pp. 27-57.

“The Modernist Sonnet and the Pre-Postmodern Consciousness: The Question of Meta-Genre in E. E. Cummings’ W[ViVa] (1931).”  SPRING: The Journal of the E.E. Cummings Society, vol. 14-15, 2005-2006, pp. 156-177.

Book Reviews

Susan Cheever’s E. E. Cummings: A Life.  SPRING: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, vol. 21-22, 2014-2015, pp. 230-40.

E. E. Cummings’ Erotic Poems (2010).  SPRING: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society, vol. 18, 2011, pp. 167-171.

Selected Presentations

“Beyond The Age of Anxiety: The Cultural Emblem of E. E. Cummings’ American i in Xaipe (1950),” at the 47th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Feb. 21-23, 2019.

“‘everywheres noisecolored’: Genre (A)tonality, (IS)ms, and Cultural Notations in Cummings’ W [ViVa] (1931),” at the 46th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Feb. 22-24, 2018.

“‘and what were roses.’: Visual Poetics, Modernist Conceit, and the Art of the Sequence in Cummings’ ‘Sonnets-Unrealities’” (Tulips & Chimneys 1922 Manuscript),” at the 28th Annual American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 25-28, 2017.

“‘e this park is e’: Cummings’ ‘E=mc2,’ Natura Naturans, and Quantum Aesthetics in 95 Poems (1958),” at the 45th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Feb. 23-25, 2017.

“‘Baby-Talk’ or Artistic Precision: The Visual Poetics of Cummings’ ‘Post Impressions’ in &[AND],” at the 27th Annual American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco, May 26-29, 2016.

“From Melopoeia to Phanopoeia: Typography of Sound, Visual Art, and Cummings’ Avant-Garde Beginnings in ‘D.S.N.’ (Index 1916),” at the 44th Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Feb. 18-20, 2016.

“clinging fingers into hands”: Visual Precision, Syn/tactic Movement, and Cummings’ Bookend Sonnetry in is 5 (1926), at the 26th Annual American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 28-31, 2015.

“Dancing Eimi: Kirstein’s American Ballet, Black Being, and Cummings’ Modernist Tom (1935),” at the 43rd Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Feb. 26-28, 2015.

“o- / pening” the ‘Book of the Dead’: Cummings’ Ampersand & Hieroglyphic Sonnetry in New Poems (1938),” at the 25th Annual American Literature Association Conference, D.C., May 22-25, 2014.

“Staging Failure: Modernist Parody, the Freudian Mirror, and the Reality Principle in E. E. Cummings’ Him (1927),” at the 42nd Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Feb. 20-22, 2014.

“‘life’s eye or death’s’: The Sense of Ending, Metanoia, and Cummings’ Last Sonnets in 73 Poems (1963),” at the 24th Annual American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 23-26, 2013.

“‘the burlesque comedian’: Picasso’s Cubism and Cummings’ Portrait-Sonnets in Is Five (1926),” at the 41st Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, Feb. 21-23, 2013.

Education
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
M.A., Oklahoma State University
B.A., Providence College
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