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College of Arts and Sciences

Duriel E Harris

Professor
English
Office
STV Stevenson Hall 342
Office Hours
Wednesdays 3.30 - 5.30pm
Office Phone
(309) 438-1401office
phone
Email
dharri2@ilstu.eduemail
Website
www.durielharris.comwebsite
  • About
  • Education
  • Awards & Honors
  • Research

Biography

Poet/performer and sound artist, Duriel E. Harris is: author three books including, No Dictionary of a Living Tongue (Nightboat 2017); Editor of Obsidian: and creator of Thingification—a one-woman show.

Current Courses

ENG 599.004 Research And Dissertation

ENG 347.001 Creative Writing Seminar: Poetry

ENG 447.001 Creative Writing Seminar: Poetry

ENG 591.002 Practicum (Internship) In College Teaching

ENG 599.004 Research And Dissertation

Teaching Interests & Areas

Poetry Writing
Poetics
African American Literature

Research Interests & Areas

Improvisation and Black aesthetics, Memory and Trauma Studies, WOC Feminisms, Digital Technologies and the African Diaspora, 18th and 19th century African American Literature, Oppositional/Experimental poetics, Performance Studies

BA Literature

Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

MA English and American Literature

New York University
New York , New York

Ph D English, Programs for Writiters

University of Illinois

Speleology (poetry video with Scott Rankin). 2011

Speleology
2011

Performances and Exhibits

Amnesty: Beyond the Darkening Plain
Duriel Harris
An Exceeding Sun: the 21st Annual Gwendolyn Brooks Writers’ Conference,. - April 9 2011
Black Took Collective: Autopsy
Duriel Harris
Pomona College, Claremont, CA,. - November 7 2011
Black Took Collective: Live Feed from the Black Unconscious
Duriel Harris
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA. - April 21 2011
Cave Canem Fall Reading Series: Duriel E. Harris
Duriel Harris
The New School for General Studies and NYSCA, The New School,. - September 1 2011
Danger, Live Feed
Duriel Harris
TheatresCool Adult Workshop. - March 31 2011
Friday Night Reading Series: Alumni Poetry & Fiction: Duriel E. Harris & Brigid Pasulka,
Duriel Harris
University of Illinois at Chicago. - February 11 2011
In the Space Between Each Breath
Duriel Harris
Velvet Birdhouse Coalition and the DuSable Museum. - March 20 2011
Make the World Series: Black Took Collective: Live Feed
Duriel Harris
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) School of Critical Studies, Valencia, CA. - March 19 2011
Myopic Poetry Series, L. Sawyer, curator,
Duriel Harris
Myopic Poetry Series, L. Sawyer, curator,. - February 12 2011
Thingification
Duriel Harris
The Pennsylvania State University Africana Research Center, the Department of English, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and African American Literature and Culture Society. - October 1 2011
Visiting Artist Series: Duriel E. Harris & Nick Demske
Duriel Harris
Carthage College, Kenosha, WI. - February 10 2011
Womanmade Gallery 14th International Open,
Duriel Harris
Nina Corwin, curator. - April 10 2011

Other

Harris, D. The Feast of Now Town Sound,”. Dana Teen Lomax, (EDs), Kindergarde,. Kindergarde, Small Press Traffic (2011)
Harris, D. Villanelle for the dead white fathers. Annie Finch and Marie-Elizabeth Mali (EDs), Villanelles,. Villanelles, (2011)
Harris, D. how many languages do you speak. Black Magic. Asian Improv Records. (2011)

Presentations

Presenting Amnesiac: Poems. Illinois State University, English 284: Poetry, Kirstin Hotelling Zona, Professor. Illinois State University,. (2011)
Presenting Black Took Collective. Pomona College, Contemporary Writers Series,. Pomona College, Contemporary Writers Series,. (2011)
Reading Live Feed: Writing Race & Subjectivity. Black Took Collective (BTC). (2011)