Samantha Carrick
Fall 2014
Taper Hall 404
3501 Trousdale Parkway
University Park
Los Angeles, CA 90089
scarrick@usc.edu
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
PhD., Department of English, expected 2015
Dissertation: “The Somnambulist’s Hour: Unruly Bodies and Unruly Modernism”
Director: Susan McCabe
Fields: 20th C. Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Visual Culture, Cultural Theory, Queer Theory
M.A., Department of English, 2010
REED COLLEGE
B.A., Department of English, 2008
Best English Department Thesis: “‘If a man is a force in one’s life’: A Study of Mentorship in
American Poetry Considering Williams, Nardi and Ginsberg”
PUBLICATIONS
Articles and Book Chapters
“Maybe, it is only on Earth / that we lose the body?: William Carlos Williams & the Decaying
Body of the Poet”
Forthcoming in Jacket2
“There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else: Onanistic
Abstraction of WCW and Duchamp”
Forthcoming in The William Carlos Williams Review, Special Issue William Carlos Williams and
the Armory Show of 1913
“Vague Lips: A Reclamation of Djuna Barnes’s Repulsive Women”
Theorizing the Fantastic in 20th Century Art and Literature
Ed. Alison Henley
Forthcoming from Cambridge Scholars
Book Reviews
Stephens, Elizabeth. Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to the
Present. Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies.
April 2014
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer for Peace. Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Reader
January 2014
Rukeyser, Muriel. The Savage Coast, “The Heartless World.” Open Letters Monthly
August 2013
Other Publications
“After an Email Goes Viral.” Inside Higher Ed, Views.
29 March 2011
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
American Comparative Literature Association
March 2015
Seattle University
Paper to Be Presented: “A Born Somnambule: Ecstasy and Thrill of Disorientation”
American Comparative Literature Association
March 2014
New York University
Paper Presented: “Performing the Death Sentence: Life? Or Theatre? and the Inevitable Suicide”
Modern Language Association
January 2014
Chicago
Paper Presented: “The Decaying Body of the Poet: Williams and Aging”
American Comparative Literature Association
April 2013
University of Toronto
“Ancient human notebook on which has been written the follies of a past generation: Moderns
Living Outside Normative Time”
Cruelty: A Graduate Conference
April 2013
University of Southern California
Paper Presented: “’To know the meaning of good and evil meant, for Adam, knowing Eve…’:
Cruel Pathology and Panacean Performance”
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
October 2012
Seattle University
Paper presented: “What Makes a Human Being Memorable to You?: Body as Palimpsest,
Painting as Performance in Life or Theatre?”
American Comparative Literature Association
March 2012
Brown University
Paper presented: “Vague Lips: A Reclamation of Djuna Barnes’s Repulsive Women”
William Carlos Williams Biennial Conference
June 2011
William Paterson University
Wayne, NJ
Paper Presented: “Pater’s Son: Williams and Ginsberg, Intertextuality and
Mentorship in Post-War American Poetry”
American Culture Association
April 2011
San Antonio, TX
Paper Presented: “‘Defense is sight’: Photographic Trace, Race and Testimonio in ‘The Book of
the Dead’”
Western Literature Association
October 2010
Prescott, AZ
Paper Presented: “‘…practically invisible’: Reconsidering the Suburban Woman of Noir by Way
of Didion”
CONFERENCE PANELS CHAIRED
Autobiography
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association
October 2012
Seattle University
CERTIFICATES, AWARDS AND HONORS
English Department Fellowship
University of Southern California
2014-present
Hovel Memorial Scholarship
University of Southern California
May 2014
Travel Award
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate
May 2014
Travel Grant
Modern Language Association
December 2013
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate
University of Southern California
September 2013
Travel Award
Visual Studies Graduate Certificate
University of Southern California
Summer 2013
Provost’s Fellowship
English Department
University of Southern California
2009-2014
Finalist for Sanford Award
Best Undergraduate Thesis
Reed College
2008
Best English Department Thesis
Reed College
2008
MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Modern Language Association
2010-present
International Association of Word and Image Studies
2013-present
Getty Research Institute
2011-present
American Comparative Literature Association
2011-present
American Culture Association
2011-present
Western Literature Association
2010-2012
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Spring 2013
Writing Seminar II
“The Animal Inside” (Individually Designed)
Writing Instructor
Thematic Option (Honors Program)
University of Southern California
Fall 2012
Writing Seminar I
In Affiliation with Prof. Daniel Richter
“Culture and Values: What Makes a Human?” (Classics)
Writing Instructor
Thematic Option (Honors Program)
University of Southern California
Spring 2012
Introduction to Writing and Critical Thinking
In Affiliation with Prof. Olanna Mills
“Exploring Ethnicity Through Film” (American Studies and Ethnicity)
Assistant Lecturer and Social Issue Coordinator
The Writing Program
University of Southern California
Fall 2011
Introduction to Writing and Critical Thinking
In Affiliation with Prof. Sherry Velasco
“Social Issues in Gender” (Gender Studies)
Assistant Lecturer and Social Issue Coordinator
The Writing Program
University of Southern California
Spring 2011
Introduction to Writing and Critical Thinking
In Affiliation with Prof. Joseph Hawkins
“Social Issues in Gender” (Gender Studies)
Assistant Lecturer
The Writing Program
University of Southern California
Fall 2010
Introduction to Writing and Critical Thinking
In Affiliation with Prof. Vanessa Schwartz
“Film, Power and American History” (History)
Assistant Lecturer
The Writing Program
University of Southern California
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
10/2013-3/2014
Keynote Liaison, Energies: A Graduate Conference
Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS)
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
8/2013-present
In-Schools Mentor/Writing Empowerment Outreach
WriteGirl.org/Glendora Cal-SAFE
Glendora, CA
10/2012-present
Submission Reviewer
Women’s Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal
Taylor and Francis
Claremont, CA
8/2012-present
Poetry and Fiction Reviewer
Gold Line Press
University of Southern California
8/2012-4/2013
Co-Chair/Keynote Liaison, Cruelty: A Graduate Conference
Association of English Graduate Students (AEGS)
University of Southern California
4/2012
Moderator and Respondent
Thematic Option Conference
Theme: Icarus
8/2011-5/2014
Academic Mentor
Center for Writing and Public Discourse
Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA
4/2011
Judge in the Humanities
13th Annual Undergraduate Symposium of Creative and Scholarly Work
University of Southern California
4/2011
Moderator and Respondent
Undergraduate Writers’ Conference
University of Southern California
9/2007- 2/2009
Poetry Reviewer
Tin House Magazine
Portland, OR
8/2005 – 05/2008
Writing Center Coordinator
Reed College Writing Center
Portland, OR
9/2006 - 1/2007
Editorial Assistant to Professor Nick Moschovakis
Reed College
LANGUAGES
Fluent in French, Proficient in Spanish, Proficient in German