En 2005 après avoir enseigné dans différentes institutions universitaires, Maggie Nelson devient professeure à la School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts[4], [5], puis elle nommée directrice du programme de création littéraire. Her additional publications include a critical study of poetry and painting entitled Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007) and the poetry collections Something Bright, Then Holes (2007), Jane: A Murder (2005), The Latest Winter (2003), and Shiner (2001). “Maggie’s voice had a certain level of doubt and a self-reflective vibe that made me trust her, even when she was criticizing stuff that I really love.”. The Art of Cruelty (2011), a work of cultural, art, and literary criticism, was featured on the front cover of the Sunday Book Review of the New York Times[13] and was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year[14]. Search: By Hilton Al s. April 11, 2016. She teaches in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles, California. Author Snapshot. For Harry, the book’s many narrative strands, interrupted by or leading to other strands, indicated Maggie’s understanding of how in real life tales don’t always add up. It is a work of "autotheory", offering thinking about desire, identity, family-making, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language[12]. After college, she lived in New York City, where she trained as a dancer, worked at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, and studied informally with writer Eileen Myles. Back in the early nineties, in San Francisco, Harry had co-founded Red Dora’s Bearded Lady, a community-based performance space, and staged a number of solo pieces around the city, before joining Sister Spit, the now legendary spoken-word and performance-art collective—for a time, they were signed to Mr. Lady Records—which also featured Myles, for what he describes as a “weird dyke tour roving around the country.” Priced out of San Francisco by 1999, Harry joined his partner at the time, the video artist Stanya Kahn, in New York. (1994) from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. (2004) from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Not surprisingly, Nelson has a very precise relationship to language—and to the vicissitudes of personal history, including the self-mythologizing that goes into making a transformed self. Afterward, Nelson may blush again or quickly smooth down her hair or say, even more quickly, “Right, right, right,” as a way of marking time, before continuing on with, or going deeper into, whatever she was talking about. In her 2003 collection, “The Latest Winter,” she describes “the poetry of the future”: “it’s got to come from at least three brains: the brain in the head, the gut-brain, and the brain in the ovaries. The source code for the WIKI 2 extension is being checked by specialists of the Mozilla Foundation, Google, and Apple. In 2004 she obtained a Ph.D. in English Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she studied with Wayne Koestenbaum and Eve Sedgewick, among others. What did you ask?”, We laughed: I was already being “blurred.”, Maggie, returning to the table, asked what we’d been talking about. Maggie met Harry in April, 2007, the year that “The Red Parts” came out. Through the dynamic interplay between personal experience and critical theory, Nelson is broadening the scope of nonfiction writing while also offering compelling meditations on social and cultural questions. Despite that bond, Myles has always marvelled at Nelson’s “formal” quality, which may have something to do with the difference between what she’s willing to reveal in life and what she reveals on the page. I use WIKI 2 every day and almost forgot how the original Wikipedia looks like. Search String: Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, and nonfiction author of books such as The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, Bluets, and Jane: A Murder. “I’m not interested in categories,” he told me. . Maggie Nelson (born 1973) is an American writer. He left out clippings of articles on subjects that interested her—dance, theatre—and in those words Nelson saw possibilities. Emily thought their father had died of a broken heart, and for years Maggie resented her mother for not having let her go into the bedroom where she found the body—maybe there were clues as to what had killed him which only Maggie could have spotted. 2016 : Boursière de la Fondation MacArthur,