MC HYLAND 646 Argyle Rd. Apt. 12C • Brooklyn, NY 11230 • 205-246-2865 • mc.hyland@gmail.com EDUCATION 2018 (expected) Ph.D. in English Literature, New York University 2011 M.F.A. in Book Arts, University of Alabama 2007 M.F.A. in Creative Writing and English Literature, University of Alabama 1999 B.A. in Religion, Swarthmore College Dissertation: “On the Commons: Poetic Afterlives of 18th-Century Property Concepts.” Committee: Maureen McLane (advisor), Lisa Gitelman, Lytle Shaw My dissertation asks how Anglophone poets conceptualize “the commons” from 1710—when The Statute of Anne (the world’s first copyright law) and the first Parliamentary Orders of Enclosure (privatization of village common lands) passed through the English Parliament at the same time—to the present. I follow the aftermath of these two events through the English Romantic period and into the late 20th/early 21st centuries, with special focus on the writing of William Wordsworth, John Clare, Ian Hamilton Finlay, and Lisa Robertson, suggesting that Enlightenment print culture offer a crucial resource for our understanding of the shapes poems take, and of the material conditions in which poetry is produced.
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017-2018 2017 2017 2017 2016-2017 2016 2011 2010 2010 2010 2007 2007 2006 2006 2003- 2006 2005 2005 2005
NYU London Global Research Institute Fellowship, London, UK (declined) Halsband Award, New York University, NY Doctoral Fellowship, Center for the Humanities, New York University, NY Mellon Dissertation Completion Grant, New York University, NY Wordsworth Summer Conference Student Bursary, Windermere, UK GSAS Dean’s Student Travel Grant, New York University, NY Prismatic Park Residency, Madison Square Park/Poets House, New York, NY Millicent Bell Award, New York University, NY NYU London Global Research Institute Fellowship, London, UK Art Shanty Project Grant, Medicine Lake, MN Work-Study Scholarship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT Residency, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center, Nebraska City, NE Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board Departmental nomination, Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award, University of Alabama AWP Intro Journal Awards, Associated Writing Programs Cash prize and publication in Colorado Review First Prize, Palm Poetry Prize, Santa Clara University Cash prize and publication in The Santa Clara Review, SCU’s literary journal Honorable Mention, AWP Intro Journal Awards, Associated Writing Programs Dean’s Merit Assistantship, University of Alabama Research & Travel Grant, University of Alabama Academy of American Poets Prize, University of Alabama Teaching Writing Fellowship, University of Alabama
PUBLICATIONS Poetry Books Neveragainland. Minneapolis, MN: Lowbrow Press, 2010. Print.
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Poetry chapbooks and pamphlets The End Part One. Santa Fe, NM: Magic Helicopter Press. 2017. Print. The End Dozen. Melbourne, Australia: Cordite, 2016. Web. Three poems from THE END. Salem, MA: Greying Ghost, 2015. Print. TOOTHLESS ALTAR. Grand Rapids, MI: Shirt Pocket Press, 2013. Print. Every Night in Magic City. Syracuse, NY: H_NGM_N, 2010. Web. residential as in. Tuscaloosa, AL: Blue Hour Press, 2009. Web. the hesitancies (collaboration with Friedrich Kerksieck and Kate Lorenz). Tuscaloosa, AL: Small Fires Press, 2006. Print. Incantations. Tuscaloosa, AL: reject sheep press, 2006. Print. Lost Gospels. Tuscaloosa, AL: Ponkapoag Press, 2005. Print. Journalism: Essays and Reviews Reviews of Yes & What Happens by Hailey Higdon and Reset America to Default Settings by Richard Wehrenberg, Jr. Rain Taxi Review of Books 22.4. 2017. Print. “How to Write a Poem About a Cemetery: Speaking with Jennifer Firestone.” Lit Hub. July 20, 2017. Web. “‘Whose I is this anyway?’: On three books by Anna Moschovakis.” The Volta. April 2017. Web. Review of HYMN: An Ovulation by Mel Coyle & Jenn Marie Nunes. Rain Taxi Review of Books 22.1 (Spring 2017). Print. Review of To Think of Her Writing Awash In Light by Linda Russo (with Becca Klaver). Interim 34.1. January 2017. Web. Review of Conditions/Conditioning by TC Tolbert & Jen Hofer. Rain Taxi Review of Books 21.3 (Fall 2016). Print. Review of Ohio Railroads by C. S. Giscombe. Sink Review 15. (Fall 2015). Web. Review of HAGS by Jenny Zhang. Rain Taxi Review of Books 20.3 (Fall 2015). Print. Review of This Thin Memory A-ha by Eric Elshtain. Woodland Pattern Bookcenter blog (May 7, 2015). Web. “3rd Annual NAPOMO 30, Day 22: MC Hyland on William Wordsworth.” The Operating System (April 22, 2014). Web. Review of Theory Of Mind: New & Selected Poems by Bin Ramke. Rain Taxi Review of Books (Online Edition, Winter 2010/2011). Web. “Waiting for morning is not the same as sleeping” (review of Shot by Christine Hume). 360 Main Street (November 14, 2010). Web. “Small Talk.” 300 Reviews 38 (April 18, 2010). Web. Selected poems in journals 5 poems from “THE END,” Posit 3 poems from “THE END,” the felt (2017); 3 poems from “THE END,” Boston Review (2016); 4 poems from “THE END,” Grey (2016); “THE END,” Cordite (2015); “On the day’s cobblestones, form a claustrophobia,” Spoke too Soon (2015); 2 poems from “THE END,” Test Centre (2014); “a hand &,” Bone Bouquet (2013); “Diegetic,” Platte Valley Review (2011); “Four Short Plays,” fourteen hills (2009); “I bring a dowry of conflagration,” The Literary Review (2008); “The book of the desert,” The Paris Review (2007); “Propaganda suite,” Colorado Review (2007); “We will have to swallow all the maps,” LIT (2007) Poems in anthologies and artist books • Tuscaloosa Runs This (2011); Poetry City, U.S.A., Vol. 1 (2011); Ladyfest Anthology (2004) • POEMS + PRINTS, artist book by printmaker Laura Brown (2010) Interviews Bookbinding Now podcast by Susan Mills. November 13, 2013. Web. Flying Object Interviews #1 (with Stephanie Anderson), by Guy Pettit. August 13, 2011. Web. “Art You Can Read: A Hanna Kjeldbjerg Interview with MC Hyland,” by Hanna Kjeldbjerg. Fellowship of Undergraduate Students In English (March 23, 2011). Web. “Interview: MC Hyland.” Paper Darts 3 (spring 2011). Print.
“An Interview with MC Hyland about her book, Neveragainland,” by Matt Mauch. Poetry City, U.S.A., Vol. 1. ed. Matt Mauch. Minneapolis: Lowbrow Press, 2011. Print. “Tales of a 4th grade nobody: Poet MC Hyland discusses poetry as a way to play, build community,” by Simon A. Thalmann. mlive.com (November 5, 2010). Web.
TEACHING College-Level: Semester-long classes (Teacher of Record) 2016 Adjunct Instructor, New York University Copyright (1 section, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication) British Literature II (1 section, summer session, Department of English) 2003-2005 Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL Freshman Composition 1 (3 sections) Freshman Composition 2 (1 section) Honors Freshman Composition (2 sections) Poetry Tour for Creative Writing Minors (1 section) College-Level: Semester-long classes (Teaching Assistant) 2014-present Teaching Assistant, Department of English, New York University Shakespeare (2 sections, discussion section leader and grader) British Literature II (2 sections, discussion section leader and grader) Texts & Ideas: Objectivity (2 sections, discussion section leader and grader) British Literature I (2 sections, discussion section leader and grader) 2007 Teaching Assistant, Book Arts Program, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL Papermaking (Book Arts 541) College-Level: Visiting Artist or Guest Lecturer 2015-2017 New York University, New York, NY: Typesetting workshop and talk with graduate and undergraduate sections of “Papyrus to PDF: An Introduction to Book History NOW” 2016 Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, New York, NY: Class visit, talk and writing activity (Literary Studies 3025: “Reading for Writers: Poetic Experiments: Constraints & Procedures”) 2016 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL: Skype visit to discuss small press publishing (Creative Writing 13014: “Special Topics in Poetry: Poetry Chapbooks: From Thesis to Book”) 2014 Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD: Bookmaking workshop with creative writing and English majors 2012 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL: Talk on small press publishing (English 28812: “The Little Magazine and the Little Book, 1912-2012”) 2011 Hamline University, St. Paul, MN: Talk on material culture of the book 2011 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN: Bookbinding workshop and talk on small press publishing for Ivory Tower undergraduate literary magazine 2010 Rasmussen College, Blaine, MN: Poetry reading and talk on the humanities as a field of study (G125: Humanities) 2009 Northwestern College, Roseville, MN: Talk on chapbooks and independent publishing (ENG 2116: Writing of Poetry) 2008 New College, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL: Workshop on zine history and design (Humanities 1: Creativity) Community Education 2018 Co-teacher (with Emily Skillings), “On Walking: Ambulatory Poetics, Performance, and
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Philosophy,” School of Making Thinking, New York, NY Visiting Artist, Letterpress Printing and Fine Press Publishing Seminar, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY Tutor, letterpress printing, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN Instructor, Papermaking for Letterpress, MN Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN Instructor, Letterpress I, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN Instructor, Creative Writing, Minneapolis Community Education, Minneapolis, MN Instructor, Basic Needs Program, Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN 10-week creative writing class for teen parents at North Vista Education Center. Workshop Instructor, One Night Only, Tuscaloosa, AL One- and two-day book arts workshops for adults in community art space. Teacher, CWC Hale Studios, Greensboro, AL Creative writing classes for teens/young adults in Youthbuild job training program. Instructor, Tuscaloosa Public Library, Tuscaloosa, AL Afternoon book arts and storytelling workshop for children. Summer Institute Instructor & Co-coordinator, Creative Writing Club, Tuscaloosa, AL Two-week high-school level summer program. Teacher, Hale Arts Creative Writing Summer Camp, Greensboro, AL Two-week creative writing program for low-income teens affected by Hurricane Katrina. After-School Instructor, Creative Writing Club, Tuscaloosa, AL University-based high-school after-school program. Visiting Writer, Capitol School, Tuscaloosa, AL Co-led weekly creative writing classes with 3rd/4th graders. Teaching Assistant, Young Writers Workshop, U. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Taught and assistant-taught 2 daily poetry workshops for high-school students. Adult Education Instructor, Lutheran Settlement House, Philadelphia, PA Taught high school equivalency skills to adult learners in preparation for the GED exam. Associate Director, KidsArts!, The Jamaica Plain Multicultural After-School Arts Program, Boston, MA Administrator and teacher in community-based school-age child care program. Taught after-school classes in conflict resolution, science, and folklore.
INVITED TALKS March 28, 2017 October 12, 2016 May 1, 2015 July 5, 2011 November 2, 2010
“A Talk in Five Folds (and One Cut),” “Haptic Poetics” panel, New York University, New York, NY “Against Safety: Reflections in a Time of Empire,” Tiny Talks series, Berl’s Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY “Publishing is Personal,” Lougheed-Kofoed Festival, State University of New York, Potsdam, Potsdam, NY “True Love As Manifest Destiny: Sunfire Romance Novels and American History,” talk at The Works: A Writer’s Salon, Bryant-Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN “Poems Written By Ghosts,” talk at The Works: A Writer’s Salon, Bryant-Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND TALKS March 23-24, 2018 “‘A Northamptonshire Pheasant’: John Clare’s birds and the anxiety of print circulation,” Concordia English Graduate Colloquium, “Animal Print,” Concordia University, Montreal, Canada January 6, 2018 “‘The Invitation’: Periodical Border-Wars and the Poetics of Encounter,” Modern Language Association, New York, NY
August 16, 2017 July 24, 2017 July 14, 2017 March 30, 2017 April 11, 2015 February 27, 2014 February 13, 2009 June 11, 2005
“Walking, Education, and the Politics of Friendship in The Prelude,” Wordsworth Summer Conference, Rydal, UK “The ‘INFAMOUS SCOTCH HOAX’ and the Death of an Editor: Periodicals, Peasant Poetry, and Jonathan Scott’s Final Duel,” The Blackwood’s Bicentennary, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK “Gates and Stiles: Reading Finlay’s Boundary Poetics Through the Long Eighteenth Century,” “Ian Hamilton Finlay: Little Fields, Long Horizons,” University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK “Waywardness, Circulation, and Protest: Regency Afterlives of EighteenthCentury Periodical Culture,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Minneapolis, MN “The Book As Object,” AWP Panel Presentation, Minneapolis, MN “Why Can’t We Be Friends? Book Arts In The Digital Age,” AWP Panel Presentation, Seattle, WA “Taking the Writer Out of High School and High School Out of Writing,” AWP Panel Presentation, Chicago, IL “‘My Name is Neo’: Re-imagining the Noir Hero as Space-Age Superhero,” “‘Holy Men in Tights!’: A Superheroes Conference,” University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
CHAIRED CONFERENCE PANELS April 12-15, 2018 “Transatlantic Gardens: Literary and Ecological form in the Long Eighteenth Century,” co-chaired with Kate McIntyre, NeMLA, Pittsburgh, PA June 17, 2017 “Modeling the Micropress,” Allied Media Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit MI ARTIST TALKS AND COMMUNITY PANELS September 14, 2017 “Poetry, Publishing, Politics, and the Art of the Book,” panel, Philalalia Festival, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA February 8, 2017 “Hey, you there, boss, i’m talking: AWP OFF-SIGHT,” Poetry Project, NY, NY April 2, 2015 “Nuts, Bolts, & Beyond: How to Get Your Work into Print” panel, CUNY Chapbook festival, New York, NY April 3, 2014 “Nuts, Bolts, & Beyond: How to Get Your Work into Print” panel, CUNY Chapbook festival, New York, NY March 28, 2012 “Community and Publishing” panel, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY March 2, 2011 “History of Art: Collaboration–Text/Form,” panel, Center for Book Arts, NY, NY January 31, 2009 Artist Talk, Front Back & Between, MN Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
SELECTED POETRY READINGS April 26, 2018 April 20-22, 2018 December 4, 2017 May 1, 2015 March 15, 2015 October 28, 2014 September 10, 2013 September 9, 2011 July 22, 2011 July 10, 2011 July 9, 2011 March 1, 2011
Greetings Readings, Unnameable Books, Brooklyn, NY New Orleans Poetry Festival, New Orleans, LA Segue Series, New York, NY Lougheed-Kofoed Festival, State University of New York, Potsdam, Potsdam, NY In Your Ear series, Washington, DC The Future of Literature, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD Triptych Readings, New York, NY Monsters of Poetry, Madison, WI The Dollhouse, Chicago, IL Whenever We Feel Like It, Jose Pistola’s, Philadelphia, PA So and So Series, Raleigh, NC Handmade/Homemade opening, Pace University, Pleasantville, NY
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January 22, 2011 October 30, 2009 October 1, 2009 April 10, 2009 January 16, 2008
Walker Art Center, Machine Project artist residency, Minneapolis, MN John R. Milton Writers’ Conference, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD Chin Music Reading Series, Brooklyn, NY The Burning Chair Readings, Fayetteville, AR Apostrophe Cast podcast, www.apostrophecast.com
EDITORIAL, PUBLISHING, AND BOOK ART Editorial 2008-present 2009-2012 2005-2007 2003-2007 2004 2003-2004
Founder and editor, DoubleCross Press Handmade poetry chapbooks, small-run poetry journals, and Poetics of the Handmade Series (essays by writer/bookmakers) Co-editor, We Are So Happy To Know Something (poetry magazine) Founder and editor, Ponkapoag Press Letterpress poetry broadsides and artist books Assistant Poetry Editor, Black Warrior Review Assistant Fiction Editor, Black Warrior Review Editorial Assistant, Black Warrior Review
Selected Book Arts Exhibitions February 2018 Poets As Publishers, No. 3 Reading Room and PhotoBookWorks, Beacon, NY March-July 2016 The River, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN July-August 2012 The Book As Art, Ripple River Gallery, Deerwood, MN May-September 2011 Diegetic (Solo Exhibition), Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN April-May 2011 Diegetic: A Book Arts Thesis Project (solo exhibition), U. of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL March 2011 Handmade/Homemade, Pace University, Westchester, NY August 2009 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reimagine, University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tuscon, AZ February 2009 Multiples Mall, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN December 2007 Book (Arts) Review, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL November 2007 bookXchange, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Library Special Collections California Institute of the Arts Handmade/Homemade Collection, Mortola Library, Pace University Westchester Hennepin County Public Library Special Collections University of Arizona Poetry Center University of Buffalo Temple University University of Wisconsin, Madison No. 3 Reading Room and PhotoBookWorks The Floating Library Selected Book Arts Collaborations 2018 Design and produce letterpress broadside for Puerto Rico En Mi CorazĂłn fundraiser 2014-2017 Design and produce letterpress broadsides for The Center for Book Arts, NY 2012 Letterpress Shanty/The Shantyquarian: Design, hand-typeset, letterpress print daily newspaper sourced from Twitter during Art Shanty Projects, Medicine Lake, MN 2010 Design and produce letterpress broadsides for Rain Taxi Review of Books 2008 Naked Writing with Robin Behn (poet) and Mirjana Ugrinov (artist). Design & produce book in cooperation with installation at ARC Gallery (Chicago, IL).
2007
Noche/Night with University of Alabama Program in Book Arts and Taller de Grafica Experimentale (Havana, Cuba). Member of a team of American and Cuban artists producing a limited edition fine-press book during one-week residency in Havana. Design and produce broadsides for Fairy Tale Review
2006-2007
ADMINISTRATIVE 2017-2018 2014-2015 2010-2012 2009-2012 2009-2010 2007-2008 2006-2007 2007 2006-2007 2002 2000-2001
Grad Coordinator, Print Culture Working Group, New York University, New York, NY Co-Director, Washington Square Arts Club, New York University, New York, NY Artist and Adult Programs Director, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN Coordinator, Pocket Lab Reading Series, Minneapolis, MN Adult Programs Manager, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN Volunteer Grant Writer/Administrator, Hale Arts Project, Greensboro, AL Summer Institute Co-Director, Creative Writing Club, Tuscaloosa, AL Hale Arts Creative Writing Summer Camp Director, Hale Arts Project, Greensboro, AL Assistant to the Director of Creative Writing, University of Alabama Grant Writer, Pig Iron Theatre Company, Philadelphia, PA Associate Director, KidsArts!, The Jamaica Plain Multicultural After-School Arts Program, Boston, MA
Other Service 2017 2016 2013-2016 2012 2009-2011 2006, 2007, 2009 2006
Stipended Participant, Penn Shelley Seminar, U. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Graduate Student Representative, Romanticist Hiring Committee, NYU, NY Printshop Steward, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY Panelist, Minnesota State Arts Board, Artist Initiative Grant, Poetry Advisory Board member, Slash Pine Poetry Festival, Tuscaloosa, AL Preliminary Judge, Scholastic Student Writing Contest Judge, Poetry and Fiction, Dilletanti Literary Competition, MS University for Women
Memberships Modern Language Association (MLA) Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) John Clare Society of North America Organism for Poetic Research (NYU) REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
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