CARRIE NOLAND

University of California, Irvine

September 2014–May 2015

Carrie Noland teaches French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Poetry at Stake (1999), Agency and Embodiment (2009), and Aesthetic Subjectivity: Negritude Voices in Modernist Print (2014). Collaborative projects include Diasporic Avant-Gardes, co-edited with the Language poet Barrett Watten, and Migrations of Gesture, co-edited with the anthropologist Sally Ann Ness. While serving as the Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow, she will be writing a book entitled After the Arbitrary: Merce Cunningham, Chance Operations, and ‘The Human Situation on Stage.’ It analyzes nine works in which Cunningham repeatedly reinvented what constitutes “chance” or “necessity."