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Harryette
Mullen
English Department
University of California
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530
E-mail address: mullen@humnet.ucla.edu
Education
Ph. D. Literature: University
of California, Santa
Cruz, 1990
M.A. Literature: University of California, Santa Cruz,
1987
B.A. English: University of Texas, Austin,
1975
Teaching and Research Experience
Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003 to present
Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995-2002
Assistant Professor, Cornell University, 1990-95
Instructor, Cornell University 1988-90
Lecturer/Dissertation Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara,
1987-88
Teaching Assistant and Reader, University of California, Santa Cruz,
1984-87
Tutor, EOP Summer Bridge, Kresge Writing Program, University of
California, Santa Cruz, 1985
Tutor, Women's Re-Entry, Kresge Writing Program, University of
California, Santa Cruz, 1983-84
Visiting Writer/Workshop Leader, Artists in Schools Program, Texas
Commission on the Arts, 1978-81
Instructor and Instructional Assistant, Austin Community College, Austin,
Texas, 1975-78
Intern, Southwest Educational Development Laboratory, Austin, Texas,
1974-75
Undergraduate Research Assistant, English Department, University of
Texas, Austin, 1973-74
Undergraduate Tutor, English Department, University of Texas, Austin,
1972-73
Presentation
Paneslist, "Poetry, Voice, Identity," Los
Angeles Times Festival of Books, UCLA, Los Angeles, 2003
"'All Silence Says Music Will Follow': Listening to Lorenzo
Thomas," American Studies Association, Houston, Texas
2002
Symposium participant, "Judy Natal's Earthwords: Traversing the
Language of the Land,"
California Museum of Photography, University
of California, Riverside, 2002
"Minotaurs and Metamorphoses: Classical Passages and Novel
Innovations in Suzette Mayr's
Moon Honey and Fran Ross's Oreo." Institute for African American
Research,
University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill,
2002
"Spreading the Word: Reviewing Poetry Books," Summer Writing
Workshop, Idyllwild Arts, 2002;
Cave Canem Poets Workshop, Cranbrook
School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan,
2001
"Prose Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks and Gertrude Stein: Domestic,
Strange, and Modern,"
Modern Language Association, New
Orleans, 2001
"Callaloo's Seasoning: Celebrating Twenty-five Years of
Publication," Modern Language Association, New Orleans, 2001
"Sampling the Old School: Replaying 1960s Black Aesthetic in the
1990s,"
The Black Aesthetic: 1960-2001, University
of California, Riverside, 2001
"Poetry and Identity: Multicultural Texts and Contexts,"
Summer Teachers Institute,
Academy of American
Poets and Columbia Teachers
College, New York,
2001
"Critical Theory and Contemporary Black Poetry," Critical
Theory, Literary History, and Cultural Studies,
The Changing Academy in the United States:
A Callaloo Conference, Casa de las Americas,
Havana, Cuba, 2001
"Gertrude Stein and Women's Work," Feminism and Feminist
Theory, The Changing Academy in the United
States: A Callaloo Conference, Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba,
2001
"Writing on the Body," Dialogues on Body Politics,
Multimedia Symposium,
UCLA Fowler Museum
of Cultural History, 2001
"Oreo: A Black Feminist Satire of Shibboleth and
Stereotype," University of Illinois, Chicago,
2001
"Forms of Things Unknown," What's African American about
African American Poetry?
Poetry Society of America,
The New School, New York,
2000
"The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be:
Stretching the Dialogue of African American Poetry," American
Literature Association,
Long Beach, California 2000; Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, 2000
"How the Cookie Crumbles: Fran Ross's Oreo: A Lost and Found
Black Feminist Novel,"
Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Conference, UCLA, 2000
Panel Discussion: "Expanding the Repertoire of African-American
Writing,"
New College of California, San Francisco, 2000
"Between Jihad and McWorld: A Place for Poetry," Poetry
and Pedagogy, Bard College,
Annandale-on- Hudson, 1999
"Survivor Guilt: Lost Brothers of John Wideman, Ken McClane, and
Brent Staples,"
International Symposium on John Edgar Wideman, University
of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1999
Panel Discussion: "Innovative Minority Writers," San
Francisco Bay Area Book Festival, 1999
"The Lit, Grit, and Motherwit of Fran Ross's Oreo," The
Endlessly Beckoning Horizon:
Afro-American Literature at the End of the 20th Century, University of
Pennsylvania, 1999
"Toni Morrison's Vision," Twentieth Century Voices Lecture
Series, UCLA Extension, 1999
Roundtable Discussion: "Poets on Poetics, Lyric Tradition Meets
Language Poetry,"
Conference on Contemporary Women's Poetry, Barnard College, New York,
1999
"Not Struck Dumb, but Logodaedalyly Phonofounded: The Vernacular
Heteroglossaries of
Fran Ross's Oreo," Page Mother's Conference, University of
California, San Diego, 1999
"Oppositional Poetics Today," Panel Discussion with Erica Hunt
and Michael Datcher,
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, California, 1999
"'Beloved' and Other Ghosts of Slavery," Hampton University,
Virginia, 1999
"'If Lilies Are Lily White': From the Stain of Miscegenation in
'Melanctha'
to Stein's 'Clean Mixture' of White and Colored in Tender Buttons,"
Gertrude Stein at the Millennium, Washington University, Saint Louis,
1999
Roundtable Discussion: "Poetry as Cultural Critique,"
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1999
"Imagining the Unimagined Reader," Hampton University,
Virginia, 1999;
Florida Atlantic University, Boca, Raton, Florida, 1998
"Incessant Elusives: The Oppositional Poetics of Erica Hunt and
Will Alexander,"
MELUS Europe Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, 1998
"Vernacular Innovation: Hip Hop and Avant-Garde," Naropa
University, Boulder, Colorado, 1998
"Sauce for the She-Devil: Verbal Aggression of the Mistress and
Servant in Our Nig,"
The Politics of Literary Affect in Britain and America, Miami University,
Oxford, Ohio, 1998
Panel Discussion: "We Wear the Hats," Black Women Writers
and the High Art
of African American Letters, University of California, San Diego, 1998
"Black Chant: Expanding the Repertoire of African American
Poetry,"
State University of New York, Buffalo, 1998; New College of California,
San Francisco, 1998;
Temple University, Philadelphia, 1997
Roundtable Discussion: "The Contemporary Long Poem: Feminist
Intersections and Experiments,"
Modern Language Association, Toronto, 1997
"Poetry and Identity," Simon Fraser University, Vancouver,
British Columbia, 1996;
University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 1996
"Some Ins and Outs of Arts Institutions," A Labor of Love:
Tied to Tradition,
The New Museum, New York, 1996
"Unphotographable Beauty: Race, Representation, and Resistance in
Popular Culture,"
African American Studies, Syracuse University, 1995
"Is White Women's Heaven Black Women's Hell?" Literature and
Women of Color Conference,
Ocean City, Maryland, 1994
"Disremembering vs. Rememory," Modern Language Association,
San Diego, 1994
"Saving His Skin: Equiano vs. Shine," University of
California, Los Angeles, 1994;
University of California, Santa Barbara, 1994
"Optic White: Blackness and the Production of Whiteness,"
University of California, San Diego, 1994
"Reading the Fetish, Writing the Sign," University of
Rochester, 1994; Symposium on the Work of
African American Women Artists, Cornell University Art Department, 1994
Panel Discussion: "The Practice of Feminism," Black Women in
the Academy,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994
"Surviving Ruin: Julie Dash's Reconstruction of African American
Culture,"
Black Feminism and Psychoanalysis Conference, UCSC, 1994;
Modern Language Association, Toronto, 1993; Philips Exeter Academy, 1993
"Audre Lorde's Body," Modern Language Association, Toronto,
1993
"Testifying and Signifying: The Domesticated Literacy of House
Slaves and Servant Girls,"
American Studies Association, Boston, 1993
"Traveling Papers, Border-Crossing Identities: Adrienne Kennedy, Andrea
Lee, and Shawn Wong," Minority Discourse Conference, University of
California, Irvine, 1993
"A Storm in the Womb: Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust,"
Pembroke Center, Brown University, 1993
"Covering the Bases: Asian, Ethnic, and American Identities in
Shawn Wong's Homebase,"
Asian Studies Association, Los Angeles, 1993; Asian American Studies
Association,
Cornell University, 1993
"When Diversity is Business as Usual," Painted Bride Art
Center, Philadelphia, 1992
"Keeping Body and Soul Together: Materiality, Maternity, and
Spirituality
in African American Women's Narratives," Voices of the Beloved:
Conference on
African American Women Writers, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester,
1992
"Traveling Papers: Racial/Textual Transformations in Homebase,
The Mixquiahuala Letters,
Russian Journal, and The Owl Answers," American Studies Association,
Costa Mesa, 1992
"Cultural Survival and 'Dynamic Africanity,'" Empowerment,
Gender and Social Change
in Africa and the African Diaspora, Cornell University, 1992
"Dreaming a World for the Unborn Child," Psychoanalysis in
African American Contexts,
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1992
"A Hidden Heritage: African Signs and African American Spirit
Writing,"
Naropa University, Boulder, 1992; Cornell Women's Studies Colloquium
Series, 1992
"Visual Rhythm: Quilting the African American Aesthetic,"
Hamilton College, Women's Studies Program, 1992; The Bookery II, Ithaca,
New York, 1992
"Visual Rhythm: Folk Art and the Black Experience," Goodbye
Columbus:
Rethinking Media and Representation, Cornell University, Society for the
Humanities, 1992
Panel Discussion: "Image and Text in Feminist Art," Visual
Feminist Discourse Symposium,
Cornell University, 1992
"Visionary Literacy," American Studies Association,
Baltimore, 1991
"Nineteenth-Century Black Women Writers: Claiming
Authority," Faculty Resource Network,
Summer Seminar, New York University, 1991
"State of the Art / Art of the State," Annual Symposium, The
Poetry Project, New York, 1991
"A Mixed Bag: Adrienne Kennedy Plays with
(A)mongrelization," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, 1991
"Infantilized Colonial Discourse," Workshop in Reading
History / Historicizing Reading,
SUNY Buffalo, 1991
"Into the Briar Patch: Contemporary African American
Literature," Harvard University, 1991;
Against the American Grain, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1990
"Runaway Tongues: Resistant Orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin,
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,
Our Nig, and Beloved," American Studies Association, New Orleans,
1990
"Optic White: Miscegenated Texts and Media Cyborgs," Susan
B. Anthony Lecture Series,
University of Rochester, 1990; Modern Literature Series, Cornell
University, 1990
"Never the Twain: Blackness and the Production of
Whiteness," The English Institute,
Harvard University, 1990
"Signifying on Our Nig," The Politics of Interpretation,
University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990
"This Terrible Multiplicity at the Heart," Symposium on
Asian America: Issues of Identity,
Cornell University, 1990
"Afro-American Fiction in the Next Decade," American Studies
Association, Toronto, 1989
Panel Discussion: "Women in Performance," An American
Festival, Cornell University, 1989
"On Gender, Race and Popular Culture," Feminist Theory
Workshop / Mass Culture Workshop,
University of Chicago, 1989
"Topsy, Sambo and Golliwogg," Rice University, Houston,
Texas 1988
"Commodification of the Other," Pembroke Center, Brown
University, 1988
"New World Black Women and the Textualization of Silence,"
Conference on Race,
Gender, Ethnicity, Class, University of California, Davis, 1987
"Objects of Affection: The Production of Black Images,"
American Studies Association, New York, 1987
"Mammy's Little Baby: Reading the African-American Lullaby,"
Feminist Studies Conference,
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1986
"Gender and the Subjugated Body in the Slaves' Discourse on
Slavery," Conference on Critique
of Colonial Discourse, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1986
"A Slave Woman's Honor: The Truth of Her Body," Feminist
Studies Conference,
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1985
"A Girl Child in a Family of Men," Colloquium on Alice
Walker's The Color Purple,
University of California, Santa Cruz, 1985
Honors and Awards
Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Sleeping with the Dictionary,
2003
Finalist, National Book Critics Circle Award, Sleeping with the
Dictionary, 2003
Finalist, National Book Award, Sleeping with the Dictionary, 2002
The Best American Poetry, "Music for Homemade Instruments"
selected by Robert Hass, 2001
Best of Callaloo Poetry, "Scarecrow" and "Unspoken"
selected for 25th anniversary issue of Callaloo, 2001
Nomination, Pushcart Prize for Poetry in Literary Magazines, 2000, 2001
(and other years)
Invited Artist Residency, Virginia Center for the Arts, 1999
First Prize, Katharine Newman Award for Best Essay, MELUS, 1996
Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, 1994-95
Rockefeller Fellowship, Susan B. Anthony Center for Women's Studies,
University of Rochester, 1994-95
The Best American Poetry, "From Muse & Drudge" selected by
A.R. Ammons, 1994
Faculty Fellowship, Cornell Society for the Humanities, 1991-92
Dissertation Fellowship, Center for Black Studies, UC Santa Barbara,
1987-88
Graduate Student Research Award, UC Santa Cruz, 1987
Literature Award, Junior Black Arts Academy, Dallas, Texas, 1986
Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, 1982-84
Artist Residency Grant, The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico,
1982
Dobie-Paisano Writer's Fellowship, Texas Institute of Letters and
University of Texas, Austin, 1981-82
Community and University Service, Professional Organizations
Reader, MELUS Journal, 2003
Search Committee, Department of English, UCLA, 2001-03
Mentor, Summer Research Institute, Center for African American Studies,
UCLA, 2002
Artist Donor, Art Auction Fundraising Event for Detroit Artists Market,
2002
Advisory Board, Nocturnes Literary Journal, 2001-2003
Juror, Wallace Stevens Award, Academy of American Poets, 2001
Member, Faculty Advisory Committee, UCLA Center for the Study of Women,
2001
Reader, University of Illinois Press, 2001
Selection Committee, Research Grants Program in Ethnic Studies, UCLA
Center for African American Studies, Institute of American Cultures,
2001-02, 1999-2000
Faculty Advisory Committee for African American Studies, UCLA, 1999-2001
Faculty, Summer Humanities and Humanistic Studies Institute,
Center for African American Studies, UCLA, 2001
Faculty Advisory Committee for UCLA Interdepartmental Program
in Afro-American Studies, 2001-
"Writing on the Body" public workshop, UCLA Fowler Museum of
Contemporary Culture, 2001
Educational outreach to fourth grade classes from Baldwin Hills
Elementary School, 2001
Faculty Consultant and Participant, Body Politics Exhibit and Symposium,
UCLA Fowler Museum of Contemporary Culture, 2000-01
Editorial Advisory Committee, African American Writers, Scribners/ Gale
Group, 2000
Editorial Advisory Board, HOW2 On-line Journal of Feminist Innovative
Writing, 1999-
Faculty, Cave Canem Summer Workshop/Retreat for African American Poets,
1998-2001
Community Advisory Board, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, 1998-99
Host, Poetry Reading, "Memories, Representations, and the Black
60s,"
UCLA/Santa Monica Museum, 1999
Advisory Board, University of Alabama Press Poetics Series, 1999-
Selection Committee, John Densmore Scholarship Fund, UCLA, 1998
Judge, Spoken Word Poetry Contest, The BEAT Radio/Fifth Street Dick's,
Leimert Park, Los Angeles, 1998
Poet Mentor, Emerging Writers Program, PEN West, 1998-
Member, MELUS, Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, 1997-
Mentorship Committee, PEN West, 1997-98
Member, PEN West, 1996-
Board Member, Women's Studies Center, University of Rochester, 1994-95
Volunteer Tutor, Mount Olivet Baptist Church, Rochester, 1994-95
Volunteer Reader, Children's Section, Phillis Wheatley Branch Library,
Rochester, 1994
Women's Studies Steering Committee, Cornell University, 1990-94
Minority Student Mentorship Programs, Cornell University, 1990-94
Reader of Literary Manuscripts for Roof Books, 1994; United Artists
Books, 1995;
Smoke Proof Press, 2000
Reader for Publication of the Modern Language Association, 1994
Reader for Cornell University Press, 1990
Member, Modern Language Association, 1987-
Member, American Studies Association, 1987-
Member, Texas Institute of Letters, 1982-
Chairperson, Literature Advisory Panel, Texas Commission on the Arts,
1982-84
Publications
Critical Writing, Research, and Poetics
"'Artistic expression was flowing everywhere, and I was right
there, taking it all in': Alison Mills and Ntozake Shange, Black Bohemian
Feminists in the 1970s," forthcoming
"Reader, I Married Him: An Interview with Alison Mills,"
forthcoming
"Cinema of the Oppressed: An Interview with Francisco
Newman," forthcoming
"Roots Worker: The Art of Alison Saar," catalogue essay for
Dartmouth University exhibit, 2003
"Allan deSouza's Eye: Looking With, Not Looking At," Contact
Sheet, No. 117, The Light Work Annual,
New York, 2002
"'Apple Pie with Oreo Crust': Fran Ross's Recipe for an
Idiosyncratic American Novel,"
MELUS Journal, 2002
"Poetry and Identity" reprinted in Telling it Slant:
Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s, ed. Mark Wallace and Steven Marks,
University of Alabama Press, 2001
"Theme and Variation on Robert Hayden's Poetry," with
Stephen Yenser, reprinted in Robert Hayden: Essays on the Poetry, ed.
Laurence Goldstein and Robert Chrisman, University of Michigan Press,
2001
"Truly Unruly Julie: Julie Patton's Innovative Rule-Breaking
Poetry," American Poet, Journal of Academy of American Poets, 2001
Poets' Symposium, Expanding the Repertoire of African American
Writing, Tripwire, 2001
"African American Poetry: Forms of Things Unknown," Fence,
Spring/Summer 2001
"' If Lilies Are Lily White': From the Stain of Miscegenation in
'Melanctha' to Stein's 'Clean Mixture' of White and Colored in Tender
Buttons," Mark(s) On-line Journal, 2001
"The Black Arts Movement," Scribner Writers Series: African
American Writers, Vol.1,
Valerie Smith, ed., Scribner / Gale Group, 2001
"'The Cracks Between What We Are and What We Are Supposed to Be':
Stretching the Dialogue
of African-American Poetry," HOW2 On-line Journal, 2001
"'A Silence Between Us Like a Language': The Untranslatability of
Experience in Sandra Cisneros'
Woman Hollering Creek," reprinted in Contemporary Literary
Criticism, Gale Group, 2001
"Runaway Tongue," reprinted in Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the
Life of a Slave Girl: A Norton Critical Edition, ed. Nellie Y. McKay and
Frances Smith Foster, NCE, 2000.
"Foreword" to new edition of Oreo, by Fran Ross,
Northeastern University Press, 2000
"African Signs and Spirit Writing," reprinted in African
American Literary Theory: A Reader,
ed. Winston Napier, New York University Press, 2000
"'Incessant Elusives': The Oppositional Poetics of Erica Hunt and
Will Alexander," Holding Their Own: Perspectives on the Multi-Ethnic
Literatures of the United States, ed. Dorothea Fischer-Hornung and Heike
Raphael-Hernandez, MELUS Europe, Tubingen, Germany: Stauffenburg Verlag,
2000
"Poet's Sampler: Julie Patton," Boston Review, December
1999/January 2000
"Not Struck Dumb, but Logodaedalyly Phonofounded: The Vernacular
Heteroglossaries
of Fran Ross's Oreo," How2 On-line Journal, 1999
"'A Collective Force of Burning Ink': Will Alexander's Asia and
Haiti," Callaloo, Spring 1999
"Hauling Up Gold from the Abyss: An Interview with Will
Alexander," Callaloo, Spring 1999
"Imagining the Unimagined Reader: Writing to the Unborn and
Including the Excluded,"
99 Poets 1999: An International Poetics Symposium, ed. Charles Bernstein,
Boundary 2, 1999
Reviews of Arcade by Erica Hunt and Body of Life by Elizabeth
Alexander, Antioch Review, 1997-98
"Nine Syllables Label Sylvia: On Plath's 'Metaphors,'"
Chain, 1997
"Theme and Variation on Robert Hayden's Poetry," with
Stephen Yenser, Antioch Review, Spring 1997
"Kimchee and Pigfeet," Kimchi Xxtravaganza, Korean American
Museum Exhibit Catalogue, 1997
"Optic White: Blackness and the Production of Whiteness" reprinted
in Cultural and Literary Critiques of the Concept of "Race,"
ed. Nathaniel E. Gates, Garland Publishers, New York, 1997
"African Signs and Spirit Writing," Callaloo, Summer 1996
"'A Silence Between Us Like a Language': The Untranslatability of
Experience in Sandra Cisneros'
Woman Hollering Creek," MELUS Journal, 1996
"Poetry and Identity," West Coast Line, 1996
"Telegraphs from a Distracted Sybil," Symposium on
Innovative Black Poetry, ed. C.S. Giscombe, American Book Review, 1996
"Optic White: Blackness and the Production of Whiteness,"
Diacritics, 1994
"A Multicolored Nation Passing as White," Coming In Out of
the Cold, Center for Arts /
Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, 1993
"Runaway Tongue: Resistant Orality in Uncle Tom's Cabin,
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,
Our Nig, and Beloved," The Culture of Sentiment, ed. Shirley
Samuels, Oxford University Press, 1992
"Phantom Pain: Nathaniel Mackey's Bedouin Hornbook,"
Talisman, 1992
"This Terrible Multiplicity at the Heart," Asian Americans:
Collages of Identities,
ed. Lee C. Lee, Cornell Symposium on Asian America, 1992
"Miscegenated Texts and Media Cyborgs," Poetics Journal,
1991
"A Beat for Which There is No Notation," Poetry Center
Archives Catalogue,
ed. Laura Moriarty, San Francisco University Poetry Center Archives, 1991
"Indelicate Subjects: African American Women's Subjugated
Subjectivity,"
Sub/Versions, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991
"Race, Gender and Representation," At the Foot of the
Mountain, 1989
"Colonialist Fantasies in Children's Books by Helen
Bannerman," Occasional Papers #1,
Group for the Critical Study of Colonial Discourse, University of
California, Santa Cruz, 1987
"The Psychoanalysis of Little Black Sambo," Inscriptions #2,
1986
"Daughters in Search of Mothers: Alice Walker's The Color
Purple," Catalyst, Fall 1986
Review of Ain't I A Woman, by Bell Hooks, Santa Cruz Express, 1983
"'Saddled by Demons': Review of Ishmael Reed's Secretary to the
Spirits," New Orleans Review, 1978
Short Fiction and Creative Prose
"Bad Girls" reprinted in Texas Fiction Anthology, ed. Don
Graham, forthcoming
"Tenderhead" reprinted in The African American West, ed.
Laurie Champion
and Bruce Glasrud, University of Colorado Press, 2000
"Bad Girls" and "Pica" reprinted in new edition of
Her Work,
ed. Lou Halsel Rodenberger, North Texas University Press, 2000
"She Swam On from Sea to Shine," Callaloo, 1996
"Tenderhead," Common Bonds: Stories By and About Modern
Texas Women,
ed. Suzanne Comer, Southern Methodist University Press, 1990
"Sugar Sandwiches," Lighthouse Point: An Anthology of Santa
Cruz Writers,
ed. Patrice Vecchione and Steve Wiesinger, M Press, 1987
"The Gene for Music," In Celebration of the Muse, ed. Amber
Sumrall
and Patrice Vecchione, M Press, 1987
"What Can't Be Measured," South by Southwest: Contemporary
Texas Fiction,
ed. Don Graham, University of Texas Press, 1986
"Bad Girls" and "Pica," Her Work: Short Fiction by
Texas Women,
ed. Lou Halsel Rodenberger, Shearer Publishing, 1982
Poetry Collections
Blues Baby: Early Poems (includes previously uncollected poems and
reprint of Tree Tall Woman), Bucknell University Press, 2002
Sleeping with the Dictionary, New California Poetry Series, University
of California Press, 2002
Muse & Drudge, Singing Horse Press, 1995
S*PeRM**K*T, Singing Horse Press, 1992
Trimmings, Tender Buttons Books, 1991
Tree Tall Woman, Energy Earth Communications, 1981
Poetry Anthologies
Norton Anthology, forthcoming
Prose Poetry Anthology, ed. Ray Gonzalez, forthcoming
Southern Poetry Anthology, ed. Kendra Hamilton, forthcoming
PIP Anthology, ed. Douglas Messerli, Green Integer Press, forthcoming
Is This Forever, Or What? ed. Naomi Shihab Nye, Greenwillow Books,
forthcoming
Blushing: Expressions of Love in Poems and Letters, ed. Paul Janeczko,
Orchard Books, 2004
Anthology of Poetry Collaborations (with Douglas Kearney), ed. David
Trinidad, Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, The Anthology Press, 2004
Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, ed. David Lehman,
Scribner, 2003
Enough, ed. Rick London and Leslie Scalapino, O Books, 2003
American Women Poets in the Twenty-first Century, ed. Claudia Rankine
and Juliana Spahr,
Wesleyan University Press, 2002
Making Callaloo: Twenty-five Years of Black Literature, 1976-2000,
ed. Charles Rowell, St. Martin's Press, 2002
The Best American Poetry, ed. David Lehman and Robert Hass, Scribner,
2001
Cave Canem Anthology VI 2001, ed. Yona Harvey, et al., Cave Canem /
Black Classics Press, 2001
New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America, ed. Kevin Quashie,
Prentice Hall, 2001
Texas in Poetry: A 150-Year Anthology, ed. Billy Bob Hill, Center for
Texas Studies, 2001
(New edition of 1994 publication)
Cave Canem Anthology V 2000, ed. Toni Brown, Yona Harvey, et al., Cave
Canem /
Black Classics Press, 2001
Anthology of Modern American Poetry, ed. Cary Nelson, Oxford
University Press, 2000
Giant Steps: A New Generation of African American Writers, ed. Kevin
Young, Harper Collins, 2000
Cave Canem IV Anthology 1999, ed. Yona Harvey and Terrance Hayes,
Cave Canem / Black Classic Press, 2000
Otra Cancion / Another Song: Seis Poetas Norteamericanas, ed. Victor
Manuel Mendiola
and Luis Soto Sebastian del Piombo, Instituto Cultural Mexicano de Nueva
York,
Academy of American Poets, and Ediciones El Tucan de Virginia, 1999
Roundup: An Anthology of Texas Poets, ed. David Oliphant, Prickly Pear
Press, 1999
What Have You Lost?, ed. Naomi Shihab Nye, Greenwood Press, 1999
Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women, ed. Mary
Margaret Sloan,
Talisman House Press, 1998
Trouble the Water: 250 Years of African American Poetry, ed. Jerry Ward,
Penguin Press, 1997
African American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology, ed.
Al Young and Ishmael Reed, Harper Collins, 1996
I Feel a Little Jumpy Around You, ed. Naomi Shihab Nye and Paul
Janeczko, Simon and Schuster, 1996
Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American Poetry, ed. Douglas
Messerli, Sun & Moon Press, 1996
Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms, ed. David Lehman, Macmillan, 1996
The Best American Poetry, ed. David Lehman and A.R. Ammons, Scribners,
1994
On the Verge, ed. Thomas Sayers Ellis and Joseph Lease, Agni Press,
1994
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle, ed. Stephen Dunning,
Edward Lueders,
Naomi Shihab Nye, Keith Gilyard, and Demetrice A. Worley, Scott Foresman,
1994
In Search of Color Everywhere, ed. E. Ethelbert Miller, Tabori and
Chang, 1994
Texas in Poetry: A 150-Year Anthology, ed. Billy Bob Hill, Center for
Texas Studies, 1994
The Jazz Poetry Anthology, ed. Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa,
Indiana University Press, 1991
O/Two Anthology, ed. Leslie Scalapino, O Books, 1991
Washing the Cow's Skull / Lavando la calavera de vaca: A Bilingual
Anthology of Texas Poets, ed. David Oliphant and Luis Ramos-Garcia, Prickly
Pear Press, 1982
Poetry and Creative Prose in Journals and other Publications
Essence, Rolling Stone, Southern Exposure, Hambone, Quilt, Sage, Open
Places, The Greenfield Review, Obsidian, Callaloo, Hoodoo, Praxis, The
Black Collegian, Sunbury, South and West, New Heat, Chinquapin, Cenizas,
Nexos, New Life News, Black Expressions, Latitude 30/18, Poetry Texas,
Cedar Rock, Hubris, Metis, Nimrod, Matrix, WIN, Long News in the Short
Century, Bennington Summer Anthology, A: A Journal of Contemporary Literature,
Mirage, Nethula, TWANAS, Phosphene, Dialog, Catalyst, Artist Alliance
News, Grassroot Struggle, Quarry West, The Universal Black Writer, Black
American Literature Forum, Negro History Bulletin, Blackprint, River
Styx, Epoch, Third Woman, 13th Moon, Stone Drum, The Texas Observer,
DisCourse, Furnitures, Big Allis, Arras, Antioch Review, Bombay Gin,
Proliferation, Agni Review, Hole, VLS (Voice Literary Supplement), Lower
Limit Speech, Proliferation, Prosodia, Chain, The World, Dia Center for
the Art, Columbia Poetry Review, Fence, Aufgabe, Facture, Southfields,
Gare du Nord, Santa Monica Review, Framework, La Jornada Semanal,
Lipstick Eleven, La Vitrina, Booglite, Black Renaissance, A Gathering of
the Tribes, American Poet, Parnassas, Tripwire, So to Speak, Combo, Empty
Set, Konch, Crow, Poetry in Motion, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, Can We
Have Our Ball Back?, VOLT, Washington Post, Open City, X-tra,
Double Change, SARE, Akcent, Naropa Broadside Series
Works in Other Media, Artistic Collaborations, Intermedia Works,
Adaptations, Public Art Projects
Seven Cabaret Songs: Musical composition by T.J. Anderson
incorporating parts of Muse & Drudge, performed by Mallarmé Chamber
Players with vocalist Louise Toppin, Scripps College, 2003
"Eurydice," from Sleeping with the Dictionary: Broadside
series, Dia Center for the Arts, 2003
"Specimen Bottles": Text and visual art collaboration with
Alison Saar for her exhibit, Bittersweet,
Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, 2003
No Boundaries: Music and Poetry with the Ying Quartet: "Music for
Homemade Instruments," from Sleeping with the Dictionary, included
in a program at Symphony Space, New York, 2002
Parcours 23, "Feminin Pluriel": Gallery exhibit and
catalogue inspired by and featuring text from Trimmings, created by Mary
Rozzi and Lisa von Weise, Paris, France, 2001
The X Factor: Compact disc recording includes Christine Baczewska's
"O Rose/ On Finding Harryette Mullen," musical composition
incorporating part of Muse & Drudge, performed by Christine
Baczewska, Tellus Audio Series, Harvestworks/Studio PASS, New York, 2001
It Won't Be the Same River: Compact disc recording includes T.J.
Anderson's Seven Cabaret Songs, musical composition incorporating parts
of Muse & Drudge, performed by Mallarmé Chamber Players with vocalist
Nnenna Freelon, Capstone Records, New York, 2001
"Jump City," from Tree Tall Woman: Transit posters sponsored
by Poetry in Motion,
Poetry Society of America, San Antonio Metro, 2001
"Denigration," from Sleeping with the Dictionary: Broadside
series, Naropa University, 2000
"Wipe that Simile Off Your Aphasia," from Sleeping with the
Dictionary: Transit posters
and bookmarks sponsored by Poetry in Motion, Poetry Society of America,
Los Angeles Metro,
Getty Museum, 1998; Electronic Sign at Sunset Plaza, Los Angeles;
Visiting Writer's Web Page, Electronic Poetry Center, SUNY Buffalo, 1998;
Internet Broadside, Dia Center for the Arts,
New York, 1997
Seven Cabaret Songs: Musical composition by T.J. Anderson
incorporating parts of Muse & Drudge, performed by vocalist Nnenna
Freelon with San Francisco Music Players, with pre-concert discussion
of music and poetry, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, December 1997
Threshold: Text and visual art collaboration with Allan deSouza, et
al, Highways Gallery,
Santa Monica, November 1997
"Kimchee and Pigfeet": Text and visual art collaboration
with Yong Soon Min,
Kimchi Xtravaganza, multimedia art exhibit, Korean American Museum, Los
Angeles, 1997
"O Rose/ On Finding Harryette Mullen": Musical composition by
Christine Baczewska
incorporating part of Muse & Drudge, Musique Xtine/PaRiah Recording
Project, 1997
"Porch": Text and visual art collaboration with Yong Soon
Min on Womenhouse,
an interactive feminist art project on website sponsored by Contemporary
Museum
of Photography at University of California, Riverside and Armand Hammer
Museum, 1996
Seven Cabaret Songs: Musical composition by T.J. Anderson
incorporating parts of Muse & Drudge, performed by vocalist Nnenna
Freelon with Mallarmé Chamber Players, Durham Arts Council, North
Carolina, Fall 1995; Wright University, Ohio, Fall 1995
Published Interviews
"Licked All Over by the English Tongue: An Interview with
Harryette Mullen,"
Caroline Crumpacker, Double Change 3, 2002
"Daniel Kane interviews Harryette Mullen," WriteNet, Poets
on Poetry,
Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2002
"Harryette Mullen, 'The Queen of Hip Hyperbole': An
Interview," Emily Williams,
African American Review, Winter 2000
"An Interview with Harryette Mullen," Elisabeth Frost, Contemporary
Literature, Fall 2000
"Interview with Harryette Mullen," Cynthia Hogue,
Post-Modern Culture, 1999
"Harryette Mullen with Christopher Myers," Christopher
Myers, Index, September/October 1999
"Interview with Harryette Mullen," Farah Griffin, Mike
Magee, Kristen Gallagher, Combo, 1998
"The Solo Mysterioso Blues: An Interview with Harryette
Mullen," Calvin Bedient, Callaloo,
Summer 1996
"Interview with Harryette Mullen," Barbara Henning, Poetry
Project Newsletter, 1996
"Interview with Harryette Mullen," Fred Wah, Louis Cabri,
Jeff Derksen, Boo Magazine, 1996
Literary Readings
Academy of American Poets, New York; African American Studies Center,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Armand Hammer Museum, Los
Angeles; Artists Alliance, New York; Barnard College, New York; Barnes
and Noble, The Grove, Los Angeles; Barnes and Noble, Santa Monica; Barnes
and Noble, Westwood, Los Angeles; Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center,
Venice, California; Black Women Writers Conference, Spelman College,
Atlanta; Black Writers Conference, Emory University, Atlanta; Brooklyn
College, New York; Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; Bucknell
University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania; Calgary University, Calgary,
Alberta; California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo; California
State University, Los Angeles; Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba; Casa
Lamm, Mexico City; Cave Canem, Esopus, New York; Cave Canem, Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan; Celebration of Black Writing, Philadelphia; Center for
African American Studies, UCLA; Center for the Study of Women, UCLA;
Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles; City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco;
Clinica de la Gente, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Cody's Bookstore, Berkeley;
Columbia College, Chicago; Columbia University Teachers College; Copyright
Texas, San Antonio Public Library; Cross Cultural Poetics at Borders,
Minneapolis; The Detroit Institute of the Arts; Dia Center for the Arts,
New York; "Diverse City: Multicultural Poets of Los Angeles,"
Clark Library; Ear Inn, New York; Dark Room Reading Series, Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston; Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Heidelberg,
Germany; Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; "Down Home
Poetry Reading," Unitarian Church, Berkeley; "Eco-Poetry
Festival, "Marina del Rey, California; Elmira College, Elmira, New
York; Eulipia Poetry Series, San Jose University; "Fall for the
Book," Fairfax, Virginia; Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington,
D.C.; Fordham University, New York; Fence Magazine Poets at Beyond
Baroque, Venice, California; George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia;
Georgetown University; Harvest for the Homeless, SOS/Cornell University;
Hayti Cultural Heritage Center, Durham, North Carolina; Holloway Poetry
Reading Series, University of California, Berkeley; Hoodoo Poetry Festival,
Galveston, Texas; Hyperdisc Reading Series, Santa Monica; Hyperpoets at
Rose Cafe, Venice, California; Idyllwild Arts, California; Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston; Instituto Cultural de Campeche, Mexico;
Inter-American Book Fair, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and Institute of
Texas Cultures, San Antonio, Texas; Intersection for the Arts, San
Francisco; Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles; Java Joe's "Pure Kona
Poetry Series," Rochester, New York; Jewel Gibson Literary Festival,
Navarro Council on the Arts, Corsicana, Texas; Kelly Writers House,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Kootenay School of Writing,
Vancouver, British Columbia; Lila Wallace Poetry Forum, Public Library,
Philadelphia; Long Island University, Brooklyn; Los Angeles City College;
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Los Angeles Times Festival of Books;
Mansfield University, Pennsylvania; Loyola Marymount University, Los
Angeles; Mary Lou Williams Cultural Center, Duke University, Durham,
North Carolina; Medical Center Literary Reading Group, Duke University,
Durham, North Carolina; Miami University of Ohio; Missouri Arts Council/A
Writers' Place, Kansas City, Missouri; Modern Language Society, Toronto;
Morehouse College, Atlanta; Monroe Community College, Rochester, New York;
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California; Naropa University,
Boulder, Colorado; Nazareth College, Rochester; New College of
California, San Francisco; New Langton Arts, San Francisco; New School,
New York City; New Writing Series, University of California, San Diego;
Nommo-Word Reading Series, Los Angeles; North Carolina Central
University; North Carolina State University; North Texas State
University; Outre Poetry Series, University of Illinois, Chicago; Painted
Bride Center, Philadelphia; Playa Vista, Marina del Rey, California;
Plutzik Poetry Series; Poem.X Reading Series, Los Angeles; The Poetry
Project at Saint Mark's, New York; Poetry in Motion, Metro Readings, Los
Angeles; "Poetic Research Series" at Dawson's Books, Los
Angeles; Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego; Richland College, Dallas,
Texas; Ruth Stephan Poetry Center, University of Texas, Austin;
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; Santa Monica Museum of Art;
Rice University Media Center, Houston, Texas; Scripps College, Claremont,
California; Segue Foundation, New York; Shrine of the Black Madonna
Bookstore, Houston, Texas; Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British
Columbia; Smedley's Bookstore, Ithaca, New York; Southern Black Writers
Association, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi; State University of
New York, Cortland, New York; SUNY Buffalo Poetry Series at Central Park
Grill; Temple University, Philadelphia; Texas Circuit Poetry Series; Two
Friends Bookstore, Atlanta; Unitarian Church, Berkeley, California;
University of Alabama; University of California, Los Angeles; University
of California, Santa Cruz; University of Houston; University of
Louisville, Kentucky; University of Rochester Campus Bookstore Readings
and Talks Series; Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Camden, New Jersey;
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; Watts Towers Community Arts
Center, Los Angeles; Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah; Women
& Their Work Poetry Series, Austin, Texas; Women Poets of the West
Poetry Series, PEN West/Los Angeles Public Library; Georgia; Woodland
Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; The World Stage, Los Angeles;
Writers & Books, Rochester, New York
Visiting Writer, Writer in Residence, Poetry Workshop Leader
California State University, Los Angeles, 2003
Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, 2003
Saint Mary's College, Moraga, California, 2003
Idyllwild Summer Arts Program, Idyllwild, California, 2002
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, 2001
California Polytechnic University, Pomona, 2001
UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 2001
Celebration of Black Writing, Philadelphia, 2001
Academy of American Poets and Columbia Teachers College, Summer Teachers
Institute, 2001
Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Camden, New Jersey, 2001
Cave Canem Writers Workshop/Retreat at Cranbrook School, Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, 2000, 2001
American Literature Seminar for International Scholars, University of
Louisville,
Kentucky, 1999, 2000, 2001
Callaloo Writing Workshop at Morehouse College, 1999
Cave Canem Writers Workshop/Retreat at Mt. Saint Alphonsus, Esopus, New
York, 1999
Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, 1999
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1998
Voces Proximas, Cultural Exchange of U.S. and Mexican Poets, Academy of
American Poets,
Instituto Cultural Mexicano, New York; Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe;
Centro Cultural Casa Lamm, Mexico City; Instituto Campechano, Campeche
1998
Writers & Books, Rochester, New York, 1995, 1998
Temple University, Philadelphia, 1997
New College of California, San Francisco, 1995
Franklin High School, Rochester, New York, 1995
School for the Arts, Rochester, New York, 1995
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, 1993
Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000,
2002
Mansfield University, Mansfield Pennsylvania, 1992
Early Childhood Learning Center, Fort Worth, Texas, 1981
Artists in Schools Program, Texas Commission on the Arts, 1978-81
Recorded Readings and Interviews
Videotape
Poetry readings and interview, Naropa University Archives, 1992-2002
She Swam On from Sea to Shine: The Poetry of Harryette Mullen, UCTV,
2001
Artists on the Cutting Edge, University of California, San Diego,
UCSD-TV, 1998
Interview: Rae Armantrout with Harryette Mullen, New Writing Series,
University of California,
San Diego, 1995
Color: A Sampling of Contemporary African American Writers, ed. Al
Young, The Poetry Center
and American Poetry Archives, San Francisco State University, 1994
Harryette Mullen: Reading Poetry and Prose, The Poetry Center Archives,
San Francisco State University
Texas Literature, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Textbook Division
Audiotape
Lee Austin interviews Harryette Mullen, Access Utah, Utah Public
Radio, 2002
Manfred Flugge interviews Harryette Mullen in Los Angeles, Berlin Radio,
Germany, 1997-98
Harryette Mullen and Naomi Shihab Nye, Women Writers of the Southwest
Reading Series, PEN West and Los Angeles Public Library, KPFK Radio, 1997
Literary Biography
A Companion to 20th Century American Poetry, essay by Mitchum Huehls,
2001
Dictionary of Literary Biography, essay by Aldon Nielsen, 2001
Encyclopedia of American Poetry, essay by James C. Hall, 2001
What is Poetry: Conversations with the American Avant-Garde, Daniel
Kane,
Teachers and Writers Books, 2003
Selected Critical Responses
A Boundless Field: American Poetry at Large, Stephen Yenser,
University of Michigan Press, 2002
African American Writers: Portraits and Visions, Lynda Koolish,
University Press of Mississippi, 2001
American Women Poets in the Twenty-first Century, ed. Claudia Rankine
and Juliana Spahr,
Wesleyan University Press, 2002
Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity,
Juliana Spahr,
University of Alabama Press, 2001
Extraordinary Measures: Afrocentric Modernism and Twentieth-Century
American Poetry,
Lorenzo Thomas, University of Alabama Press, 2000
The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry, Elisabeth Frost,
University of Iowa Press, 2003
We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women's Writing and
Performance Poetics, ed. Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue, University of
Alabama Press, 2001
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