Adeena Karasick

Karasick received her Ph.D., in 1997 from Concordia University in Montreal and was the first interdisciplinary scholarship, which linked the work of French deconstructionist philosophy with 13th-century hermeneutics. Her doctoral dissertation, ''Of Poetic Thinking: A 'Pataphysical Investigation of Cixous, Derrida and the Kabbalah'', examined the relationship between the major texts of Kabbalistic discourse and contemporary deconstructionist and literary practices. == Teaching career ==

Karasick is a professor of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute teaching Literature and Critical Theory, Performance Art, and The Artists Book. From 2000 to 2012, she taught Global Literature at St. John's University and was an associate professor of communication and media theory at Fordham University. From 2012 to 2017, she was co-founding director of KlezKanada Poetry Festival and Retreat; between 2008 and 2010, Karasick taught writing and film and literature at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. In 2019, she taught a series of Masters Classes at the Brandeis Cultural Institute, Brandeis-Bardin Campus, Simi Valley, CA. Between 1991 and 1992, and from 1993 to 1996, Karasick taught Canadian contemporary literature and cultural theory at York University, Canada, and in 1992 was writer in residence at the Gutenberg Universität in Mainz, Germany. ==Bibliography==

Both her poetic and scholarly work focuses on issues of contemporary writing strategies, media, culture and aesthetics and has been described as "electricity in language." Nicole Brossard, "a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasick's signature 'syllabic labyrinth.'" Craig Dworkin, "a delirious interplay of tongue twisting cacophony and serious exploration of language and meaning." Herizons, "plural, cascading, exuberant, in their cross fertilization of punning and knowing, theory and theatre", Charles Bernstein. Her ongoing collaboration with Maria Damon, Intertextile: Text in Exile: Shmata Mash-Up, explores the interwoven relationship between gender and textuality and debuted at The Banff Centre for the Arts and The Poets House in New York. Her study of the Kabbalistic traces in Charles Bernstein's opera, Shadowtime and her ongoing work tracing the patterns and intersections between Kabbalah and Contemporary poetics ("Hijacking Language") were published in Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture (University of Alabama Press, 2012). An analysis by Maria Damon of Karasick's own poetry also appears in the book. According to Jake Marmer, "Karasick is after the "meaning that is not fixed but in flux, fluid; a logic that is often illogical; a rationality that is not irrational but relational and affirms that like the text itself we must embrace contradiction, conflict, discordance." == Videos, films, and CDs ==

• LOREM IPSUM (Videopoem) Text from Checking In, vispo Jim Andrews, 2023 • CHECKING IN 2 (Videopoem) Text from Checking In, vispo, Jim Andrews, 2023. • EICHA 1: THE BOOK OF LUMENATIONS (Videopoem) Text from my Ærotomania, The Book of Lumenations. Music by Frank London, vispo, Jim Andrews and Daniel Bradley, titles, Igor Imhoff, March 2021. • EICHA 2: THE BOOK OF LUMENATIONS (Videopoem) Text from Ærotomania, The Book of Lumenations. Music by Frank London, video by Igor Imhoff, March 2021. • UNTIE ME (Videopoem) from track on Mattatoio5 Release, Aug. 2020. Produced and music by Filippo De Liberali, synth programming; Tommaso Meneghello: basso, synth, e testi, Davide Truffo, chitarra. • DROWN ME (Videopoem) track from Salomé: Woman of Valor Album. Written, performed and produced by Karasick, music by Frank London, Feb. 2021. • SALOMÉ: WOMAN OF VALOR (CD) with music composed by Frank London, NuJu Records, New York 2020. • ÆROTOMANIA: HOW THE AIRPLANE IS STRUCTURED LIKE A LANGUAGE (Movie) For the 21st Annual Media Ecology Association Conference, June 2020. Created, Directed, Performed and Produced by Adeena Karasick, Music by Frank London, (featuring vispo by Elizabeth Mak and Jim Andrews). • ÆROTOMANA (Videopoem) Conceived, Written and Performed by Adeena Karasick, Vispo by Jim Andrews, Music composed and performed by Frank London. • GARDENS OF EROS (Videopoem) Written, Performed and Produced by Adeena Karasick. Music composed by Frank London, performed by Frank London on Trumpet, Deep Singh on Tabla and Dohl, Shai Bachar, electronics. Visuals created by Abigail Child, edited by Safia Southey. • DANCE OF DESIRE (Videopoem), Written, Performed and Produced by Adeena Karasick. Music composed by Frank London, performed by Frank London on Trumpet, Deep Singh on Tabla and Dohl, Shai Bachar, electronics. Visuals created by and edited by Elizabeth Mak. • COVID / KAVOD (Recording), Produced by Lillian Allen, music by Slim (SamGottlieb), with Samantha Ariel Goldman on cello, video and design by Marva Jackson, Toronto / NY, April 2020 • BANDAGE, BONDAGE, STRIPPERS AND SLIPPAGE: THE LANGUAGE AND MEANING OF SALOMÉ IN THE 21ST CENTURY Created for the 66th Annual Alfred Korzybski Symposium: “Language and Meaning in the 21st Century” Institute of General Semantics, New York, NY, 2018. • THE CRAZY TALK OF CHECKING IN: HONORING THE PAST, CELEBRATING THE PRESENT, SHAPING THE FUTURE Created for the New York State Communication Association 75th Annual Conference Callicoon, NY, 2017 and The 65th Annual Alfred Korzybski Symposium: Crazy Talk Stupid Talk, Institute of General Semantics, New York, NY, 2017 • WHERE IS FANCY BRED: RETHINKING IMAGINATION THROUGH THE “UNTHOUGHT AND HOW THAT AFFECTS COMMUNICATION Created for the 64th Annual Alfred Korzybski Symposium: Language in Thought and Action, Institute of General Semantics, Princeton Club, New York, NY. • Back in the O.S.V.R.: Medium, Messages and Mysticism: Binding Time With the Ghost in the Machine Created for and screened as part of "The Media IS the Message: Multi-Media and the Future of Publishing" (with Ralph Rivera, BBC Future Media), for BookExpo America 2014, and the 72nd Annual New York State Communication Association Conference and the 62nd Alfred Korzybski Memorial Lecture and Symposium for the Institute of General Semantics, in New York, 2014 • White Abbot, a parodic videopoem Karasick created during the writing of Salome dedicated to the impossible anguish of forbidden love. • Medium in a Messy Age: Communication in the Era of Technology created for the 71st Annual New York State Communication Association Conference and the Institute of General Semantics, 2013. • ''Ceci n'est pas un Téléphone or Hooked on Telephonics: A Pata-philophonemic Investigation of the Telephone'' created for the Communication and Media Studies Department, Fordham University, and the Media Ecology Association Convention, 2012. • Lingual Ladies (Video), Produced for Banff Centre for the Arts, 2011. • I got a crush on Osama (Video), Aired on Fox News, 2009. Today's politics have reached such a completely absurd level, I felt compelled to comment," said Adeena Karasick of her new video I Got a Crush on Osama released today on YouTube to help promote her new book from Talonbooks, Amuse Bouche: Tasty Treats for the Mouth. The book is a delectable feast of her trademark poetry combining the obsessions of popular culture, politics and linguistic theory into a multi-layered banquet of language often humorous and wry, surprising and sometimes shocking in its juxtapositions, reflecting the often ludicrousness of the techno-saturated world we live in. • Heart of a Poet (TV Show) Produced for Bravo TV, Maureen Judd and Leslie Valpy (Makin' Movies) 2006. • This is your final nitrous (Video) Produced for Visible Verse Festival, 2005. • Sefer yetzirah (Video) Blaine Spiegel. Produced for St. Mark's Poetry Project: NYC, 2004. • ''Belle L'être'' (Video) Produced for St. Mark's Poetry Project. A. Karasick and Marianne Shaneen: NYC, 2002. • Ribsauce (CD) "Cuadrilla Cadre" Produced by Alex Boutros and Karla Sundström, Wired on Words: Montreal, 2001. • Prairis/cite maintenance (Video) Produced for Bravo TV, Toronto, 2000. • Mumbai-Ya (Video) Produced by M. Rosatto-Bennett, NYC, 2000. • Alphabet City (Video) Produced by A. Karasick: NYC, 1999. • Women i know (Film) Produced by Pauline Urquhart for Alberta Access Television: NYC, 1998. • At the fetish cafe (Video) Produced by Lee Gotham: Montreal, 1996. • ''Action poetry '94'' (Video) Produced at Banff Centre for Performing Arts with Meryn Cadell, Bob Holman, Clifton Joseph, Kedrick James: Alberta: 1994. • Sensasound 90 (Cassette) with Lillian Allen, Rafael Baretto-Rivera, bill bissett, Paul Dutton, Penn Kemp, Steve McCaffery: Toronto, 1991. • Language lives (Video) Canadian Poet Series with bp Nichol, Steve McCaffery, Lola Tostevin, bill bissett: Toronto, 1991. • Liquid waze (Cassette) with bill bissett: Vancouver, 1990. • Reading performance (Video) with Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, bill bissett == Awards and grants ==

• 2023 Outstanding Book Award, for Massaging the Medium Seven Pehakuchas, Institute (International Communication Association) • 2022 Poet Laureate of the Institute of General Semantics • 2021 Pratt Institute Faculty Development Award for Salomé: Woman of Valor Videopoem Song Cycle • 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award • 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award for Eicha The Book of Lumenations • 2017 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award for Checking In • 2016 Canada Council for the Arts, Grant for Professional Writers for Checking In • 2016 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award for Salomé: Woman of Valor • 2016 Voce Donna (l'associazione voceDonna di Castrocaro Terme) for Critical Feminist Contributions to International Literary and Media Studies, Forli, Italia • 2012 Canada Council for the Arts, Grant for Professional Writers for This Poem • 2012 The Jewish Daily Forward Top Five Poetry Books in 2012 for This Poem • 2000 Bumbershoot Book Fair Award, "Most Adventurous Publication" for Dyssemia Sleaze • 1999 People's Choice Award, for "Alphabet City", Electrolit International Videopoem Festival, Vancouver, BC • 1995 Finalist in the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Mêmewars == Anthologies ==

In addition to the anthologies below, Karasick's work also has appeared in literary magazines, and academic journals and publications. • "From Salomé" in Sahityo Café, The Casement of World International Poetry (Ed. Pratysha Sarkar and Saikat Gosh), Kolkata, India, Sept. 2020. • "Salomé: Woman of Valor Selections" (translated into Bengali), in Bridgeable Lines:An Anthology of Borderless World Poetry in Bengali, (Trans. Aritra Sanyal, eds. Aritra Sanyal and Runa Bandyopadhyay), Hik Publishing, Kolkata, 2019. • "House of the Rising S[o]ns", in Sciame / Swarm: Lestordite Cultural AssociationAnthology, (Eds. Giorgia Monti and Serena Piccoli), Padova, Italy, 2018 • "From Salomé: Woman of Valor" in Women: Poetry: Migration: An Anthology. (Ed.Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, theenk Books, Washington, 2018. • "From Checking In", "Song of the Cedilla: I'd Like to be Under the C", "eros for bp", "Here Today Gone Gemara", "Titles for Poems Yet to be Written", Written Rock Anthology, (Ed. Andrew Aitken), Fort Erie, 2017. • "From the Floor of the Handicapped Stall" and "From Checking In" in The Canary Islands Connection: An Anthology of 60 Contemporary American Poets. (Ed. Manuel Brito), Zasterle Press, Spain, 2017. • "This Poem (Parts 1-3)", "My Love is Like a Fine, Fine Wine", "With Asura" in Sparkle and Blink 39, (Eds. Casey McAlduff, Nicole McFeely and Janey Smith), Quiet Lightning: San Francisco, 2013). • "My Love is Like a Fine, Fine Wine" in Voices Israel 2010 Volume 36, (Eds. Michael Dickel and Sheryl Abbey, 2010). • "You are Advised" in The Portable Boog Reader 3: An Anthology of New York City Poetry, (Ed. David Kirschenbaum, Spring, 2009). • "Echographies" in Future Welcome: The Moosehead Anthology X, (Ed. Todd Swift. D.C. Books, 2006). • "After the Anti Oedipus" in In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, (Ed. Marlow Peerse Weaver, MW Enterprises, 2005). • "In the Amplifying Cave" and "What it Really Comes Down to Is..." in Hysteria, (Ed. Jennifer Savran. LunaSea Books, Summer, 2003). • "In the Empire of Grief.II" in Short Fuse, (Ed. Todd Swift, Paris, France, October, 2002). • "Ambit. Ardour. Orders: A Poetics of Polymedial Pasties" in side/lines: A New Canadian Poetics (Ed. Rob Mclennan, Insomniac Press, Toronto, 2002). • "Belle L'être" in Vox Populi, Ed. Danika Dinsmore. Seattle, April 2002. • "from The Arugula Fugues" in The Portable Booglit Reader, (Ed. David Kirschenbaum, New York, NY, November, 2000). • "Mumbai-Ya" in DC Anthology, (Ed. Allison Cobb, Jen Coleman, Washington, DC, December, 2000). • "Telephone Talk" in Sisters of the Extreme: Women Writing on the Drug Experience, (Ed. Cynthia Palmer and Michael Horowitz. Park Street Press, Rochester Vermont, 2000) • "Mellah Marrano" in Contemporary Verse 2: Canadian Women's Writing at Century's End. Vol. 23 No.1 (Summer, 2000). • "Genrecide" in Poetry Nation: A North American Anthology of Fusion Poets. (Ed. Regie Cabico and Todd Swift. Vehicle Press, Quebec, 1998). • From "Genrecide" in Carnival: Scream in High Park Reader (Ed. Peter McPhee. Insomniac Press: Toronto, 1996). • "Telephone Talk" in Revival: Spoken Word from Lollapalooza 94. Ed. Juliette Torrez, Liz Belile, Mud Baron, Jennifer Joseph. (Manic D Press: San Francisco, 1995). • From "Cut Throat" in Front Lines Anthology of Action Poetry. Vol. I. (Banff: April, 1994). • "Bad" in Front Lines Anthology of Action Poetry. Vol. II. (Banff: April, 1994). • "Poetix" in Writing for the New Coast Anthology (Buffalo, 1993). ==References==