Dworkin received his BA from
Stanford University and his PhD from the
University of California, Berkeley. and
associate professor at
Princeton University from 1998 to 2004 before joining the faculty at the
University of Utah, where he is a Professor of English.
The Pine-Woods Notebook (Kenning Editions, 2019),
Def (Information as Material, 2018),
Twelve Erroneous Displacements and a Fact (IAM, 2016),
Alkali (Counterpath Press, 2015),
The Crystal Text (After Clark Coolidge) (Compline, 2012),
Motes (Roof Books, 2011),
The Perverse Library (IAM, 2010), and
Strand (Roof, 2005). Dworkin is the author of four scholarly monographs:
Radium of the Word: A Poetics of Materiality (
Chicago, 2020);
Dictionary Poetics: Toward a Radical Lexicography (
Fordham, 2020);
No Medium (
MIT, 2013), in which he discusses works that are "blank, erased, clear, or silent"; and
Reading the Illegible (
Northwestern, 2003). Edited collections include
Against Expression (co-edited with
Kenneth Goldsmith, Northwestern, 2011), in which he coined the term "conceptual writing";
The Sound of Poetry / The Poetry of Sound, co-edited with
Marjorie Perloff (Chicago, 2009); and
The Consequence of Innovation: 21st Century Poetics (Roof, 2008). He has published articles in such diverse journals as
October,
Grey Room,
Contemporary Literature,
PMLA, and
Critical Inquiry. == Eclipse ==