Jennifer K Dick, (born 1970) is an American poet, translator and educator/scholar born in Minnesota, raised in Iowa and currently living in Mulhouse, France. She has been classified as a post-L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E school poet and, by Amy Catanzano, as a U+F+O+L+A+N+G+U+A+G+E poet with a strong background in lyric and narrative tradition.
Teaching and writing career
She has taught American Literature, British Romantic Poetry, Creative Writing, American Civilization, and English. Since 2009, she has been a Maître de Conférences at the Université de Haute Alsace in Mulhouse, France. Her doctoral research for her PhD was completed under the direction of Jean Bessière at the Université de Paris III: La Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2009 and her critical writings on contemporary cross-genre poets and prose authors are in the field of Comparative Literature with an accent on Visual studies, Modernism, Postmodernism and the Avant-garde, including work on Susan Howe, Myung Mi Kim, Anne-Marie Albiach, Claude Royet-Journoud, Lisa Jarnot, and Maurice Roche. Dick also holds a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Colorado State University where she worked with Laura Mullen and a BA in English Literature from Mount Holyoke College where she spent three years in Lyric Poetry and Russian Poetry courses with Nobel Laureat Joseph Brodsky.
Works
Books
Fluorescence (University of Georgia Press, 2004, Contemporary Poetry Series) ENCLOSURES (BlazeVox, New York, NY, 2007) Circuits (Corrupt Press Books, 2013) Lilith: A Novel in Fragments (Corrupt Press Books, 2019) That Which I Touch Has No Name (Black Spring Press Group, 2022)
Chapbooks and Art Collaborative Books
Retina/Rétine (Estepa Editions, Paris, France, with artwork by Kate Van Houten and translations by Rémi Bouthonnier, 2005) Poetry: Tracery (Dusie Kollectif, chapbook, 20912) Betwixt (Corrupt Books, 2012) Conversion (Estepa Editions, with artwork by Kate Van Houten 2013) No Title (Estepa Editions, Paris, 2015) after artwork by Rabih Mroué Comme Un no 9, (AREA gallery and publisher, with artwork by Matsutani Takesada, Akira Inumaru, Takeshi Sumi et Akira Takaishi, design par Alin Avila, Paris, France, 2017) Afterlife (Angel House Press, Ottawa, Canada, 2017) after art show "Dessins d'ombre" by Véronique Arnold and for dancer Olivier Gabrys performance Traces de son amant qui s'en va (Museum of Fine Arts, Mulhouse, France, 2016)
Criticism: Books
Criticism: co-directed with Stephanie Schwerter: Transmissibility and Cultural Transfer: Dimensions of Translation in the Humanities (Ibidem Verlag, Stuttgart, 2012) Criticism: co-directed with Stephanie Schwerter: Traduire: transmettre ou trahir? Réflexions sur la traduction en sciences humaines (Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, 2013) Co-directed the anthology and co-authored the "avant-propos" (introduction) with Kunsthalle Director Sandrine Wymann: Dossier des ouvrages exécutés, écrire l'art (Éditions de la Kunsthalle Mulhouse Centre d'Art Contemporaine, France, available at les presses du réel, France, 2019).
In anthologies and collaborations
Poem: Ondulations (Aeneis Editions, Paris, 2009) artbook with 4 original paintings by Giorgio Fidone & texts by Jennifer K Dick (English) Jacques de Longeville (French), & Susana Sulic (Argentinian Spanish). Poems: “A Dark Continent”, “The Price of an Idea” in Moosehead Anthology X: Future Welcome, an anthology of science-based poems edited by Todd Swift, DC Books, Canada, 2005. Poems: “The Memory Machine”, “Mucking Around in the Wetware” in Beyond the Valley of the Contemporary Poets, a VCP Anthology, ed Elizabeth Ianacci, Los Angeles, CA 2004. Poem: “Theater” in In the Criminal's Cabinet: An Anthology of Poetry and Fiction, ed Val Stevenson and Todd Swift, nth position press, London, 2004. Poem: “Where” in SHORT FUSE: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, ed. Todd Swift and Paul Norton, Rattapallax Press, NYC, USA, 2002, and “After” in the e-book anthology extension, 2002. Poem: “Election Day” in 100 Poets Against the War, ed. Todd Swift, Salt Press, UK, 2003.