November 17, 2014

Lyman Hall, Room 211

Passion in Slow Motion: The Pictorial Impulse in Merce Cunningham

Professor Noland was a Guggenheim Fellow and serving as the Clark/Oakley Humanities Fellow at the Clark Institute for Art in Williamstown, MA. As part of her fellowship, she was writing a book entitled After the Arbitrary.  It analyzes nine works in which Merce Cunningham repeatedly reinvented what constitutes “chance” or “necessity.”

Professor 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.

Carrie Noland is a Professor of French at University of California, Irvine.