Resume

• 2010

  MIT

  University of Washington

  Bothell

  University of Southern California

  Los Angeles

  CA

  I taught freshman composition in USC’s Writing Program for six semesters in conjunction with a broader social issues class on whose material students drew in their papers. The subjects of these courses included “Social Problems

  ” “Holocaust History

  ” “Gender and Sexualities in American History

  ” and “The Philosophy of Contemporary Moral and Social Issues.”

  Lecturer

  The Writing Program

  University of Southern California

  University of Washington

  Bothell

  Otis College of Art and Design

  Working one-on-one with students from across the College

  I assisted with bookmaking

  typesetting

  lockup

  and printing

  and helped maintain four Vandercook proof presses.

  Lab Tech -- Otis Lab Press

  Greater Los Angeles Area

  Los Angeles

  CA

  As teaching assistant to Professor Susan McCabe

  I led two weekly discussion sections

  graded all student work

  and supplemented the lecture with audio files. I combined demonstrations of close reading

  discussion

  and workshops addressing students’ own poems to demonstrate the way they achieve their particular effects.

  Teaching Assistant

  “Introduction to Poetry: From Shakespeare to Hip Hop”

  University of Southern California

  University of Washington

  Bothell

  Cambridge

  MA

  As a Mellon Fellow

  I worked on my scholarly monograph

  The Upright Script: Modernist Mediations and Contemporary Data Poetics

  and a collection of poems

  Handiwork. I also taught poetry workshops and classes in digital

  visual

  and material poetics.

  Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities

  MIT

  Los Angeles

  CA

  At USC’s writing center

  I worked one-on-one each week with a set of students that included athletes and non-native English speakers to help them assess their own work and build writing skills for their composition classes. In addition

  I assisted undergraduate and graduate students across the disciplines with essays

  business documents

  artist statements

  and other written work.

  Consultant

  The Writing Center

  University of Southern California

  Modern Language Association

• 2004

  French

  Hebrew

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  Literature and Creative Writing

  University of Southern California

• 2001

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  English Language and Literature/Letters

  University of California

  Los Angeles

  Writing and Critical Reasoning

  The Material Text: Visual Poetry and Poetics

  Altered Egos: Found

  Purloined

  and Plagiarized Poetry

  Poetry Workshop

  Chapbooks and Artists’ Books

  Digital Poetry

• Letterpress

  Literature

  Modern Literature

  Performing Arts

  PowerPoint

  English Literature

  InDesign

  Social Media

  Modernism

  Photoshop

  Microsoft Word

  Teaching

  American Literature

  Editing

  Event Planning

  Poetry

  Book Design

  Bookbinding

  Poetics

  Research

  Handiwork

  A collection of poems

  Handiwork is in itself a work of craftsmanship

  piecing together fragments while at the same time producing anew. Borsuk summons the tradition of Hebrew gematria to investigate and engage with language’s slipperiness

  and

  as she explains

  to provide “a sense of hope within constraint: the fruitful possibility of language.” It also wrestles with and probes into “where family history becomes personal mythology

  and where gaps open up that ask to be filled.” The reader explores

  in Handiwork

  both the creative and destructive urges imminent in expression

  as “what wounds is easily unwound.”

  Handiwork

  Andy Fitch

  Selected by Julie Carr for the Subito Prize

  As We Know attempts to invert the gendered history of editorial intervention as it has played out in the famous cases of figures such as Dorothy Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson. Here Amaranth Borsuk has taken Andy Fitch’s summer diary and reshaped 60 passages into a new type of collective confessional/constructivist collage that brings her own voice into the text and foregrounds the tensions of authorship.

  As We Know

  A digital popup book of poetry

  Between Page and Screen lets you hold the words in your hands. It has been exhibited internationally and written about in Salon

  Wired

  Print Mag

  and The Economist.

  Between Page and Screen

  2nd edition

  This chapbook-length poem in thirty parts uses language from a religious tract that was left on my doorstep ten years ago. Vertical slashes score the source text

  sawing through the language of religious fervor to write a religion of poetry that worships language itself.

  Tonal Saw

  A digital popup book of poetry

  Between Page and Screen lets you hold the words in your hands. It has been exhibited internationally and written about in Salon

  Wired

  Print Mag

  and The Economist.

  Between Page and Screen

  Kate Durbin

  A living text grows and shape-shifts as readers turn the pages of Abra

  facing off with an illustration that changes too. A book of poetry whose posthuman speaker spins a network of language and sends that web ever outward

  Abra explores the feminist erotics of the 21st-century hive mind.

  Abra

  Pomegranate-Eater’s “radiant host” lives where fecundity meets decay

  where the orderly Victorian garden explodes in wild tendrils. The “feast of ingathering” Borsuk spreads before the reader is a harvest at once decadent and cannibalistic: the fruit “explodes overripe

  then rots” in our mouths. These rich and densely-layered confections invite us to devour self after self as the text’s shifting speaker builds and rebuilds an identity in language.

  Pomegranate Eater

  Amaranth

  Borsuk

  Otis College of Art and Design