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David Yaffe
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., English, 2003, City University of New York Graduate Center
Office: 418 Hall of Languages, 315-443-9474
Email: dyaffe@syr.edu
Interests: 20th and 21st Century American Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies, Jazz Studies, Arts Criticism, Music Criticism, Popular Culture, Film Studies, Theatre
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Books Under Contract
Book Chapter Under Contract
Selected Articles: Arranged Alphabetically by Name of Publication
Selected Presentations
Selected Awards and Honors
Courses Taught
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Fascinating Rhythm: Reading Jazz In American Writing, Princeton University Press, 2006.
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Books Under Contract
The Many Roads of Bob Dylan , forthcoming, Yale University Press, American Icons Series, delivery date: March, 2008.
Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell, forthcoming, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, delivery date: August, 2010.
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Book Chapter Under Contract
“Don't Steal, Don't Lift,” in The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan, Ed. Kevin Dettmar, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming, 2008.
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Selected Articles: Arranged Alphabetically by Name of Publication
Antioch Review: "Special Pleading and Counter-Intuition: Hart Crane's Swinging Muse," Summer, 1999
Bookforum: “Yo, Vey,” December, 2005-January, 2006
Boston Globe: "Brass Tactics," February 14, 2004; "The Boxer," November 16, 2003
Civilization: "The Vivian Chronicles: Girls on the Run by John Ashbery," March, 1999
Chronicle of Higher Education Review:
“One-Hit Wonder,” July 27, 2007;
“Art for Snark's Sake,” May 19, 2006;
“Elizabeth Bishop's Stray Lines,” May 5, 2006;
“Pimp My Memoir: Jazz Autobiographies' Tricked-Out Personae,” January 5, 2006 ;
“Sonny and Nothingness,” October 21, 2005;
"Notes on Metakitsch," April 1, 2005;
"Spike Lee's Coming Out Day," August 6, 2004;
"White Negroes and Native Sons," May 14, 2004;
"Masked and Explicated: Bob Dylan and his Tenured Disciples," April 23, 2004;
"Getting in Tune With a Twelve Bar Bard," May 22, 2002
Conde Nast Traveler: "Man of International Mystery: Stargazing in Peter Paul Rubens's Antwerp ," November, 2004
Dissent: "Allen Agonistes," Spring, 1998
Down Beat:
"John Zorn Meets Burt Bacharach," November, 1997; "Postmodern Pastiche, Ornette-Style," October, 1997
Lingua Franca:
"The Department that Fell to Earth," February, 1999;
"Bloom's Wild Children," November, 1998;
"Fascinating Rhythm," October, 1998
The Nation:
“The Art of the Improviser,” May 14, 2007;
“Music of My Mind,” October 2, 2006;
“Brilliant Corners,” July 10, 2006;
“Soul on Ice,” December 5, 2005;
“Tangled Up in Bob,” April 25, 2005;
"Of Jazz and Brave Ulysses," October 26, 2002;
"Ellison Unbound," March 11, 2002,
"Decline of the West," April 24, 2000;
“Dionysian Man," March 13, 2000;
"Sex and the City," December 16, 1999;
"All That Jazz," July 14, 1997
National Public Radio (script):"The Marcus Roberts Trio: Reminiscing in Tempo"
The New Republic:
“Raw Talent,” May 27, 2005;
“Woolf Trap,” April 19, 2005;
“Cult Classic,” April 6, 2005;
"Curtain Call," February 22, 2005;
"Band Geek," February 2, 2005;
"Boxed In," December 14, 2004;
"Shelter from the Media Storm," December 6, 2004;
"Independent Label," September 28, 2004
New Yorker: "Hollywood & Vine," September 8, 1997
New York:
"Sweet Lorraine," November, 2002;
"Crossing Over" May 3, 2002;
"Bass Instincts," March 11, 2002;
"Holiday Season," January 7, 2002;
"Not Your Father's Bebop," September 10, 2001;
"Miles Behind," July 23, 2001;
"Mysterious Powers," July, 2000;
"Learning to Reed," April 12, 1999;
"Think Global," February 22, 1999;
"Words, Words, Words," February 1, 1999;
"Tune Up," December 21-28, 1998;
"High Standards," October 19, 1998;
"Free Keys," September 1, 1998;
"When Sonny Gets Blue," August 17, 1998
New York Observer: "Birth of a Protester," May 12, 2003
New York Times:
“Working Three Shifts, and Outrage Overtime,” February 4, 2007;
"Zombie," November 12, 2000;
"An Obvious Enchantment," October 1, 2000;
"Holding Her Own Among All the Guys," May 20, 1999;
"Finding that Swing in Joplin and Mahler," December 20, 1998;
"The Latest of the Jazz Weirdos," October 25, 1998
Oxford American:
"Modernistic," January, 2003;
"What We Talk About When We Talk About Jazz," July, 2000
Partisan Review: "Go West," Fall, 1999
Slate:
“Tangled Up in Keys,” August 11, 2006;
“The State of the Dylan Address,” May 24, 2006;
“It's All too Much,” December 8, 2005;
"The Last Temptation of Dylan," September 23, 2005;
"A West Side Story Story," June 2, 2004
Talk: "All What Jazz?" December, 2000 - January, 2001
The Village Voice:
"World on a String," January, 2003;
"Help the Aged," August 21, 2001;
"A Development in Depth," June 21, 2001;
"Love in Bloom: A Seminar," February 13, 2001;
"Houses of the Holy," January 16, 2001;
"Misreading Mapped," November 7, 2000;
"Time Out of Mind," August 22, 2000;
"The Kinsley Report," July 1, 2000;
"Little Voice," June 20, 2000;
"The Jazz Singer," June 13, 2000;
"Kind of Blue," May 2, 2000;
"Chaos Theory," April 25, 2000;
"Polyphonic Perversity," March 21, 2000;
"It Takes a Village," January 25, 2000;
"Canto Inferno," November 30, 1999;
"Brutal Youth," August 17, 1999;
"Rockin' in Rhythm," June 15,1999;
"Phil-In," June 1, 1999;
"Pas De Duke," June 1, 1999;
"Raw Power," May 11, 1999;
"A Rosnes is a Rosnes," January 19, 1999;
"Betwixt and Downtown," December 15, 1998;
"He'll Go On," November 10, 1998;
"Drum Taps," August 4, 1998;
"Moss Gathered," August 4, 1998;
"Sweat Shop," July 7, 1998;
"Jazzercise," June 23, 1998;
"Provisions for a Long Stay," June 9, 1998;
"The R-Word," June 2, 1998;
"The Basement Tapes," February 10, 1998;
"Taking Wings," November 25, 1997;
"Bird Watching," October 7, 1997;
"Spanish Inquisition," June 17, 1997;
"Wayne Shorter's Roots," June 10, 1997;
"Avant-Trad," June 3, 1997;
"My Dinner With Wallace," May 13, 1997;
"In Living Color," April 8, 1997;
"Lynch Law," February 25, 1997;
"Hero and Lender," December 24, 1996;
"Redman for Prez?" November 26, 1996;
"Epitaph Records," September 24, 1996;
"Robert Altman: He Am What He Am," August 6, 1996;
"This is Jazz," July 16, 1996;
"What Becomes a Legend," June 25, 1996;
"Nobody's Cool," June 25, 1996;
"Elvis is King," June 4, 1996;
"CUNY in Crisis," January 16, 1996;
"When the Spirit Comes," January 2, 1996;
"Birds of a Feather," October 3, 1995;
"In Walked Bud," June 22, 1994;
"The New Canon," October 5, 1993;
"Long Distance Call," June 1, 1993
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Selected Presentations
SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook , New York
Invited Lecturer, Jazz And… Conference, Spring, 2008
New York University , New York , NY
Invited Lecturer, October 10, 2007
Queens College , Flushing , New York
Invited Lecturer, “Wiretapping Elizabeth Bishop,” June 6, 2007
Columbia University , New York , NY
Invited Lecturer, American Studies Symposium, “The Pace Runners,” April 19, 2007
University of Minnesota , Minneapolis
Invited Lecturer, Bob Dylan Symposium, “The Rolling Tenure Review,” March 26, 2007
CUNY Journalism School , New York , NY
Invited panelist, “Writing in New York City ,” January 3, 2007
The New School University , New York , NY
Invited Lecturer, “Tangled Up in Dylan,” December 13, 2006
CUNY Graduate Center , New York , NY
Invited Lecturer, “Bob Dylan Among the Scholars,” October 23, 2006
University of California , Santa Barbara
Invited Lecturer, Jazz Across the Disciplines Roundtable, April 26, 2006
Chevy Chase Library, Washington , DC Invited Reader, Politics & Prose on the Road, January 28, 2006
University of East Anglia , Norwich , UK
Invited Lecturer, “Not Dark Yet,” March, 2005
Modern Language Association Convention, San Diego , December 29, 2003 Chair, Panelist, "Writing the Jazz Life" copanelists: Eric Lott, Herman Beavers, Krin Gabbard
Modern Language Association Convention, New York Chair, Panelist, "Blacks and Jews: A Dialogue in Words and Music," December 28, 2002 copanelists: Eric Lott, Herman Beavers
University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia
Invited Lecturer - "Jazz and the Problematic Muse," October 22, 2002
Mercantile Library, New York
Invited Lecturer , "The Un-Jazz Age," October 9, 2002
Modern Language Association Convention, New Orleans Chair, Panelist, 'The Poetics of Jazz," December 28, 2001 copanelists: Arnold Rampersad, Yusef Komunyakaa
Modern Language Association Convention, Washington , D.C. , Panelist, "A Vast and Arrogant Improvisation: Ralph Ellison's Jazz Shaped Vision," December 27, 2000 copanelists: Arnold Rampersad, Robert O'Meally, Krin Gabbard
Modern Language Association Convention, San Francisco , Chair, Panelist, "The Jazz Aesthetic: Music, Poetry and Beyond," December 27, 1998 copanelists: Brent Hayes Edwards, Farah Jasmine Griffin, Krin Gabbard
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Selected Awards and Honors
Fascinating Rhythm nominated for the Lewis Lockwood Award from the American Musicological Society
William Tolley Travel Grant, Syracuse University
Melvin Dixon Award for Outstanding African American Studies Dissertation, CUNY Graduate Center
CUNY Writing Fellowship, 2003-2005
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant, 2000
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Courses Taught
Graduate
History of Arts Criticism, Spring 2007
Writing Criticism, Spring, 2006
The Condition of Music, Spring, 2006
Undergraduate
Post-1945 American Fiction, Spring, 2007
American Icons, Fall, 2006
Reading Popular Culture, Fall 2005, Fall, 2006
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