David Chirico
Liberal arts professor
Education
- Ph.D., English, SUNY - Binghamton University
- M.A., English, SUNY - Binghamton University
- B.A., Literature, SUNY - Purchase College
Credentials
- Professor of liberal arts, 2025–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
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Full professor, 2011–25, English Department, SUNY Broome
Associate professor, 2007–11
Assistant professor, 2003–07
Publications and presentations
Publications
- “Who Does the Asking?” and “Mauna: An Exercise,” (essays), Breaking Ground, 2023.
- “Where Does the River Begin?” and “Who Turned on the Light?” (essays), Breaking Ground, 2022.
- The Inner Life of Doodles (short stories), Arthur Brand Books, 2014.
- The Book of Reeds (short stories), Arthur Brand Books, 2014.
- The States (short stories), Arthur Brand Books, 2013.
- “From The Year of Approaching Storms” (short fiction), Red Rock Review, 2013.
- “World on a Wire” (Blu-Ray review), The Daily George, 2012
- “The Scarlatti Fragment” and “DeChirico and I” (fiction), Big Bridge, 2011
- “In a Month of Thirteen Films: A Fassbinder Diary,” (critical study), Studies in European Cinema, 2010.
- “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Composition Class: The Book Project” (essay), Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities publication, 2006.
- “The Truth about Sancho Panza,” “Fairy Tales” and “The Archives” (prose poems), Hunger Number 11, Spring 2005.
- “The Mock Oranges” and “Others’ Work” (poems), Spinning Jenny 8, 2004.
- “Gargoyles,” “Fictions” and “Scholars” (prose poems), Amalgam, Spring 2004.
- “From Others’ Work” (link to sequence at conjunctions.com), featured on the “Calvino Effect” page at Italo Calvino: Outside the Town of Malbork, www.italo-calvino.com.
- “Clayton Eshleman.” In A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry, ed. Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005.
- “Marjorie Welish.” In A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry, ed. Burt Kimmelman. New York: Facts on File, 2005.
- “Brochure for the Collection” and “The Approach to Al Mu'tasim” (prose poems), Paris/Atlantic, forthcoming.
- “Filmmaking,” “Royalty” and “Metal Ball” (prose poems), Hunger 10, Summer 2002.
- “Saturation (7),” “Saturation (8)” (poems) Spinning Jenny 6, Summer 2002.
- “Anima” (prose poem), Hunger 9, Summer 2001.
- “Sesame and Lilies,” “Saturation” and “Saturation (3)” (poems), Spinning Jenny 5, Spring 2001.
- “The Art of Thinking” (poem), Fence, Spring 2001.
- “A Dictionary of Attentions” (prose poem), with hyperlink to conjunctions.com, featured at gargoyledaily.org, March–May 2001.
- “You arrive in a small seaside town . . .,” “Placard,” “The World Behind the Scenes,” “The Twenty-Two Elemental Letters,” “The Billowing of Three Unequal Sails,” “The Waves at Different Distances,” “The Identity Papers” and “A Dictionary of Attentions” (sequence of prose poems), Conjunctions (web version, Web Conjunctions, linked to “American Poetry: States of the Art” issue), November 2000.
- “Machines and Makings from the Exhibition” (prose poems), Paris/Atlantic (Paris) 22:2, Fall 2000.
- “Sleepless, With Pleasure and Expiring Fears,” “The Ancient Reliquaries” and “World of Winter” (poems), Hunger 8, Summer 2000.
- “Six Dreams (1994–1999)” (prose poem sequence), Paris/Atlantic (Paris) 22:1, Spring 2000.
- “The Fallen Astronaut” (short fiction) and “Duchamp and His Doubles” (critical reflection on Marcel Duchamp’s Photograph Taken With a Hinged Mirror), Paris/Atlantic (Paris) 21:2, Winter 1999.
- “The Enchanter” and “Anima” (prose poems), Paris/Atlantic (Paris) 21:1, Spring 1999.
- “A Dissolve” and “Geography” (poems) in Zuzu’s Petals Online, Spring 1994.
- “The Marion Clayton Link Collection” (brochure), Binghamton University Office of Special Collections, 1993.
- “Backward Casting” (poem), The Parnassus Literary Journal, Fall 1992.
Presentations
- “A Few Words on Online Teaching,” SUNY Broome, Professional Development Days, March 2022.
- “In a Month of Thirteen Films: A Fassbinder Diary,” Charles S Peirce Society Conference, University of Michigan, 2010.
- “In a Month of Thirteen Films: A Fassbinder Diary,” Studies in European Cinema, Binghamton University 2009.
- “The Figure of the Angel,” SUNY Broome Common Hour Presentation, Fall 2007.
- “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Composition Class: The Book Project,” Hawaii International Conference on Art and Humanities, 2006.