Mary Cappello
Mary Cappello | |
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| Alma mater | State University of New York, Buffalo (Ph.D., M.A.), Dickinson College, B.A. |
| Known for | Experimental prose, creative nonfiction, lyric essay, multi-genre, Italian American themes, gender and sexuality, cultural criticism |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | English, Creative Nonfiction, Medical Humanities |
| Institutions | University of Rhode Island |
Mary Cappello is a writer and professor of English and Creative Writing at the
Best American Essays.[9][10][11] A 2011 Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts/Nonfiction,[12] she recently received a 2015 Berlin Prize from The American Academy in Berlin, a fellowship awarded to scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields.[13]
Education
Cappello is originally from
Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow, Russia,[14] and at the University of Rochester
.
Publications and works
Literary nonfiction: Books
- Life Breaks In: A Mood Almanack, University of Chicago Press, October 2016.
- Swallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them. The New Press. 2011. ISBN 978-1595583956.
- Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life. Alyson Books. 2009. ISBN 978-1593501501.
- Awkward: A Detour. Bellevue Literary Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1934137017.
- Night Bloom: An Italian-American Life. Beacon Press. 1999. ISBN 0807072176.
Essays and experimental prose print
- “Mood Rooms,” chosen as the annual Meridel Le Sueur Essay, Water~Stone Review, Fall 2015.[15]
- “Wending Artifice: Creative Nonfiction and our Century’s Turn," in Maria De Battista and Emily Wittman, ed. (22 May 2014). The Cambridge Companion to Autobiography. Cambridge University Press, 2014: 237-252. ISBN 9781107609181.
- “Contact,” in Jacqueline Stacey and Janet Wolff, ed. (22 October 2013). Writing Otherwise: Experiments in Cultural Criticism. University of Manchester Press, 2013: 34-44. ISBN 978-0-7190-8942-8.
- “My Secret, Private Errand (An Essay on Love and Theft),” Salmagundi, Fall 2013-Winter 2014, nos. 180-181: 135–183.
- “objective correlatives: a trialogue on love,” Hotel Amerika, volume 8, no. 2, Spring 2010, 7–15.
- “Losing Consciousness to a Lost Art,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2007, 329–338.
- "The Trees are Aflame" from My Commie Sweetheart: Scenes from a Queer Friendship, 2004.
Essays and experimental prose on-line
- “Courting the Peculiar: The Ever-changing Queerness of Creative Nonfiction" a series of essays, sound texts and performances on creative nonfiction as a queer genre, Slag Glass City, December 2014.
- "Flow," a lyric essay for Bending Genre: Toward a Theory of Creative Nonfiction, April 2013.
- "Voluptuously, Expansively, Historically, Contradictorily: Essaying the Interview" with David Lazar for The Conversant: Interview Projects, Talk Poetries, Embodied Inquiry, November 2013.
- "Lyric Essay as Perversion: Channeling Djuna Barnes," TriQuarterly, September 2014.
- "Disconcerting Pleasures; or, The Mysterious Unknowability of the Mind: A Conversation with Mary Cappello and Christine Montross", for Bellevue Literary Press Conversation Series between doctors and artists, May 23, 2014.
Awards and recognition
- Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin, Individual Fellowship, 2015.[16]
- The University of Rhode Island Foundation Scholarly Excellence Award, 2015.[17] Nominated in 2014, 2013.
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Creative Arts/Nonfiction.[12]
- GAMMA Award for Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southeast for "Getting the News: A Signer among Signs," The Georgia Review, volume 63, number 2, Summer 2009.[18]
- Teacher of the Year Award, University of Rochester.[19]
- The Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, NYC for the essay, "Can Creative Writing Be Taught?"[20]
- The Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize, with photographer Paola Ferrario, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, for "Pane Amaro/Bitter Bread: The Struggle of New Immigrants to Italy," 2001.[21]
- Fulbright Fellowship, Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, Moscow, Russia, 2001.[22]
References
- ^ University of Rhode Island, Faculty Bios, Mary Cappello.
- ^ Mary Cappello, "Getting the News", The Georgia Review, volume 63, number 2, Summer 2009, 294-315.
- ^ Mary Cappello, "For 'Anyone Interested in Learning What Makes Us Human', Salmagundi, Spring-Summer 2008, 75-96.
- ^ Mary Cappello, "Ingestion/Alone on Floor with a Pile of Buttons," Cabinet Magazine: A Quarterly of Art and Culture, Special Issue: Forensics, 43 (October 2011): 12-15.
- ^ Amanda Schaffer, Down the Hatch and Straight Into Medical History, The New York Times, January 10, 2011.
- ^ Thomas Rogers, “Swallow”: The strange things people swallow, Salon, December 18, 2010.
- ^ 13 Real And Imaginary Things That People Have Swallowed, The Huffington Post, January 22, 2011.
- ^ Powell's Books Blog, Mary Cappello.
- ^ John Jeremiah Sullivan and Robert Atwan, eds. The Best American Essays 2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct 7, 2014.
- ^ Edwidge Danticat and Robert Atwan, eds. Best American Essays 2011, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct 4, 2011.
- ^ Mary Oliver, ed. The Best American Essays 2009, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Oct 8, 2009.
- ^ a b John Simon Guggenheim Fellows, Mary Cappello.
- ^ The American Academy in Berlin, American Academy Announces Berlin Prize Recipients Archived 2015-08-10 at the Wayback Machine, 2015.
- ^ University at Buffalo Alumni Association, Mary Cappello, PhD ’88 & MA ’85, Award-winning professor.
- ^ Water~Stone Review, Fall 2015.
- ^ American Academy Announces Berlin Prize Recipients.
- ^ URI Foundation Excellence Awards Archived 2015-08-01 at the Wayback Machine, 2015.
- ^ The Georgia Review earns 10 honors at GAMMA Awards ceremony, UGA Today, May 4, 2010.
- ^ University of Rhode Island, Meet Mary Cappello.
- ^ Bechtel Prize Essay, "Can Creative Writing Be Taught?" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, Mary Cappello, 2004.
- ^ Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize Winners, Mary Cappello and Paola Ferrario Archived 2015-09-30 at the Wayback Machine, 2001.
- ^ University of Rhode Island Faculty, Mary Cappello.
External links and interviews
- Interview with Mutter Museum Director Robert Hicks for No Bones About It on the Chevalier JacksonForeign Body Collection
- Interview with LA TimesCarolyn Kellogg, on the most important book Cappello read in school
- Interview with Julie Bolcer for Here! TV, on writing breast cancer and its politics, posted by Antonio Gonzalez Cerna from Lambda Literary
- Interview with Sarah Kruse, on writing the strange and non-narrative assemblage
- The Curious Collection of Swallowed Objects, Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, March 23, 2011.
- Awkward: A Detour with Celeste Quinn for Illinois Public Radio's Afternoon Magazine, February 27, 2008.
- An illustrated reading, "The Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection and the Art It Has Inspired," at St Bartholomew's Hospital Pathology Museum and Gallery, London, England, June 2012.
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