Dr. Michael Blitz
Professor of English
Chair, Thematic Studies Program
mblitz@jjay.cuny.edu
212-237-8450

Course Syllabi
Editorial Work
Exibitions & Performances
Grants & Awards
Plays
Professional Consulting
Professional Presentations
Publications
Krav Maga

Publications by Michael Blitz

Books

2006 Arnold Schwarzenegger: a Biogaphy (Weston, CT: Greenwood Press)

2004 Why Arnold Matters: the Rise of a Cultural Icon (New York: Basic Books)

2002    Satellie Strains (Kingston, NY: Left Hand Books)

2002 100 Pre-Read Blushes [Writers Club Press]
2002    These Now & Other Poems (Writers Club Press)

1998    Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violent Age (NCTE Press) w/C. Mark Hurlbert

1995    Suction Files    (Woodbine Press)

1991    Composition and Resistance (Boynton/Cook-Heinemann) co-edited w/C. Mark Hurlbert

1990    Five Days in the Electric Chair (Woodbine Press/LeftHand Books)

1986    The Spacialist (Woodbine Press)

1982    Partitions (Volaphon Books)

Book gallery

Chapters in Edited Books

Krasniewicz, Louise and Michael Blitz. "The Replicator: Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Great Meme-Machine." Stars in Our Eyes: The Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era.  Ed.  Angela Ndalianis.  Greenwood Press (forthcoming 2001)

Hurlbert, C. Mark and Michael Blitz. "Shadows of Collegiality." Shadows in the University. Ed. Regina Paxton Foehr. Heinemann (forthcoming 2001)

Blitz, Michael and C. Mark Hurlbert. "If You Have Ghosts." Stories From the Center. Eds. Meg Woolbright and Lynn Craig Briggs. NCTE Press, 2000: 84-93.

Kransniewicz, Louise and Michael Blitz. "Morphing Identities: Arnold Schwarzenegger--Write Us." Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography. Eds. Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. University of Minnesota Press, 1996: 89-107.

Blitz, Michael and C. Mark Hurlbert. "Cults of Culture." Cultural Studies in the English Classroom: Theory and Practice. Eds. James A. Berlin and Michael J. Vivion. Boynton/Cook-Heinemann, 1992: 5-23.

Hurlbert, C. Mark and Michael Blitz. "Rumors of Change: The Classroom, Our Classrooms, and Big Business." Social Issues in the English Classroom. Eds. C. Mark Hurlbert and Samuel Totten.  NCTE Press, 1992: 269-82.

Articles/Essays/Mixed Media

Krasniewicz, Louise and Michael Blitz.  "Dreaming Arnold Schwarzenegger"-- Research website
   [http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/arnold/arnoldwebpages/arnold.htm]--updated 2001.
Blitz, Michael, Daniel Collins, Nancy Dunlop, Ellen Grimes, Annie Knepler, Paula J. Mathieu, C. Mark Hurlbert
   and Derek Owens.  "Between Apocalypse and (E)Utopia: Narrative In and Out of Cyberspace." The Future of
   Narrative Discourse: Internet Constructs of Literacy and Identity.  Eds. Gian Pagnucci and Nick Mauriello.
Works and Days, v. 17-18, nos. 33-36, (1999-2000): 453-486.
Blitz, Michael and Louise Krasniewicz.  "Are the New Media Narratives Inhuman(e)?: Over-lubricating the
   Frictions Between Theory and Practice." The Future of Narrative Discourse: Internet Constructs of Literacy
   and Identity.  Eds. Gian Pagnucci and Nick Mauriello. Works and Days, v. 17-18, nos. 33-36, (1999-2000):
   173-186.
Krasniewicz, Louise and Michael Blitz. "Why We Did Not Produce 'Dreaming Arnold Schwarzenegger' as a Book,
   Several Articles, An Encyclopedia, a Video, an Annotated Bibliography, and a Museum Intallation (or did we?)."
American Quarterly, v. 51, no. 2, (June 1999): 258-261.
Blitz, Michael and C. Mark Hurlbert.  "To Make a Home: the Role of Listening in Cultural Studies." Cultural
   Studies and Composition: Conversations in Honor of James Berlin.  Works and Days 27/28, v. 14, nos. 1-2
   (1996): 269-279.
Krasniewicz, Louise and Michael Blitz.  "Dreaming Arnold Schwarzenegger." CD-ROM, Do Not Enter: New
   Voices New Visions 1994 Competition -- Awarded "Noteworthy": NY: Voyager, 1994.
Blitz, Michael and C. Mark Hurlbert.  "Anarchy as a State of Health." Works and Days: Essays in the
   Socio-Cultural Dimension of Literature and the Arts.  v. 10, no. 1 (1992): 95-106.
Hurlbert, C. Mark and Michael Blitz.  "The Institution('s) Lives!" Marxism and Rhetoric. Special issue of
PRE/TEXT: A Journal of Rhetorical Theory.  Eds. James Berlin and John Trimbur. v. 13, nos. 1-2 (1992):
   59-78.
Blitz, Michael and C. Mark Hurlbert.  "To: You, From: Michael Blitz and C. Mark Hurlbert, Re: Literacy
   Demands and Institutional Autobiography."  Works and Days:Essays in the Socio-Cultural Dimension of
   Literature and the Arts.  v. 13, no. 1 (1989): 7-33.
Blitz, Michael and Stephen Gilson.  "In the Domain of the Common: a Consideration of Don Byrd's Work."
Groundswell, v. 2, no. 3 (1987): 1-47.
Blitz, Michael.  "The Poetics of Embarrassment." OOVRAH 1 (1986): 55-57.

Reviews

Blitz, Michael. "Whole Lotta Resistin' Goin' On: Insurrections: Approaches to Resistance in
   Composition Studies (edited by Andrea Greenbaum) and Opening Spaces: Critical Pedagogy
   and Resistance Theory in Composition (by Joe Marshall Hardin)" Journal of Advanced Composition
   Theory v.    no.    (2002): [forthcoming]
Blitz, Michael.  "Avishai Margalit's The Decent Society." Humanity & Society. v. 22, no. 1 (1998): 101-103.
Blitz, Michael and Louise Krazniewicz.  "Donna Haraway's Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Culture in the
   World of Modern Science." Discourse: Journal for the Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture. 12.2 (1990):
   168-171.
Blitz, Michael.  "Charles Stein's The Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum: the Poetic Cosmology of Charles
   Olson." Small Press. (1987): 32.
Blitz, Michael. "Exasperating the Text: Tabula Rasula by Jed Rasula." Temblor 6 (1987): 135-36.

Poetry and Fiction

"English 101: Fishkill Correctional Facility." [poetry] College English. v. 57, no.7, (Nov 1995): 842-843.
"I Am Writing to You." [fiction] Diaspora. v. 1, no. 1 (1995): 11-15.
"For Charles Olson." [poetry] Kanenas. v. 1, no. 1 (July 1995).
"In Medea's Raze." [poetry] Marginalia (Fall 1993).
"Orthodoxa," "In the Stall of the TEMP LATE," "that/infinite/fear," "The Hand's temptation," "I could stand on your head," "Just inside this perfect," "A different listening to one," "that real dark art sound," "one is oneself one's," "Selected Pre-Read Blushes." [poetry] OOVRAH 3 (winter 1991).
"Pre-Read Blush to Louise." [poetry] TALKWORK [audio] (fall 1990).
"Preface to Tale Mud," "As You May Already Know," "Same Day All Days." [poetry] O.ARS 6/7 (1989).
"Intricate Palsy." [poetry] B City (spring 1988).
"Pre-Read Blush #61," "And Now This." [poetry] <<gee-gee>> (1987).

BACK TO TOP

Grants & Awards

Honorary Member of Phi Eta Sigma (National Honor Society), Inducted May, 1999.
PSC-CUNY Grant, 1997.
John Jay College Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award, 1995.
State University of New York Research Foundation Grant, 1986.
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, State University of New York at Albany, 1986.
Agnes Futterer Memorial Fellowship for Dramatic Arts, SUNY Albany, 1984.

BACK TO TOP