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CORE Professor Steve McCaffery Director of Poetics, 2004-08, and David Gray Chair of Poetry and Letters Professor Myung Mi Kim Director of Poetics 2008-11 Distinguished Professor Dennis Tedlock James H. McNulty Chair of English AFFILIATED Anthropology Barbara Tedlock Psychological and cognitive anthropology, Anthropology of art and aesthetics, Ethnomedicine, Shamanism; American southwest and mesoamerica Classics Neil Coffee Latin imperial literature and culture; Classical rhetoric and poetics Martha Malamud Latin epic; imperial and late antique literature Comparative Literature Henry Sussman, Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature Critical Theory Kryzystof Ziarek English Dimitri Anastasopoulos Stacy Hubbard Modernism, Feminist Studies, American Literature, Poetry and Poetics Joseph Conte Poetry, Postmodernism Tim Dean Psychoanalysis, Queer Theory, Poetry Ming Qian Ma American literature, poetry and poetics Cristanne Miller Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American Poetry, Feminist Studies Christina Milletti Fiction, Contemporary American Fiction, 20th Century Novel Neil Schmitz 19th-century and Modern American Literature Scott Stevens Renaissance/Early Modern British Literature, American Indian Studies Libraries Michael Basinski, Curator of the Poetry Collection Media Studies Sarah Bay-Cheng Avant-garde Theatre and Film, Modernist Literature and Performance, Sexuality in modern drama, and Queer Performance Tony Conrad "Film"-making, Community Video, Video Documentation, Interventionist Video, Web Video Loss Pequeño Glazier Director of EPC, Visual and Kinetic Text, Digital Writing in networked and programmable media Mark Shepard Architecture and New Media, Locative Media Trebor Scholz Media Art, Culture, (online) Collaboration, Web-based community art Music Jeff Stadelman Music composition and contemporary music Romance Languages Justin Read Latin American avant-garde, Aesthetics and Politics, Aesthetics and Political Economics Jorge Guitart Linguistics, Poetry and poetics, Semiotics Jean Jacques Tomas, Melodia E. Jones Chair		FACULTY Dennis Tedlock Distinguished Professor, McNulty Chair in the Poetics Program, Research Professor of Anthropology Office: 540 Clemens Phone number: 645-3422 E-mail address: dtedlock@buffalo.edu Interests: My research interests center on the indigenous languages, verbal arts, writing systems, and religions of the Western Hemisphere. I’ve done field research among the Koasati of Louisiana, the Zuni of New Mexico, the indigenous Hawaiians of Kaua?i, the Mopán Maya of Belize, and the K’iche’ Maya of Guatemala. Courses taught: • Books of the Ancient Mayas • Mythography • Ethnopoetics • Poetics of the Americas Work in progress: • 2000 Years of Mayan Literature Selected publications: • Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices & Visions of the Living Maya • Days from a Dream Almanac • Finding the Center: The Art of the Zuni Storyteller • Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life • Rabinal Achi: A Mayan Drama of War and Sacrifice • Teachings from the American Earth: Indian Religion and Philosophy (with Barbara Tedlock) • The Spoken Word and the Work of Interpretation Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

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