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Christine Wertheim
Christine Wertheim is a former painter with a PhD in literature and semiotics from Middlesex University, London. From 2001-2021 she taught critical studies and creative writing at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, and from 1995 – 2000 in the Fine Art Department of Goldsmiths College, and at the Slade School of Fine Art.She is a poet, critic, curator and performer, andEmeritus Faculty of the California Institute of the Arts. She is the author of The Book of Me (Counterpath Press, Boulder, Colorado, 2016), of mUtter-bAbel (Counterpath Press, 2013), +|‘me’S-pace (Les Figues Press, 2006), and Corpus, a chapbook from Triage (2006); co-editor of the anthologies Feminaissance, (with Teresa Carmody,Les Figues Press), Séance (with Matias Viegener, Make Now Press), and The The /n/oulipian Analects (with Matias Viegener, Les Figues Press). In 2004 she was awarded a grant from The Annenberg Foundation to organize a series of conferences on contemporary writing: Séance (2004), nOoulipo (2005), Impunities (2006), Feminaissance (2007), Untitled (2008), Untitled NY (2009). Her poetry appears in numerous anthologies, including Against Expression, The & Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, I’ll Drown My Book, The LA Telephone Book, and Out of Nothing. Her critical writing on art, literature and aesthetics has been widely published including in, Cabinet, X-tra, The Quick and the Dead, Issues in Contemporary Art, Patarcitical Interogation Techniques, vol. 3., and Construction Sites for Possible Worlds.
Christine Wertheim is a former painter with a PhD in literature and semiotics from Middlesex University, London. From 2001-2021 she taught critical studies and creative writing at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, and from 1995 – 2000 in the Fine Art Department of Goldsmiths College, and at the Slade School of Fine Art.She is a poet, critic, curator and performer, andEmeritus Faculty of the California Institute of the Arts. She is the author of The Book of Me (Counterpath Press, Boulder, Colorado, 2016), of mUtter-bAbel (Counterpath Press, 2013), +|‘me’S-pace (Les Figues Press, 2006), and Corpus, a chapbook from Triage (2006); co-editor of the anthologies Feminaissance, (with Teresa Carmody,Les Figues Press), Séance (with Matias Viegener, Make Now Press), and The The /n/oulipian Analects (with Matias Viegener, Les Figues Press). In 2004 she was awarded a grant from The Annenberg Foundation to organize a series of conferences on contemporary writing: Séance (2004), nOoulipo (2005), Impunities (2006), Feminaissance (2007), Untitled (2008), Untitled NY (2009). Her poetry appears in numerous anthologies, including Against Expression, The & Now Awards: The Best Innovative Writing, I’ll Drown My Book, The LA Telephone Book, and Out of Nothing. Her critical writing on art, literature and aesthetics has been widely published including in, Cabinet, X-tra, The Quick and the Dead, Issues in Contemporary Art, Patarcitical Interogation Techniques, vol. 3., and Construction Sites for Possible Worlds.