Kevin McNeilly
Site Coordinator, University of British Columbia
Kevin McNeilly teaches Cultural Studies and contemporary literatures in English at the University of British Columbia. He was the UBC site manager as well as the coordinator for the Text and Media research group for the Improvisation, Community and Social Practice research His research focuses on the intersections of improvised music and poetry, on media aesthetics, and on concepts and practices of listening. He has published articles on the music of Charles Mingus, John Zorn, and Steve Lacy, on television programs including The Wire, Battlestar Galactica and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and on the work of a wide variety of contemporary poets, from Anne Carson to Robert Creeley. His book of poems, Embouchure, was published by Nightwood Editions in 2011. He maintains two blogs: Frank Styles (http://frankstyles.blogspot.ca), which concentrates on poetry and music, and Flow, Fissure, Mesh (http://flowfissuremesh.com), which concerns improvisation, media and pedagogy. His website, http://www.kevinmcneilly.ca, features audio, video, poetry and more.
