Michel Delville teaches English and American literatures, as well as comparative literature, at the University of Liege, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. His books include The American Prose Poem (1998), J.G. Ballard (1998), Hamlet & Co (2001; with
Pierre Michel), Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism (2005; with Andrew Norris), Food, Poetry, and the
Aesthetics of Consumption: Eating the Avant-Garde (2009), Crossroads Poetics: Text, Image, Music, Film & Beyond (2013), two "discogonies" devoted to Radiohead (2015) and Jimi Hendrix (2019), Undoing Art (2017; w. Mary Ann Caws) and The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust (2017; with Andrew Norris). He has also co-edited ten volumes of essays and published more than one hundred articles on literature and the arts as well as several poetry collections. His awards and distinctions include the 1998 SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outstanding Book Award, the Léon Guérin Prize, the 2001 Alumni Award of the Belgian American Educational Foundation BAEF 2001 Alumni Award, the rank of Officer of the Order of Leopold I, and the 2009 Prix Wernaers pour la recherche et la diffusion des connaissances".
Pierre Michel), Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism (2005; with Andrew Norris), Food, Poetry, and the
Aesthetics of Consumption: Eating the Avant-Garde (2009), Crossroads Poetics: Text, Image, Music, Film & Beyond (2013), two "discogonies" devoted to Radiohead (2015) and Jimi Hendrix (2019), Undoing Art (2017; w. Mary Ann Caws) and The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust (2017; with Andrew Norris). He has also co-edited ten volumes of essays and published more than one hundred articles on literature and the arts as well as several poetry collections. His awards and distinctions include the 1998 SAMLA Book Award, the Choice Outstanding Book Award, the Léon Guérin Prize, the 2001 Alumni Award of the Belgian American Educational Foundation BAEF 2001 Alumni Award, the rank of Officer of the Order of Leopold I, and the 2009 Prix Wernaers pour la recherche et la diffusion des connaissances".
FORTHCOMING/IN PREPARATION
-Eloge de l'effacement: Autour de Tom Phillips. Avec Livio Belloï.
-Verbivocovisual Eroticism in Concrete, Sound, and Visual Poetry . Avec Maria Elena Minuto.
-Erasurism. With Louis Armand.
-A Companion to Tom Phillips. Avec Livio Belloï.
-Gertrude Stein et le cinéma.
-Abécédaire des impostures de l'art.