Joe Milutis

Director of MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics

Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts

Joe Milutis

Director of MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics

Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts

Education

B.A. Modern Culture and Media, Brown University

M.A. Modern Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Ph.D. Modern Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Courses

  • BIS 136 Introduction to Art History
  • BIS 206 Engaging Literary Arts: Beats and Beyond
  • BIS 318 Performances, Community, Identity and Everyday Life
  • BISCLA 384 Literary and Popular Genres: The Supernatural
  • BISIA 319 Interdisciplinary Arts Core
  • BISIA 374 Arts Workshop: Sound and Radio Art
  • BISIA 374 Arts Workshop: The Art of the Remix
  • BISIA 483 Advanced Arts Workshop: Creative Non-Fiction
  • BISIA 483 Advanced Arts Workshop: Postmodern Fiction Through Photoshop
  • BISIA 483 Advanced Arts Workshop: Experimental Writing
  • BISIA 483 Advanced Arts Workshop: Internet Poetry, Memes, and Gifs
  • BCWRIT 502 Writing Workshop: Processes of Thinking and Memory
  • BCWRIT 511 Poetics Seminar: Writers’ Research
  • BCULST 587 Writing Through the Image
  • BCULST 593 Topics in Cultural Studies: Sound Cultures

Teaching Interests

In the classroom, what I hope students will come away with—in addition to strong technical skills—is experience and inspiration to creatively think about how media and writing relate to other art forms and modes of inquiry. Students will be encouraged to be leaders in the creation and design of uncommon assemblages and hybrids which may very well be tomorrow’s commonplace. In my role as director of the MFA, I encourage a space where students can explore both traditional writing forms as well as experimental genres and hybrids.

Research and Scholarship Interests

I am media artist and writer whose interdisciplinary work includes experimental sound and radio; video works; new media; experimental narrative; theoretical writings; and various media and literature hybrids. Since the early 90s, after having produced a number of radio art broadcasts, my work has focused on new genres and media that have uncertain status and value.

  • Roland Barthes, all except you (punctum books), 2023.
  • Failure, A Writer’s Life (Zero Books, 2013)
  • Ether: The Nothing That Connects Everything (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
  • “Haunted Mazes.” in Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine. Oct. 2012. Cabinet Books.
  • “R, Adieu.” in Invalid Format: An Anthology of Triple Canopy, vol. 2. Sept. 2012. Sternberg Press.
  • “Making the World Safe for Fashionable Philosophy!” in Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader (New World Perspectives/Ctheory Books, 2004)
  • “Radiophonic Ontologies and the Avantgarde.” in Experimental Sound and Radio (MIT Press, 2001)
  • “Hic Terminus Haeret,” Dispatches Magazine, Fall 2025
  • “New Gothic Materialism: Notes on the Speculative Onto-Story,” Udolpho, Issue 2, 2025.
  • Afterword for Robert Fitterman’s Creve Coeur, Winter Editions, 2024.
  • “Mud and the Poetics of Art History.” Jacket2, February 2024.
  • “The Terror of Materials: Judith Goldman’s agon and New Materialist Thought.” 3:AM Magazine. June 2021.
  • “Three Unbooks: DuPlessis, Scutenaire, Scappettone.” 3:AM Magazine. August 2019.
  • “Translational Granularity.” Amodern. January 2018.
  • “In Memory of Dump.fm, an Endlessly Collaborative Image Poem.” Hyperallergic. Feb 6, 2017.
  • “The Quiddities.” Triple Canopy. Issue #11. 2011.
  • “R, Adieu.” Triple Canopy. Issue #8. 2010.
  • “The Biography of the Sample: Notes on the Hidden Contexts of Acousmatic Art.” Leonardo Music Journal. Winter 2008.
  • “Haunted Mazes.” Cabinet: A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture. Winter 2007.
  • “F2F.” Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures 01 2006.
  • “Do Not Mingle One Human Feeling.” Cabinet: A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture. Spring 2005.
  • “Superflux of Sky.” Cabinet: A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture. Spring 2003.
  • “Riddles of the Interface: Hieroglyphic Consciousness and New Experimental Multimedia.” Wide Angle 21.1. 1999.
  • “Think Again: Artificial Intelligence, Television, and Video.” ArtByte: The Magazine of Digital Arts. 1.5. Dec-Jan. 1998-99.
  • “Pixelated Drama.” Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. 25.3. Nov-Dec. 1997.