Michel Delville
Michel Delville teaches English and American literatures, as well as comparative literature, at the University of Liège, where he directs the Interdisciplinary Center for Applied Poetics. He is the author or co-author of The American Prose Poem, J.G. Ballard, Hamlet & Co (w. Pierre Michel), Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, and the Secret History of Maximalism (w. Andrew Norris), Food, Poetry, and the Aesthetics of Consumption: Eating the Avant-Garde, Crossroads Poetics: Text, Image, Music, Film & Beyond, Radiohead: Discogonie de OK Computer, The Politics and Aesthetics of Hunger and Disgust (w. Andrew Norris), and Undoing Art (w. Mary Ann Caws). He has (co-)edited volumes of essays on contemporary poetics, published several poetry collections and has been active as a performing musician and composer since the mid-1980s.