Author: bryanwatermannyu

I’ll be in New York to talk about Warhol’s 1976 trip to Iran and his subsequent portraits of the Shah and Empress: Oct. 23 at NYU.

My piece on Richard Serra’s recent shows in Qatar, including permanent installations, is up at Hyperallergic.

As part of the Punk at 40 celebrations this week, Jenn Pelly and I have booked So So Glos, with Household and Arm Candy, at Judson Memorial Church, Sat. March 22, doors at 10:30 pm. $5-$10 sliding donations to benefit Silent Barn.

While in NYC, I’ll be straddling the old Hell/Verlaine gap: I’m interviewing Richard Hell at the Strand Bookstore on Thursday, March 20, and presenting on Television’s Marquee Moon at a Classic Album Sundays event on Sunday, March 23.

I’ll be in New York for the American Comp Lit Association mtgs (March 19-23), presenting in the “Punk in the City” workshop.

I’ll be in Beirut from 5-9 January for AUB CASAR’s conference on Transnational American Studies. I’ll present on Warhol’s Iranian moment in the mid-’70s.

Kicking off year two at NYU Abu Dhabi.

and The Boarding School, two early American novels by Hannah Webster Foster, are now available in a Norton Critical Edition, edited by Jennifer Harris and Bryan Waterman.

I’ll be teaching at NYU Abu Dhabi during the 2012-13 academic year.

Students in my summer courses (Downtown Scenes & Age of Warhol) should be checking their NYU email for information about our first meeting. Follow these courses on Twitter using #dwntwn12.