Curriculum Vitae

Marsha Bryant
Associate Professor of English
University of Florida
mbryant@ufl.edu

Education

• University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D. in English, 1984-89.
• University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  M.A. in English, 1982-84.
  B.A. with High Honors in English, 1978-82.

Employment

• Associate Professor of English, University of Florida, 1997 - .
• Assistant Professor of English, University of Florida, 1989-1997.

Research and Teaching Areas

Post-1900 literature and culture (American & British), poetry, women’s literature, literature & visual culture

Academic Honors & Awards

Research

• Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2007-08.
  
• Sabbatical, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida, 2002.
  
• Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Grant, University of Florida, 2007, 2000.
  
• Research Development Award, University of Florida, 1992, 1990.
  
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1982.

Teaching

• College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching, University of Florida, 2004-2005, 2001-02, 1990-91.
  
• Mentor, UF Scholars Program, 1999.
  
• Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award, University of Florida, 1996, 1993.

Publications

Books

• Women's Poetry and Popular Culture. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.
  Reviews:
  Poetry & Popular Culture (Jan. 2012)
  <http://mikechasar.blogspot.com/2012/01/p-book-review-womens-poetry-and-popular.html>
  Choice (March 2012)
  Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature (30.2, Fall 2011): 475-78.

• Auden and Documentary in the 1930s. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1997.
  Reviews:
  International Review of Modernism 2.1 (Fall/Winter 1998): 20-22.
  Visual Anthropology 15.1 (Spring/Summer 1999): 78-80.
  Excerpted in The Isherwood Century, ed. James Berg and Chris Freeman, (U. Wisconsin Press 2000; paperback 2001; Lambda Literary Award for Gay Studies, 2001).

• Photo-Textualities: Reading Photographs and Literature, ed. Marsha Bryant. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1996.
  Reviewed in Modern Language Review 93.2 (1998): 490-91.

Essays

• "The Confessional Other: Identity, Form, and Origins in Confessional Poetry" (forthcoming in the Routledge collection Identity and Form).
• “Excavating H.D.’s Egypt,” co-authored with Mary Ann Eaverly, Approaches to Teaching H.D.’s Poetry and Prose. Modern Language Association, 2011. 77-83.
• “Counter-Intuitive Innovation,” in the forum “Making It New: Innovative Approaches to Teaching Modernism,” Modernism/modernity 16.3. (September 2009): 482-84.
• “Graduate Student Mentoring: A Poetics,” in Poetry, Politics, and the Profession: Cary Nelson and the Struggle for the University, ed. Michael Rothberg and Peter K. Garrett. State U. of New York Press, 2009. 187-92.
• “Egypto-modernism: James Henry Breasted, H.D., and the New Past,” co-authored with Mary Ann Eaverly, Modernism/modernity 14.3 (September 2007): 435-53.
• “Ariel’s Kitchen: Plath, Ladies’ Home Journal, and the Domestic Surreal,” in The Unraveling Archive: Essays on Sylvia Plath, ed. Anita Helle, U. of Michigan Press, 2007. 211-35.
• “Displaced Artist Statements, Reluctant Artist-Researchers: Poet-Editors of Women’s Poetry Anthologies,” Open Letter 13.4 (Fall 2007): 45-63. (special issue: Artist Statements and the Nature of Artistic Inquiry, ed. Rachel Nash and W. F. Garrett-Petts).
• “Brooks, Ebony, and Postwar Race Relations,” American Literature 79.1 (March 2007): 113-141.
  
• “Sitwell Beyond the Semiotic: Gender, Race & Empire in Façade,” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 26.2 (Fall 2007): 243-67.
• “Classical Tourism in Debora Greger’s Poetry,” co-authored with Mary Ann Eaverly. Mosaic 37.3 (September, 2004): 67-91.
• “IMAX Authorship: Teaching Plath and Her Unabridged Journals,” Pedagogy 4.2 (Spring 2004): 241-61.
• “Plath, Domesticity, and the Art of Advertising,” College Literature 29.3 (Summer 2002 special issue on Literature & Art): 17-34.
  Reprinted in The Bell Jar: Critical Insights. Salem Press. Ipswich, MA: 2011. 180-200.
  
• “W. H. Auden and the Homoerotics of the 1930s Documentary,” Mosaic 30.2 (June 1997): 69-92.
  Reprinted in Caverns of Night: Coal Mines in Art, Literature, and Film (University of South Carolina Press, 2000).
  
• “Photo-Graphic Pedagogies: Bringing Photography into the English Department Classroom,” in Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacies, Ed. W. F. Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Inkshed Publications, 1996. 76-100.
  
• “Auden and the ‘Arctic Stare’: Documentary as Public Collage in Letters from Iceland,” Journal of Modern Literature 17.4 (1991; published 1994), 537-65.

Reviews

• Rev. of Stan Smith, ed, The Cambridge Companion to W. H. Auden. Auden Society Newsletter 26 (December 2005): 25-28.
  
• Rev. of Albert Gelpi’s Living in Time: The Poetry of C. Day Lewis. Modern Philology 99.1 (August 2001): 161-65.
  
• Rev. of John Fuller’s W. H. Auden: A Commentary. International Review of Modernism 3.1 (Fall/Winter 1999): 20-22.

Other

• Response to Marjorie Perloff’s review of Cary Nelson’s anthology, Modern American Poetry. symploke 9:1-2 (2001): 176-77.
  
• "The Films of Paul Strand." New American Film and Video Series, 63. Whitney Museum of American Art. March, 1992.

Invited Talks

• “Modernism’s Child: Stevie Smith and Children's Culture.” Shannon-Clark Seminar. Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA), March 2010.
  
• “Epic Gender Makeovers: H.D.’s Helen in Egypt and Warner Brothers’ Helen of Troy,” plenary talk for
• “Femininities and Masculinities in a Global Context,” Florida Consortium for Women’s and Gender Studies (Tampa FL), February 2008.
  
• “Graduate Student Mentoring.” Poetry, Politics & The Profession: A Tribute to Cary Nelson. University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), October 2006.
  
• “Racing Modern Poetry: A Triptych,” English Department, University of Georgia, December 2005.
  
• “Displaced Artist Statements in Women’s Poetry Anthologies.” Workshop on Artist Statements and Artistic Inquiry. Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia, Canada, November 2005.
  
• “Raising the Dead: Teaching Seamus Heaney and Photography.” Session sponsored by the MLA at the NCTE Convention (Orlando, FL), November 1994.
  
• “Paul Strand and Documentary.” The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York, NY), March 1992.

Conference Papers

• "Camp Modernism" (Roundtable organizer/co-moderator). Modernst Studies Association (Las Vegas, Nevada), November 2013.
•  “Excavating H.D.’s Egypt in the Classroom.” Modern Language Association (Seattle, Washington), January 2012.
• Panelist and Organizer of Roundtable “Rethinking Poetic Innovation.” Modernist Studies Association (Buffalo, New York), October 2011.
• “The American Sitwell.” Sitwelliana Symposium (Birmingham, U.K.), September 2011.
• “CinemaScope Poetics: H.D., Helen, and Epic Film.” Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 (Louisville KY), March 2011.
• “H.D. in CinemaScope.” Modernist Studies Association (Victoria, Canada), November 2010.
  Invited seminar participant, “Modernism and the Scene of the Archive,” Modernist Studies Association (Victoria, Canada), November 2010.
• “Everyday Ariel, Household Mythologies.” Lifting Belly High: Women's Poetry since 1900. (Pittsburgh PA), September 2008.
• Seminar Co-Leader, “Modernisms in the 1950s,” and Panelist for Forum on Teaching Innovation, Modernist Studies Association (Long Beach CA), November 2007.
• “Lyric Killers: Ai’s Monologues of Male Violence.” Black Cultural Interventions into Gender and Sexuality Conference, University of Florida, March 2007.
• “Sounding Sitwell, Sounding Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association (Tulsa OK), October 2006.
• “H.D.'s Egypto-Modernism and James Henry Breasted's New Past,” co-authored with Mary Ann Eaverly, and
• “The I's Have It? The Problem of Dramatic Monologue in Contemporary Women's Poetry.” Modernist Studies Association (Chicago, IL), November 2005.
• “Reading Stevie Smith’s Image-Text ,” Society for Textual Scholarship conference (New York, NY), March 2005.
• “Edith Sitwell as Modernist Icon: The Beaton Photographs.” Modernist Studies Association (Vancouver, Canada), October 2004.
• “Classical Tourism in Debora Greger’s Poetry,” with Mary Ann Eaverly and Debora Greger. Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, U. of Florida, October 2004.
  
• Respondent, “Modernism’s Traffic in Urban Women.” Cities of Women: The Filmic Portrayal of Urban Female Struggles. U. of Florida, December 2003.
  
• Cross-Atlantic Roundtable Participant. “The Auden Generation, Reconfigured.” Modernist Studies Association (Birmingham, U.K.), Oct. 2003.
  
• “Stevie Smith and the Children’s Culture Concept.” Modernist Studies Association (Birmingham, U.K.), Oct. 2003.
  
• “Uneasy Alliances: Brooks, Ebony, and Postwar Race Relations.” Modernist Studies Association (Madison, WI ), Nov. 2002.
  
• “Edith Sitwell: Emblem of Modernism.” Modernist Studies Association (Houston, TX), Oct. 2001
  
• “Modernist mise en page: Stevie Smith and Children’s Literature.” Modernist Studies Association (Houston, TX), Oct. 2001
  
• “Plath, Advertising, and the Domestic Surreal.” Marxist Reading Group Conference (Gainesville, FL), March 2001.
  
• “Edith Sitwell’s Facades of Empire: Performance, Race, Nation.” Modernist Studies Association (Philadelphia, PA), Oct. 2000.
  
• “Persephone in Florida: Greek Myth in Debora Greger’s Poems” (with Mary Ann Eaverly). 20th Anniversary Symposium of the Center for Greek Studies at the University of Florida. (Gainesville, FL), February 2000.
  
• “Teaching Myth through Modern Poetry” (With Mary Ann Eaverly, Helen Sword, and Cynthia Bannon). American Women and Classical Myths (College Park, MD), Sept. 1999.
  
• “Excavating H.D.’s Egypt in Palimpsest and The Walls Do Not Fall” (with Mary Ann Eaverly). American Literature Association (San Diego, CA), May 1998.
  
• “Afro-Centric Archaeology in H.D.’s The Walls Do Not Fall” (with Mary Ann Eaverly). Southeast Women’s Studies Association (Gainesville, FL), March 1998.
  
• “Alternative Masculinities in 1930s Industrial Britain.” Modern Language Association (Washington, D.C.), December 1996.
  
• “Interpretive Fictions: Reading Photographs and Literature.” Modern Language Association (San Diego, CA), December 1994.
  
• “‘Splendid Men’ of the Black Country: Documentary, Masculinity, and Industrial Britain in the 1930s.” 19th Conference on Literature and Film. Florida State University, January 1994.
  
• “Casting Shadows: Auden, Photography, and Documentary.” Cultural Studies in the 1990s Conference, University of Oklahoma, October 1990.
  
• “Notes Toward a Supreme War Poem: Auden's Spain and Cultural Memory.” Modern Language Association (Washington, D.C.), December 1989.
  
• “‘Selected Images’ and ‘Gardened Words.’” Midwest Modern Language Association (Minneapolis, MN), November 1989.
  
• “Fantasy as Counter-Narrative: The Subversive Text of Joyce's Dubliners.” James Joyce Conference (Philadelphia, PA), June 1989.
  
• “A War of One's Own: Auden's Photographic Vision in Journey to a War.” Modern Language Association (New Orleans, LA), December 1988.
  
• “Auden’s Reluctant ‘I’ in the Early Love Poems.” Midwest Modern Language Association (Columbus, OH), November 1987.
  
• “‘I walk among them taking photographs’: Auden's Documentary Vision in Letters from Iceland.” 12th Annual Colloquium on Literature and Film. West Virginia University, October 1987.

Local Public Service Talks

• “Everyday Ariel: Sylvia Plath and Domesticity.” Reinventing Domesticity Forum. UF Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, November, 2011.
  
• “Plath and the Discourse of Postwar Domesticity,” UF English Majors club, February 2007.
• Literary Connections: Marsden Hartley, American Modern. Harn Museum of Art, November 2006.
  
• “Celebrate National Poetry Month,” Talbot Elementary School, April 2004.
  
• “Celebrate National Poetry Month,” Flowers Montessori School, April 2003.
  
• “What is Poetry?” Holy Trinity Child Caring Center. March 2000 & 2001.
  
• “Sylvia Plath and the 1950s Kitchen,” Jewish Newcomers Club, April 2000.

Courses Taught

• Modern American Poetry
• Modern British Poetry
• Women’s Poetry
• Poetry and Classical Tourism in Paris (through UF’s Paris Research Center)
• Sylvia Plath and Her Cultural Afterlife
• H.D. and Modernist Studies
• Confessional Poetry/Confessional Culture
• Desperate Domesticity: The American 1950s
• Post-Punk Cultures: The British 80s
• Literature & Social Consciousness in the 1930s
• Supersized: Long Poems & Epic Films
• CinePoetics
• Literature & Photography
• Film Analysis
• The Documentary Book
• Writing About Literature

Professional Service

• Fellowship Adjudicator (Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Panel), National Endowment for the Humanities, 2010.
  
• Advisory Board, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 (2011-present).
  
• Specialist reader for the scholarly journals PMLA, Mosaic, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, and College Literature.
  
• Specialist reader for Ashgate Press, University Press of Florida, University of Minnesota Press, Palgrave Macmillan, and the University of Toronto Press.

Ph.D. Candidate Dissertations & Placements

• Cortney Grubbs, “Confessing Captivity: Queer Narratives of Trauma by American Women Writers,” 2010. Currently Visiting Assistant Professor at Gordon College, Georgia.
  
• James McDougall, “The Incorporation of Chinese Literature into Modern American Poetry,” 2007. Currently on the faculty of Shantou University, China.
  
• Jill Pruett, “Autobiography and the Business of Being Modern: Gertrude Stein, Josephine Baker, Sylvia Beach, and Elsa Schiaparelli in Paris,” 2007. Currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.
  
• Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega, “The Poet Flâneuse in the American City: Gwendolyn Brooks, Adrienne Rich,
• Diane DiPrima, Audre Lorde,” 2006. Currently on the faculty of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs (tenure-track).
  
• Glenn Freeman, “Lyric Voice and American Individualism,” 2005. Currently tenured at Cornell College, Iowa.
  
• John Smith, “Men of the Cold War: Warrior Ethos and Domesticity in 1950s America,” 2002. Currently on the faculty of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point (tenured).
  
• Steve Spence, “Photographic Culture and the American Thirties,” 1999. Currently on the faculty of Clayton State University in Georgia (tenured).

Department & University Service

• University Cultural Plaza Advisory Committee, 2011-
  
• Department Merit Pay Committee, 2011-
  
• Grant Workshop presenter and reader, UF Center for Humanities and the Public Sphere, 2011.
  
• Department Curriculum Committee, 2009-2010.
  
• Judge, UF Woman Leader of the Year (Women’s Leadership Council), 2009, 2007.
  
• CLAS Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Fund Selection Committee, 2008.
  
• Department Tenure & Promotion Committee (elected): 2005-2007.
  
• Department Graduate Studies Committee (Admissions): 1998-2000, 2003-2006.
  
• CLAS Research Advisory Committee, 2003.
  
• CLAS Assembly Steering Committee, 2003–2004.
  
• Department Council (elected), 2003-2005, 2000-2001.
  
• Chair, Department Speakers Committee, 2000-2002.
  
• Department Hiring Committee, 2004, 1999, 1997.
  
• Phi Beta Kappa Selection Committee, 2000-2002.
  
• University Committee on Teacher Education, 1999-2002.
  
• Department General Education Committee, 1994-97.
  
• Department Chair Search Committee for English (elected), 1994.
  
• University Teaching Improvement Program (TIP) Advisory Committee, 1994.
  
• University Teaching Improvement Design Committee, 1992.
  
• CLAS Teaching Awards Selection Committee, 1992.
  
• Department Merit Pay Committee (elected), 1990-91, 1991-92, 1993-94.

Professional Memberships

• Modernist Studies Association
  
• Modern Language Association
  
• H.D. International Society
  
• W. H. Auden Society