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Marsha Bryant

Professor & Distinguished Teaching Scholar

A headshot of Marsha Bryant smiling and looking at the camera with her arms crossed. She is wearing turquoise earrings and a matching necklace along with glasses that have black frames.

I teach and write about literature and culture (British & American), modernism, poetry, and women’s writing. I also write about teaching, Tupperware, and craft beer. My current bookproject explores new pedagogies for modernist studies, drawing on my courses and cross-campus collaborations with the Harn Museum of Art, University Archives, the Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS) group, and faculty colleagues Mary Ann Eaverly (Classics) and Charlie Hailey (Architecture). I have co-led the campus workshops “Team Teaching from Classroom to Gallery” and “Teaching with Archives.” Charlie and I have a new publication (“Hellenic by Design: H.D., Architecture, and Future Modernism”), and I have forthcoming essays on punk pedagogy, Bob Dylan, Sylvia Plath, and the midcentury long poem.

I am active in the Modernist Studies Association and often contribute to its affiliate journal Modernism/modernity. In 2024 I led an international teaching workshop for MSA (and affiliate organizations) on material modernisms, featuring strategies for teaching with trash. My literary beer reviews (usually in limericks) appear in The Massachusetts Review blog, and you can find my own blog here.

My previous books are Auden and Documentary in the 1930s, Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture (supported by a fellowship from National Endowment for the Humanities), and the edited collection Photo-Textualities: Reading Photographs and Literature. My recent essays have appeared in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath and The Classics in Modernist Translation, as well as in the journals Humanities and Feminist Modernist Studies.

I enjoy teaching a variety of undergraduate and graduate classes, which include Desperate Domesticity: The American 1950s, Modern British and American Poetry, Women’s Writing, and PostPunk Cultures: The British 1980s. I received a UF Doctoral Mentoring Award in 2018, and I’m a member of UF’s Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars. When I’m not teaching, mentoring, or writing, I enjoy museum going, axe throwing, and cheering on the Tampa Bay Lightning.

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