Biography

Marsha Bryant grew up in Memphis and studied at the Universities of Tennessee and Illinois. At UF, where she is Professor of English & Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Bryant specializes in modernist studies, poetry, visual culture, and women’s writing. She also publishes work on pedagogy.

Professor Bryant’s most popular courses are Twentieth-Century British Poetry, Women’s Poetry, Domesticity & the American 1950s, and Post-Punk Cultures: the British 80s. She co-designed a team-taught engineering course (Impact of Materials on Society), and she co-organized cross-campus workshops on Teaching with Archives and Teaching with the Harn Museum of Art. A three-time Teacher of the Year for UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Bryant received a UF Doctoral Mentoring Award in 2018. She has served as Director of Graduate Student Teaching for the English Department.

Bryant’s recent work appears in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath, the journals Humanities and Ex-Centric Narratives, her co-edited textbook Impact of Materials on Society, and the essay collection The Classics in Modernist Translation. Her literary beer reviews appear in The Massachusetts Review. She has co-authored essays with her campus colleagues Charlie Hailey (Architecture) and Mary Ann Eaverly (Classics).

Bryant’s book Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her earlier books focus on literature and visual culture: Auden and Documentary in the 1930s, and her edited collection Photo-Textualities: Reading Photographs and Literature.

Professor Bryant’s interdisciplinary research links literature to a diversity of materials, including advertising, art, magazines, movies, and music. On the conference circuit she is especially active in the Modernist Studies Association, and has published five times in their affiliate journal Modernism/modernity.