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 writes about teaching.

Professor Bryant’s most popular courses are Twentieth-Century British Poetry, American Poetry, Women’s Poetry, and decades courses about the American 1950s (Desperate Domesticity) and the British 1980s  (Post-Punk Cultures). 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 served as Director of Graduate Student Teaching for the English Department from 2016-2019.

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. Her literary beer reviews appear in The Massachusetts Review. Bryant has forthcoming essays on Bob Dylan, punk pedagogy, Plath, and the midcentury long poem. She has co-authored essays with her campus colleagues Charlie Hailey (Architecture) and Mary Ann Eaverly (Classics). On the conference circuit Bryant is especially active in the Modernist Studies Association; she has published five times in their affiliate journal Modernism/modernity.

Professor Bryant’s interdisciplinary research links literature to a diversity of materials, including advertising, art, magazines, movies, and music. Her book Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture received funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.