Biography

Marsha Bryant taught for 37 years at the University of Florida, receiving three CLAS Awards for Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching and a UF Doctoral Mentoring Award. Her courses included Desperate Domesticity: The American 1950s, American City Poems, Modern British Poetry, Postpunk Cultures: The British 1980s, and Women’s Writing & Pedagogy. Marsha worked collaboratively across the UF campus, especially with the Harn Museum of Art, UF Libraries Special Collections, and the IMOS team that designed an introductory course on Materials Science Engineering. She is a member of UF’s Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars.

Marsha Bryant writes about literature, culture, teaching, and craft beer. She has published essays with Charlie Hailey (UF School of Architecture) and Mary Ann Eaverly (UF Classics). Marsha’s book Women’s Poetry and Popular Culture received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for Humanities, and her book on W. H. Auden and documentary offered the first comprehensive reading of his photography and film work. She curated “The Films of Paul Strand” for the Whitney Museum of American Art. Marsha edited Photo-Textualities: Reading Photographs and Literature, and she co-edited the textbook Impact of Materials on Society. She is a longtime member of the Modernist Studies Association, and she recently co-led its international workshop on teaching material modernisms. She did an interview on Sylvia Plath and the dream kitchen for the podcast Theory to No End.

Marsha Bryant has done interviews about Tupperware culture for Wisconsin Public Radio and the Mornings with Simi radio show (Vancouver). Her limericks about craft beer appear on The Massachusetts Review blog. Marsha’s recent essays appear in The Poetry of Bob Dylan, Quick Hits for Creativity in the Classroom, and The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath.