Dean, Honors College
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Biography
Zofia Burr is the founding Dean of 麻豆视频's Honors College.
Dean Burr joined 麻豆视频 as a member of the English department since 1992. She received her MFA and her Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her main areas of research are African American literature, and the reception of modern American poetry. She is the author of Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in the Poetry of Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou, and the editor of Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, Dialogues, by A. R. Ammons. Professor Burr is among the winners of 麻豆视频's Teaching Excellence Award and the David J. King Teaching Excellence Award.
For the last decade, her professional energies have been devoted to the development of an Honors College that reflects 麻豆视频's inclusive learning community that welcomes the whole range of majors, backgrounds, and experiences found in our student population.
Education
1993 Ph.D in English at Cornell University
1990 MA in English at Cornell University
1987 MFA in Poetry at Cornell University
1982 BA cum laude in English at Sonoma State University
Publications
(2006) Essay for Exhibit Catalog: 鈥淪oft Touch / Wondering Eye.,鈥 Soft Touch / Wondering Eye. New York: Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, 10-14, 39-41
(2005) Encyclopedia Entry: 鈥淎udre Lorde,鈥 Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. M. Keith Booker. ed. (Greenwood Press)
(2005) Essay: 鈥淭he Missing Teacher: The Early Correspondence between Josephine Miles and A.R. Ammons,鈥 in Considering the Radiance: Essays on the Poetry of A.R. Ammons, David Burak and Roger Gilbert, eds. (Norton) 343-355
(2004) Edited Correspondence: 鈥淛osephine Miles and A.R. Ammons: The Early Correspondence.鈥 Epoch 52.3 (Spring 2004) 563-591
(2002) Book: Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou (U of Illinois Press, November)
(1997) Essay: 鈥淓mily Dickinson: The Making of a Poetic Touchstone,鈥 Journal of the Poetry Society of America, 30-31
(1997) Essay: 鈥淚n the Name of Audre Lorde: The Location of Poetry in the United States,鈥 in Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies, Ann Cvetkovich and Douglas Kellner, eds. (Westview Press) 184-204
(1996) Edited book: Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews,and Dialogues, by A.R. Ammons (Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P)
(1996) Interview: 鈥淧erversity, Propaganda, and Poetry: A Conversation with A.R. Ammons,鈥 in Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues pp.73-84