Marsha Bryant grew up in Memphis and studied at the Universities of Tennessee and Illinois. At the University of Florida, where she is Professor of English & Distinguished Teaching Scholar, Bryant specializes in modernist studies, poetry, visual culture, women’s writing, and pedagogy. Bryant’s most popular courses are Women’s Poetry, Modern British Poetry, Desperate Domesticity: the American 50s, and Post-Punk Cultures: The British 80s. She team-teaches the polymers unit in the UF interdisciplinary course Impact of Materials on Society (IMOS). A three-time Teacher of the Year for UF’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Bryant received a UF Doctoral Mentoring Award.