Faculty
Briante, Susan
Assistant Professor , CRWT/LIT
Office: JO 5.112
Phone: 972-883-6781
Email: sbriante@utdallas.edu
Areas of Specialization: Poetry and poetics, creative non-fiction, cultural studies, Latin American literature, translation and gender studies.
Education: PhD, English, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006
MFA, Creative Writing— Poetry, Florida International University, 2000
MA, Comparative Literature, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000
BS, Journalism, Northwestern University, 1990
Since arriving at UT Dallas in the fall of 2006, Dr. Susan Briante has published her first full-length collection of poetry and had more than 20 individual poems accepted for publication in journals such as Ploughshares, POOL, and Court Green. She has also published articles relating to her research on ruins and cultural memory, presented her creative and scholarly work at conferences and through invitations from universities across the country, as well as published translations and scholarly essays on the work of twentieth-century Latin American writers.
The poems in Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, Boise State University, March 2007) reference field notes as well as love letters as they trace her experiences living in Mexico City from 1992-1998 and reading the Latin American avant-garde. In support of the book, she has been invited to give readings, to lecture and to teach classes at the University of Texas at El Paso, Trinity University in San Antonio, New Mexico State University, Midland College, the University of Oklahoma (Norman), the University of Tulsa, and Roosevelt University.
Several other poems have been published in Ploughshares, Columbia College's Court Green, Mandorla and Emerson College's Redivider. Three poems were awarded a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize.
Dr. Briante's poetry is seconded by more traditional scholarship grounded in cultural studies and textual analysis. American Ruins: Nostalgia, Amnesia and Blitzkrieg Bop, a book-length manuscript in-progress, investigates how contemporary urban ruins function as symbols in the American imagination and its relationship to the past. In addition, Dr. Briante has written various essays on the relationship between place and cultural memory; some of these have appeared in Creative Non-Fiction, Painted Bride Quarterly and The Texas Observer. Dr. Briante has recently been asked to translate a series of poems by the surrealist author, Marosa di Giorgio, for a forthcoming anthology of Uruguayan poetry.