Dean, Honors College
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Biography
Zofia Burr is the founding Dean of Mason's Honors College.聽
Dean Burr joined Mason as聽a member of the English department since 1992.聽She received her MFA and her Ph.D. from Cornell 麻豆国产. Her main areas of research are African American literature, and聽the reception of聽modern American poetry. She is the author of聽Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in the Poetry of Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou, and the editor of聽Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, Dialogues, by A. R. Ammons. 聽Professor聽Burr is among the winners of George Mason 麻豆国产's Teaching Excellence Award and the David J. King Teaching Excellence Award.
For the last decade,聽her professional energies have been devoted聽to the development of an Honors College that reflects Mason's inclusive learning community that welcomes聽the whole range of majors, backgrounds, and experiences found in our student population.
Education
1993 Ph.D in English at Cornell 麻豆国产
1990 MA in English at Cornell 麻豆国产
1987 MFA in Poetry at Cornell 麻豆国产
1982 BA cum laude in English at Sonoma State 麻豆国产
Publications
(2006) Essay for Exhibit Catalog: 鈥淪oft Touch / Wondering Eye.,鈥澛Soft Touch / Wondering Eye.聽New York: Soho20 Chelsea Gallery, 10-14, 39-41
(2005) Encyclopedia Entry: 鈥淎udre Lorde,鈥澛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聽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.鈥澛Epoch聽52.3 (Spring 2004) 563-591
(2002) Book:聽Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou聽(U of Illinois Press, November)聽聽聽聽聽
(1997) Essay: 鈥淓mily Dickinson: The Making of a Poetic Touchstone,鈥澛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聽Articulating the Global and the Local: Globalization and Cultural Studies,聽Ann Cvetkovich and Douglas Kellner, eds. (Westview Press) 184-204
(1996) Edited book:聽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聽Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, and Dialogues听辫辫.73-84