African American literature; poetry
Zofia Burr has been a member of the English department since 1992. Dr. Burr is the current and founding dean of the George Mason University Honors College where she teaches Multi-disciplinary Research Methods. 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 George Mason University's Teaching Excellence Award. For the last decade, her professional energies have been devoted to the development of Mason's Honors College.
Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou (U of Illinois Press, November) 2002.
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
Stacey L. Cumberbatch , A Treaty Does Not Make a Community: Race and Migration in Barbados (2015)