MaryLynn Broe

            CarolineWerner Gannett Professor of Humanities


                                                3179 Eastman

                                                Phone:475-7174

                                                Email:mlbgsl@rit.edu

                                                Website:www.rit.edu/~mlbgsl/

                                                ClassicalBA, St. Louis University (magna cum laude)

                                                MA,and Ph.D.,The University of Connecticut


The Caroline Werner Gannett Project website: www.rit.edu/~cwg/.

 

Professor Broe writes:

My teaching career began in Notre Dame University'sinterdisciplinary Collegiate Seminar Program and in The Program on Non-Violence(1970-74). At Binghamton University (1974-86), as Assistant and tenuredAssociate Professor, I taught interdisciplinary courses in Women's Studies, andboth graduate and undergraduate courses in the English Department. From1986-2002, I held the inaugural Louise Rosenfield Noun endowed Chair atGrinnell College, founding The Noun Program in Women's Studies and directingits various initiatives. In addition to published poetry;  essays on modernist poets, playwrights,fictionists and multimedia artists, my books include: Protean Poetic: ThePoetry of Sylvia Plath (U. Missouri, 1980);co-edited Women's Writing in Exile(U. North Carolina, 1989); edited Silence and Power: A Reevaluationof Djuna Barnes (Southern Illinois U.Press, 1991). Most recently, my selection of letters from two Americanexpatriates,  BlackWalking: Selected Letters of Djuna Barnes to Emily Holmes Coleman, 1934-38, was published by Wagenbach (Im DunkelnGehn,  Berlin, 2002) and by Archinto (Camminare nel Buio, Milan, 2004). The letters will soon be published inEnglish. Current books in progress include the creative non-fiction, Sweepingup the Heart, and a chapbook of poetry.Longer range plans include a book on multi-media artist, Charles HenriFord.  My teaching interests oftengo hand-in-hand with scholarly research and presentations, (e.g., Society forScience, Literature and the Arts panel, "Cultural Uses of the NewCartographies," Amsterdam, June, 2006. Seehttp://www.rit.edu/~930www/photos/viewer.php3?date=2006-07-21)

My interests have always ranged widely across modern andcontemporary literatures, including revisions of modernism; contemporary poetryand poetics; feminist theory; life-writing and select diasporic literatures.New directions in teaching for 2006-07 include interdisciplinary collaborationswithin the Caroline Werner Gannett Project.

I have held grants from the NEH, ACLS, the Getty Foundation,Ford Foundation (co-participant) and a residency at the Rockefeller Center,Bellagio, Italy.

 

RIT Courses:

Maps, Spaces and Places

The Novel: Banned, Burned and Transgressive Novels

Autobiography (Life Writings Across Cultures)

The Art of Poetry

Handling Proof and Truth: Studies in InterdisciplinaryEvidence (This and other courses are under development for The Caroline WernerGannett Project, 2006-07)