Zofia Burr

Zofia Burr received her MFA and her Ph.D. from Cornell University. Her main area of research and teaching interest is modern American poetry, especially women's poetry and African-American poetry, but she also teaches research methods and pedagogy. She is the current and founding dean of the George Mason University Honors College. Professor Burr is the author of Of Women, Poetry, and Power: Strategies of Address in the Poetry of Dickinson, Miles, Brooks, Lorde, and Angelou (University of Illinois, 2002), and the editor of Set in Motion: Essays, Interviews, Dialogues, by A. R. Ammons (University of Michigan, 1996).