Jennifer D. Ryan-Bryant, Ph.D.

Jennifer Ryan-Bryant received her M.A. in 2001 and her Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Iowa. She joined the Buffalo State English Department in 2005, where she teaches courses in American poetry, the American novel, Africana Studies, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies. Her first book, Post-Jazz Poetics: A Social History, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2010, and her second book, Turning the Table: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Writing Between Them was published by Lexington Books in 2022. She has also published articles on anti-racist pedagogy, Black horror, lynching in American literature, Jayne Cortez, Wanda Coleman, Ezra Pound, Sonia Sanchez, and literary improvisation. She is currently at work on a study of the ways in which lynching has transformed American literary genres, entitled The Human in This Place: American Literatures of Lynching. Her service commitments include Coordinator of the English MA program (2014-2023), the School of Arts & Sciences Personnel Committee, the Africana Studies Core Committee, the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Core Committee, the President's Council on Equity and Campus Diversity, several departmental committees, and manuscript reviews for various publishers.