Lecturer, Semester in Detroit, Creative Writing & Literature, and First Year Seminar Programs
About
Darcy Lee Brandel is a teacher, poet, activist, and literary scholar. She holds a PhD in English from Case Western Reserve University, an MA in English from Syracuse University, and a BA in English from Allegheny College. Prior to coming to U-M, she taught at Marygrove College in Detroit for many years, where she was Professor of English and Chair of the Department of English and Modern Languages. While at Marygrove, she led the charge to establish the first Women’s Center on campus and served on its founding advisory board for over a decade. Her fields of interest include arts as activism, literature by women, multi-ethnic literature, comparative women’s and gender studies, critical theory, aesthetic theory, creative writing, Buddhism, and translation. Recent U-M courses include Writing Poetry, Theory for the Revolution, Weird Art Fuller World, Detroit Art in Times of Crisis, and Detroit Artist as Activist. She has published work on Gertrude Stein, Grace Paley, and other experimental women writers and, along with Chae-Pyong Song, translations of Korean Buddhist poetry. Her writing has appeared in The American Reader, Driftwood Press, Metamorphoses, Frontiers, Azalea, and Women’s Studies, among other journals. When Darcy is not teaching, creating, or resisting, she serves as a death doula, supporting beloveds and their families as they negotiate the sacred end-of-life process. For more about Darcy, visit her website: darcyleebrandel.wordpress.com
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