Theresa L. Burriss

Theresa L. Burriss has a BA from Emory University in Atlanta, an MS from Radford University, and a PhD from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati.  In addition to teaching as an assistant professor, Theresa is the director of the Learning Assistance and Resource Center (LARC).  She is currently working on a book entitled, Women of Change, Women of Courage: Appalachian Activists, to be published by the University of Tennessee Press.  “Claiming a Literary Space: The Affrilachian Poets,” a synopsis of her dissertation, is included in the Ohio UP work, An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature, published in 2005.  Her creative nonfiction essays have appeared in journals such as Appalachian Heritage.  She teaches American and British literature, with a particular focus on Marxist and feminist literary theory/criticism.  Theresa explains, “Teaching is my passion.  My students keep that passion alive and allow me to share my love of literature with them.  In the process, we all grow and evolve, changing as the literature touches us.”  E-mail address: tburriss@radford.edu.

Last updated: 06/17/2005