Brenda Marie Osbey
Assistant Professor - English
Phone: (225) 578-3020
Fax: (225) 578-4129
E-mail: bosbey@lsu.edu
Office: 212Q Allen Hall
Education
Bachelor's Degree(s): B.A., Dillard University
Master's Degree: M.A. University of Kentucky
Other Degrees: Non-degree Studies, French Literature and Language, Université Paul Valéry. Montpélliér,
France, 1997
Area of Interest
Afro-Francophone literature and letters; Afrolusophone poetry (late 19th, 20th centuries); Boom literature of Latin America; Classical essay form and creative nonfiction; Cultural history of Black New Orleans; LA Creole language/expression; Narrative forms; Poetry of Melvin B. Tolson, Jay Wright, Gayl Jones; Problems of literary translation
Recent Courses Taught
- Narratives of Place and Identity
- The Narrative Poem
- African American Poetry since 1945, LSU
- Creative Nonfiction, LSU
- Black New Orleans (advanced research seminar), Dillard University
Awards & Honors
- 2006, Honorary Doctor of Letters, Dickinson College
- 2005, Poet Laureate, Louisiana State University
- 2004, Camargo Foundation Fellowship (Cassie, France)
- 1998, American Book Award (for All Saints: New and Selected Poems)
- 1994, Louisiana Division of the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
- 1990, National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship
Other Notable Activities
- Commentator for Claiming Open Spaces, PBS
- Subject of “Native Daughter.” Public TV short feature, 1999.
Selected Publications
Books
- All Saints: New and Selected Poems. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1997. 3rd Printing 2005.
- Ceremony for Minneconjoux. Callaloo Poetry Series, 1983. rpt. Charlottesville; UP Virginia, 1985.
Articles, Essays, Poems
- “Canne á Sucre: A Slave-Song Suite.” The American Poetry Review 34.3 (2005): 37
- “Notes from France.” Gambit Weekly series on race in contemporary France. May-Oct 2005.*
- “Qu’on arrive enfin (une histoire en cours/a tale in-progress)” in Renaissance Noire 6.1 (2004) : 138-43.