Bronwyn Mills

Assistant Professor
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts
Ph.D., New York University
bmills@nmu.edu

Bronwyn Mills received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from New York University in New York City, and comes to NMU from an academic appointment in Istanbul, Turkey. At NYU, she specialized in Caribbean and African Diasporic Literatures and Performance and wrote her dissertation, Maps, Cosmograms, And The Caribbean Imagination, under the direction of Kamau Brathwaite and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Bronwyn's Master of Fine Arts degree was awarded in poetry under James Tate; and she is current revising a novel, Beastly, for publication in London. Her chapter on Simone de Beauvoir, "Second Sex; 'Third World' Female; Simone de Beauvoir and the Postcolonial Woman," has been translated into Turkish and will appear in the forthcoming book about Beauvoir edited by Dr. Gonul Bakay.  Bronwyn writes regularly for Talisman, A Journal Of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics in New York City.  Her latest article, a review article of Guthrie's Race Music, will be in The Journal  of American Studies in Turkey's forthcoming issue. She has been Senior Editor for Frigate, an online literary journal coming out of New York City and she has also published work on the work of Eduardo Galeano, on the Mexican American war (La Guerra Defensa), and writers in exile. For many years she was a dance and drama critic for a New England arts weekly.