Dr. Braniger teaches a broad range of writing, culture, and literature courses, including She has published several narrative poems, over fifty micropoems, and more than a dozen poetry sequences. Her chapbook, No One May Follow, was published by Pudding House Publications in 2009. More recently, her research and artistic achievement energies have focused on Brill’s Critical Storytelling series, which provides a platform for marginalized voices to tell stories about and advocate equal access and opportunity for excluded identities. Contributing to this venture has allowed her to integrate issues of diversity and inclusivity into her scholarly efforts. She recently served as the Distinguished Warren F. Hardy Professor of English during which she spent two years researching narrative testimony and poetry of witness and writing a new book of poems entitled Lax of Lilies.
Sample of Courses Taught: Critical Storytelling (Advanced Writing Studies); Classical Rhetoric and Poetics (Rhetoric Theory); Art of Publishing (Professional Writing); Contemplation Studies (Writing Seminar); Senior Writing Portfolio; Sophomore Writing Portfolio; Community Literacy; Black Women’s Voices, The Handmaid’s Tale: Feminism & Resistance, American Jazz Poetry, & Multicultural American Poetry (United States Cultural Studies); Global Love Poetry, Sappho & Global Feminism (Global Studies); University Writing (Multimodal Composition); Writing in the Disciplines; Critical Writing, Reading, & Research I (Composition I); Critical Writing, Reading, & Research II (Composition II).