Brandy Barents (she/her/hers)
Senior Lecturer
Contact
Office hours M/W/F
Education
2006 M.A. Boston University (Poetry)
2002 B.A. James Madison University (English)
Current Classes
Dickinson, Bishop, and Plath: Massachusetts Poets on Film
Boston Films Now
Boston Poetry Now
Boston in Film and Literature
Boston Homelessness Now
The Theater Now
Bio
Brandy Barents has been teaching in the Writing Program since 2007. Her recent seminars explore the lives and works of Massachusetts writers; the history, films, and literature of Boston; contemporary theater; and the plight of the unhoused in Boston.
Brandy loves traveling and living abroad: she taught English in Japan for three years and Irish fiction and creative writing in Ireland for JMU for four summers.
Brandy came to Boston to study poetry at BU. She was fortunate to study with Robert Pinsky, Louise Glück, Derek Walcott, Geoffrey Hill, and Bonnie Costello. For BU’s Creative Writing Program, she taught creative writing and poetry workshops, and for two years, she was Robert Pinsky’s literary assistant and the director of The Favorite Poem Project, where she facilitated the Robert Lowell Memorial Lecture Series, the Summer Institute for Teachers, and served as a reader for Slate.
Her own work has appeared in 236, Agni Online, The American Literary Review, Barrow Street, Lily Poetry Review, and The Country Dog Review.
Brandy lives with her husband and two kids in an old attic in Cambridge.