Susan
Barbour grew up in Champaign, Illinois.
She obtained her B.A. in English Literature from Dartmouth College and an M.A. in The Writing Seminars from The Johns Hopkins University and is
currently completing her DPhil at Oxford University where she is a
Clarendon Scholar. Her poems have
appeared in journals in the U.S. and U.K. and were selected by Sir Christopher
Ricks for inclusion in the anthology Joining Music with
Reason (Waywiser 2010). Her
criticism has appeared in Textual Practice and is forthcoming in The
Oxford Review of English Studies where she was short-listed for the ORES Essay Prize in 2010. In 2009, she was awarded a James B. Reynolds
scholarship for foreign study and spent a year researching the artist-model
dynamic in Paris. Her translations from French include
world-renowned book artist Herve Tullet’s Doodle
Cook (PHAIDON 2011). She has worked
or studied in France, Italy, Malawi, Cyprus, and Japan. Before returning to academia she spent five
years temping as a secretary on Wall Street, which is the setting of her experimental memoir.
She currently divides her time between Paris, Oxford, and New York City.
