Program Affiliations

English, Office for Teaching and Faculty Advancement (OTAFA)

Biography

Dr. Burzynski is an Associate Professor of English and the Director of the Office for Teaching and Faculty Advancement (OTAFA). His research and publications investigate access issues, organized labor rhetoric, and the intersection of sustainability and composition studies. Dr. Burzynski is originally from Western New York, and he now calls Texarkana home with his wife, children, and several dogs and cats.  

Professional Experience

Dr. Burzynski joined A&M-Texarkana in 2016. Before completing his Ph.D., Dr. Burzynski directed and taught in a college education program at a correctional institution in London, Ohio, and he served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA at The Ohio State University’s Service-Learning Initiative.

Education

• Ph.D. in English, Miami University (2016)
• M.A. in English, Gannon University (2003)
• B.A. in English, Canisius College (2000)

Teaching

Dr. Burzynski teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in writing and rhetoric application, history, and theory.

Scholarship & Creative Activity

“Dorothea Towles Church: Le Mannequin,” Centuries of Voices: Portraits of Black Women in Texas History, edited by Bruce Glasrud, Merline Pitre, Cecilia Gutierrez Venable, and Jessica Brannon-Wranosky. Texas A&M UP. Forthcoming.

“Sister Miriam Joseph’s Rhetorical Advocacy: The Trivium and Renaissance Rhetoric at St. Mary’s College, 1931-1960,” Catholic Women’s Rhetoric in the United States: Ethos, Patriarchy, and Feminist Resistance, edited by Christina Pinkston and Elizabethada Wright. Lexington Books, 2022, pp. 229-247.

“Organized Labor’s Opportune Moment: The House Call.” Spark: A 4C4Equality Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019, https://sparkactivism.com/.

“Conflating Language and Offense: Composing in an Incarcerated Space.” Open Words: Access and English Studies 4.1 (2010): 11-30. Print 

Honors and Awards

Disciplinary Associations Network for Sustainability Fellowship, Fall 2016-Spring 2017. Project: “Establishing a Curricular Archive for Sustainability in First-Year Composition.” Student Assistants: Erin Gloster and Joshua McGuire.