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Education

B.A., Susquehanna University
M.F.A., Sarah Lawrence College
Ph.D., University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Expertise

Dr. Billie R. Tadros previously served as a Lecturer at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.  She is the author of three books of poems,  (Gold Wake Press, 2020),   (Indolent Books, 2020), and The Tree We Planted and Buried You In (Otis Books, 2018), and three chapbooks, Am/Are I  (Francis House, 2020), (Porkbelly Press, 2016) and  (Dancing Girl Press, 2014).  Her poems have appeared in journals including Bone Bouquet, Black Warrior Review, Crab Fat Magazine, Entropy, Lavender Review, and Tupelo Quarterly, and in anthologies including  (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2014) and Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence  (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013). She is currently working on a narrative research project exploring the gendered implications of traumatic injuries to self-identified women runners, part of which was recently published as a chapter in  (Routledge, 2019). Dr. Tadros serves as a Poetry Editor for the journal Gigantic Sequins and as an Assistant Poetry Editor for the journal Fairy Tale Review. She is the faculty moderator for the University's Mu Omicron chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society. She is an associate faculty member in the Women's & Gender Studies Program, and she directs

Courses Taught

ENLT 121 Intro. to Poetry (CL) 
ENLT 216J Rhetoric and Poetics (EPW, CL) 
ENLT 224 Perspectives in Literature About Illness (EPW, CL, D) 
ENLT 254 "Bodybuilding" Narratives of Health and Ability (CL, D) 
ENLT 259 Contemporary American Poetry
WRTG 107 FYW-Composition (FYW) 
WRTG 216 Poetry Writing I (EPW) 
WRTG 316 Poetry Writing II