Amaranth Borsuk (she/her)

Associate Professor

Amaranth Borsuk (she/her)

Associate Professor

Education

Ph.D. in Creative Writing & Literature, University of Southern California, 2010
M.A. in English Literature, University of Southern California, 2006
B.A. in English, Summa Cum Laude, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003

Courses

BCORE 104: Judge this Book by its Cover

BCWRIT 501: Between Fact and Imagination

BCWRIT 512: Art, Technology, Practice

BIS 208: Experimenting Through the Arts

BISIA 219: Introduction to Interdisciplinary Arts

BISIA 310: Creative Writing: Poetry

BISIA 399: Art and Design Portfolio

BISIA 401: Literary and Arts Journal

BISIA 410: Advanced Creative Writing Workshop

BISIA 483: Advanced Interdisciplinary Arts Workshop

Teaching Interests

Creative Writing (Poetry), 20th and 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics, Modernism, Artists’ Books and Artists’ Publishing, Digital Poetry, Media Art, Interactive Literature.

Critical Book

  • Borsuk, Amaranth. The Book (MIT Press, May 2018).
  • —. The Book. Chinese: Simplified Translation. (China: Guangdong Flower City Publishing House Co., Ltd., 2025).
  • —. Kitap. Trans. Zeynep Ünalan (Turkey: Mindset Institute, 2024).
  • —. KNJIGA. Trans. Mašan Bogdanovski (Serbia: Centar za promociju nauke, 2022).
  • —. El Libro Expandido, Trans. Diego Erlan (Buenos Aires: Ediciones Ampersand, 2020).
  • —. 책이었고 책이며 책이 될 무엇에 관한, 책. Trans. Seungyoung Noh (Korea: Mati Books, 2019).

Poetry Books

  • Borsuk, Amaranth and Terri Witek. W/\SH (Anhinga Press, March 2026)
  • Borsuk, Amaranth. Pomegranate Eater (Kore Press, April 2016).
  • Borsuk, Amaranth, Kate Durbin and Zach Kleyn. Abra (1913 Press, April 2016).
  • Borsuk, Amaranth and Andy Fitch. As We Know (Subito Press, November 2014).
  • Borsuk, Amaranth. Handiwork: Poems (Slope Editions, April 2012).
  • Borsuk, Amaranth and Brad Bouse. Between Page and Screen.
    • First trade edition, Siglio Press, April 2012, second printing October 2012. Second edition, SpringGun Press, April 2016.
    • Included in the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3.
    • —. Między kartką a ekranem, Trans. Aleksandry Małeckiej (Warsaw: Ha!Art, 2025)
    • —. Entre Hoja Y Pantalla, Trans. Membros del laboratorio de literaturas extendidas y otras materialidades (Mexico City: Libros Unam, 2019).

Artists’ Books

  • Borsuk, Amaranth, ed. The Book: 101 Definitions (Anteism Press, 2021).
  • Bodle, Carrie and Amaranth Borsuk. Moon Signs (2016). Artists’ ephemera in the form of a volvelle created for The Untuning of the Sky, a series of events in relationship to the night sky curated by the Henry Art Gallery. Edition of 500 unnumbered copies funded by The Henry and Simpson Center for the Humanities.
  • Borsuk, Amaranth, Kate Durbin, and Ian Hatcher. Abra: A Living Text, an Expanded Artist’s Book and
    iPad app. (HC in an edition of 10, The Center for Book and Paper Arts, November 2015).
  • Borsuk, Amaranth. Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (Accordion, hand-made in an edition of 13, January 2013).
  • Borsuk, Amaranth and Brad Bouse. Between Page and Screen (Hand-bound and letterpress printed in an edition of 12, June 2010).

Chapbooks

  • Borsuk, Amaranth and Terri Witek. W/\SH: Initial Contact (Above/Ground Press, October 2021).
  • Borsuk, Amaranth. Curt Curtal Sonnet Corona (Quarantine Public Library, January 2021).
  • Borsuk, Amaranth. Tonal Saw (The Song Cave, March 2010).