Lauren Brown

Associate Professor of English

Education
  • B.A. SUNY Geneseo
  • M.A., Binghamton University
  • Ph.D., Binghamton University
Courses

100-level

  • Writing Essentials
  • College Writing
  • Reading Dangerously
  • Dystopian Narratives

200-level

  • Native American Literature
  • African American Literature
  • Divided Nations

300-level

  • Contemporary U.S. Literature
  • The Problem of Race in U.S. Literature
  • A Friend of My Mind: The Work of Toni Morrison
  • (Un)Settling Homeland
Areas of Interest

Dr. Lauren Brown’s research interests include American literature of the 20th & 21st centuries; race, ethnicity, and gender in U.S. literature; and literature and theory that deal with nation, postcolonialism, transnationalism, and/or im/migration.

Publications

Dr. Brown has published peer-reviewed work in The Cormac McCarthy Journal (2018); The New Americanist (2020); MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.(2022); and Studies in the Novel (2023).

She is currently at work on a longer-term project related to the philosophical arc of Toni Morrison’s nonfiction writing and speeches.