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.