Office: Keezel 406
Phone: 540-568-1641
Email: brownml@jmu.edu
Office Hours: Fall 2009 - MWF 9:00-10:00

Courses: Fall 2009
GENG 239, sections 0002 - 10:10-11:00 and 0003 - 11:15-12:05

Specialties African Literature; Postcolonial Literatures and Theory; Black and Third World Feminisms; Women’s and Gender Studies; Cultural Studies; Trauma Studies; Justice Studies; Psychoanalysis

Education:
Ph.D., 2008, English Language and Literature, University of Maryland.
M.A., 2001, English, James Madison University.
B.S., 1990, Journalism and English, James Madison University.

Outside Interests: Running, hiking, reading, movies, my family
Publications:

“‘My Whole Body with Black Blood:’ Testimonial Bodies and the Mother(Land) in Maps.” Research in African Literatures (invited to resubmit) 30 pp.

“Censorship and Testimonial Ghosts: David’s Story ‘of Women’.” Interventions (under consideration) 16 pp.

“Condé’s Razyé: Reaching Heroic Heights.” MaComère 5 (2002): 101-113.

“Castrating the Nun in Pope’s ‘Eloisa to Abelard’.” Write On 2001: Into the New Millennium. Ed. Janette Martin. 2001. James Madison U. <http://cal.jmu.edu/writeon>.

Rev. of Leaf-of-Life, by Opal Palmer Adisa. MaComère 4 (2001): 196-200.

Editorial Appointments:
Editor, James Madison University Affirmative Action Newsletter, 2000

Manuscript Peer Reviewer, African Studies Review, 2004-present

Invited Lectures:
“The ‘Scream Somehow Echoing through My Story:’ Censorship and Testimonial Ghosts in David’s Story and The Icarus Girl.” Center for Justice and Peacebuilding. Eastern Mennonite University. Harrisonburg, Virginia. April 2007.

“Things Fall Apart, Misrepresentations in Disgrace: The Perpetuation of Colonialist African Stereotypes.” James Madison University International Week. “Africa: One Continent, Many Voices.” Harrisonburg, Virginia. September 2005.

Selected Conference Papers:
“Testimonial Bodies in Nuruddin Farah’s Maps.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association Meeting. Louisville, Kentucky. November 2008.

“E. M. Forster and Empire: Marxism, Place, and Africa in Howards End.” Dawn of the Modern World: 1860-1914 conference. James Madison University. Harrisonburg, Virginia. April 2004.

“Healing Across Boundaries in Ayi Kwei Armah.” African Literature Association Meeting. San Diego, California. April 2002.

“Ayi Kwei Armah: Social Critic and Artist Healer.” African Literature Association Meeting. Richmond, Virginia. April 2001.

“The Power of Women’s Words: Writing the Self in Edwidge Danticat’s Breath, Eyes, Memory.” Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Meeting. Boone, North Carolina. April 2000.

Community Education:
Instructor, Continuing Education Seminars, Harrisonburg-Rockingham Child Daycare Center, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 2008-present. Seminars presented: “Methods for Teaching African Oral Narratives and Culture to Preschoolers” and “Teaching Multicultural Understanding through Basic Hieroglyphics Instruction.”

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