J. Dillon Brown

J. Dillon Brown is an Associate Professor of English at Washington University, specializing in postcolonial literature and theory with a focus on the English-speaking Caribbean. He earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is based in the Department of English, where he teaches courses on postcolonial literature, modernism, and Caribbean literary traditions.

• Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania

His research explores Anglophone Caribbean literature, Black and Asian British literature, global modernisms, and diaspora studies. By combining formal text analysis with historical and sociological contexts, he investigates the transnational intersections of Caribbean literary production with British and American traditions, challenging nationalist frameworks in postcolonial studies.

Professor Brown's scholarly work includes the monograph Migrant Modernism: London and the Postwar West Indian Novel (2013) and the co-edited collection Beyond Windrush: Rethinking Postwar Anglophone Caribbean Literature (2015). His publications appear in journals such as Modern Fiction Studies, The Global South, and ARIEL, as well as major edited companions.

He teaches courses on postcolonial literature, international modernism, Caribbean literature, and diaspora studies, including seminars on topics like 'The Empire Writes Back' and 'Migrant Modernism.'