Steph Brown

Steph Brown is Associate Professor of English at the University of Arizona, where she also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of English and is affiliated faculty in Gender and Women's Studies. She is Vice-Chair of the university’s graduate interdisciplinary program in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory (SCCT). She received her PhD in English Literature from the University of Virginia.

Her research focuses on 20th and 21st-century British, Caribbean, and Irish literature, with a particular emphasis on Anglophone modernism, literature of empire, and surveillance culture. She explores how literature engages with state surveillance, feminist resistance, and protest movements, especially in the context of the British suffrage campaign and postcolonial literature. Her work intersects with critical theory, gender studies, and postcolonial studies.

Her recent publications reflect a strong trend in literary analysis of surveillance, resistance, and identity formation across modernist and postcolonial contexts. She frequently examines how marginalized voices—particularly women and Black intellectuals—narrate and resist institutional surveillance through fiction, journalism, and memoir. Her scholarship spans authors like Virginia Woolf, Claude McKay, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Joseph Conrad, demonstrating a deep engagement with both canonical and understudied figures.

Dr. Brown is actively involved in academic leadership and pedagogy. She regularly teaches courses on modernist literature, Caribbean and British literature, and the rhetoric of protest. She also directs the Literature and Culture in the UK summer study abroad program in London, providing students with immersive experiences in emerging literature and theatre.

She has no listed scientific awards at this time.

Dr. Brown is currently editing a special issue of Surveillance & Society on 'Literature and Surveillance' and continues to publish and present on the intersections of literature, power, and resistance. She is on sabbatical in Fall 2025 but remains an active researcher and faculty member.