Nicholas Alexander Brown

Nicholas Alexander Brown serves as an Instructor of First-Year Writing in the Department of English at Virginia Tech. His academic work bridges rhetoric, composition, and visual studies through innovative multimodal scholarship.

Research Interests: Brown specializes in multimodal rhetorics and composition, with concentrated expertise in visual rhetoric, comics studies, new media, and the rhetorical construction of paranormal phenomena. His scholarship interrogates how non-traditional formats like comics can advance rigorous academic discourse, particularly through his comics dissertation methodology that integrates rhetorical theory with comics practices. He actively explores non-rational rhetorics and the application of liminality/synchronicity in paranormal narratives.

Publications: Brown's work demonstrates consistent innovation in scholarly formats, most notably through comics-based articles like "Ad metallum purificandum" examining Black Metal ethos, and his comics dissertation "The Rousing of Ogma." His recent research focuses on paranormal phenomena rhetoric, multimodal knowledge production, and genre evolution.

• Professional Activities:
• Evaluating conference proposals for Rhetoric Society of America (2022, 2024)
• Conducting University Writing Program workshops on AI integration and multimodal authoring

Teaching: Brown teaches First-Year Writing courses with specialized modules in Comics Authoring, Multimodal Argumentation, Paranormal Writing, and Dungeons & Dragons-based composition. His pedagogy emphasizes experimental approaches to writing instruction while maintaining rigorous academic standards across multiple sections annually.