Stephanie Brown

Stephanie Brown is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at The Ohio State University, based on the Newark Campus. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and specializes in Twentieth- and twenty-first-century American literature, African American literature, critical theory, and speculative fiction. Her research explores intersections of cosmopolitanism, student engagement, and genre-blurring in historical and speculative narratives.

Education:

• PhD, Columbia University

Research: Brown’s work bridges literary analysis with interdisciplinary themes. Her book The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950 (2011) and co-edited volume Engaging Tradition, Making It New (2008) highlight her focus on protest literature and pedagogical approaches. She actively publishes on African American literature and culture, blending her expertise with study abroad initiatives in Berlin to explore global literary connections.

Current Projects: She is completing a book-length study on genre-blurring in twenty-first-century historical and speculative fiction.