Lauren Brown

Dr. Brown came to Albion College in 2019 after completing her PhD at Binghamton University where she simultaneously taught for 5 years. She is a New Americanist scholar of American literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a specific interest in issues of race, ethnicity, and gender in U.S. literature and of texts and theory that deal with national identity, post-colonialism, transnationalism, citizenship, and im/migration. Her writing and teaching most often center writing by authors of racial and ethnic minorities as she engages issues of belonging and negotiations of identity between individuals and the social and political landscapes they navigate.

She is a consulting editor for Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and has authored several peer-reviewed articles on authors including Toni Morrison, Chang-rae Lee, and Cormac McCarthy in journals such as MELUS, Studies in the Novel, The New Americanist, and The Cormac McCarthy Journal.

Nominated twice as new Albion Teacher of the Year, she teaches numerous courses including Writing Essentials, College Writing, Dystopian Narratives, Reading Dangerously, African American Literature, Native American Literature, Divided Nations, The Problem of Race in U.S. Literature, and a “major authors” course on Toni Morrison.