Faculty Profile for Dr. Drea Brown

Biography Section
Biography and Education
drea brown is a queer Black feminist poet-scholar whose writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Stand Our Ground: Poems for Marissa Alexander and Trayvon Martin, the Smithsonian Magazine, Southern Indiana Review, Bellingham Review and About Place Journal. drea is the author of dear girl: a reckoning, winner of the Gold Line Press 2014 chapbook prize, and co-editor of Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature (2021). Their current research explores the role of haunting in Black women’s literature and lived experiences.Education:
BA Hollins University, English & Creative Writing
MFA University of Oregon, Poetry & Poetics, Women & Gender Studies
PhD African& African Diaspora Studies, Women& Gender Studies
Teaching Interests
Black women's literary traditions, Black feminisms, poetry and poetics, race & haunting/horrorResearch Interests
Black women's literary traditions, Black feminisms, poetry and poetics, hauntingSelected Scholarly/Creative Work
- brown, drea, & Lara, A. M. (Eds.). (2021). Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature. Pittsburgh, PA, US: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- brown, drea. (2021). “Conjuring the Ghost: A Call and Response to Haints.” Hypatia Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 36(Special Issue-Conjure Feminisms: Tracing the Genealogy of a Black Women’s Intellectual Tradition), 485–502. https://doi.org/:10.1017/hyp.2021.41
- brown, drea. (2015). dear girl: a reckoning. Los Angeles, CA, US: Gold Line Press.
- brown, drea. (2021). A Question of Victory: Teaching Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. In Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature (pp. 117–124). Pittsburgh, PA, US: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- brown, drea. (2021). new years’ ghosts. Bellingham Review. Bellingham, WA, US: Bellingham Review. Retrieved from www.bhreview.org
Selected Awards
- Award / Honor Nominee: Best of the Net: Poetry, About Place Journal. October 2021 - Present
- Award / Honor Nominee: Pushcart Prize, About Place Journal. November 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Merit Award, Bryant University. May 7, 2020
- Award / Honor Recipient: Deans List Honoree, UT Austin. 2016
- Award / Honor Recipient: Gold Line Press Chapbook Prize, Gold Line Press. 2015
Selected Service Activities
Member
Children's Literature Search Committee
November 2022-Present
Organizer
Black Women Writers Series
March 2022-Present
Reader
MA Literature Exams
October 2021-Present
Member
Black Studies Writing Group
January 2020-Present
Coordinator / Organizer
Mentorship
August 2015-Present