Dr. Drea Brown

  • Associate Professor at English, College of Liberal Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2024

  • brown, drea. (n.d.). “The Afterlives of Phillis Wheatley.” In B. Mccaskill, S. Ruffing Robbins, & M. Narain (Eds.), The Genius of Phillis Wheatley. Scotland: Edinburgh UniversityPress.
  • brown, drea. (2024). How Strangely Changed: Phillis Wheatley in Niobean Memory. In M. Telo & A. Benjamin (Eds.), Niobes: Antiquity, Modernity, Critical Theory. Columbus, OH, US: The Ohio State University.

2023

  • brown, drea. (2023). karintha at dusk noon and midnight. In Anne deMarcken, D. Exavier, & C. Syrah (Eds.), Cane: A New Critical Edition & Oracle Deck. The 3rd Thing Press.
  • Brown, drea. (n.d.). CONJURING THE HAINT: THE HAUNTING POETICS OF BLACK WOMEN. Jackson, Mississippi, US: UNIVERSITY PRESS OF MISSISSIPPI.

2021

  • 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
  • Brown, drea N., & Lara, `Ana Maurine. (2021). Introduction: Nothing Without Intention. In Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature. University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Brown, drea N., & Lara, A. M. (Eds.). (2021). Appendix B: The Infiniphonic B Sides. In Teaching Black: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature (pp. 281–300). Pittsburgh, PA, US: University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • 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

2020

  • brown, drea. (2020). american sonnet: a primer for phillis. About Place Journal. Black Earth, WI, US: the Black Earth Institute. Retrieved from https://aboutplacejournal.org/
  • brown, drea. (2020). difficult miracle of black magic in america. About Place Journal. Black Earth, WI: Black Earth Institute. Retrieved from https://aboutplacejournal.org/
  • brown, drea. (2020). what matters if not breath. About Place Journal. Black Earth, WI, US: The Black Earth Institute. Retrieved from https://aboutplacejournal.org/
  • Brown, A. N. (2020). The Multiple Truths in the Works of Enslaved Poet Phillis Wheatley. Smithsonian Magazine. Smithsonian Magazine.
  • brown, drea. (2020). "A Bold Anthology Shows how R-G-H-T and W-R-I-T-E Come Together in Black Poetry. Smithsonian Magazine. Washington D.C., US: Smithsonian Magazine.
  • brown, drea. (2020). “The Phillis Wheatley Poem that Would Not Let Me Go.” Los Angeles, CA, US: Zocalo Public Square. Retrieved from https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/

2015

  • brown, drea. (2015). dear girl: a reckoning. Los Angeles, CA, US: Gold Line Press.

2014

  • brown, drea. (2014). from the purple letters. In Cave Canem Anthology XIII: Poems 2010-2011. Detroit, US: Willow Books.
  • brown, drea. (2014). bop:deviled. Southern Indiana Review. Evansville, IN, US: Southern Indiana Review. Retrieved from https://www.usi.edu/sir

2013

  • brown, drea. (2013). what we been knowing. In Stand Our Ground: Poems for Trayvon Martin and Marissa Alexander. Freedom Seed Press.

2012

  • brown, drea. (2012). me and punkin and all dem. In Cave Canem Anthology XII: Poems 2008-2009. Detroit, MI, US: Willow Books.