Robert A. Brown

Education

Biola University, B. A. in English, 2016; California State University, Fullerton, M.A. in English, 2019

Research Interests

Robert’s research interests include 19th and 20th-century American literature and history, particularly from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement; Classical reception in American literature; Education; Moral, communal, and civic formation; Moral philosophy and virtue ethics; Place; Public theology; Rhetoric and composition; Small-town short-story cycles 

Selected Publications

BOOK REVIEWS: James E. Caron, Satire as the Comic Public Sphere: Postmodern “Truthiness” and Civic Engagement, Pennsylvania State UP, 2021. 
Reviewed for Mark Twain Journal, vol. 60, no. 2, Fall 2022, pp. 180–181. Calvin Pritner, Mark Twain & Me: Unlearning Racism, Lulu.com, 2021. 
Reviewed for Mark Twain Journal, vol. 60, no. 1, Spring 2022, pp. 166–67. 
PUBLIC WRITING “The Dead Speak!: Reading with the Jedi.” Mere Orthodoxy, November 8, 2023.

Courses Taught

English 2310: American Literary Cultures
English 1310: Writing and Academic Inquiry

Awards

Conyers Scholar, Graduate School, Baylor University, 2024–2025
Mary Kay Crouch Outstanding Graduate Student Scholarship, Department of English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics, California State University, Fullerton, May 2018
Inez McGahey Award for Excellence in Literary Scholarship, Department of English, Biola University, May 2016