Ph.D. in English and American Literature, University of South Carolina, 2020
M.A. in English, Gannon University, 2009
B.S. in English/Secondary Education Track, Towson University, 2001
After teaching in the eastern and southwestern U.S., Dr. Kristen Brown joined Northern's faculty in 2022. While earning her Ph.D. in English and American Literature at The University of South Carolina, she taught composition, literature, and ethics courses while designing her own minor in Indigenous studies with emphasis on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her research was funded in part by the national Bilinski Dissertation Fellowship.
Dr. Brown's teaching and research often focus on Indigenous perspectives and environmental themes. In addition to scholarship published in Western American Literature and Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, she recently published a chapter offering pedagogical approaches to the works of Dakota author-activist Charles Eastman/Ohiyesa. She is currently co-editing and contributing to a collection titled Land Management in North American Literature and Culture: From Resource to Reciprocity, which is forthcoming from Routledge’s Environmental Humanities Series (2026).
Courses Taught
ENGL 101 Composition I
ENGL 201 Composition II
ENGL 210 Introduction to Literature
ENGL 213 Backgrounds to Literature: Native American Literatures
ENGL 215 Literature in Global Contexts
ENGL 242 American Literature II
ENGL 258 Literature and Culture
ENGL 363 Sci-Fi and Worldbuilding
ENGL 490/590 Seminar
Research Interests Indigenous studies, the long nineteenth century, sensory/sound studies, environmental ethics, settler colonialism, queer ecologies