Peter Brown

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., English, University of Southern Mississippi
M.A., Creative Writing, University of Southern Mississippi
B.A., Latin American Studies, University of New Mexico

Office: 412 College of Liberal Arts Building
Phone: 601.979.5871
E-mail: p.brown@jsums.edu

Professor Peter Brown has his doctoral degree from the University of Southern Mississippi , where he studied Creative Writing, Diffidence, and Rhetoric and Composition. His fiction has been published in The Mississippi Review, The Georgetown Review, Third Coast and Segue.  

In addition to his fiction and teaching experience, Professor Brown is something of a Cervantine scholar. He is especially interested in the post-modern aspects of Don Quixote. He is also extremely knowledgeable in Contemporary American literature with a focus on Raymond Carver and other minimalist writers. Other contemporary authors who interest him are: DeLillo, Rushdie, Vonnegut, and Saunders.  

Professor Brown’s Composition classes are difficult. Although his assignments are few, he relies extensively upon the teachings of Kenneth Bruffee, Muriel Harris, and Mina Shaughnessy to encourage students to work together and do extensive revisions of early drafts of their papers. Dr. Brown also requires very exigent and demanding research assignments for the English 105 requirement at JSU.

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