Professor
Dr. Christina Riley Brown, professor of English, holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi. Dr. Riley Brown鈥檚 expertise includes Early American literature, the history of print culture, and literature of the American South.
During her academic career at 私房俱乐部 University, Dr. Riley Brown has served in numerous administrative roles, including as Chair of English Department, Interim Dean of Business, Associate Dean, and then Dean of the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences for six years. She co-edited the anthology Liberty's Captives: Narratives of Confinement in the Print Culture of the Early Republic (2006) from the University of Georgia Press, a collection of critically introduced first-person narratives that contributed to the formation and articulation of national identity.聽
She is a faculty advisor for Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society. She serves as a peer reviewer for national grants.
- Ph.D., University of Mississippi, 2005
- M.A., English, University of Mississippi, 1998
- B.A., English, University of Arkansas, 1995
- Early American Literature
- The American Renaissance
- Narrative Theory and Contemporary Storytelling
- Literature of the American South
- COMP 120: Research and Writing
- ENG 200: Video Games as Narrative
- ENG 205: Introduction to the English Major
- ENG 251: Early American Literature
- ENG 253: American Renaissance
- ENG 292: Film Narrative & Theory
- ENG 351: Southern Literature
- Video game narratives and environmental storytelling聽
- Early American print culture
- Textual depictions of captivity and liberty聽
- Early American women鈥檚 writing
- 鈥淭rial Records as History and Narrative: 聽The NY Manumission Society鈥檚 Record of Amos Broad鈥 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2015. 聽
- 鈥淔rom Gone Home to GamerGate: Women鈥檚 Stories in Gaming.鈥 Penn State Behrend Gender Conference, Erie, PA, 2014.
- 鈥淪ervice Learning in the IDST Classroom鈥 South Central MLA Conference, New Orleans. November 2013.
- 鈥淲hite Trash: Reading Trauma in the Work of Dorothy Allison.鈥 Society for the Study of Southern Literature. Arlington, Virginia 2012.聽
- 鈥淭he Architecture of Home: Domestic Designs for American Women.鈥 20th Annual American Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA. 聽March 2011.
- Liberty鈥檚 Captives: Narratives of Confinement in the Print Culture of the Early Republic. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006. Associate Editor