Mark Brown, PhD

Biography

I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where I received my BA from Samford University. I earned my MA and PhD from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. I have served on the faculty at Jamestown College/University of Jamestown for over thirty years.

My Favorite Course to Teach

I enjoy teaching any course with poetry in it, and English Literature since 1785 covers three eras of it. If I had to choose a favorite course, I suppose it would be this one.

Scholarly and Creative Works

• “Language, Symbol, and ‘Non-Symbolic Fact’ in D. G. Rossetti’s ‘The Woodspurge.’” Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, vol. 19, 2019, pp. 243–263.
• “‘The Storm Cone’: Prophecy or Forecast?” The Kipling Journal, vol. 89, no. 360, 2015, pp. 7–17.
• “‘Slipp’d from Oblivion’: Atavism, Archaism, and Allusion in Robert Bridges’ ‘Low Barometer.’” Revisiting the Past Through Rhetorics of Memory and Amnesia: Selected Papers from the 50th Meeting of the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba and North Dakota, edited by Dale Sullivan et al., Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010, pp. 203–212.
• “Music and Lyrics by Ivor Gurney.” The Ivor Gurney Society Journal, vol. 3, 1997, pp. 25–36.
• “Hopkins and Gurney Again.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review, vol. 85, no. 338, 1996, pp. 108–115.
• “Ivor Gurney and Edward Thomas: A Distinction.” PN Review, vol. 22, no. 2, 1995, pp. 43–47.
• “‘A Style So Worn and Bare’: Pheidias, Praxiteles, and the ‘ERWS’ of Robert Bridges.” Dalhousie Review, vol. 73, no. 4, 1993–94, pp. 512–526.

Awards and Grants

• Young Alumni Mentor Medallion, University of Jamestown, 2021
• Professor of the Year, Jamestown College, 1995

Professional Organizations and Memberships

• Midwest Modern Language Association
• Kipling Society