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Stephen G. Brown is a Full Professor in the Department of English at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where he joined as Assistant Professor in 2002, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006, and to Full Professor in 2012. He previously served as Assistant Professor and Director of First-Year Writing at the University of Tampa from 1997 to 2002. Brown directed First-Year Writing at UNLV from 2002 to 2011 and chaired the Composition Committee from 2002 to 2012. His administrative contributions include membership on the Graduate Committee, Advising Committee, WAC Steering Committee, and chairing search committees and task forces on remediation and preparedness. Brown earned his Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of South Florida in 1997, where he also received his M.A. in 1993, and holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Brown's research specializations include multicultural literacies, classical rhetoric, eco-composition, radical pedagogy, contemporary theory, environmental literature, nature writing, modern comparative literature with a focus on Hemingway and Proust, and composition theory. He is the author of Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands (SUNY Press, 2000), recipient of the W. Ross Winterowd Award in 2001; The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime (SUNY Press, 2004); and The Radical Pedagogy of Socrates and Freire: Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis (Routledge, 2012). He co-edited Ethnography Unbound: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis (SUNY Press, 2004) and authored Writing Across the Curriculum: A Pocket Reader (Prentice Hall, 2005). Brown received the Barrick Scholar Award from UNLV in 2007, the Alice Hearne Award for Outstanding Dissertation from the University of South Florida in 1997, and the Estelle J. Zbar Teaching Award in 1993. His teaching interests encompass American nature writing, modern comparative literature, Hemingway and Proust, composition theory, and advanced composition.