Graduate Program in English
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6624
Fax: 910.775.4092
Email: maee@uncp.edu
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Monika
C. Brown, Professor Email: monika.brown@uncp.edu Phone: 910.521.6257 Office: Dial Humanities 110 Web Site: www.uncp.edu/home/monika/ |
EDUCATION
B.A., University of Georgia
Ph.D., Duke University
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Dr. Monika Brown, Professor of English, has been on the UNC Pembroke faculty since 1982. She teaches British literature, world literature, composition, and English education, including advanced and graduate courses on The British Novel, Literature and Arts, The Victorian Age, and The Teaching of Writing. She has offered an online literature course and maintains web links pages on topics of interest to English teachers. Her past teaching was in an Atlanta high school, at Winthrop University, and at the University of Münster, Germany. In 1997 she received a UNC Pembroke Outstanding Teaching Award.
Dr. Brown's research interests include the nineteenth-century British novel and criticism of the novel, nineteenth-century British and European literature and culture, adaptations of literature into film and opera, the teaching of literature, and the teaching of writing, especially argument and research papers. She has participated in NEH-sponsored seminars on literature and music, Goethe's Faust, and realist fiction, and has presented papers on literature and pedagogy at state and national conferences including CCCC and NCETA. Her published essays are on a variety of literary topics: Joseph Conrad’s short fiction in the Dictionary of Literary Biography; George Eliot’s readers in the Victorians Institute Journal; Victorian fiction criticism in Victorian Britain and The Yearbook of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Fine Arts; and film adaptations of The Turn of the Screw in Mosaic. Her articles on literature pedagogy appear in the CEA Critic and in the Modern Language Association's Approaches to Teaching “Madame Bovary” and Approaches to Teaching “The Turn of the Screw” and “Daisy Miller” (in press). She is currently studying narrative strategies in Polanski’s Tess and Gounod's opera Faust in its cultural context.
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