Adjunct Assistant Professor of English

Office: Olin 233
Telephone: (509) 527-5416
Fax: 509-527-5039
email: brownjp@whitman.edu

Julie Phillips Brown graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 2005 with a B.A. in English, Fine Arts, and Visual Studies, as well as an M.A. in English Literature. At Cornell University, she pursued a joint-degree M.F.A./Ph.D. program in Creative Writing and English Literature, and subsequently earned an M.F.A. in poetry (2008) and a Ph.D. in English Literature (2011). Her teaching and research interests include modern and contemporary poetry, poetics, and literature; cross-genre, multi-ethnic, and transnational approaches to literature; theory and history of the avant-garde; visual art and literature; digital technology and literature; feminist and gender studies; and creative writing (prose, poetry, and non-fiction). At Whitman, she teaches introductory courses in poetry and language & writing.

Professor Brown’s article, “’touch in transit’: manifestation/manifestacíon in Cecilia Vicuña’s cloud-net” is forthcoming in the December 2011 issue of Contemporary Women’s Writing (Oxford UP). Her manuscript of poems, The Adjacent Possible, placed as a finalist and semi-finalist in 2010 for the Colorado Prize for Poetry and the Cleveland State University First Book Competition, respectively. Her essays and poems have appeared lately in issues of Columbia Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Webconjunctions, Kblog from Kelsey Street Press, and delirious hem.