Deborah Brown is an Associate Professor of English. She joined the University of Central Oklahoma's English Department in August 2000 after teaching five years as an Assistant Professor at Ohio University (Athens, OH). She received her Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma in 1994. Dr. Brown's degree program in Instructional Leadership and Academic Curriculum focused on English Education, and her qualitative dissertation investigated the sociocultural and academic factors that played a part in three females' writing experiences as they made a transition into a university and progressed through their first two years of study.
Dr. Brown's other teaching experiences before joining the faculty at UCO include the following: one year as an Assistant Professor at Pittsburg State University (Pittsburg, KS); four years as an adjunct instructor at Southern Nazarene University (Bethany, OK) while in graduate school; and 11 years as a secondary English and journalism teacher in Oklahoma, Texas, and Florida.
At UCO, Dr. Brown teaches courses in literature and composition. She also supervises residency teachers. Dr. Brown currently serves as a member of the Faculty Senate and as First Vice-President of the Oklahoma Council of Teachers of English.
Dr. Brown’s most recent publications include (a) articles on Henry Dumas and Lance Jeffers for An Encyclopedia of African American Literature (edited by Hans Ostrom and J. David Macey) to be published in the Fall of 2005 and (b) articles on Louisa May Alcott, Mary Mapes Dodge, Samuel Woodworth and Clement Clark Moore for the seven-volume Greenwood Encylopedia of American Poetry (edited by Jeffrey H. Gray, James McCorkel and Mary Balkum) to be published in early 2006.
Other publications by Dr. Brown include a chapter entitled "Kaffir Boy: A Rationale" in N. Karolides’s Censored Books: Critical Viewpoints, Vol. II (2002) and articles in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy, Ohio Journal of the English Language, Wisconsin English Journal, and FOCUS: Teaching English Language Arts. She co-authored (with a colleague at Eastern Kentucky University) two articles published in an on-line, peer-reviewed journal Karios, and she was the lead editor of the "Annonated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English" twice yearly for Research in the Teaching of English for six years, May 1997- May 2003.
National conferences where Dr. Brown has given presentations include the National Council of Teacher of English Annual Conventions, the Conference on College Composition and Communication Annual Conferences, and NCTE Professional Development Conferences. Dr. Brown’s regional conference presentations include the South Central Modern Language Association Conference (2004), the Southwest International Reading Association Conference (2003, 2002), the Mid-West Modern Language Conference (2001, 2000), and the Rocky Mountain Educational Research Associational Research Association Fall Conference. State conference presentations include the Ohio Council of Teachers of English Fall and Spring Conventions and the Missouri State Council of the Reading Association's Fall Conference.
