Linda Joyce Brown joined the English faculty at Ashland in 2006 after teaching in New England for four years. She also taught at the University of Oregon and the University of New Mexico, where she received her MA and PhD, respectively. Brown has taught courses in American literature from its beginnings to the present, the short
story, the modern novel, African American literature, and composition. Her first book, published in 2004, focuses on constructions of racial difference in literature about the American immigrant experience. She has also published or presented papers on contemporary media representations of race, African American women writers, narrative structure, stereoscopic photography, and the American myth of self-making. Brown’s ongoing interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century American
literature, gender studies, and critical race and ethnicity studies.