Office of the Dean of the Faculty

320 Lincoln Hall
CPO 2132
Phone: 859-985-3487
Fax: 859-985-3637

Office Hours:
M–F, 8:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
M–F, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m.

Contact:

Dr. Stephanie Browner

Dean of the Faculty; Professor of English

Lincoln, Room 320
CPO 1807

Office Hours: TBA

Phone: 859-985-3771
Fax: 859-985-3637

E-Mail:

At Berea College since 1994

Degrees
  • B.A., University of Chicago, 1981
  • M.A., Indiana University, 1988
  • Ph.D., Indiana University, 1994
Courses
  • ENG 130: American Texts
  • ENG 141: African-American Literature
  • ENG 201: Exposition
  • ENG 237: Women and Literature
  • ENG 244: The Modern Novel
  • ENG 285: Seminar in Literature
  • GST 100: Stories: Encountering Others Through Literature
  • GST 103: U.S. Traditions
  • GST 255: World Issues Since 1945: Global Cultures
  • GSTR 475: Christianity and Contemporary Culture: Embodiment and the Body in Religion, Literature and Film
Special Interests
Nineteenth-Century American Literature; Literature and Medicine; Literature and Technology; Postcolonial Literature; Modern and Postmodern Dance
 
Papers and Publications
  • Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America.  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. (Named an Outstanding Academic Title for 2005 by Choice Magazine.)
  • Literature and the Internet: A Guide for Students, Teachers and Scholars.  Co-authored with Stephen Pulsford and Richard Sears.  Routledge, 2000.
  • “Digital Humanities and the Study of Race and Ethnicity.”  The American Literature Scholar in the Digital Age.  Eds. Andrew Jewell and Amy Earhart.  (University of Michigan P., forthcoming 2009).
  • “Writing American Science and Gender.”  American Literary History 16 (2004): 509-519.
  • “Doctors, Bodies, and Fiction,” Blackwell Companion to American Fiction, 1780-1865, ed. Shirley Samuel (Blackwell, 2004).
  • "'Social Surgery': Uplift, Liberation, and Professionalism in Chesnutt."  FORECAAST: Black Liberation in the Americas, eds. Fritz Gysin, Christopher Mulvey (LitVerlag: Munich, Germany, 2002).
  • "Documenting Cultural Politics: A Putnam's Short Story."  PMLA March 2001.
  • "'Profound Science' and 'Elegant Literature': Doctors in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Periodical Fiction."  Texas Studies in Language and Literature, 42.4 (Winter 2000): 363-383.
  • "Ideologies of the Anesthetic: Professionalism, Egalitarianism, and the Ether Controversy." American Quarterly, March 1999.
Research Programs