Department of English

Media

Media

2023

Ross Gay

1 November | As part of the Nonfiction@Brown reading series, Ross Gay reads from Inciting Joy.

Maggie Millner

4 October | As part of the Nonfiction@Brown reading series, Maggie Millner reads from her new book Couplets.

Nonfiction Awards Ceremony

The Annual Nonfiction Awards Readings (2023): Featuring Dylan Ines, Eliza Berman, Yuzhen Zou, Caelyn Pender, Gaya Gupta, and Benjamin Glickman.

Alumni Forum

The producers of Now Here This lead a conversation with Ana González (class of ‘15), Anna Martin (class of ‘16), and Liza Yaeger (class of ‘16) about making and pitching compelling stories as well as navigating the first steps out of school and into the professional world.

2022

2021

Vi Khi Nao

6 October | A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line

Dan Berry

8 February | Dan Barry | Nonfiction!@Brown | A Conversation and Q&A with Dan Barry

Jessica Pearce Rotondi

14 January | The Brown Club in New York | “What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers”

2020

2019

Amy Pickworth

8 November | Nonfiction!@Brown | Amy Pickworth for Nonfiction Now

Daniel Denvir

20 September | Nonfiction!@Brown | All American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It

Alissa Quart

11 February | Nonfiction!@Brown | Alissa Quart: Nonfiction at Brown Lecture Series

2018

Rory Kennedy '91

18 April | 18th Annual Casey Shearer Lecture | Social Impact and Storytelling through Documentary

Jimmie Briggs

5 March | Great Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | Far Away, So Close

2017

Jerald Walker

23 October | Great Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | Jerald Walker Talk

Ezra Edelman

24 April | Ezra Edelman, Director of Oscar-winning Documentary Series, “O.J.: Made in America” | 17th Annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture

David Shields

16 March | Writing Diversity Series | Other People: Takes and Mistakes

2016

Ted Gup

18 October | Writing Diversity Series | Diversity, Prejudice and The Open Mind: One Journalist's Personal Struggle

2015

Rachel Aviv

4 November | Great Nonfiction Writers’ Lecture Series | Writing about Marginalized People

Karen Crouse

15 April | Brown Daily Herald | Times reporter shares insight on a career path in sportswriting

Michael Stewart

15 June | MacArthur Foundation - DML Central | Reformatting Traditional Literature

2014

Doug Anderson

29 October | Seeing What is There: Creative Nonfiction, or the Poetics of Reality

Mark Feeney

4 November | President in the Dark: Writing "Nixon at the Movies"

Alan Lightman

25 February | Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | Science Writing

Kevin Rose

20 February | NPR - Planet Money | What It Was Like To Be A Wall Street Recruit After The Bailouts

2013

Amitava Kumar

17 October | Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | You Have to be a Terrible Monster to Write

S.L. Wisenberg

21 November | Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | Not Me: Creative Nonfiction Without the ‘I’

Jeff Zimbalist

5 April | Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture

Mitchell Zuckoff

12 February | Hiding in Plain Sight and Telling True Stories that Other Writers Overlook

2011

Deak Nabers

2011 | TEDx Brown University | If Students Are Customers, What's the Bottom Line?