Department of English

Media

2022

2021

6 October | A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line
8 February | Dan Barry | Nonfiction!@Brown | A Conversation and Q&A with Dan Barry
14 January | The Brown Club in New York | “What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family’s Search for Answers”

2020

2019

8 November | Nonfiction!@Brown | Amy Pickworth for Nonfiction Now
20 September | Nonfiction!@Brown | All American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It
11 February | Nonfiction!@Brown | Alissa Quart: Nonfiction at Brown Lecture Series

2018

18 April | 18th Annual Casey Shearer Lecture | Social Impact and Storytelling through Documentary
5 March | Great Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | Far Away, So Close

2017

23 October | Great Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | Jerald Walker Talk
24 April | Ezra Edelman, Director of Oscar-winning Documentary Series, “O.J.: Made in America” | 17th Annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture
16 March | Writing Diversity Series | Other People: Takes and Mistakes

2016

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

2015

4 November | Great Nonfiction Writers’ Lecture Series | Writing about Marginalized People
15 April | Brown Daily Herald | Times reporter shares insight on a career path in sportswriting
15 June | MacArthur Foundation - DML Central | Reformatting Traditional Literature

2014

29 October | Seeing What is There: Creative Nonfiction, or the Poetics of Reality
4 November | President in the Dark: Writing "Nixon at the Movies"
25 February | Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | Science Writing
20 February | NPR - Planet Money | What It Was Like To Be A Wall Street Recruit After The Bailouts

2013

17 October | Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | You Have to be a Terrible Monster to Write
21 November | Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | Not Me: Creative Nonfiction Without the ‘I’
5 April | Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series | Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture
12 February | Hiding in Plain Sight and Telling True Stories that Other Writers Overlook

2011

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