Department of English

Media

Media

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?