Department of English

Nonfiction@Brown

Nonfiction@Brown is our annual lecture series celebrating the diverse voices that define this ever-more-popular and relevant genre.

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Our series honors working writers in various nonfiction genres, including literary reportage, lyric essay, personal essay, creative nonfiction, podcasting, journalism, and biography, amongst many others.

Upcoming

Spring 2027

Past Speakers

Spring 2026

Spring 2025

2023

Georgia Wright

6 Dec | Writing through the Kaleidoscope: Forming an Interdisciplinary Creative Practice

2022

2021

Vi Khi Nao

6 October | A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line

2019

Daniel Denvir

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