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 2025

Sabrina Imbler · February 19

Pembroke Hall 305

Paisley Rekdal · March 19

Pembroke Hall 305

Ana Gonzalez · April 23

Pembroke Hall 305

Past Speakers

2023

Ross Gay

1 Nov | Inciting Joy

Maggie Millner

4 Oct | Couplets

Georgia Wright

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

2022

Maggie Nelson

2 Nov | On Freedom

Diana Khoi Nguyen

24 October | Lyrical Prose, and the Intimacy of a Sentence

Liza Yaeger

7 December | Listening as Action

2021

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich

1 December | Both and Neither

Sophie McKibben

3 November | Stories in Sound

Vi Khi Nao

6 October | A Bell Curve is a Pregnant Straight Line

2019

Amy Pickworth

8 November | Amy Pickworth for Nonfiction Now

Nora Khan

4 October | The Artificial and the Real

Francisco Cantú

18 October | The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the US-Mexico Border

Daniel Denvir

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