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Wesley Brown

Areas of Specialization

• Playwriting
• Theater history
• African American Studies

Interests

Research Interests: Playwriting and fiction

Favorite/Regular Courses Offered

• Seminar 1 and 2
• African American History through the Arts
• 20th-Century Women Playwrights

Biography

MA in Literature & Creative Writing, The City College of the City University of New York
BA in History & Political Science, State University of New York, Oswego

Wesley Brown is the author of three novels, as well as three produced plays. He is the co-editor of a fiction multicultural anthology Imagining America and a nonfiction multicultural anthology Visions of America, and he is editor of The Teachers & Writers Guide to Frederick Douglass. He is professor emeritus in English at Rutgers University (1979-2005) and was a Visiting Writer at Sarah Lawrence College in 2015. Mr. Brown has been teaching at Simon's Rock since 2007.

Highlights

• Dance of the Infidels, short story collection (forthcoming)
• Dark Meat on a Funny Mind, play (Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 2014)
• Push Comes to Shove, novel (2009)
• A Prophet Among Them, play (Blue Heron Theatre, 2001)
• Darktown Strutters, novel (1994)
• Life During Wartime, play (Nuyorican Poets Cafe, 1992)
• Boogie Woogie and Booker T, play (New Federal Theatre, 1987)
• Tragic Magic, novel (1978)