DR. KEVIN BROWN

Professor of English

Dr. Kevin Brown is a professor of English in the Department of Language and Literature at Lee.

Brown has published one full-length collection of poems, Exit Lines, as well as two chapbooks: Abecedarium and Holy Days: Poems (winner of the Split Oak Press Chapbook Competition). He has also published a memoir, Another Way: Finding Faith, Then Finding It Again. His poems have been published in The New York Quarterly, REAL: Regarding Arts and Letters, Connecticut Review, South Carolina Review, Stickman Review, Atlanta Review, and Palimpsest, among other journals.

Brown received his PhD in English from the University of Mississippi and his master's degree in English from East Tennessee State University. He has a second master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Alabama and a bachelor’s degree in English from Milligan College. He is currently working on a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Murray State University.

Brown is the only member of Lee’s faculty ever to be awarded each of three major faculty awards: Excellence in Advising (’10), Excellence in Scholarship (’11), and Excellence in Teaching (’12).