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Stephen G. Brown Literary Papers (MS-01090)

Abstract

The Stephen G. Brown Literary Papers (approximately 1974-2020) consist of the literary work of University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) professor Stephen G. Brown. The collection contains journals, sketch books, published and unpublished manuscripts, and literary criticism articles written by Brown. Collection also includes digital files relating to Brown's work as an author.

Finding Aid PDF

Date

1974 to 2020

Extent

12.63 Cubic Feet (20 boxes)
10.83 Linear Feet
586 digital_files (0.112 GB) PDF/A

Related People/Corporations

Scope and Contents Note

The Stephen G. Brown Literary Papers (approximately 1974-2020) consist of the literary work of University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) professor Stephen G. Brown. The collection contains journals, sketch books, published and unpublished manuscripts, and literary criticism articles written by Brown. Collection also includes digital files relating to Brown's work as an author. Brown's primary areas of scholarship include comparative literature, environmental literature, and rhetoric and writing.

Access Note

Collection is open for research. Where use copies do not exist, production of use copies is required before access will be granted; this may delay research requests. Advanced notice is required.

Publication Rights

Materials in this collection may be protected by copyrights and other rights. See Reproductions and Use on the UNLV Special Collections and Archives website for more information about reproductions and permissions to publish. Some transcripts do not exist in final form, therefore any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked.

Arrangement

Materials are grouped by topic.

Biographical / Historical Note

Stephen G. Brown is an English professor and author of three books: Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands (2000), Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime (2004), and The Radical Pedagogy of Socrates and Freire: Ancient Rhetoric/Radical Praxis (2012). Brown received his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from the University of South Florida in 1997. He worked at the University of Tampa in Florida from 1997 to 2002, then relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada where he worked from 2002 to 2012 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). In 2007, he received the Barrick Scholar Award for outstanding scholarship.

Source:

"Curriculum Vita, Stephen G. Brown." UNLV Department of English. Accessed February 7, 20222. https://www.unlv.edu/people/stephen-g-brown

Preferred Citation

Stephen G. Brown Literary Papers, approximately 1974-2020. MS-01090. Special Collections and Archives, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Las Vegas, Nevada.

Acquisition Note

Materials were donated in 2022 by Stephen G. Brown; accession numbers 2022-005.

2019-160.

Processing Note

In 2022, Sarah Jones rehoused the collection and wrote the description in ArchivesSpace.

Resource Type

Papers

Collection Type

EAD ID

US::NvLN::MS01090

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