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Stephen Brown

Professor and Director of Theatre Emphasis Program
3M National Teaching Fellow
B.A., M.A. (Windsor), B.A., Ph.D. (Queen's), F.S.A. (Scot)

Affiliated Fellow of the Centre for the History of the Book
University of Edinburgh
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
3M Teaching Fellow
Honorary Lifetime Fellow of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education
Recipient of a CILIP Besterman McColvin Print Award (2012)

Champlain College K2, ext. 7421, swbrown@trentu.ca

 

Stephen Brown has been a 3M National Teaching Fellow and an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education since 1997. He holds a BA and an MA from the University of Windsor, and a BA and a PhD from Queen’s University, as well as having done postdoctoral work at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and has been a visiting professor at the Centre for the History of the Book and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh. In 2013, he was Ormiston Roy Fellow in Scottish Studies at the University of South Carolina. He has been a member of the English Literature Department at Trent University in Peterborough since 1985, often teaching in Oshawa, and was the Master of Champlain College at Trent from 1993 until 2009. He has published widely in the field of print culture and literacy, receiving a Besterman McColvin Award and a Michael Von Poser Society Edinburgh.

 

Videos

Watch Encyclopaedia Britannica 250th Anniversary Lecture: National Library of Scotland 

Watch Anticipating Wikipedia: William Smellie, The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and the First Media Revolution

Watch Tedx Talk 2016: Why Shakespeare

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Dr. Stephen Brown becomes permanent research affiliate with the Centre for the History of the Book

Thorah Central Public School Play (newspaper article)

Durham Catholic School Board Leadership Conference (video)

Dr. Stephen Brown’s Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland receives top international commendation

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