Faculty
Stuart C. Brown
Professor
Email:
sbrown@nmsu.edu
Office Address:
New Mexico State University
Department of English
P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3E
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Phone:
(575) 646-2413
Fax:
(575) 646-7725
Education
- PhD (1990), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- MFA (1986), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Biographical Statement
University of Arizona PhD (1990) and MFA (1986). At NMSU since 1990, I teach and write on a variety of topics in addition to the administrative role I play. Currently, I am working on a couple of book projects: a writing textbook for emergency responders and an edited collection on medical rhetoric with Barbara Heifferon. This work stems from being a firefighter and an EMT with a volunteer fire department.
Teaching Emphases and Research Interests
History and theories of rhetoric, rhetorical criticism, medical rhetoric, technologies and rhetoric, environmental rhetoric, creative nonfiction, communications ethics, research methods, business and technical communication, writing program adminstration.
Courses Commonly Taught
- ENGL 111G: Rhetoric and Composition
- ENGL 218G and 318 G: Technical and Professional Communication
- ENGL 394G: Southwestern Literature
- ENGL 419/519: Modern Rhetorical Theory
- ENGL 422/522: Genre: Nature Writing
- ENGL 448/548: Research Methods in Composition
- ENGL 478: Document Design
- ENGL 510: Introduction to Graduate Studies Studies in English
- ENGL 518: History of Rhetoric
- ENGL 520: Advanced Composition Workshop
- ENGL 546: Professing Ethics and Ethos in Rhetoric and Professional Communication
- ENGL 549/649: Rhetorical Criticism
- ENGL 571: Composition Theory and Pedagogy
Selected Publications
The Writing Program Administrator's Resource with Theresa Enos. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.
Special Issue on Medical Rhetoric, coedited with Barbara Hefferon. Technical Communication Quarterly, 9.3 (Summer 2000): 245-345.
Special Issue on Doctoral Program in Rhetoric and Composition, with Rebecca Jackson and Theresa Enos. Rhetoric Review (Spring 2000).
Living Rhetoric and Composition: Stories of the Discipline. Coedited with Duane Roen and Theresa Enos. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Earlbaum Assoc., 1999 [with essay "Have Rhetoric, Will Travel"].
The Writer's Toolbox. With Robert K. Mittan and Duane H. Roen. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1997.
"Crafting a Public Image: An Empirical Study of the Ethics of Ghostwriting." With Linda Riley. Journal of Business Ethics, 1996. 465-77.
"Joseph Wood Krutch." American Nature Writers. Ed. John Elder. Scribner's, 1996. 465-77.
Green Culture: Environmental Rhetoric in Contemporary America. Coedited with Carl Herndl. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1996.
"Grammar and Voice in the Teaching of Creative Writing: A Conversation." With Robert Boswell and Kevin McIlvoy. The Place of Grammar in Writing Instruction: Past, Present, Future. Ed. Susan Hunter and Ray Wallace. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995. 159-75.
"Rhetoric, Ethical Codes, and the Revival of Ethos in Publications Management." Publications Management: Essays for Professional Communicators. Ed. Jane Allen and Lynn H. Deming. Amityville, NY: Baywood, 1994. 189-200
"Doctoral Programs in Rhetoric and Composition." With Theresa Enos and Paul Meyer. Rhetoric Review 12.2 (Spring 1994): 240-389.
Professing the New Rhetorics: A Sourcebook. Coedited with Theresa Enos. Boston: Blair P, 1994.
Defining the New Rhetorics: Essays on Twentieth-Century Rhetoric. Coeditor with Theresa Enos. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1993.
"I. A. Richards' New Rhetoric." Rhetoric Review 10 (Spring 1992): 218-31.
"George Campbell's Audience: Historical and Theoretical Considerations." With Thomas Willard. A Sense of Audience in Written Communication. Ed. Gesa Kirsch and Duane Roen. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1990.
Professional Statement
Since discovering the study of rhetoric in my first year teaching composition at the University of Arizona, I've wanted a business card that reads "Have Rhetoric, Will Travel." Or perhaps one that reads, as students report sometimes after taking a course with me, "It's all rhetoric." Either way, the rhetoricalness of the world pervades what I teach and what I study.