Department of English

Dr. Sonya C. Brown
Associate Professor

Office:  Butler Building 388A
Phone:  (910) 672-1861
Email:   scbrown@uncfsu.edu

Education

Ph.D., English Language and Literature, University of Maryland, 2005.

M.A., English Language and Literature, Auburn University, 1998.

B.A., English Language and Literature, Auburn University, 1996.

Publications

Brown, Sonya C. "The Rhetorical Vision of the Weight Loss Narrative." Forthcoming from Journal of Popular Culture.

Brown, Sonya C. "Does This Book Make Me Look Fat?" Journal for the Study of Popular Romance Mar 2011, 1(2). jprstudies.org/2011/03/does-this-book-make-me-look-fat/

French, Sandra and Brown, Sonya C. "It's All Your Fault: Kenneth Burke, Symbolic Action, and The Assigning of Guilt and Blame to Women." Southern Journal of Communication Jan-Mar 2011, 76(1), 1-16.

Brown, Sonya C. "An Obscure Middle Ground: Size Acceptance Narratives and Photographs of 'Real' Women. Feminist Media Studies Jul 2005. 5(2), 246-249.

Brown, S., Colson, E., Fahnestock, J., Secor, M. Chapters 10 and 11 on "Finding Sources to Support Your Claim" and "Using Sources to Support Your Claim". A Rhetoric of Argument, 3/e. McGraw-Hill Humanities, 2003.