Suzanne Brown, PhD

Suzanne Brown is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College, where she has taught since 1980. Her courses there have included Humanities, Contemporary American Literature, Women’s Studies, Critical Theory, and Creative Writing. Suzanne’s short stories and critical articles have appeared in such publications as The Southern Review, The Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly, and Modern Fiction Studies. She spent a year in Germany as a Fulbright Scholar and was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Hampshire Arts Council and residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell and Ragdale artist colonies. She holds a doctorate in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Suzanne attended the first Literature & Medicine workshop in Maine almost eight years ago and has been facilitating discussions in hospitals ever since. This year she is working with five hospitals, including leading a fourth year of discussions at the VA hospital in White River Junction, Vermont, and is the editor for Echoes of War, a new anthology of readings published by the Maine Humanities Council for the Literature & Medicine program. She lives with her husband in Etna, New Hampshire.