British poet and academic (born 1951)
Stewart Brown (born 1951 in Southampton, UK)[1] is an English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.[2]
Life and study
Brown is an English-born lecturer in Caribbean and African culture, particularly Literature, at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, since 1988, and has also spent periods teaching in schools and universities in Jamaica, Nigeria, Wales and Barbados.[2]
He studied at Nottingham College of Education (a forerunner of Nottingham Trent University) from 1969 to 1972, Falmouth School of Art (now Falmouth University) from 1975 to 1978, the University of Sussex (1978–79), and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University) from 1982 to 1987.
One of the foremost scholars of West Indian literature in the UK, Brown has edited several seminal works on the subject. He has taught at Bayero University, Nigeria, and at the Jamaica and Barbados campuses of the University of the West Indies.
As an artist, in the 1970s he had several solo shows of paintings in Jamaica and the UK, and more recently his work has been exhibited in Birmingham, in Barbados, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and in Guyana. Also a poet, he received a Gregory Award in 1976 and has subsequently published four collections of poems, including Mekin Foolishness (1981), Zinder (1986) and Lugard's Bridge (1989).[3]
