Brian Norman

Brian Norman is the Dean of the Gwen Ifill College of Media, Arts, and Humanities at Simmons University. He has taught American and African American literature at Rutgers University, Fordham University, Idaho State University, and Loyola University in Baltimore, where he was the founding director of the program in African and African American Studies and also served as Associate Vice President for Faculty Affairs and Diversity. He is the author of Dead Women Talking: Figures of Injustice in American Literature (Johns Hopkins 2013), Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post-Civil Rights American Literature (Georgia 2010), and The American Protest Essay and National Belonging (SUNY 2007). With Piper Kendrix Williams, he also co-edited Representing Segregation: Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow (SUNY 2010).