EMILEE Brown
EmiLee Brown is a first-year PhD student in English at Auburn University, specializing in nineteenth-century American literature, feminist theory, and Southern cultural studies. Her research examines how American women writers construct—and often complicate—feminine spaces within their texts, attending to the constraints of gender, capitalism, and regional identity. She is particularly interested in archival methodologies and the intersections of feminist critique and southernness.
Current work and Recognition
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Fall 2025
Graduate Teaching Assistant at Auburn University
Fall 2023 – Spring 2025
Graduate Teaching Assistantship
Georgia State University First Year Writing Program
Fall 2022 – Fall 2024
Writing Studio Tutor
Georgia State University Writing Studio
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2025
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia
Panelist, "Southern Screens: TikTok, Digital Memory, and the Fragmented
Futures of Southern Identity."
2024
Southeastern Writing Center Association Conference, Atlanta, Georiga
“AI In the Writing Studio”
Southern Humanities Council and Conference, Savannah, Georgia
“‘The Wound That Never Heals’: Trauma, Collective Memory, and The
American South in Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir”
2023
Georgia State University Conference for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity, Atlanta, Georgia
Poster Presentation, “Digital Archives and Environmentally Sustainable
Digital Preservation”
2022
South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Atlanta, Georgia
Roundtable, “#SuffrageSyllabus Project”: Securing the Future of
Intersectional Citizenship
SWCA Conference, Memphis, TN
Accepted panel participant “Collaborative Writing in the Writing Studio”
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2024
“Emerson, Alcott, and Authorship: Transcendentalist Ideas in the Age of AI.” The Transparent Eyeball.
2025
"The Teenage Love Triangle": An Introduction to Fragmented Narrative." Teaching with Taylor: Pedagogical Approaches to Taylor Swift in the 21st Century Classroom. Accepted.
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President’s List Summer 2020 to Summer 2021, Spring 2022 and Spring 2023
Dean’s List Fall 2021
Nominated for the Upper-Level Writing Award Fall 2021
Awarded the Franz Fanon Book Scholarship Spring 2021
Nominated for the Eleanor M. Pratt Scholarship Spring 2021 and Fall 2021
Pedagogy Intern in English Composition II Fall of 2021
Participant of the GSU Research Conference 2021
English Department Ambassador Fall 2021-Spring 2022
Vice President of Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc Fall 2021, Xi Epsilon Graduate, Alumni, and Professional Chapter—Fall 2022 - Spring 2024
Conducted an Honors Thesis Spring 2022