Stewart Brown

Dr. Stewart Brown (born 1951) is an English poet, academic, and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.

Life and Study
Stewart Brown was born in Southampton, U.K. He is an English-born lecturer in Caribbean and African culture, particularly Literature, at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. He studied at Nottingham College of Education (a forerunner of Trent University), Falmouth School of Art (now University College Falmouth), the University of Sussex, and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth (now Aberystwyth University). He is one of the foremost scholars of West Indian literature in the UK, and has edited several seminal works on the subject. Brown has taught at Bayero University, Nigeria, and at the University of the West Indies, at its Jamaica and Barbados campuses.

Poetry

 * Elsewhere: New and Selected Poems. Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 1999.

Non-fiction

 * Kiss and Quarrel: Yoruba/English Strategies of Mediation [ed.] (Birmingham: Birmingham University African Studies Series, 2000)
 * All Are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter (Leeds: Peepal Tree Press, 2000)
 * The Art of Kamau Brathwaite [ed.] (Seren, 1995).