Stephanie Brown is the author of The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950 (2011) and co-editor, with Éva Tettenborn, of Engaging Tradition, Making It New: Essays on Teaching Recent African American Literature (2008). She has also published numerous articles on African American literature and culture. Her most recent publications blend her work with study abroad programs in Berlin with theoretical explorations of the issues of cosmopolitanism and student engagement. Brown is presently at work on a book-length study of genre blurring in twenty-first-century historical and speculative fiction.