Stewart Brown


Stewart Brown is an English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.

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.
He studied at Nottingham College of Education from 1969 to 1972, Falmouth School of Art from 1975 to 1978, the University of Sussex, and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth 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, he had several solo shows of paintings in Jamaica and the UK during the 1970s, and more recently his work has been exhibited in Birmingham, in Barbados, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and in Guyana. Also a poet, Brown received a Gregory Award in 1976 and has subsequently published four collections of poems, including Mekin Foolishness, Zinder and Lugard's Bridge.

Selected publications