David M. and Nancy L. Petrone Faculty Scholar
Established by David and Nancy Petrone in 1993 to support a senior faculty member, whose achievements in research and teaching are highly valued at the UO. The scholar will personify the mission of teaching, research and service to the university community.
Kirby Brown is an Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous literary and cultural production in the Department of English and the Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Oregon. He is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation.
Kirby received his PhD in English with a certificate in Native American and Indigenous Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2012. His research interests include Native American literary, intellectual, and cultural production from the late eighteenth century to the present, Indigenous critical theory, and studies in sovereignty/self-determination, nationhood/nationalism, modernism/modernity, and genre. Essays in contemporary Indigenous critical theory, constitutional criticism in Native literatures, and Native interventions in the Western and in Modernist Studies have appeared in a variety of venues including Studies in American Indian Literatures, The Routledge Companion to Native American Literature, Texas Studies in Language and Literatures, Western American Literature, and Modernism/modernity.
Read Brown's Biography and Resume here
Former Title Holders
Tara Fickle - Associate Professor of English (2019-2022)