Home > People > Faculty : Robert L Brown Jr
Specialties
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cultural studies of science and technology
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rhetoric
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literacy and critical pedagogy
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theory and sociology of knowledge and taste
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popular culture
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culture and the environment
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education and institutions
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cultural ethnography
Publications
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Subject to interpretation: the role of research in writing programs and the politics of administration: Brown Jr, Robert L, Christopher Anson, Heineman, The Writing Program Administrator as Researcher: : Inquiry in Action and Reflection, 1999.
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Strategic Stories: how 3M is Re-writing its Planning Process: Brown Jr, Robert L, Gordon Shaw, Phillip Bromiley, Harvard Business Review, 1998.
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Storm in the Academy: Community Conflict and Spirituality in the Research University. Brown Jr, Robert L, The Academy and the Possibility of Belief, New York: Hampton, 1997.
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Beyond the Realm of Reason: Understanding the Extreme Environmental Rhetoric of the John Birch Sociey. Brown Jr, Robert L, Green Culture: Rhetorical Analyses of Environmental Discourse, Madison: University of Wisconsin UP, 1996.
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Marxist Rhetoric. Brown Jr, Robert L, 1996.
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Large-Scale Portfolio Assessment: Ideological Sensitivity And Institutional Change. Brown Jr, Robert L, Portfolios: New Ways To Evaluate Student Writing, New York: Boynton-Cook, 1991.
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Discourse Conventions And Literary Inference: Toward A Theoretical Model. Brown Jr, Robert L, Understanding Readers' Understanding: Theory And Practice, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1987.
Professional Activities
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Director, Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature Graduate Studies
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Director, University of Minnesota Humanities Institute
Awards
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College of Liberal Arts "Red" Motley Teaching Award, University of Minnesota
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Morse Amoco/Alumni Teaching Award, University of Minnesota
Courses Taught
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CL/CSDS 8910 - Pedagogy in Cultural Studies
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CSCL 1001 - Introduction to Cultural Studies: Rhetoric, Power, Desires
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CSCL 3910 - Rhetoric of Science/Rhetoric of Race
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CSCL 3910 - The Rhetoric of Everyday Life
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CSDS 8910 - Augusto Boal, Paulo Friere & Critical Pedagogy
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CSDS 8910 - Enthography as Cultural Critique
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CSCL 3331--Science and the Humanities
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