256.765.5005 UNA Box 5176 Lafayette G3 Academic Affairs Professor, English Director of the UNA Honors Program Email: vjbrewton@una.edu

Nineteenth and Twentieth century American literature; Southern literature; and literary theory

Research, teaching, and other interests:

• Research and teaching interests include representations of social and economic class/vacation culture, narratives of American business, rural to urban southern narratives, and the rhetoric of leadership and change.
• “Inscribing Core Values into a Historicized Reading of Franklin’s Autobiography.”
• “Walter Inglis Anderson” in A Unique Slant of Light, A Bicentennial History of Art in Louisiana.
• “Cleanth Brooks.” in Digital Encyclopedia of Louisiana History and Culture.
• “The Changing Landscape of Violence in Cormac McCarthy's Early Novels and the Border Trilogy.”

Courses Taught:

• EN 111: First Year Composition I
• EN 112: First Year Composition II
• EN 121: Honors First Year Composition I
• EN 122: Honors First Year Composition II
• EN 221: American Literature through Whitman
• EN 222: American Literature from Whitman to the Present
• EN 233: Honors Studies in Literature of the World I
• EN 234: Honors Studies in Western Literature of the World II
• EN 497: Selected Topics in American Literature
• EN 601: Introduction to Graduate Studies
• EN 614: Studies in American Literature 1950 to present