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Sharmaine Browne

Liberal arts professor

Education

  • Ph.D., English, The City University of New York 
  • M.Phil., English, The City University of New York 
  • M.A., journalism, New York University 
  • M.A., English, California Polytechnic State University 
  • B.A., government, Mills College

Credentials

  • Professor, English, 2018–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Grad A line writing and literature instructor, 2014–2018, Hunter College, New York, NY
  • English, writing, and theater instructor, 2008–2012, City University of New York (CUNY), Kingsborough Community College, New York, NY
  • Writer/interviewer, 2014–2015, ESA, English Student Association, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, NY
    • Interviewed and wrote interviews for Alumni Spotlights.
  • Web developer and online editor, 2008–2016, Los Angeles, CA and New York, NY
    • Planned, created, organized, and implemented launches of new online e-businesses.
    • Organized all efforts between programmers, graphic designers, and marketing assistants.
    • Designed and wrote copy for advertising: postcards, posters, and special events promotions.
    • Strategized point-of-entry merchandising efforts with brick-and-mortar operations.
    • Designed and implemented online systems for e-business.
    • Administered back end of sites to expand customer base.
  • Assistant to station manager, 2003–2004, KPFK, Pacifica Radio, North Hollywood, CA
    • Organized all aspects of station manager's office and music library.
    • Managed music library and archive materials.
    • Checked in and managed intake and distribution of new music labels and artists.
    • Helped organize fund drives and special events, including outreach and promotional materials.
  • Project and operations manager, 1998–2006, Santa Monica Shoes, Inc., Santa Monica, Laguna Beach, and Del Mar, CA
    • Designed and implemented advertising and marketing promotions for all locations: special events, trunk shows, postcards, ad campaigns, catalogs, mailing lists, and concierge outreach.
    • Wrote press releases, edited company newsletter, and designed all ad copy for media such as Los Angeles Times, Orange County Register, Firebrand Media, and several coastal magazines and local newspapers.
    • Utilized art and layout skills (drafting, drawing, and graphic design) to design and create signs, branding, business cards, bags, and stationery, point-of-purchase media, and all company forms (incl. daily and weekly business reports, cash proof reports, transfer memos, refund request forms, special order forms and logs, return authorization forms, payroll sheets, and store credit forms).
    • Utilized writing, editing, and operations skills to write, edit, and compile 125-page company operations and training manual.
    • Implemented computer inventory control system and independently built updated infrastructural digital and hard-copy systems.
    • Managed store operations and supervised employees in three locations. Responsibilities included training and education of personnel as well as implementing operations policies.
    • Planned two new retail locations including layout of floor and stockroom.
    • Designed window displays and visual merchandising in partnership with set designer.
  • Expository writing department, 1999–2001, New York University, New York, NY
  • Research assistant, creative writing department, 1996–1998, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA
    • Compiled hand-written and archived department material to create, layout, and format department writing manual.
    • Worked primarily for department head on word processing, formatting, and editing departmental publications.
  • Proposal coordinator, 1995–96, New Business Department, USBH (now United), Emeryville, CA
    • Compiled, formatted, and edited multi-million-dollar new business proposals and briefing documents for carve-out business and bid presentations.
    • Implemented layout of text for large-scale proposals and marketing presentations.
    • Worked closely under supervision of company vice president for quality control of proposals.
  • Research and survey coordinator (on Masthead), 1994–1995, California Medicine Publishing, Oakland, CA
    • Conducted interviews, researched medical stories, and compiled and sorted data for medical surveys and publication: my work was republished in national media outlets such as the San Francisco Chronicle.
    • Trained in magazine research, writing, editing, graphic design, and layout design skills.

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Recipient, English Department Dissertation Year Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 2015–2016
  • Recipient, Calder Dissertation Year Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, 2015–2016
  • Recipient, Digital Teaching Initiative Fellowship, Hunter College, New York, 2015
  • Recipient, Grad A Line Fellowship, CUNY Graduate Center through Hunter College, New York, 2014–2018
  • Awarded WAC (Writing Across the Curriculum) Scholarship, CUNY, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, 2010
  • Recipient, Graduate School of Arts and Science Teacher of the Year Award, NYU, New York, 2000
  • Campus Finalist, California State University Research Competition, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA, 1998
  • Campus Finalist, Graduate Student of the Year Award, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA, 1998
  • Awarded Herbert E. Collins Scholarship, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, CA, 1998

Organizations

  • Volunteer/Assistant Pacifica Radio, KPFK, North Hollywood, CA
  • Member, Board of Directors, WSRA (an association for small businesses), Los Angeles, CA
  • Volunteer, Women's Clinic, Santa Cruz, CA
  • Volunteer, AIDS Project, Santa Cruz, CA
  • Fundraising and artistic director, Oakland Orphanage Halloween Project, Oakland, CA

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • Embodied Women, Embedded Patriarchy (research in progress for book).
  • Ecologies of Embodied Minds Embedded (dissertation being edited for book submission).
  • "Mary Shelley's Foresight in (the) Place of Doom" (NASSR, Brown University, June 2018).
  • "The ‘Weather' or Note of Ruskin's Storms" (MACBS, University of Maryland, April 2018).
  • "Abject Figures in the Margins: William Blake's 'I' of the Other in the Chimneys."
  • A Book of Pages. Memoir, fiction, fragments, essays, and poetry self-published in St. Erme, France.

Presentations

  • Romantic Assembly (ICR): "The Paradoxes of Embodied Minds Embedded: Mary Shelley's Foresight and Wordsworth's Visionary Gleam," Greenville, SC, 2018.
  • Romantic Empires; Romantic Identities (Romanticism Association Conference): "Broken Bodies and Severed Nature in Wordsworth and Shelley," Aviemore, the Scottish Highlands, 2018.
  • Open (NASSR): "Mary Shelley's Foresight in (the) Place of Doom," Providence, RI, 2018.
  • The Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting (MACBS): "The 'Weather' or Note of Ruskin's Storms," College Park, MD, 2018.
  • The Global and Local (NAVSA): "Glass Lit Space and Cosmopolitan Fantasia: The Department Store," Venice, Italy, 2013.
  • Minding the Body (CUNY): "Descartes's Nightmare to Digital Dissonance, Nathaniel Hawthorne," New York, NY, 2013.
  • Catastrophes (ICR): "Mechanisms of Silence and Voice: Dehumanizing and Humanizing Populations in the Face of 'Catastrophe' in Malthus and Wordsworth," Tempe, AZ, 2012.
  • Victorian Networks (NAVSA): "An Orchestration of Glass, Light, and Locomotion: The Role of Technology in Transforming the Nineteenth-Century Mind," Madison, WI, 2012.
  • Locating Revolution (Wales and the French Revolution Project): "Lightening and the Blade: Perspectives on Wordsworth's Radicalism in the Margins," Aberystwyth, Wales, 2012.
  • Law and Order: Control, Technology and the Regulation of Public Space, (Prison Studies Group, CUNY): "Fear and Fury in America: Desiring Accountability, Turning to Blame," New York, NY, 2012.
  • Crime and Punishment in Comparative Perspectives (Prison Studies Group, CUNY): "A Turn of the Panoptic Mind: Early Echoes of the Contemporary Gaze," New York, NY, 2011.
  • City Culture and Imperialism Conference (CUNY): "Critters and Craniums: Ideology and the Advent of Urban Pathologies," New York, NY, 2009.
  • The Green Nineteenth Century (Nineteenth Century Studies Association 30th Annual Conference): "The Subversive Turns and Trespasses of John Clare," Milwaukee, WI, 2009.

Performances

  • Biomechanoid, director: multimedia production headlined the theater festival, confronting volatile social issues such as genetic engineering, increasing computer technology, and corporate power in the media, Chautauqua Festival, Santa Cruz, CA.
  • The Cherry Tree, director, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
  • Octopus Dream, assistant director and stage manager, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
  • The Lost Studio Pageant, stage manager, Lost Studio, Hollywood, CA.
  • The Empress Is a Very Powerful Woman, stage manager and lighting tech, Stage of Grace, Hollywood, CA.
  • Word for Word, lighting tech, Bay Front Theater, San Francisco, CA.
  • Manhattan Hurts, lighting tech, Hudson Theatre, Hollywood, CA.
  • Measure for Measure, lighting tech, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA.
  • A Perfect Ganesh, production assistant, Marin Theater Company, Mill Valley, CA.