256.765.5005 UNA Box 5176 Coby Hall/459 N. Court Street Academic Affairs Professor, English Dean, Delores and Weldon Cole Honors College 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.”