Stephen Brauer

Professor Brauer’s scholarship focuses on American literature and culture. He teaches a variety of courses in English and American Studies, including ones on American Modernism, crime narratives, and sport and sport culture.

He is the author of "Criminality and the Modern: Contingency and Agency in Twentieth-Century America" (2022, paperback 2024), a monograph focused on the representation of criminality in American culture as influenced by the rise of the social sciences in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He has published articles on Fitzgerald, Faulkner, detective fiction, and higher-education pedagogy in the 21st century.

Professor Brauer is currently at work on a manuscript on the last 100 years of American sports writing and sports broadcasting that considers the varying ways that writers and broadcasters imagine and tell the story of the game.