| Dr. Brown
teaches all level of Spanish language courses, including grammar, composition,
linguistics, translation, culture and civilization. He
also teaches courses in English on indigenous literature and movements, and produced an
award-winning video on the current Maya movement. In 1998 he received a
Fulbright Lecturing Grant to teach linguistics at two universities in Guatemala. He is organizing the Sixth International Conference
of the Foundation for Endangered Languages in
Antigua, Guatemala, August 8-10, 2002. His research interests include the links between language and identity and
the mobilization of those links. He has
co-authored two books on the Mayas of Guatemala with the University of Texas Press: Maya Cultural Activism
in Guatemala (1996) and The Life of Our Language: Kaqchikel Maya Maintenance, Shift and
Revitalization (1998).
Spanish translations of both titles have been subsequently published in Guatemala. He
has published in both English and Spanish in Journal of Anthropological Linguistics,
Anales del Congreso de Estudios Mayas, Indigenous
Peoples' Politics and the Boletín
Lingüístico. He is also engaged in the research and translation of Mayan
literature, including a volume of poems, The Dry Season (2001) and a new translation of a novel by the writer Gaspar
Pedro González.
During the past twenty years Dr.
Brown has lived and worked in Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico and Spain. He has led study abroad programs in Mexico and
Spain, and has developed and led a long series of innovative programs in Guatemala
including an intensive summer program in the Kaqchikel Maya language for Tulane University
(1989-1997); a semester abroad program in Guatemala for the University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay (1994); and summer study tours for school teachers and health professionals. |
