Faculty

Carol DeBoer-Langworthy began teaching in the English Department in 1998. A former newspaper reporter and editor, she has worked as a public relations writer, grant writer, and scholarly editor. Her signature course is “Lifewriting,” which emphasizes writing from one’s own experience. Trained in American literature and history, Professor DeBoer-Langworthy is the editor of “The Modern World of Neith Boyce: Autobiography and Diaries,” (2003). She is working on a literary biography of Neith Boyce, as well as a collaborative memoir with former Brown students, “Writing Minnesota.” She earned her Ph.D. in American Studies at The Union Institute.

Ed Hardy has been teaching in the Expository Writing Program since 2001. He is a former newspaper reporter and editor and a freelance writer. His work had been published in the Boston Sunday Globe and several national magazines. He is the author of the novel “Geyser Life” (Bridge Works) and his short fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Epoch, The New England Review, Boulevard, The Quarterly, Prairie Schooner and Witness, among others. He has also taught creative writing at Cornell and Boston College. Professor Hardy earned his M.F.A. from Cornell in Fiction Writing.

Catherine Imbriglio received an MA in creative writing (poetry) and a Ph.D. in American literature from Brown University. She is the author of the poetry collection Parts of the Mass, published by Burning Deck Press (2007). Her poetry and criticism have appeared in  American Letters & Commentary, Caliban, Conjunctions, Contemporary Literature, Denver Quarterly, Epoch, First Intensity, New American Writing, No: A Journal of the Arts, Pleiades, WebConjunctions and elsewhere. Her teaching interests include creative writing (poetry); contemporary American poetry; literary nonfiction, especially the lyric essay; cultural criticism; writing and photography; science and religion; and science writing for general audiences. A selection of her poetry is available in The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries,  ed. Reginald Shepherd. She is a recipient of an Untermeyer fellowship in poetry, a merit award in poetry from the RI State Council on the Arts and a Brown University UCS award for excellence in teaching.  She teaches in the Nonfiction Writing Program at Brown.  

As a veteran of the publishing industry, Lauren Sarat worked as an assistant editor at Picador USA/St. Martin's Press, and with the literary agency, Sobel Weber Associates. Prior to working in publishing, she was a bookseller in traditional stores like Three Lives & Co. in New York City, and also worked as a freelance features editor with barnesandnoble.com. Since leaving Manhattan in 2001, she has been teaching creative nonfiction at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and creative writing at the University of Connecticut. Her short story, "Russian Lessons," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and "Tejas" was a finalist in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in Shenandoah, New York Stories, Anonymous, The Plum Creek Review, Turnstile, and is forthcoming in Confrontation. The radio literary journal, The Lumberyard, which has been featured on Connecticut Public Radio, recently aired her short works, "Matinee," "The Break-Up Flowers," and "Condiments and Other Sundries."