Brown Writers' Symposium 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 novels Keeper and Kid (Thomas Dunne Books) and Geyser Life (Bridge Works). 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.