S.G. (Stephen Gilbert) Brown is the author of Words in the Wilderness: Critical Literacy in the Borderlands (SUNY 2000), winner of the prestigious W. Ross Winterowd Award. He also authored The Gardens of Desire: Marcel Proust and the Fugitive Sublime (SUNY 2004). He co-edited with Sid Dobrin, Critical Ethnography: From Theory Shock to Critical Praxis (SUNY 2004), as well as edited the pocket reader, Writing Across the Curriculum (Prentice Hall, 2006). Additional books include Writing to Know and The Reader as Writer (Hayden McNeil, 2010-11). He has published numerous articles in College Literature, Journal of Advanced Composition, and Review of Education. For this distinguished body of scholarship, Prof. Brown was awarded the Barrick Award for Outstanding Scholarship (UNLV, 2007). He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Classical Rhetoric, Rhetorical Theory, Eco-Composition, and Proust. He received his BA in English from U.C.S.B., his MA and Ph.D in Rhetoric/Composition from the University of South Florida (1997). He is currently Prof. of English, Director of the Composition Program at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.