Nicholas Alexander Brown

Dr. Nicholas Alexander Brown is an instructor of First Year Writing in the English Department at Virginia Tech. His research interrogates the ambivalent reception of multimodal scholarship in Rhetoric and Composition. His comics dissertation, The Rousing of Ogma: Developing Functional Methodologies for the Production of Multimodal Scholarship, propose a methodology for the production of rigorous comics-as-scholarship shaped by both rhetorical theory and comics practices. His recent article, “Ad metallum purificandum” examines the emergence of Black Metal ethos in the early 1990s and is presented in the comics medium. He has taught classes in Comics Authoring and Production, Multimodal Argumentation, Paranormal Writing, and Dungeons and Dragons.