Julia Brown
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AboutJulia Brown earned her BA from Winona State University in English, and her MA from the University of Minnesota-Duluth in Composition with a minor in Medical Humanities. Her research interests include 20th and 21st century American literature with a focus on ways representations of health, health care and medicine can illuminate the foundational role of race, gender, sexuality, and class biases in modern health care. She has taught at Queensborough Community College, and at City College of New York where she also served as Assistant Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, and as an Open Educational Resource (OER) Fellow. She co-edits Survive and Thrive: A Journal for Narrative Medicine and Medical Humanities. Most recently, she has published on the digital story in the first-year composition learning community, and presented on the role of OER in the public university. Brown's first impression of ECLP was that it was supportive and preparative for career options outside of academia. Specifically, the materials from ECLP helped her identity different job opportunities available. |
Skills Gained
- Confidence translating doctoral work across different domains
- Ability to clearly frame skills for non-academia roles
Favorite Part
The peer support and feedback. It was helpful to get different perspectives on my application materials, and to see that I wasn't alone in the anxious feelings that come with employment uncertainties.
Advice to Future Participants
"Attend every meeting! You won't get nearly as much out of it if you miss sessions, even if you do all of the work."