The Charles Brockden Brown Society was organized at the second biennial Charles Brockden Brown conference in October 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Society provides a platform for discussion of and research on Brown and the culture, history, and literature of the North Atlantic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Charles Brockden Brown stands as a vital touchstone for the traffic of cultures across and around the Atlantic, recording and responding to ideas, images, and news as they came to attention from sources in North America, Anglophone
and continental Europe, and regions of the world colonized by European countries.

The Brown Society mobilizes research on these axes of historical and literary research by hosting a conference every two years and by providing the Discussion Forum, here at this website, where it is hoped that Brown scholars will share comments, ideas, and information about Brown and related subjects.

Officers

Nancy Ruttenburg (President), New York University
Philip Barnard (Vice-President), University of Kansas
Fritz Fleischmann (Executive Secretary/Treasurer), Babson College

Advisory Board

Andy Doolen
Mark Kamrath, University of Central Florida
Chris Looby, University of California, Los Angeles
Bryan Waterman, New York University
Lisa West, Drake University