Dr. Brenda Greene Faculty Spotlight

Dr. Brenda Greene, Professor/English

Professor, writer and scholar, Dr. Brenda M. Greene is the founder and executive director of the Center for Black Literature and director of the National Black Writers Conference. Dr. Greene’s educational leadership and professional accomplishments within Medgar Evers College, CUNY, and her professional community span more than 40 years. Her scholarship is in African-American literature, composition, and English Education and she has extensive essays, grants, book reviews, and presentations in these areas. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University in English with a concentration in Composition and Rhetoric. Dr. Greene is editor of The African Presence and Influence on the Cultures of the Americas, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2010) and co-editor of Resistance and Transformation: Conversations with Black Writers, Morton Books (2010), Meditations and Ascensions: Black Writers on Writing, Third World Press (2008), Redefining Ourselves, Black Writers in the Nineties, Peter Lang Publishers (1999) and Rethinking American Literature, National Council of Teachers of English, (1997). Her literary essays and book reviews appear in The Killens Journal of Arts and Letters, Neworld Review, Network Journal, and Konch. Greene has also published in English Education, Teaching College English, English Classrooms: Honoring Diversity and Change, and When Writing Teachers Teach Literature. She is host and producer of Writers on Writing, a weekly radio series featuring writers from the African diaspora. Visit https://centerforblackliterature.org/founder/ for more information about Dr. Greene.