Rate My Professor Jessica Brown

Jessica Brown serves as Assistant Professor of English at Adams State University, specializing in medieval languages and literature. Her specific research interests include hagiography, paleography and codicology, Middle English dialectology, gender studies, and Anglo-Saxon literature. Brown earned her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in 2018. Her dissertation, titled Proving the Dead: Doubt and Skepticism in the Late-Medieval Lives of Saints Æthelthryth and Edith, explored how doubt influenced fifteenth-century constructions of Anglo-Saxon women’s histories. She also holds a Master of Arts in English from Brigham Young University and degrees from Casper College.

Since joining Adams State University in 2017 as Visiting Assistant Professor of English, Brown has made notable contributions through teaching in the English program, scholarly service, and public engagement. Her secondary academic interests encompass Old Norse language and literature, medievalism, epic fantasy literature, Victorian religious literature, the history of the novel, and women’s textual authority in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She has delivered faculty lectures including "Can I Touch It? Old Books and Matters of Access and Equity" and "Lead, Ink, Iron, and Skin: The Bloody Story of Bookmaking." Brown received the M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography, and Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources for 2025-26 from Rare Book School. She was honored as Exemplary Faculty by Adams State University in 2022, 2023, and 2024. Additionally, she serves as Secretary of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association from 2019 to 2025 and as Assistant Editor for its journal Quidditas. In 2026, Brown participated in a U.S. State Department IDEAS grant awarded to Adams State University to develop study abroad opportunities.