Stewart Brown (born 1951 in Southampton, UK)[1] is an English poet, university lecturer and scholar of African and Caribbean Literature.
[2] Brown is an English-born lecturer in Caribbean and African culture, particularly Literature, at the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, since 1988, and has also spent periods teaching in schools and universities in Jamaica, Nigeria, Wales and Barbados.
One of the foremost scholars of West Indian literature in the UK, Brown has edited several seminal works on the subject.
As an artist, he had several solo shows of paintings in Jamaica and the UK during the 1970s, and more recently his work has been exhibited in Birmingham, in Barbados, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and in Guyana.
Also a poet, Brown received a Gregory Award in 1976 and has subsequently published four collections of poems, including Mekin Foolishness (1981), Zinder (1986) and Lugard's Bridge (1989).