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Dr. Elizabeth Brown-Guillory is Distinguished Professor of Theatre and Associate Provost/Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Texas Southern University. She is a theatre scholar, playwright, and performing artist. Before joining the faculty of Texas Southern University, she was Professor of English at the University of Houston where she was employed for twenty-one years and where she won the University’s Cooper Teaching Excellence Award, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Award, and (two-time winner of) the English Honor Society's Sigma Tau Delta Distinguished Professor Award. The UH Alumni Organization selected her in 2007 as one of four “ Phenomenal Professors" at the University of Houston. Dr. Brown-Guillory’s areas of expertise include dramatic literature, playwriting, African/Diaspora literatures, theatre history, women writers, and American ethnic literatures

Her books include Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights in America; Wines in the Wilderness: Plays by African-American Women from the Harlem Renaissance to the Present; Women of Color: Mother Daughter Relationships in Twentieth Century Literature; and Middle Passages and the Healing Place of History: Migration and Identity in Black Women's Literature. She frequently publishes scholarly articles, book chapters, reviews, and interviews in major refereed journals and in critical anthologies. She has had twelve plays produced across the country, including Washington D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, Denver, New Orleans, Houston, Cleveland, and Chicago. Her plays include Bayou Relics, Snapshots of Broken Dolls, Mam Phyllis, La Bakair, When the Ancestors Call, and The Break of Day. Ten of her plays have been published in Black Drama: 1850 to Present, an on-line collection of 1,200 plays by Blacks. Her plays have won for her a series of honors and awards, including residencies in Illinois, Wisconsin, and New York. Her work was showcased recently in Houston at the Ensemble Theater's "Heart of the Theater" series. The Break of Day and When the Ancestors Call will appear in a forthcoming anthology published by University of Texas Press. She has delivered 200 lectures/performances over the course of her career. She lectures primarily on race, class, and gender issues in Black women's dramatic literature. Trained as a Chautauqua scholar/artist, she performs the lives of renowned Black historical figures, such as Madam C. J. Walker, Josephine Baker, and Sissieretta Jones. Additionally, she performs monologues from her plays. Several years ago, she was featured in a television commercial as part of the University of Houston's Image Building Campaign. Click on link below to view her promotion of theatre as a discipline. She has served in a number of academic leadership roles, including president of the South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) and as member of the executive committee of the Modern Language Association (MLA). She has served as president of the University of Houston chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, a leading national honor society. Additionally, she regularly serves as consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities. She served as founder and faculty advisor/mentor to The Houston Suitcase Theater (THST), a faculty, staff and student troupe committed to enhancing diversity in the arts at UH. For seventeen years, she wrote, directed, and produced plays for the campus and the Houston metropolitan area as well as arranged for nationally and internationally recognized playwrights and scholars to visit UH. She also was founder/director of Erzulie, an African Dance Troupe at UH. She won the UH Council of Ethnic Organization's Outstanding Service Award for her dedication to students. On September 1, 2009, Dr. Brown-Guillory joined Texas Southern University, marking a new chapter in her career. She brings to the University a passion for teaching, creative writing, and research, and a strong interest in working with faculty development, student recruitment and retention, and community engagement.

Education Ph.D., Florida State University Study Abroad in France, China, England, Canada, Brazil, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Mexico, the Bahamas, Scotland, Wales, Barbados, Ghana, West Africa Teaching Recent Undergraduate and Graduate Courses Creation and Performance of Dramatic Literature (playwriting) African American Literature Survey Women Playwrights from Africa and the African Diaspora Black Women's Novels and Film Adaptations

Affiliations African Literature Association (ALA) American Literature Association (ALA) Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) Black European Studies in Transnational Perspectives (BEST) Caribbean Studies Association (CSA) College Language Association (CLA) Modern Language Association (MLA) South Central Modern Language Association (SCMLA) Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc. (SCAASI)

Link Brown-Guillory's Commercial for the University of Houston (Scroll down to TV Ads/2004) Brown-Guillory as Chautauqua scholar/artist: Sissieretta Jones, 19th Century internationally renowned opera singer.