Stephanie J. Brown

Stephanie J. Brown is Associate Professor of English and Vice-Chair of the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905-1924. Her work in surveillance humanities includes acting as guest editor for a special issue of Surveillance & Society on “Surveillance and Literature” that forthcoming in March 2026. Her current book project explores how works by 20th century migrant writers from the Caribbean narrate surveillance as a tool for the disruption of nascent Afro-diasporic communities in imperial metropolises.

Contributions

Suffrage Journalism against State Brutality: Surveillance Art in Votes for Women and The Suffragette, 1910–1914

Between 1910 and 1914, as militant activists faced down physical violence from a variety of state agents in the final years of the campaign for women’s suffrage, the newspapers published by the militant suffragist Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) mobilized brutality as a framework through which to categorize the state’s actions.