Harry Brown has published three books. Injun Joe’s Ghost (2004) examines the figure of the Native American mixed-blood in American writing. Videogames and Education (2008) considers the relation between video games and the humanities. Golf Ball (2014), part of Bloomsbury's "Object Lessons" series, looks at such diverse subjects as empire, trade, advertising, landscape design, sport, and mysticism through the lens of a dimpled polyurethane orb. His most recent research involves environmental crisis narratives, video games and ethics, American gravestone verse, and AI and future of literature.

• Ph.D., English, Lehigh University, 2003
• M.A., English, Lehigh University, 1997
• B.A., English and Spanish, University of Scranton, 1994

Teaching interests include early American literature, Native American literature, environmental humanities, AI and literature, and game studies.

Recent publications include:

• “Simulating Sovereignty: Alternative History, Video Games, and the Haudenosaunee.” Scripting the Past in the Present: Early America and Contemporary Culture. University of Edinburgh Press, 2025.
• “Ethical Simulation Games in the Liberal Arts Classroom: Civilization V, SimEarth, and Sweatshop” (with Nicole Lobdell). Teaching Games and Game Studies in the Liberal Arts Classroom. Bloomsbury, 2022.
• “Toward Digital Puritan Studies: Iconoclasm, Child Mortality, and Patterns of Mourning in the Farber Gravestone Collection.” American Literature and the New Puritan Studies. Edited by Carla Mulford and Bryce Traister. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• “Tribal Christianity: The Second Great Awakening and William Apess’s Backwoods Methodism.” Mapping Regions in Early American Writing. Edited by John Funchion, Keri Holt, and Edward Watts. University of Georgia Press, 2015.

• United Methodist Exemplary Teaching Award (2024)
• Indiana Humanities Council and National Endowment for the Humanities INCommon grant, “Cultural Legacies of the Great Migration” (2021)
• Jane Cooling Brady Professorship in English (2020-25)
• GLCA Expanding Collaborations Initiative grant (primary investigator) for the integration of campus farms into the liberal arts curriculum (2017-2019)
• Tenzer Family University Professorship in Instructional Technology (2015-19)

Recent speaking engagements include:

• “Games and Higher Education: The Gathering.” Panelist, Future Trends Forum, December 13, 2024.
• “Humanistic Applications of Open AI in Teaching.” Keynote address for Stonehill College Faculty Convocation. August 23, 2023.
• “Creative Approaches to Teaching with AI.” Featured speaker, Future Trends Forum, June 8, 2023.
• Panelist for discussion of Returning Fire (film) with artist Wafaa Bilal, DePauw University,
• “Indiana Territory and Indian Nations: Tecumseh, the Shawnee Prophet, and Resistance to American Settlement.” Putnam County Indiana Bicentennial Speakers Bureau