Kevin (pron. Caoimhín)
Kevin Adonis Browne, PhD., is a Caribbean American photographer, essayist, scholar, and speaker.
He is the author of three books: A Sense of Arrival (Duke, 2025), HIGH MAS: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture (Mississippi, 2018), which won the OCM Bocas Prize in Caribbean Literature in 2019, and Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean (Pittsburgh, 2013). He is also creator of The No Words Project (2021) and co-founder of the Caribbean Memory Project (2014). His work exists at the intersection of fine art, archiving, documentary, street photography, creative nonfiction, and memoir in what he calls:
…a discourse on the legacies of light and the poetics of Caribbean culture.
He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Bentley University, and The University of the West Indies (St. Augustine). He is currently Professor of Rhetoric and Writing in the Department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition at Syracuse University.
4a: obsolete : TRIAL, TEST;
Merriam-Webster, definition of Essay.
4b: vernacular: an abstract, or unknown, thing tried
– e.g., Ah try a thing.
Oral Tradition, Caribbean Vernacular English Usage
