Education

Paul Armstrong has been named dean of the College at Brown University. The dean
of the College is Brown’s highest undergraduate academic officer, whose responsibilities
include the curriculum, academic advising, international programs, and instruction.
In addition to his administrative duties, he will have a faculty appointment as
professor of English. Armstrong has previously served as head of the English department
and associate dean for humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University
of Oregon and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY-Stony Brook in
New York. He is an authority on Henry James, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster and other
modern writers and is a history and literature graduate of Harvard College with
advanced degrees in modern thought and literature from Stanford University.