His major book publication is Utopian Generations: The Political Horizon of Twentieth-Century Literature. His current book project is entitled Autonomy: The Work of Art in the Age of its Real Subsumption under Capital. Chapters of this project have appeared in nonsite, Postmodern Culture, and the Revista do Instituto dos Estudos Brasileiros. President of the Marxist Literary Group, Brown also chairs the editorial board of the journal Mediations and is a founding editor of the electronic/print press MCMʹ.