Faculty

Mimosa Stephenson grew up in Edinburg, Texas and graduated from Pan American College with majors in English and Social Science before earning M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English from Texas Technological College in Lubbock, which she attended with a National Defense Fellowship. Her dissertation topic was “Style in Selected Poems of Arthur Hugh Clough.”

After completing her degrees, she spent two years teaching at Hong Kong Baptist College as a Missionary Journeyman for the Southern Baptist Convention. Then she taught at William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri for six years before joining the faculty of the Brownsville Center of Pan American University, which opened in the fall of 1973. That upper-level branch later joined with Texas Southmost College to become the University of Texas at Brownsville.

She has published thirty-nine articles, presented forty-four papers, and reviewed numerous books. In 1992 she was one of the recipients of the Chancellor’s Outstanding Teaching Award of the University of Texas System, in 1996 and 2006 was listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, and in 2004 received the NISOD Award for Excellence in Teaching. She spent the 2000-2001 academic year under a Fulbright Grant at Xiamen University in the People’s Republic of China.

With Teresa Gibson, she hosted the 2005 annual meeting of the Southwest Conference on Christianity and Literature.

For more then twenty years, she has been the sponsor of the Alpha Chi Chapter on campus.