FARMINGTON — Eric Brown, UMF associate professor of English, was recently recognized by the University of Maine at Farmington and the University of Maine System as the UMF Trustee Professor for 2011-12.

Established in 1998 by the University of Maine System Board of Trustees to recognize exemplary full-time faculty members at UMS campuses, the Trustee Professorship promotes excellence in academic programs by providing the opportunity and support for recipients to pursue continued in-depth scholarly work. Brown has been a UMF faculty member since 2003.

As this year’s UMF Trustee Professor, Brown will be integrating two of his areas of expertise, film studies and the work of 17th Century poet John Milton, into a major publication on the history of the adaption of Milton’s works in cinema.

Brown teaches courses in British literature at UMF and was previously a visiting fellow in Renaissance studies at Harvard University. This summer he will be teaching a course at Harvard on “Paradise Lost and Popular Culture.”