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Carrie Brown – Former Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence, English professor, novelist
John Gregory Brown – English professor, novelist
=== Previous faculty ===
Adeline Ames – Botany professor
Marion Elizabeth Blake – Classics professor
Lincoln Pierson Brower- Entomology and Ecology Research Professor, advocate and world expert on monarch butterflies over six decades
Seth Clabough – English professor, novelist
Paul D. Cronin – Director of Riding Emeritus, author of Schooling and Riding the Sport Horse
Cornelius Eady – Poet
Connie Myers Guion – Professor of physics, Professor and head of the chemistry department at Sweet Briar College 1908–1913 who later earned an M.D. from Cornell University's Weill Medical College
Mary Harley – campus physician 1906–1935, taught physiology and hygiene classes
Elizabeth Friench Johnson – assistant professor of Modern Languages, 1917 to 1922
Iren Marik – Classical pianist
Constance Merritt – Former Margaret Banister Writer-in-Residence
Eugenie Maria Morenus – taught mathematics …