Brutus and I
Hello! My name’s Mikita Brottman.
Firstly, I’m a true crime writer. My last three books are: An Unexplained Death (Henry Holt, 2018), Couple Found Slain (Henry Holt, 2021) and Guilty Creatures (One Signal/Simon & Schuster, 2024).
Secondly, I’m a literature professor. I have a D.Phil in English Literature from Oxford University; I’ve been a Lecturer at the University of East London, a Visiting Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington, and Director of the Humanities Program at the Pacifica Graduate Institute, in California. I’m currently a Professor in the Department of Humanistic Studies at the Maryland Institute College of Art in downtown Baltimore, where I teach various courses, including Edgar Allan Poe, The Uncanny, Esoteric Thought, Authors in Context, and Personal and Abnormal Psychology.
Thirdly, I’m a psychoanalyst certified through the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NCPsycA), and although not in practice, I do some forensic work. My articles and forensic case studies have appeared in The American Journal of Psychoanalysis, American Imago, and elsewhere.
I live in the stately, historical neighborhood of Mount Vernon, in Baltimore, with my partner, the movie critic David Sterritt, and our popular and charismatic mutt, Brutus. You can read a profile of me and my work published in The Baltimore Sun by Mary Carole McCauley.
I am represented by Betsy Lerner at Dunow Carlson & Lerner Literary Agency, 27 W 20th St #1107, New York, NY 10011. Mailing address: The Belvedere Hotel Apartments, Suite #501-502, 1. East Chase St. Baltimore 21202. Office: Bunting 412, Department of Humanistic Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art, 1300 Mount Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21217.
I don’t use social media, but you can contact me at [email protected]
