Brownfield eventually began contributing regularly to Newsarama. He formerly edited and co-wrote the Best Shots review feature, as well as the columns "Your Manga Minute" and "Super-Articulate". He remained a frequent columnist through 2011. In 2004, Brownfield accepted an appointment to the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Journalism, and Languages at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, where he taught journalism, English, communications and film. He left the college at the close of the 2010-2011 school year. He taught in central Indiana until 2018, when he joined the writing staff of the Indianapolis-based Saturday Evening Post. He also writes the Super-Articulate column for Graphic Policy.