Laura Cowan
University of Maine
Address:
Laura Cowan
Associate Professor of English
5752 Neville Hall, Room 304
Orono, Maine 04469-5752
U.S.A.
Office Telephone: TBD
E-mail: laura.cowan@umit.maine.edu
***Office Hours for Spring 2009: Mondays and Fridays
from 1:15 to 2:15 and by appointment.***
Laura Cowan brings to our department a special expertise
in Modern British Literature and an interest in Environmental
Literature.
Titles of courses Dr. Cowan has taught appear below:
Graduate Level:
T.S Eliot and W.H. Auden: Their
Contexts and Their Critics
ENG 558: Modern British Literature
Project ASPIRE, The Elements of Poetry
Undergraduate Level:
ENG 101: College Composition
ENG 170: Foundations of Literary Analysis
ENG 212: Persuasive and Analytical Writing
ENG 222: Reading Poems
ENG 229: Topics in Literature - Nature and Literature (Spring 1997)
ENG 235: Literature and the Modern World
ENG 238: Nature and Literature
ENG 252: English Literature Survey - Romanticism to the Present
ENG 458: British Modernism
ENG 459: Contemporary British Literature
Poetry and Its Modes
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books and Journals:
Rebecca West New York:
Twayne Publishers/Macmillan, forthcoming.
Yeats Eliot Review, edited with an introduction. Special
Yeats Double Issue, Guest Editor. Volume XII (Winter 1994).
T.S. Eliot, Man and Poet, edited with an introduction:
Orono: National Poetry Foundation, 1990.
Articles:
"Movement into Vision: Gordon
Craig's Influence on W.B. Yeats' Revision of The Countess
Cathleen," New Essays on Yeats, edited by
Russell Murphy Dallas: Northouse and Northouse, 1995.
"'A Language of Limits Articled to Error' in W.H. Auden's
'In Time of War'", Language and Style 1994.
"The Elegy and Modernism," Studies in the
Humanities, Spring, 1993, 56-68.
"Environmental Education in a Literary Context," Humanities
Education, Summer 1990: 17-24.