Faculty - Laura Cowan
Laura Cowan
Director of Graduate Studies Associate Professor of English
5752 Neville Hall, Room 405
Orono, Maine 04469-5752
Office Telephone: (207) 581-3830
E-mail: laura.cowan@umit.maine.edu
Office Hours
Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00-1:50 pm
Biography
Laura Cowan brings to our department a special expertise in Modern British Literature and an interest in Environmental Literature.
Courses Taught
Graduate
ENG 558 Modern British Literature
Undergraduate Level
ENG 170 Foundations of Literary Analysis
ENG 212 Persuasive and Analytical Writing
ENG 235 Literature and the Modern World
ENG 252 English Literature Survey – Romanticism to the Present
ENG 459 Contemporary British Literature
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.