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Jane Cowgill, Ph.D.
Office location:
Saint Mary's Hall #403
Mailing Address:
Saint Mary's University
of Minnesota
700 Terrace Heights #1467
Winona, MN 55987-1399
507-457-6643
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Jane Cowgill is an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.
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Courses Recently Taught at SMU
English Composition
Argumentative and Research Writing
Dimensions of Literature
Portraits of the Virtuous Life
Professional Organizations
Modern Language Association
Medieval Academy of America
Education
Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut, CT, 1988
M.A., Medieval Studies, University of Connecticut, CT, 1982
B.A., History and Philosophy, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, 1965
Teaching Experience
2000 to Present: Visiting Assistant Professor, English Department, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, MN
1992-2000: Instructor, English Department , Winona State University, Winona, MN
1988-1992: Adjunct Assistant Professor, English Department, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, MN
1981-1984, 1985-1986: Teaching Assistant, English Department, University of Connecticut, CT
Honors
1982: Phi Kappa Phi |
Publications
"'By God, if wommen hadde writen stories': The Question of Women's Writing in Four Medieval Tests," The Journal of the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, 1999
"Nihil novum sub sole: A Medieval Understanding of Discovery," The Journal of the Association of the Interdisciplinary Study of the Arts, 1996
"Golden Girl," Anthology of the Writers of Minnesota, Madison, WI: Crowbar Press, 1995
"Chaucer's Missing Children," Essays in Medieval Studies, 1995
"Humble Pie," Great River Review, 1994
"Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Persuasion in the Canterbury Tales: The Parson's Tale and the Melibee," In Chaucer's Religious Tales, New Essays, Eds. C. David Benson and Elizabeth Robertson, Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, Ltd., 1990
Papers
"Madness and Wildness in Medieval Romance Literature," The International Conference on Madness and Bliss, Atlanta, GA, 2000
"The Land of Cokaygne, a Medieval Utopia," The International Conference on Utopia and Dystopia, Atlanta, GA, 1999
"The 'double sorwe of Troilus'," the International Conference on Sorrow and Joy, Atlanta, GA, 1998
"Criseyde's Boundaryless Personality," The International Conference on Frontiers and Boarders, Atlanta, GA, 1997
"Journeys to the Frontier of the Human: The Forest as Transformative Space," The Montana Medieval Roundup, Montana State University, Boseman, MT
"Clannesse' and 'fyle e': The Sacred and the Profane in Cleanness," The International Conference on the Sacred and the Profance, Atlanta, GA, 1995
"Nihil novum sub sole: A Medieval Understanding of Discovery," The International Conference on "The Word and World of Discovery," Atlanta, GA, 1992
"Confusion of Comparison in Chaucer's Manciple's Tale," The Medieval Institute, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoon, MI, 1991
"Time and the Structure of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight," South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Washington, DC, 1998
"New Readings of Chaucer: The Merchant's Tale," The Medieval Institute, International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoon, MI, 1998
"Chaucer and the Visual Arts," The Sixth Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, 1985
"Structure and Meaning in Patience," Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference, Consortium on Medieval Studies, Yale University, 1984
"The Character of Piers Plowman in the Light of A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich," The Medieval Institute, International Congress of Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, 1984 |
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