Karen E. Rowe
Encyclopedia
Karen E. Rowe is an American
literary critic and a specialist in Renaissance literature
. She is a professor of English at UCLA.
and Ph.D. from Indiana University
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
literary critic and a specialist in Renaissance literature
Renaissance literature
Renaissance Literature refers to the period in European literature that began in Italy during the 14th century and spread around Europe through the 17th century...
. She is a professor of English at UCLA.
Background
Rowe received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke CollegeMount Holyoke College
Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It was the first member of the Seven Sisters colleges, and served as a model for some of the others...
and Ph.D. from Indiana University
Indiana University
Indiana University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Indiana, United States. Indiana University has a combined student body of more than 100,000 students, including approximately 42,000 students enrolled at the Indiana University Bloomington campus and approximately 37,000...
.
Selected bibliography
- Saint And Singer : Edward TaylorEdward TaylorEdward Taylor was a colonial American poet, pastor and physician.-Early life:...
's Typology And The Poetics Of Meditation. Cambridge studies in American literature and culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
- "Edward Taylor." In The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 3rd Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter, Richard YarboroughRichard YarboroughRichard Yarborough is Professor of English and African American literature and a Faculty Research Associate with the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also an editor of The Heath Anthology Of American...
, et al. 2 vols. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 366–407.
- "The Rise of Women’s Education in the United States and Korea: A Struggle for Educational and Occupational Equality." Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 3.2 (1997) 30-93 (with Byong-suh Kim).
- "To Spin A Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Tale." In Fairy Tales and Society. Ed. R. B. Bottigheimer. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, pp. 53–74.
- "‘Fairy-born and human-bred’: Jane EyreJane EyreJane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published in London, England, in 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. with the title Jane Eyre. An Autobiography under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was released the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York...
’s Education in Romance." In The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development. Ed. Abel, Hirsch, and Langland. Hanover, New Hampshire: Univ. Press of New England, 1983, pp. 69–89, 327-330.
- "Feminism and Fairy Tales." Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 6 (1979), 237-257.
Awards
- UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 1982.
- Fellow of the Bryn Mawr/HERS Mid-Atlantic Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, 1986.
- Executive Committee, Division on American Literature to 1800, Modern Language Association, 1989-94.
- Chair of the Division and MLA Program, 1992.
- Editorial Board Member, Early American Literature, 1987-1990.