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Rebekah Fowler
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor
English
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Rebekah Fowler Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Associate Professor
English
Specialty area(s)
Medieval Literature, Arthurian Literature and Lore, Medievalisms, History of the English Language, Early Modern Literature, Ethics and Emotions; Contemplative Practices and Compassion in Higher Education
Current courses at UWL
ENG 413: Capstone Research Project
ENG 200: Literature and the Human Experience (Literature and Compassion)
ENG 110: College Writing
Education
Illinois State University, B.S in Art, Minor in English
University of Illinois at Springfield, Masters in English
Southern Illinois University, PhD in English with an emphasis in Medieval Studies
Career
Teaching history
ENG 110: College Writing I
ENG 112: College Writing AP
ENG 200: Literature and the Human Experience: Medievalisms
ENG 203: English Literature I
ENG 205: Western Literature I
ENG 300: Intro to English Studies
ENG 301: Foundations for Literary Studies
ENG 302: Intermediate Topics in Literature: Medieval Romance
ENG 302: Intermediate Topics in Literature: Medieval Mystics
ENG 330: History of the English Language
ENG 336: Varieties of English (Middle English)
ENG 361: Old and Middle English Literature
ENG 363: Shakespeare I
ENG 364: Shakespeare II
ENG 403: Individual Project (various topics, including Medieval Women, Chaucer, and Medieval Drama)
ENG 413: Capstone Research Project
ENG 450: English Internship (research/teaching assistantship)
ENG 462: Seminar in British Literature (Medieval Women)
ENG 463: Chaucer
ENG 494: Literature Capstone
Research and publishing
Publications
"Sansa's Songs: The Allegory of Medieval Romance in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire Series," "A Song of Ice and Fire" and the Medieval Literary Tradition. Warsaw, Poland: Warsaw UP, 2014, 71-94.
"How Men Grieve: A Contemporary Allegory of the Grieving Process in Sir Orfeo," The Final Crossing: Death and Dying in Literature. New York: Peter Lang, 2015, 101-114.
"Interstices: Fountain as Cultural Bleed in Owein and Doshi’s Fountainville." Essays in Medieval Studies, vol. 32, 2016, 65-72.
"Caritas Begins at Home: Virtue and Domesticity in Chrétien’s Yvain." Arthuriana, vol. 27, no. 1, 2017, pp. 43-72.
"He Had Forgotten His Leman": Fealty and Homage in the Middle English Ywain and Gawain."Journal of English and Germanic Philology. (Under Review)
Recent Conferences
"'He Had Forgotten His Leman': The Lady of the Fountain as Fides Forgotten." Leeds International Congress, Leeds, UK, July 2018.