DR. DEBORAH BOWEN
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Courses taught 2011/2012:
ENG103 Introduction to Fiction
ENG257 The British Novel
ENG346 Victorian Literature
ENG347 20th-century British Literature
ENG357 Contemporary Fiction
ENG425 Contemporary Canadian Poetry
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. (1990), English, University of Ottawa
Dissertation: "Mimesis, Magic, Manipulation: A Study of the Photograph in Contemporary British and Canadian Novels."
Cert. Ed. (1971), Education, Cambridge University
B.A. Hons (1970) and M.A. (1974), English Language and Literature, Oxford University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Postmodern fiction and faith
- Canadian poetry and environmental concern
- British modernism
CURRENT RESEARCH
- The spiritual and the mythical in contemporary Canadian poetry
- Mimesis and narrative epistemology (Paul Ricoeur, Richard Kearney)
RESEARCH FUNDING
Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern Realisms (McGill- Queen's U P) was awarded an Aid to Scholarly Publications grant by SSHRC.
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS
Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern Realisms. McGill- Queen's University Press, 2010.
The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity: Literature and the Christian Critic, ed. Deborah C. Bowen. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
BOOK CHAPTERS
“Postmodern realism and photographic subjectivity in The Stone Diaries .” In Re:Reading the Postmodern: a Canadian Literature Symposium . Ed. Robert Stacey. Forthcoming with U of Ottawa P, 2010. 229-248.
“Annie Dillard on Holy Ground: the Artist as Nun in the Postmodern Sublime.” In Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime: Trauma and Transcendence in Literature . Ed. Holly Faith Nelson, Lynn Szabo, and Jens Zimmermann. Forthcoming with Wilfrid Laurier U P, 2010. 317-26.
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Literature and Shalom: Teaching Freshman Students to Read.” In
Teaching to Justice: Christian Faculty Seek ‘Shalom’ in Different Disciplines . Ed. Julia K. Stronks, Whitworth College. Online anthology. Summer 2008. (Also in Council for Christian Colleges and Universities online Research Library.)
ARTICLES
“Jesus Christ the Apple Tree. Preparing for Good Friday in a Literature and Environment Course.” Journal of Education and Christian Belief 15.1 (Spring 2011): 43-52.
“’What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?’– Narrative and the Christian reader.”
Comment Magazine, Spring 2011: 55-64.
“John Terpstra and the Place of the Sacred: The Body of his Work.” Canadian Poetry 67
(Fall/Winter 2010): 129-45.
"’Blessed are the poor in spirit’: Imagining excellence otherwise.” Journal of Education and Christian Belief 14.1 (Spring 2010): 7-17.
SELECTED BOOK REVIEWS
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Navigating the boat of faith.” Rev. of John Terpstra,
Skin Boat: Acts of Faith and Other Navigations (Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau P., 2009).
Canadian Literature, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2010.
“A persevering presence.” Rev. of Margaret Avison,
I Am Here and Not Not-There: An Autobiography (The Porcupine’s Quill, 2009) and
A Kind of Perseverance: Two Essays (1993; rpt. The Porcupine’s Quill, 2010). canlit.ca.
Canadian Literature, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2010.
Alice Major, The Office Tower Tales (Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 2008). In Journal of
Canadian Poetry 25 (for 2008): 131-35.
LINKS
The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity, purchase HERE