Rowena Fowler
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Having retired from the Department of English at the
Click on the title for abstracts of two recent articles:
"'Purple Shining Lilies': Imagining the Aeneid in Contemporary Poetry", in Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English, edited by S. J. Harrison (Oxford University Press, 2009).
"This Tart Fable: Daphne and Apollo in Modern Women's Poetry", in Laughing With Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought, edited by Miriam Lawrence and Vanda Zajko (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Research interests . . .
1. The reception of classical antiquity in English and Modern Greek literature. Topics include Virginia Woolf's Greece, the Classical Tradition in the novels of Elizabeth Taylor, the reception of Pindar in Victorian and modern poetry.
2. Victorian poetry: I have edited two volumes of Robert Browning and written several articles on Browning; currently I am an editorial advisor to the Journal of Browning Studies.
3. The Greek travels and paintings of Edward Lear; a new edition of the Cretan Journal will be published for Lear's bicentenary in 2012. I have recently edited Lear's journal of his 1848 Greek travels.
4. English / Modern Greek literary relations. A Greek translation of my article on T.S. Eliot and George Seferis was re-published in 2003.
5. Other research interests: critical and metrical theory, women and writing (including Alice Munro, Elizabeth Gaskell and Virginia Woolf), and the history and literary uses of the English dictionary. For the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography I wrote entries for Mary Newton, the painter, and Lucy Garnett, the traveller and ethnographer.
Current research . . .
James Joyce's use of Greek and Greeks; Greek translations of Joyce; the influence of Joyce in Modern Greek literature. Some work in progress, Joyce's Ulysses in Modern Greek, was published in 2008.
Lectures and papers . . .
"Greek in Joyce: Joyce in Greek" at the Modern Greek Seminar, King's College London, 13 February 2012.
"Plato, Seferis and Heaney: Poetry as Redress" at the conference Re-Imagining the Past: Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture, University of Birmingham, June 2011.
"Virginia Woolf's Greek Choruses" in the seminar series Modern Receptions of Ancient Greek and Roman Cultures, Oxford University, October 2006.
"Text and Meaning in Charles Richardson's New Dictionary of the English Language"
at the International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology,
"Robert Browning as Editor: The Posthumous Publication of Elizabeth Barrett Browning" at the conference The Future of Victorian Poetry, University of Western Ontario, March 2003.
"Women Writers and Readers in the Oxford English Dictionary" at the
British Women Writers Conference,
"Putting Living People into Books: Woolf's Reception in the Oxford English Dictionary" at The Eleventh Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, University of Wales, June 2001.
"Statistical Subjects? The Individual, the City, and the Literary Text" at the conference Monuments and Dust, Institute of Historical Research, July 2001.
"Browning, Blougram, and the Probability of God" at the Golden Jubilee conference of the Armstrong Browning Library, Baylor University, October 2001.
At the 2000 MLA Convention I organised a special session on The Literary Uses of Dictionaries.
Teaching interests
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Victorian and twentieth-century poetry and
fiction. See, for example, Contemporary Women's Fiction.
Maintained by: Rowena Fowler
(rowena.fowler AT gmail.com)
Last updated: 19 December 2011
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