College of Liberal Arts
Department of English
Appointed: 2001-2013
Email: [email protected]
Web: View Pattie Cowell’s Web Page
Degrees:

• B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, English
• M.A., Ph.D., University of Massachusetts/Amherst, English

Professor Cowell teaches American literature, American Studies, and Women’s Studies. Her major research has been in early American studies, but she has also published articles on Melville, B. Traven, Leslie Silko, multiculturalism, gothic fiction, service learning and feminist pedagogy. In addition to extensive work on early American women poets culminating in Women Poets in Pre-Revolutionary America and Critical Essays on Anne Bradstreet, she has written on Cotton Mather, on the 18th-century magazine trade, and on the English letter-writer Polly Hewson. Her work has appeared in such journals as Early American Literature, Signs, and American Literary History, and in several anthologies. A personal essay, “Deep Focus,” appeared in Prairie Schooner. She is presently working on a series of essays about story-telling set in north-central Montana.

Current Teaching Activities

Professor Cowell teaches American literature, American Studies, and Women’s Studies.