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Dr. Steele Nowlin

Assistant Professor of English
Morton Hall, 033
(434) 223-7262
snowlin@hsc.edu

Education

Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2007
M.A. Pennsylvania State Universtity, 2002
B.A. Kent State University, 1999

Teaching and Research Interests

Middle English Literature, especially Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
Medieval Historiography
Medieval Rhetorical Poetics
Early Modern Literature, especially William Shakespeare
Arthurian Literature
Literature and War
Science Fiction
Rhetoric and Composition 

Most Recent Publications

"Gower's Chronicles of Invention: Historiography and Productive Poetry in Book Four of the Confessio Amantis." Modern Philology (Forthcoming 2012).

"Between Precedent and Possibility: Liminality, Historicity, and Narrative in Chaucer's Franklin's Tale." Studies in Philology 103 (2006): 47-67.

"Narratives of Incest and Incestuous Narrative: Memory, Process, and the Confessio Amantis's 'Middel Weie.' " Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35 (2005): 217-44.

Institutional Involvement

Associate Director of the Honors Program, 2011-Present
Safe Zone Ally, 2008-Present
Academic Advisor, 2008-Present
Student Affairs Committee, 2010-Present
Science Fiction Group Coordinator, 2011-Present
Shakespeare's Henry V, A Semester-Long Investigation, 2011
Installation Ceremony Committee for Presidential Inauguration, 2010
Gender Issues Committee, 2008-2010 (Co-Chair, 2009-2010)
Phi Beta Kappa Jones Prize Selection Committee, 2009-2010 (Chair, 2010)
English and Rhetoric Deparmental Committees, 2007-Present

Honors and Awards

Travel Grants, Hampden-Sydney, 2008-2011
Faculty Summer Research Grants, Hampden-Sydney, 2008, 2009, 2011

Professional Affiliations

Medieval Academy of America
New Chaucer Society
International John Gower Society
Shakespeare Association of America
Modern Language Association