Faculty Scholarship
DR. STEELE NOWLIN, VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH
 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of English Steele Nowlin, who began teaching at the College in the fall, had an article entitled “Narratives of Incest and Incestuous Narrative: Memory, Process, and the Confessio Amantis’s ‘Middel Weie’” published in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35 (2005: 21744), in which he discusses the 14th-century English writer John Gower and his uses of the theme of incest as a way to represent a new kind of poetics. And in 2006 Nowlin’s essay “Between Precedent and Possibility: Liminality, Historicity, and Narrative in Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale” appeared in Studies in Philology 103 (2006: 47-67). In the latter essay Nowlin treats how Chaucer’s tale investigates and represents the ways in which individuals imagine future possibilities.
In 2006 Nowlin gave two conference presentations. At Spenser’s Civilizations: International Spenser Society Conference in Toronto, Nowlin spoke on how Edmund Spenser invokes Geoffrey Chaucer in order to refigure a model of English authorship that parallels changes in the understanding of English monarchical power in “Medieval Models for Civil Poetry: Chaucer and the Politics of Authorship in The Faerie Queene VI.” And at the 15th Biennial Congress of the New Chaucer Society meeting in New York, Nowlin presented “Gower and the Anxiety of a Career-Ethicist,” in which he discussed how Gower creates a new model for English authorship, paradoxically using themes of anxiety and self-doubt to assert literary authority.
Nowlin received his bachelor’s degree from Kent State University, and both his master’s and doctorate from Pennsylvania State University.
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Hampden-Sydney College Faculty Scholarship 2005-2008
A report by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty
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