Faculty: Master of Liberal Studies
Rosemary E. Cowler
Hotchkiss Presidential Professor, Emerita (deceased)
English
Writing Advisor, Master’s in Liberal Studies Program
Specialization
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century English Literature
Interests
Poetry
Satire
Alexander Pope
Samuel Richardson and the Sentimental Novel
Dr. Johnson and Boswell
Jane Austen
Education
Ph.D., Yale University
M.A., Indiana University
B.A., Douglass College, Rutgers University
Courses Taught
M/LS 516: The Idea of Law
M/LS 522: The Eighteenth Century
M/LS 530: War and Peace
M/LS 536: Meetings: East and West
Books
Author (with F. Schulze and A. Miller): 30 Miles North: a History of Lake Forest College, Its Town and City of Chicago, 2000.
Editor: The Prose Works of Alexander Pope, Vol. II: the Major Works, 1725-44, Archon Press and Basil Blackwell (Oxford), 1986
Editor: Twentieth Century Interpretations of Pamela, Prentice-Hall, 1969
Articles
Book chapter: Shadow and Substance: A Discussion of Pope’s Correspondence,” The Familar Letter in the Eighteenth Cantury, University of Kansas Press, 1966
Other Talks
Annual Eighteenth Century Lecture, University of Evansville, “Pope, Curll, and the Eighteenth Century Book Trade”
Popular Work
Numerous talks on the College history: AAUW, The LF-LB Historical Society, etc.
The Northern Trust Bank, Lake Forest and Chicago: tea and luncheon talks on Jane Austen
The Caxton Club, Chicago, Christmas Revels talk on Pope and Curll
Awards and Honors
Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, The British Academy, for the Prose Works of Alexander Pope
AlA, Choice, Outstanding Books of the Year, for the Prose Works
Hotchkiss Presidential Chair
Inland Steel-Ryerson Foundation, Outstanding Teacher Award
The Douglass Society Alumnae Award
The Charlotte Simmons Award
