Academics

Rosemary E. Cowler
Hotchkiss Presidential Professor, Emerita
English
Writing Advisor, Master of Liberal Studies Program

Phone 847-735-5108
E-mail cowler@lakeforest.edu

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