Karen E. Rowe

Karen E. Rowe (born 1945) is an American literary critic and a specialist in Renaissance literature. She is a professor of English at UCLA.^[1]

Background

Rowe received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and Ph.D. from Indiana University.

Awards

• UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 1982.
• Fellow of the Bryn Mawr/HERS Mid-Atlantic Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration, 1986.
• Executive Committee, Division on American Literature to 1800, Modern Language Association, 1989–94.
• Chair of the Division and MLA Program, 1992.
• Gradated from The American University in Cairo with highest honors 1966.

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• Editorial Board Member, Early American Literature, 1987–1990.^[2]

Selected bibliography

• Saint And Singer : Edward Taylor's Typology And The Poetics Of Meditation. Cambridge studies in American literature and culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
• "Edward Taylor." In The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 3rd Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter, Richard Yarborough, et al. 2 vols. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1998, vol. 1, pp. 366–407.
• "The Rise of Women’s Education in the United States and Korea: A Struggle for Educational and Occupational Equality." Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 3.2 (1997) 30–93 (with Byong-suh Kim).
• "To Spin A Yarn: The Female Voice in Folklore and Fairy Tale." In Fairy Tales and Society. Ed. R. B. Bottigheimer. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1986, pp. 53–74.
• "‘Fairy-born and human-bred’: Jane Eyre’s Education in Romance." In The Voyage In: Fictions of Female Development. Ed. Abel, Hirsch, and Langland. Hanover, New Hampshire: Univ. Press of New England, 1983, pp. 69–89, 327–330.
• "Feminism and Fairy Tales." Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 6 (1979), 237–257.

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External links

• Official site