Karen E. Rowe

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occupation = Professor
nationality = United States
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genre = Renaissance literature
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notableworks ="Saint And Singer : Edward Taylor's Typology And The Poetics Of Meditation"
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Karen E. Rowe is an American literary critic and a specialist in Renaissance literature. She is a professor of English at UCLA. [cite news
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Background

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

elected 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.

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.
*Editorial Board Member, Early American Literature, 1987-1990. [ [http://www.english.ucla.edu/people/facpages.asp?person_id=124 Official website] ]

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External links

* [http://www.english.ucla.edu/people/facpages.asp?person_id=124 Official site]