Dr. Julie Bowen

Julia Bowen

Position Title: Professor
Department: English
Office: St. Benedict Hall 305
Phone: 913.360.7605
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Dr. Julia Bowen she has had a long-standing connection with Benedictine because her father taught in the Biology Department from 1976 until 2013.  She currently serves as Co-Director of the Discovery Program with Dr. Terry Malloy of the Biology Department and has mentored student research projects focusing on: the etiquette, customs, and rituals of Victorian tea parties; how to teach Dante’s Inferno; the use of sound techniques in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins; the meaning of modern Dystopian literature; and the nature of monotheism under Akhenaten.

CLASSES

  • English Composition I
  • World Literature I:  Ancient to Renaissance
  • British Literature to 1750
  • British Literature after 1750
  • Renaissance Literature
  • Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
  • Poetry
  • Film
  • Special Topics (Novel and Film, 17th-Century Poetry, 19th-Century British Women Novelists, etc.)
  • Romantic Literature
  • Victorian Literature
  • Twentieth Century British Literature

RESEARCH INTERESTS

  • The iconography of Queen Elizabeth I
  • Seventeenth-Century poetry
  • Restoration poetry
  • Restoration drama
  • Film and literature
  • Eighteenth and nineteenth-Century novels.

DEGREES

2004Ph.D. Duquesne University
1994M.A. Duquesne University
1992B.A. University of Dallas

PRESENTATIONS

Cecilia Wood and Julia Bowen. Weddings and Witchcraft:  A Collection of Italian Folklore.” Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  April 13, 2016.

Vincent Petruccelli and Julia Bowen.  “Language Charged With Grandeur:  The Expressive Capacity of Sound in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  April 17, 2013.

Francis Petruccelli and Julia Bowen.  “Freedom, Humanity, and Resistance in Dystopian Literature.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  April 14, 2010.

Leven Harton, OSB, and Julia Bowen.  “The Irony of Raphael Hythloday.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  April 14, 2010.

Rachel Bailey and Julia Bowen.  “Coats of Arms in Florence.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  April 14, 2010. 

Rachel Meyer, Alicia Baehr, Katie Buckmaster, Natalie Stump, Julia Bowen.  “You Are Cordially Invited:  A Victorian Tea Party.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  April 1, 2009.

Justin Pregont, Julia Bowen, Terry Malloy, Daniel Bowen, Jack Davis.  “Egypt’s Heretic King: The Bold and Brief Reign of Akhenaten.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  April 1, 2009.

Shanda McIntosh, Terry Malloy, Julia Bowen, Daniel Bowen, Jack Davis.  “Egyptian Papyrus.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  April 1, 2009.

Gabrielle Mullins, Lisa Prowant, Terry Malloy, Julia Bowen, Daniel Bowen, Jack Davis.  “Dung Balls to Deity: Biology and Iconography in Ancient Egypt.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  April 1, 2009.

Alicia Nuvolini, Terry Malloy, Julia Bowen, Daniel Bowen, Jack Davis.  “Old Kingdom Versus Modern World: The Status and Role of Women in Egypt.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  April 1, 2009.

Buckmaster, Katie and Julia Bowen.  “‘Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here’”:  An Inferno Lesson Plan for the Secondary Level.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  16 April 2008.

Johnson, Meisha, Julie Koehn, and Julia Bowen.  “‘Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here’”:  The Psychology of Torture or Punishment in Dante’s Inferno.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  16 April 2008.

Petruccelli, Francis and Julia Bowen.  “Tennyson’s ‘Ulysses’:  The Struggle for Identity.”  Discovery Day.  Benedictine College.  16 April 2008.

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