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.

Karen E. Rowe
Born	1945 (age 78–79)
Occupation	Professor at UCLA
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Indiana University, Mount Holyoke College
Genre	Renaissance literature, Women's studies
Notable works	Saint And Singer : Edward Taylor's Typology And The Poetics Of Meditation

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.
• Graduated from The American University in Cairo with highest honors 1966.
• Editorial Board Member, Early American Literature, 1987–1990.

Selected bibliography

• Rowe, Karen E. (1986). Saint and singer: Edward Taylor's typology and the poetics of meditation. Cambridge Cambridgeshire New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521308656.
• Rowe, Karen E. (2014), "Edward Taylor", in Lauter, Paul (ed.), The Heath anthology of American literature: volume A, beginnings to 1800, Heath Anthology of American Literature Series (7th ed.), Boston, Massachusetts: Cengage Learning, pp. 366–407, ISBN 9781133310228.
• Rowe, Karen E.; Kim, Byong-suh (June 1997). "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): 30–93. doi:10.1080/12259276.1997.11665795. Archived from the original on January 18, 2016. Pdf.
• Rowe, Karen E. (1986), "To spin a yarn: the female voice in folklore and fairy tale", in Ruth B., Bottigheimer (ed.), Fairy tales and society, University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 53–74, ISBN 9780812212945.
• Rowe, Karen E. (1983), ""Fairy-born and human-bred": Jane Eyre's education in romance", in Abel, Elizabeth; Hirsch, Marianne; Langland, Elizabeth (eds.), The Voyage in: fictions of female development, Hanover, New Hampshire: Published for Dartmouth College by University Press of New England, pp. 69–89, ISBN 9780874512502.
• Rowe, Karen E. (January 1979). "Feminism and fairy tales". Women's Studies: An Inter-disciplinary Journal. 6 (3): 237–257. doi:10.1080/00497878.1979.9978487.

External links

• Official site