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Steele Nowlin

Steele Nowlin

Teaching Professor of English
Internship Coordinator
(814) 863-2342
13 Burrowes Building
Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building

Mailroom: 430 Burrowes Building

Steele Nowlin

Spring 2024 Office Hours

Wednesdays, 9:00-11:00 AM Thursdays, 3:00-4:00 PM and by appointment

Education

Ph.D., English, Pennsylvania State University, 2007
M.A., English, Pennsylvania State University, 2002
B.A., English, Kent State University, 1999

Professional Bio

I earned my Ph.D. at Penn State in 2007 and for the past ten years taught at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, where I was an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of English. I've taught a variety of writing and literature classes, including medieval and early modern literature, Chaucer, Shakespeare, the history of the English language, science fiction, first-year composition, professional writing, honors seminars, and interdisciplinary courses.

I've published several articles on the English poets Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower, and my recent book, Chaucer, Gower, and the Affect of Invention (Ohio State UP, 2016), looks at the relationship between poetic invention and affective emergence in late medieval poetry. My research interests have turned more recently toward poetic invention and new materialist studies, thinking about the "matter" of poetry in all its forms.

Areas of Specialization