Steele Nowlin

Professional Bio

I earned my Ph.D. at Penn State in 2007 and for 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 and chapters on the English poets Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower, and my 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.