{"id":1888,"date":"2018-09-24T22:24:01","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T02:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/?page_id=1888"},"modified":"2021-10-09T12:41:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T16:41:14","slug":"megan-bowman","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/megan-bowman\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Bowman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/englishprofiles\/files\/2018\/09\/Megan-the-Grad-Student.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/englishprofiles\/files\/2018\/09\/Megan-the-Grad-Student.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"324\" class=\" wp-image-1890 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/files\/2018\/09\/Megan-the-Grad-Student.jpeg 242w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/files\/2018\/09\/Megan-the-Grad-Student-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My dissertation explores the link between Tudor-era epic romance and the \u2018new science\u2019 of human anatomy in early modern England. The spectacular bodily violence of the era\u2019s greatest epic romances\u2014Malory\u2019s <em>Morte Darthur<\/em>, Sidney\u2019s <em>Arcadia<\/em>, and Spenser\u2019s <em>The Faerie Queene<\/em>\u2014reveal a deep, if sordid, fascination with the human body and what it means to look at it, inside and out. My research threads together literary criticism, historical and cultural studies, and disability theory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Education:<br \/>\nPh.D. in English &amp; American Literature, Boston University, in progress<br \/>\nM.A. in English &amp; American Literature, Boston University, 2017<br \/>\nB.A. in English Literature, University of Iowa, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Courses Taught:<\/p>\n<p>WR 120: First-Year Writing Seminar: The English Sonnet (Fall 2021)<\/p>\n<p>EN 142: Introduction to Poetry (Fall 2019, Spring 2020)<\/p>\n<p>WR 150: Writing, Research, and Inquiry: Animals &amp; Literature (Spring 2019)<\/p>\n<p>WR 120: First-Year Writing Seminar: Animals &amp; Literature (Fall 2018)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dissertation explores the link between Tudor-era epic romance and the \u2018new science\u2019 of human anatomy in early modern England. The spectacular bodily violence of the era\u2019s greatest epic romances\u2014Malory\u2019s Morte Darthur, Sidney\u2019s Arcadia, and Spenser\u2019s The Faerie Queene\u2014reveal a deep, if sordid, fascination with the human body and what it means to look at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15148,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1888"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1888"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1888\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/englishprofiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}