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Dr. Rian Bowie
Assistant Professor of English

Education

PhD., Emory University
MA, Temple Univesity

Area(s) of Specialty

19th and 20th Century African-American Literature
19th Century American Women's Social Movements
19th/Early 20th Century African-American and American Periodicals
American Political Satire

Contact Information

Office: C114Tribble Hall
Phone: (336) 758-3369
Email

Courses Taught at WFU

ENG 302 "Race" Fictions:
Image and Inversions in American Literature
ENG 381 "Black Like Me":
Reform, Representation, and the Black Public Sphere during the Black Cultural/Literary Renaissances between 1900-1950
ENG 389 The Authenticating Black “I”: 
Studies in Black Autobiography from Slavery to Freedom
ENG 387 Slavery in the Twentieth Century
Black Imagination
ENG 150 Dreaming America:
Expression, Identity, and the Literary Imagination
ENG 175 Whose History; Whose Hero?
The “Heroic Ideal” in American Literature
ENG 111 Personal as Political in
African American Literature
ENG 111 What’s So Funny?:
Humor, Race, and Nation in American Political Humor

Selected Publications

“Woodruff Library’s African American Studies Collection At a Glance” Loose Canons, November 2002.

“Bauerlein Studies 1906 Atlanta Race Riots: An Interview,” Loose Canons, July 2001

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