Boston Resident Kerri Bowen Joins Stonehill College Faculty

EASTON, MA (08/27/2010)(readMedia)-- Boston resident Kerri Bowen has joined the faculty at Stonehill College as a visiting assistant professor of English. She comes to Stonehill from Bates College, where she served as a visiting instructor of medieval and renaissance literature from 2008-10. Her research and teaching interests include Chaucer, Shakespeare, medieval and early modern visual culture, and nineteenth-century medievalism.

Bowen recently completed her Ph.D. at Tufts University, where she served as a graduate lecturer, teaching fellow, teaching assistant, and writing fellow. In the spring of 2006, she earned a teaching award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education.

This past spring, she received the Outstanding Academic Performance Award for her dissertation entitled Narrative Image: The Poetics of Patience from Dante to Shakespeare.

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