Contact Information

Office: 4143 JFSB

Phone: 422-8968

Email: jamin_rowan@byu.edu

Commonly Taught Courses
English 251: Fundamentals of Literary Interpretation and Criticism
English 295: Writing Literary Criticism
English 363: American Literature 1914-1960
English 495: The City in American Literature and Culture

American Studies 304: Theories & Methods in American Studies
American Studies 490: Los Angeles & the Future of Urban Cultures

Semester Schedule: Winter 2013:

AM ST 490
TTh 9:30-10:45
B150 JFSB

ENGL 251
TTh 12:05-1:20
2009 JKB

ENGL 251
TTh 1:35-2:50
2009 JKB


Other University Assignments:
English Undergraduate Advisor (Last name P-Z)

Student Consultations:
TTH 3:00-4:30 or by appointment

Vita: Link to Vita

Biography:

Dr. Rowan joined the faculty at BYU in 2010 after teaching at Wake Forest University from 2008-10. He specializes in U.S. literature since 1865, with a particular focus on urban literature and culture. His work has been supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Archive Center, and has appeared in a variety of disciplinary diverse venues. His book manuscript, Urban Sympathy: The Death and Life of an American Intellectual Tradition, is under contract with the University of Pennsylvania Press for publication in “The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America” series. Urban Sympathy examines the ways in which late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century urban intellectuals redevelop the narrative and affective patterns that lay at the heart of an antebellum culture of sympathy in order to capture the emotions and obligations that arise in the city’s public contact zones.

Selected Publications:

Urban Sympathy: The Death and Life of an American Intellectual Tradition (U of Pennsylvania P, forthcoming)

"Sidewalk Narratives, Tenement Narratives: Seeing Urban Renewal through the Settlement Movement." Journal of Urban History (forthcoming)

“The Literary Craft of Jane Jacobs.” In Reconsidering Jane Jacobs. Eds. Timothy Mennel and Max Page. Chicago: APA Planners Press, 2011. 43-56.

“The New York School of Urban Ecology: The New Yorker, Rachel Carson, and Jane Jacobs.” American Literature 82.3 (2010): 583-610.

“Stephen Crane and Methodism’s Realism: Translating Spiritual Sympathy into Urban Experience.” Studies in American Fiction 36.2 (2008): 133-54.

Degrees:
PhD, Boston College, 2008
MA, Boston College, 2002
MA, U of Southampton (U.K.), 2001
BA, Brigham Young U, 1999

Interests:

Late 19C/Mid-20C American Literature, Urban Studies, American Studies

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