Education
PhD (1990), English, University of Ottawa
顿颈蝉蝉别谤迟补迟颈辞苍:听Mimesis, Magic, Manipulation: A Study of the Photograph in Contemporary British and Canadian Novels.
MA (1974), English Language and Literature, Oxford University, UK
Cert. (1971), Education – English, Cambridge University, UK
BA (Hons) (1970), English Language and Literature, Oxford University, UK
Courses
- Ways of Reading: Fiction (ENG-103)
- Environmental Literature (ENG-241)
- British Literature, 1900-1950 (ENG-347)
- British Literature, 1950-Present (ENG-357)
- Postcolonial Literature (ENG-376)
- Modern Canadian Poetry (ENG-427)
- Studies in Postcolonial Literature (ENG-476)
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Bowen鈥檚 monograph (McGill-Queen鈥檚 U P, 2010) and her edited collection of essays The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity: Literature and the Christian Critic (Cambridge Scholars P, 2007) demonstrate her concern with reading contemporary literature from a Christian perspective, and her belief that God is at work in literature even where the divine is not named there. She regularly publishes articles on contemporary British and Canadian fiction and poetry in books and scholarly journals, and has also contributed a number of papers on pedagogy and on the importance of the humanities. She has presented over eighty papers at both Christian and non-confessional academic conferences in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere. In the winter semester of 2013, she was the ARCU (Association of Reformed Colleges and Universities) lecturer for the year, and gave lectures at Tyndale U.C., Trinity Christian College in Chicago, Geneva College in Pennsylvania, The King鈥檚 University in Edmonton, and the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto. Though Bowen retired from full-time work in June of 2017, she is still teaching part time, and hopes to do so for as long as her family situation allows. Dr. Bowen also retired in 2018 as co-director, with Dr. Katherine Quinsey at the University of Windsor, of the national Christianity and Literature Study Group. Her work with a SSHRC Insight Development Grant on The Poetry and Ecology Project resulted in the leaflets posted at /wp-content/uploads/Poetry-and-Ecology-Project.pdf. Subsequent work with a SSHRC Insight Grant has now produced a curated anthology entitled Poetry in Place: Poetry and Environmental Hope in a Southern Ontario Bioregion (Guernica Editions, 2025); the assistant editor and all the research assistants are Redeemer alumni.
Research Interests
- Poetry and ecology
- The spiritual and the mythical in contemporary English fiction and poetry
Current Research
- Canadian poetry and environmental concern
- The voice of Creation in contemporary literature
Recent Research Funding
Awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant to work on Poetry in Place: Poetry and Environmental Hope in a Southern Ontario Bioregion April 2020 to March 2025.
Awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to work on 鈥淭he Voice of Environmental Hope in Contemporary Ontarian Poetry,鈥 June 2016-May 2018.
Awarded a Zylstra grant to work on 鈥淓coAtwood meets EcoChristianity,鈥 April 2015
Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern Realisms听(McGill-Queen鈥檚 UP) was awarded an Aid to Scholarly Publications grant by SSHRC.
Recent Publications
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Books
Poetry in Place: Poetry and Environmental Hope in a Southern Ontario Bioregion, ed. Deborah C. Bowen, assistant ed. Noah Van Brenk. Guernica Editions, 2025.听
Stories of the Middle Space: Reading the Ethics of Postmodern Realisms,听Deborah C. Bowen. McGill-Queen鈥檚 University Press, 2010.
The Strategic Smorgasbord of Postmodernity: Literature and the Christian Critic, ed. Deborah C. Bowen. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.
Selected Book Chapters
鈥淐reation Still Speaking: The Everyday Voice of the Divine in Contemporary Canadian Poetry.鈥 Secularism and the Pursuit of Transcendence, Volume II. McMaster Divinity College/Wipf & Stock, 2025.
“‘Nature is Never Spent鈥? The Prophetic Voice in Contemporary Canadian Ecological Poetry.鈥 The Prophetic Word: Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation. Mark Burrows, ed. Routledge, 2021. 233-241.
鈥淧laces that Shape Us.鈥 Revised for inclusion in A Sort of Homecoming:听Essays Honoring the Academic and Community Work of Brian Walsh. Marcia Boniferro, Amanda Jagt, and Andrew Stephens-Rennie, ed.s. Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, an imprint of Wipf and Stock, 2020. 14-22.
鈥淩eading the Devil in the Landscape.鈥澨The Hermeneutics of Hell: Devilish Visions and Visions of the Devil in World Literature. Dan Russ and Gregor Thuswaldner, eds. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, July 2017. 291-304
Selected Articles
鈥淩eading deep time: contemporary Canadian geopoetry.鈥 Green Letters winter 2025.
鈥淧reface: Constructing the Past, Reviewing the Present.鈥 In 鈥溾橠ue Influence鈥: Anita Brookner鈥檚 Legacy.鈥 Special issue of 臇tudes Anglaises, guest edited by Laurence Petit. 臇础 74.2 (2021): 131-134.
“鈥楲et heaven and nature sing鈥 in poems by Malcolm Guite, Wendell Berry, and John Terpstra.” The Glass听No. 34 (Spring 2021):听 22-28.
Christianity and Literature, 69.2 (June 2020): 219-236. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/758807/summary
Hamilton Arts and Letters, 12th Anniversary Climate Action Issue, ed. Matthew Zantingh and Alec Follett, 31.1 (June 2020). https://samizdatpress.typepad.com/hal_magazine_issue_thirte/the-trees-of-the-forest-by-deborah-bowen-1.html
听Christianity and Literature, 66.4 (Sept. 2017): 691-705.
Selected Book Reviews
“Hunting, Hearing Loss, and Environmental Ethics: A review of听A Catechism of Nature:听Meditations on Creation鈥檚 Primary Realities,” by听George Willcox Brown III听(Wipf and Stock, 2021).听Front Porch Republic,听July 27, 2022.
Marilyn McEntyre,听When Poets Pray听(Eerdmans, 2019). The Glass听No. 34 (Spring 2021): 48-50.
David Lyle Jeffrey, Scripture and the English Poetic Imagination (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2019). Christian Scholars Review听Vol XLIX, No. 4 (Summer 2020).
Allan Hepburn, A Grain of Faith: Religion in Mid-Century British Literature (Oxford U P, 2018). The Glass: Towards a Christian Understanding of Literature 32 (Spring 2020): 60-62.
Tim Lilburn, The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place (Edmonton, AB: U of Alberta P, 2017). Journal of Canadian Poetry 34 (2017).
John L. Riley, (Montreal: McGill-Queen鈥檚 UP, 2013). The Goose 16.1 (2017), Article 12.
Links
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