Join us for a Discussion with Professor Laura Cowan

Chair of the English Department, Laura Cowan has been a professor at the University of Maine for twenty-nine years. She chose the University of Maine because of her dedication to public education and her love of the out-of-doors. She loves to hike, kayak, and camp. She was an Economics major as an undergraduate and worked as a legal assistant for the Boston Legal Assistance Program and the Public Defender of Chicago after college.

Her Ph.D. is in Modern British literature; she has published on T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, and Rebecca West. Since coming to the University of Maine, she has been Chair of the Environment Committee of the Faculty Senate, Editor for the National Poetry Foundation, Board Member of the Penobscot Theatre, and Board member of the Rebecca West Society.

About the Series

Reading informs, moves, incites, inspires, and transforms us. In another’s words we recognize some echo of our own existence.  The written word allows us to expand our experience, as we engage with identities and ideas not our own.In this series, members of the UMaine community will speak about their experience of reading, their awakening as readers, their past and current best books (and maybe even their worst reads). They’ll venture far outside their scholarly fields and bring us into the world of their personal reading. Join us as we explore the role of reading in our lives!

In this series, members of the UMaine community will speak about their experience of reading, their awakening as readers, their past and current best books (and maybe even their worst reads). They’ll venture far outside their scholarly fields and bring us into the world of their personal reading. Join us as we explore the role of reading in our lives!