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Tynes Cowan
Assistant Professor of English
Birmingham-Southern College
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Birmingham-Southern
College
900 Arkadelphia Road
Birmingham, Alabama 35254
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Office: 314 Berte
Humanities Center
Phone: (205) 226-4871
E-mail: tcowan@bsc.edu
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Education
PhD. American Studies, College of William and Mary (2001)
MA. English, Northeastern University (1992)
MAEd. Secondary English Education, UAB (1990)
BA. English, Birmingham-Southern College
(1985)
Areas of Academic Interest
- American Literature
- Southern Literature
- African-American
Literature
- Folklore and Popular
Culture
Publications
- The Slave in the Swamp: Disrupting the Plantation Narrative
Routledge (2004)
- “Plantation
Comic Modes.” Humor: International
Journal of Humor Research 14:1 (2001)
- “Charles Waddell
Chesnutt and Joel Chandler
Harris: An Anxiety of Influence.” Resources
for American Literary Study 25:2 (1999)
- “The 1856 Slave
Insurrection Panic and the Williamsburg Gazette.” ATQ: 19th C. American
Literature and Culture 12:4 (1998)
- “The Slave in the Swamp:
Effects of Uncultivated Regions on Plantation
Life.” Keep Your Head to the Sky:
Interpreting African American Home Ground. Edited by Grey Gundaker.
University Press of Virginia
(1998)
- Assistant Editor, Keep Your Head to the Sky
Courses Taught
Interim Courses
- The 1960s in
Fiction, Film, and Song
- Popular
Culture…Seriously
- Folklore and
American Literature
Student Contracts
- Pirates in
Literature, Legend, and History
- Cult Films
- Birmingham-Southern
Folklore
- Comic Books and the
Counterculture
- Politics and
Societies in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien
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