Sarah Powrie

  • Associate Professor
  • St. Thomas More College
  • 1437 College Drive Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W6
  • Phone: 306.966.8935
  • spowrie@stmcollege.ca
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Education | Research Interests | Research Projects | Selected Publications
Teaching Responsibilities | Administrative Responsibilities

Education

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Notre Dame
  • Ph.D., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
  • M.A., Medieval Studies, University of Toronto
  • M.A., English, Queen’s University
  • B.A., English, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan

Research Interests

  • Neoplatonism in medieval allegory and metaphysical poetry
  • The literary framework of philosophical dialogues

Research Projects

  • Chaucer's Dream Visions
  • Literary representations of Nature from 12th-14th century
  • Translation strategies in Chaucer’s House of Fame
  • Geometry and metaphysics in Dante’s Paradiso

Selected Publications and Presentations

Publications
  • "Spenser's Mutabilitie and the Indeterminate Universe," Studies in English Literature 53.1 Winter, 2013 (6,300 words).
  • "The Importance of Fourteenth-Century Natural Philosophy for Nicholas of Cusa's Infinite Universe," The American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 87.1 Winter, 2013 (9,300 words).
  • "Transposing World Harmony:  John Donne's Creation Poetics in the Context of a Medieval Tradition"  Studies in Philology 107 (2010):  121-35. 
  • "Alan of Lile's Anticlaudianus as Intertext in Chaucer's House of Fame"  The Chaucer Review 44 (2010):  246-67.
  • “The Celestial Progress of a Deathless Soul:  Donne’s Second Anniversarie” John Donne Journal 26 (2010): 73-101.
  • Four entries in Trends in Medieval Studies. ed. Albrecht Classen.  Berlin:  De Gruyter, 2010:   “Historiography of Medieval Science” (666-77), “Pierre Duhem” (2276-79), “Raymond Klibansky” (2418-22) and “Anneliese Meier” (2494-96).
Recent Presentations
  • "Fertile Symmetry of Nature and Humanity in Bernardus Silvestris's Cosmographia" The Modern Language Association, Boston, January 2013.
  • "Al this Mene I by Love" Rethinking the Category of Love The Modern Language Association, Seattle, January 2012.
  • Co-presenter with Michael Cichon, "Every Classroom is a Stage:  Learning Narrative in Performance" The 31st Annual Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Conference:  From Here to the Horizon, Saskatoon, SK, June 2011.
  • "Spenser's Mutabilitie and the Indeterminate Universe" The Renaissance Society of American, Montreal, March 2011.
  • "The Geometry of Eternity:  Meditation and Form in Dante's Paradiso"  The Shape of Time in the Middle Ages and Renaissance:  The Barnard Medieval and Renaissance Conference, Barnard College, New York, December 2008.
  • “Translation and Creative Instability in Chaucer’s House of Fame.” The 43rd International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo Michigan, May 2008.
  • “Nicholas of Cusa and Fourteenth-Century Natural Philosophy.”  The Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, April 2008.
  • “The Immoderate Metaphysics of ‘Love’s Growth’” The Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, December 2006. 

Teaching Responsibilities

  • English 110.6:  Literature and Composition
  • English 277.3:  Literary Uses of Mythology
  • English 311.3:  Chaucer
  • English 393.3:  Medieval Devotional Literature

Administrative Responsibilities

  • Academic Programs Committee
  • CMRS Executive Committee
  • Co-organizer for CARA Conference
  • Subcommittee on Student Appeals
  • STM Research Committee
  • STM Catholic Studies Program Committee