Sarah Powrie |
- Assistant 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
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Research Interests |
- Neoplatonism in medieval allegory and metaphysical poetry
- The literary framework of philosophical dialogues
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Research Projects |
- Translation strategies in Chaucer’s House of Fame
- Geometry and metaphysics in Dante’s Paradiso
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Selected Publications and Presentations |
Publications
- "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
- "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.
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Teaching Responsibilities |
- English 110.6: Introduction to English Literature
- English 112.3: Reading Drama
- English 277.3: Literary Uses of Mythology
- English 311.3: Chaucer
- English 313.3: Middle English Literature
- English 314: Medieval Drama
- English 393.3: Medieval Devotional Literature
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Administrative Responsibilities |
- Teaching Committee, Chair
- Library Committee, Member
- Catholic Studies Conference Organizing Committee
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