Scarlet Bowen

Assistant Professor of English
Office: Hellems 164A
Telephone: 303-735-5755
E-mail: Scarlet.Bowen@colorado.edu

Research and teaching interests

18th-century literature; women's literature; lesbian, gay, and queer literature; queer theory

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1998
M.A., University of Miami, 1991
B.A., University of West Florida, 1988

Publications

Essays

“'The Real Soul of a Man in her Breast': Popular Opposition and British Nationalism in Memoirs of Female Soldiers, 1740-1750.” Eighteenth-Century Life 28.3 (Fall 2004): 20-45

"'A Sawce-box and Boldface Indeed': Refiguring the Female Servant in the Pamela-Antipamela Debate.” Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 28 (1999): 257-285

With Emma Pérez, “Women’s Studies on the Border.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 30 (Fall/Winter 2002): 72-81

Current projects

Popular Legacies: Plebeian Culture in Eighteenth-Century British Fiction (book)

"Swift's Critique of Grub Street Writing and Empire in Gulliver's Travels" (article)

"Laboring-Class Masculinity and British Identity in Fielding's Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones" (article)