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Andrew Cowell

Professor of French and Linguistics

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Bio

PhotoProfessor Andrew Cowell received his Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been at the University of Colorado since 1995, where he has taught courses in French and Italian, as well as in Linguistics. He is the author of At Play in the Tavern, Ann Arbor: Michigan, 1999, and is working on a second manuscript titled The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy: Gifts, Violence, Performance and the Sacred. He has collaborated with Alonzo Moss, Sr. on an anthology of Arapaho Narratives ( Traditional Arapaho Narratives of Paul Moss) and is the author of numerous articles. His main interests lie in Medieval and Native American Languages and Literatures, with an anthropological focus in both areas.

Publications:

Books:

  • At Play in the Tavern, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
  • The Medieval Warrior Aristocracy: Gifts, Violence, Performance and the Sacred, D.S. Brewer, Galllica Series, 2007.
  • Traditional Arapaho Narratives of Paul Moss, with Alonzo Moss, Sr. (anthology), 2005.
  • The Arapaho Language, with Alonzo Moss, Sr. University Press of Colorado, 2008
  • Remedies for a New West: Healing People, Cultures, and Landscapes, with Patricia Limerick and Sharon Collinge, University of Arizona Press, 2008

Articles:

  • Articles published in Poetics Today, Cultural Studies, Oral Tradition, International Journal of American Linguistics, American Indian Quarterly, Exemplaria, Romanic Review, Yale French Studies, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Anthropological Linguistics

Research Interests:

  • Medieval literature and performance traditions
  • Native american verbal narratives
  • Literature and economics
  • Literature and anthropology
  • Critical theory and cultural studies

 

 

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