Contact Information:
268 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-5468
f: 413-545-3880
masonl@english.umass.edu
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Professor
Professor Mason Lowance teaches Early American Literature, American
Romanticism, and American Realism at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
He also offers a seminar in Hawthorne and Melville, and regularly teaches "Race and Slavery in American Culture" to undergraduates and graduate
students. He has taught at the University of Massachusetts since 1967,
and since 1982, has also taught a course per year at the Harvard University
Extension School. He has taught semester long courses at Clark, Tufts,
Brown, Emory, Oxford and Yale University, where he was a Fellow of the
National Humanities Institute, 1977-78. He has been a Guggenheim
Fellow(1982) and was awarded a Fellowship from the National Endowment for
the Humanities(1978-9). He has been William and Alice Pressly Visiting
Professor at The Westminster Schools(2003-4). He was Associate Dean of
the Faculty of Humanities and Fine Arts from 1980-83. His publications
include: Increase Mather(1974); Massachusetts Broadsides of the American Revolution(1976); The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England
from the Puritans to the Transcendentalists(1980); The Typological Writings
of Jonathan Edwards(1993); The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle
Tom's Cabin(1994); Against Slavery: an Abolitionist Reader(2000); A House
Divided: the Antebellum Slavery Debates in America from 1776-1865.
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