Biography
Robin Bower, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Spanish. She teaches courses in Spanish, world literature, art history, and philosophy.
Trained as a medievalist, Dr. Bower brings a unique perspective to courses on contemporary topics including punk rock, pop culture, and witches and magic in art and history.
Students in Dr. Bower’s classes can expect to find new ways of looking at familiar things, to question their own assumptions, and to share their perspectives and hear their classmates’ points of view in lively discussions.
Dr. Bower’s literature and art classes prepare students to:
- Think creatively and critically about the world they live in and the professions they enter,
- See the connections that run through all areas of practical endeavor from entrepreneurship and technological innovation to art and design.
- Be instilled with a mental agility and intellectual creativity that transfers to problem-solving and generative thinking in all fields of study and work.
Research Interests
- Medieval literature and cultural studies
- Early Modern Iberian literature and cultural studies
- Intersections of medieval and Early Modern literature and cultural studies with religious history, gender, and translation.
- Popular devotions, magic and miracles, and the ways folk belief and official religious cultures intersect in art, literature, devotional practice, and popular culture.
Education
B.A. in foreign language and comparative literature, West Chester University
M.A. in Pre-Modern Iberian Literature and Culture, Columbia University
M.Phil. in Pre-Modern Iberian Literature and Culture, Columbia University
Ph.D. in Pre-Modern Iberian Literature and Culture, Columbia University