The Don and Louise Cowan Archive

This week Jessica Hooten Wilson has given us a newsletter on The Catholic Woman. Check it out here:

The Catholic Woman Imagination of Female Catholic Writers

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The Scandalous Christian Imagination From Dante and Dostoevsky to now

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What to Read on Catholic Imagination

We hope you have reserved your place at the Catholic Imagination Conference, Sept 30-Oct 1, 2022. Attendance is limited because of the restricted spaces available on campus. If you care about the Catholic imagination, please consider donating to the event. Checks may be written to the University of Dallas with “Catholic Imagination Conference” in the subject line and mailed to the Cowan Archives.

The Profane, Humane & the Sacred Preparing for the Catholic Imagination Conference

Should Saints Read Novels? Speaker: Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, Louise Cowan Scholar-in-Residence To request a disability-related accommodation or wheelchair access information, please contact Accessibility Services, at phone: (972) 721-4109 or email [email protected], preferably at least a week in advance of the event. You c...

Don't miss the Cowan Archive scholar-in-residence, Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, speak in person at the University of Dallas:

Sit in on a conversation between Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson and Dr. Bainard Cowan on the writer's life and who should live it.

Watch the first of our series of UD Conversations and sign up to receive the next installment directly in your inbox here:

UD Conversations: Drs. Bainard Cowan and Jessica Hooten Wilson on the Writer's Life Dr. Bainard Cowan, Director of the Donald and Louise Cowan Center and Archive and Louise Cowan Chair Professor of Literature at the University of Dallas sits down with Dr. Jessica Hooten Wilson, Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence at the University of Dallas, Hiett Prize winner (2019) and author of th...

Don't miss the MacMillan Institute's live webinar on Friday, April 8, from 4:00-5:30 CST. The conversation will feature Drs. Anika Prather, Roosevelt Montás, and Claudia MacMillan speaking on "Education as Equity through Excellence."

Sign up here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/themacmillaninstitute/666362

The newest edition of Cowan Archive Unbound, our newsletter on substack, is out now. It features, for the first time online, the full transcript of Dr. Frederick Turner's excellent contribution for the 2021 Cowan Chair lecture. See the newsletter here and sign up to our substack here:

Recent Events from the Cowan Center: Frederick Turner on Poetic Language Recording and Transcript of the 2021 Cowan Chair Lecture

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Check out thus week's newsletter on our substack, Cowan Archive Inbound:

A Podcast, An Essay, and a Symposium Recent links to work concerning Dr. Louise Cowan

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Cowan Archive Unbound Wisdom from the Tradition. Click to read Cowan Archive Unbound, a Substack publication with hundreds of readers.

Glenn Arbery, president of Wyoming Catholic College, has written on our very own Dr. Louise Cowan in First Things. Check it out here, and let us know who Dr. Louise was to you:

An Apostle of Literature | Glenn C. Arbery In the fall of 2021, a student at the University of Dallas asked me to give a tribute to Dr. Louise . . . .