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Scott
Nowka
Program: English Ph.D
Began program in 1999
Area of Study: Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Scott has taken a tenure-track assistant professor appointment at Salem State College, MA, beginning Fall 2006.
Office: 76 EPB
E-Mail: scott-nowka@uiowa.edu
I came to the University of Iowa after completing a master's thesis at the University of Illinois at Chicago on the relationship between seventeenth-century scientific writing and the prose style and narrative of Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders. The way that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century science and eighteenth-century British literature inform one another is still my primary interest and the focus of my dissertation, "Character Matters: Enlightenment Materialism and the Novel." Related interests include theories of characterization, theories of the "rise of the novel," and Science Studies.
Modern Language Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts