Brian Nowlin

Dr. Brian W. Nowlin is an English professor, a freelance writer/editor, and a proud stay-at-home dad. Although his intellectual passions and pedagogical concerns are varied, he is particularly occupied with the ways that metaphor -- as a general term for processes of figuration -- opens up a simultaneously personal and cultural space for imaginative exploration with intersecting philosophical, ethical, and spiritual dimensions. Nowlin has completed a book-length study on the late work of Wallace Stevens, but his scholarly publications and presentations reflect a variety of interdisciplinary contexts and concerns, including work on such diverse figures as Whitman, Homer, Dante, Henry James, Rousseau, Nietzsche, Gorgias, and the mythological figure of the Trickster.