rfowler@uwlax.edu
Dr. Rebekah Fowler is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin La Crosse (UWL) in the United States, where she specializes in medieval literature and teaches courses ranging from first-year writing to the history of the English language, introduction to English studies to senior capstone, Chaucer to Shakespeare, and medieval Arthuriana to medieval mysticism. Her research interests include the medieval focuses of her teaching as well as the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), through which she examines deep reading and the pedagogical impacts of mindfulness and compassion in the classroom. Dr. Fowler has published book chapters on George R. R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series and grief in medieval literature and journal articles on the role of virtue ethics in medieval romance, including her article “Cartitas Begins at Home: Virtue and Domesticity in Chrétien’s Yvain.” She is currently training to be a Compassion Ambassador through Stanford University’s Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, through which she will be creating compassion training workshops for UWL faculty.