Mason Lowance

Mason Lowance, Department of English, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Westminster School, 1976; Princeton B.A. (Honors), 1960; M.A. Oxford, 1964; Ph.D. Emory, 1967. Semester courses at Clark, Tufts, Brown, Morehouse, and Harvard Extension, 1982-2004. Three NEH Summer Seminars for College Teachers, Director, 1976, 1992 and 1995. Guggenheim, NEH, ACLS, and APS fellowships. Lecture tour of Germany, 1982. Books include Increase Mather (Gale), 1974; Massachusetts Broadsides of the American Revolution (Massachusetts, 1976); The Language of Canaan: Metaphor and Symbol in New England Literature from the Puritans to the Transcendentalists (Harvard, 1980); The Typological Writings of Jonathan Edwards (Yale, 1993); The Stowe Debate: Rhetorical Strategies in Uncle Tom's Cabin (Massachusetts, 1994); Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader (Penguin, 2000); A House Divided: The Antebellum Slavery Debates in America, 1776-1865 (Princeton, 2003), and numerous articles and reviews on American culture. Member of the American Antiquarian Society and St. Botolph's Club, Boston.