Rate My Professor John Bowers

Bowers' research interests encompass Chaucer, Langland, the Gawain Poet, and connections to modern authors like J.R.R. Tolkien. Key publications include Tolkien’s Lost Chaucer (Oxford University Press, 2019), which details his discovery of Tolkien’s unpublished Chaucer edition; An Introduction to the Gawain Poet (University Press of Florida, 2012); Chaucer and Langland: The Antagonistic Tradition (University of Notre Dame Press, 2007); The Politics of "Pearl": Court Poetry in the Age of Richard II (D.S. Brewer, 2001); The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions (Medieval Institute Publications, 1992, revised 1999); and The Crisis of Will in "Piers Plowman" (Catholic University of America Press, 1986). He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, contributed to encyclopedias, and authored the novel End of Story (Sunstone Press, 2010). Bowers has received the Guggenheim Fellowship (2000-2001), NEH Fellowships (1992-1993, others), Huntington Library Summer Fellowship (2002), Barrick Distinguished Scholar Award (2001), multiple Morris Awards for Excellence in Scholarship (2020, 2013, 2001), Mythopoeic Scholarship Award (2021), UNLV Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award, and Nevada Regents’ Teaching Award. He produced The Great Courses series The Western Literary Canon in Context (2008) and has delivered lectures including keynotes at Merton College, Oxford.