Cary Howie
Associate Professor of Romance Studies

Cary Howie is Associate Professor of Romance Studies. Raised in Danville, Illinois, and Brunswick, Georgia, Cary received his B.A. in Literature from Bard College (1997) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Stanford University (1999, 2003). He is the author of Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (Palgrave 2007) and, with Bill Burgwinkle, Sanctity and Pornography in Medieval Culture: On the Verge (Manchester 2010 / Palgrave 2011). He has also edited a special issue of L'Esprit Créateur on sanctity (Spring 2010).

Cary is fascinated by bodies, by questions of style, and by the ways in which sexuality and the sacred are porous to one another. His interests tend to gravitate toward French and Italian medieval literature, contemporary American lyric poetry, Christian theology, and queer studies.

Recent Courses:

Four Literary Theologians
History of the Grotesque
Introduction to LGBT Studies
Medieval Francophone Literature
Mystics and Mystique
Poems of Force: Medieval Epic
Queer Fiction
Sex In French