Yuri Cowan
Om
Yuri Cowan holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto, Canada, and came to NTNU in 2012 from a post-doctoral fellowship in the Research Project on Authorship as Performance (RAP) at Ghent University in Belgium, where he was again a visiting scholar in 2017-18. In the field of book history, he is interested in the material book, constructions of authorship, the history of collecting, and textual histories, especially with regard to the circumstances of the form, publication, and recovery of medieval texts in the nineteenth century, such as William Morris's translations of The Ordination of Knighthood and Beowulf, which he edited for the Morris Archive. He has published various articles on Morris, book collectors in England and Norway, the Aesthetic Movement, ballad literature, Victorian sporting periodical literature, and the reprinting of Victorian fantasy in the 1970s; he is currently completing a book-length manuscript entitled William Morris and Medieval Material Culture, and is beginning to write about the portrayal of book technologies in speculative fiction, as well as on SF's regional variations in Cascadia and California. He guest-edited a special issue of Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture in 2013 on the subject of "Textual Histories," currently maintains the online catalogue of William Morris's library established by William and Sylvia Peterson, and is a founding editor (and was Managing Editor from 2011-2014) of the online peer-reviewed open-access journal Authorship.
Since 2019, he has been co-editor (with Greg Barnhisel and Alexandra Dane) of Book History, the journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP). He is also a member of the advisory boards of the journals Authorship and English Studies.
Kompetanseord
Publikasjoner
2025
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2025)
Beyond the Garden of Forking Paths: Review of The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives.
Science Fiction Studies
Anmeldelse
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2025)
Review of Beowulf: Poem, Poet, and Hero, by Heather O'Donoghue.
Journal of William Morris Studies
Anmeldelse
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2025)
Victorian Literature - The Ballad.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Leksikon
2024
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Cowan, Yuri Allen.
(2024)
Eden Phillpotts's Pan and the Twins.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2023
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Cowan, Yuri Allen.
(2023)
The Ivory Gate: News from Nowhere and the Medieval Dream Vision.
Journal of William Morris Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2022
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Cowan, Yuri Allen.
(2022)
Norwegian Broadside Ballads and the Collecting Practices of Thorvald Boeck.
Mémoires du livre
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2021)
«En samler av guds nåde»: Thorvald Boeck og skillingsvisene
på 1800-tallet.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2021)
1924: Eileen Power and Madame Eglentyne.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2020
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2020)
William Morris's Book Collecting.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2019
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2019)
Review of Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690‐1820s. Ed. Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell.
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2019)
A Canticle for Leibowitz and Post-Apocalyptic Technologies of the Book.
RISS : magasin for studentar og tilsette ved Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitskap, Universitetet i Trondheim
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
2018
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2018)
Orality, Authenticity, and the Historiography of the Everyday:
The Ballad in Victorian Scholarship and Print Culture.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2016
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Review of the UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive.
SHARP News
Anmeldelse
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Cowan, Yuri;
Schelstraete, Jasper.
(2016)
De kranten van Asimov: Een geschiedenis van de toekomst van het boek.
nY: tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek & amusement
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Review of The English Boccaccio: A History in Books (Guyda Armstrong, University of Toronto Press).
SHARP News
Anmeldelse
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Sporting Periodicals.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2015
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2015)
Translation, Collaboration, and Reception: Editing Caxton for the Kelmscott Press.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2015)
Atavism, Beauty, and Power: The Body of the Deep Past in the Atlantis Romances of J. Allan Dunn and Arthur Conan Doyle.
RISS : magasin for studentar og tilsette ved Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitskap, Universitetet i Trondheim
Fagartikkel
2014
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2014)
Pater, Decadent Historicism, and the Poetics of the Fragment: Gaston de Latour and "Denys l'Auxerrois".
The Journal of pre-Raphaelite studies (1992)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2013
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2013)
Review of Inward of Poetry: George Johnston & Wm Blissett in Letters (Sean Kane, editor, Porcupine’s Quill, 432).
University of Toronto quarterly
Anmeldelse
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2013)
Introduction: Textual Histories.
Mémoires du livre
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2012
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Reading Material Bibliography and Digital Editions".
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Walter Scott and Victorian Ballad Anthologies: Authorship, Editing, and Authority".
Zeitschrift für Anglistik and Amerikanistik
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Industrializing Print, Sport, and Authorship: Nimrod, Surtees, and the New Sporting Magazine".
Critical Survey
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2011
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2011)
Review of Masking the Text: Essays on Literature & Mediation in the 1890s. By Nicholas Frankel.
SHARP News
Anmeldelse
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2011)
Review of Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press: a Checklist. By Matthew McLennan Young.
SHARP News
Anmeldelse
2010
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2010)
Recovering the Barbarians: Reprinting 'Forgotten Fantasy' in the 1970s.
Mémoires du livre
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2010)
Everyday Material Culture in the Medieval Tales of The Earthly Paradise.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2008
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2008)
William Morris and Medieval Material Culture.
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Doktorgradsavhandling
2007
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2007)
'Paradyse Erthly': John Ball and the Medieval Dream-Vision.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2006
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2006)
Allegory and Aestheticism in the Fantasies of George MacDonald.
North Wind : A Journal of George MacDonald Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2004
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2004)
William Allingham's Ballad Book and its Victorian Readers.
University of Toronto quarterly
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2025)
Beyond the Garden of Forking Paths: Review of The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives.
Science Fiction Studies
Anmeldelse
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2025)
Review of Beowulf: Poem, Poet, and Hero, by Heather O'Donoghue.
Journal of William Morris Studies
Anmeldelse
-
Cowan, Yuri Allen.
(2023)
The Ivory Gate: News from Nowhere and the Medieval Dream Vision.
Journal of William Morris Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri Allen.
(2022)
Norwegian Broadside Ballads and the Collecting Practices of Thorvald Boeck.
Mémoires du livre
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2019)
Review of Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1690‐1820s. Ed. Jennie Batchelor and Manushag N. Powell.
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Vitenskapelig oversiktsartikkel/review
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2019)
A Canticle for Leibowitz and Post-Apocalyptic Technologies of the Book.
RISS : magasin for studentar og tilsette ved Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitskap, Universitetet i Trondheim
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Review of the UCSB English Broadside Ballad Archive.
SHARP News
Anmeldelse
-
Cowan, Yuri;
Schelstraete, Jasper.
(2016)
De kranten van Asimov: Een geschiedenis van de toekomst van het boek.
nY: tijdschrift voor literatuur, kritiek & amusement
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Review of The English Boccaccio: A History in Books (Guyda Armstrong, University of Toronto Press).
SHARP News
Anmeldelse
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2015)
Atavism, Beauty, and Power: The Body of the Deep Past in the Atlantis Romances of J. Allan Dunn and Arthur Conan Doyle.
RISS : magasin for studentar og tilsette ved Institutt for nordistikk og litteraturvitskap, Universitetet i Trondheim
Fagartikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2014)
Pater, Decadent Historicism, and the Poetics of the Fragment: Gaston de Latour and "Denys l'Auxerrois".
The Journal of pre-Raphaelite studies (1992)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2013)
Review of Inward of Poetry: George Johnston & Wm Blissett in Letters (Sean Kane, editor, Porcupine’s Quill, 432).
University of Toronto quarterly
Anmeldelse
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2013)
Introduction: Textual Histories.
Mémoires du livre
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Walter Scott and Victorian Ballad Anthologies: Authorship, Editing, and Authority".
Zeitschrift für Anglistik and Amerikanistik
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Industrializing Print, Sport, and Authorship: Nimrod, Surtees, and the New Sporting Magazine".
Critical Survey
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2011)
Review of Masking the Text: Essays on Literature & Mediation in the 1890s. By Nicholas Frankel.
SHARP News
Anmeldelse
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2011)
Review of Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press: a Checklist. By Matthew McLennan Young.
SHARP News
Anmeldelse
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2010)
Recovering the Barbarians: Reprinting 'Forgotten Fantasy' in the 1970s.
Mémoires du livre
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2006)
Allegory and Aestheticism in the Fantasies of George MacDonald.
North Wind : A Journal of George MacDonald Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2004)
William Allingham's Ballad Book and its Victorian Readers.
University of Toronto quarterly
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Bøker
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2025)
Victorian Literature - The Ballad.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press
Leksikon
Del av bok/rapport
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Cowan, Yuri Allen.
(2024)
Eden Phillpotts's Pan and the Twins.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2021)
«En samler av guds nåde»: Thorvald Boeck og skillingsvisene
på 1800-tallet.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2021)
1924: Eileen Power and Madame Eglentyne.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2020)
William Morris's Book Collecting.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2018)
Orality, Authenticity, and the Historiography of the Everyday:
The Ballad in Victorian Scholarship and Print Culture.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2016)
Sporting Periodicals.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2015)
Translation, Collaboration, and Reception: Editing Caxton for the Kelmscott Press.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2012)
"Reading Material Bibliography and Digital Editions".
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2010)
Everyday Material Culture in the Medieval Tales of The Earthly Paradise.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Cowan, Yuri.
(2007)
'Paradyse Erthly': John Ball and the Medieval Dream-Vision.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Rapport
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Cowan, Yuri.
(2008)
William Morris and Medieval Material Culture.
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Doktorgradsavhandling
Formidling
2024
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri Allen. (2024) Book history to the people: Some practicalities of open access. SHARP 2024 , Reading 01.07.2024 - 05.07.2024
2023
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri Allen. (2023) William Morris and the Kelmscott Canon. European Society for Textual Studies 2023 conference , Canterbury 13.04.2023 - 14.04.2023
2022
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Faglig foredragCowan, Yuri Allen. (2022) Presentasjon av kapittelet "'En samler av guds nåde': Thorvald Boeck og skillingsvisene på 1800-tallet". Boklansering Skillingsvisene i Norge 1550-1950 , Litteraturhuset i Trondheim 11.02.2022 - 11.02.2022
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2022) Round Table: "1922: Beyond Modernism". European Society for the Study of English Conference 2022 , Mainz 29.08.2022 - 02.09.2022
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2022) Inscriptive Technologies in Speculative Fiction. NARMESH lecture series , Gent 16.06.2022 - 16.06.2022
2021
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2021) The Texts and Editors of the Kelmscott Press. The Kelmscott Press and its Legacies symposium , London 06.11.2021 - 06.11.2021
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2021) "Buried in the Transformation": The Treachery of the Written Word in SF. The Reader in the Book: Books, Reading and Libraries in Fiction 25.03.2021 - 26.03.2021
2020
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Faglig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2020) Is Anything Truly Lowbrow? A Book History Perspective. Lenge Leve Lavkulturen! - Litterær Salong , Trondheim 28.02.2020 - 28.02.2020
2019
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2019) "Pretty Well Known, I Think": William Morris in the French and Norwegian Periodical Press. Literary Citizenship Conference , Oslo 25.09.2019 - 27.09.2019
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2019) Asimov's Newspapers: The Material Book in SF from the Golden Age to the New Weird. Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich , Munich 25.06.2019 - 25.06.2019
2018
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2018) The Authorial Presence of William Morris in Victorian Periodical Culture. CEL19 Lecture Series , Ghent 30.11.2018 - 30.11.2018
2017
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2017) Material Culture and Society in the Late Romances of William Morris. The Victorian Novel lecture series , Giessen 23.05.2017 - 23.05.2017
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2017) 'A Great Instance of our Frugality of Words': Reporting the Local and Global Eighteenth Century in 140 Characters. The Rise of the Newspaper in Europe and America, 1600-1900 , Pasadena 13.10.2017 - 14.10.2017
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Faglig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2017) Tree-Huggers and Terraformers: Science Fiction on the West Coast. Starmus in the City , Litteraturhuset i Trondheim 20.06.2017 - 20.06.2017
2016
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2016) Playing at History: Anachronism and Crusader Kings 2. ESSE 2016 , Galway 22.08.2016 - 26.08.2016
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Faglig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2016) The Small Press Movement, Book Design, and the Origins of Modernism. Ugress 2016 , Trondheim 14.09.2016 - 18.09.2016
2015
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2015) 'The Handiest of Men and Skilled in Everything': Morris and the Domestic Idiom of the Saga. Modern Language Association of America annual conference , Vancouver 08.01.2015 - 11.01.2015
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2015) 'A Detail of Curious Traditionary Facts': The Justified Sinner and the Scots Mummy In and Out of the Pages of Blackwood's. James Hogg Society 2015 conference , Toronto 09.04.2015 - 11.04.2015
2014
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2014) Charting a Popular Readership for Medieval Literature in the Nineteenth Century. NTNUs Middelalderseminar , Suhmhuset, Trondheim 29.05.2014 -
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Faglig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2014) Worlds Die, Books Survive: Post-Apocalyptic Knowledge and Technology. Torucon 2014 , Trondheim 10.08.2014 -
2013
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Vitenskapelig foredragCowan, Yuri. (2013) "The Rationale of Victorian Hypertext: Nineteenth-Century Networks of Textual Recovery and Editing". Digital Humanities and Early Modern Studies 15.11.2013 - 15.11.2013