Betsy Howard
Betsy Howard serves at Bethlehem College as Assistant Professor of Literature. She obtained a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota. Her dissertation is titled “The Labor of the Elegies in the long Nineteenth Century.” At Bethlehem, Howard has taught courses on Renaissance and Medieval Literature, Poetry, and Ancient Epics, as well as courses on rhetoric, grammar, and research writing. Currently, she is the faculty advisor for the Bethlehem student literary journal Artos.
Betsy’s primary research interests include poetic adaptation and grief literature as well as classical and biblical reception in the long Nineteenth Century. She is a member of the North American Victorian Studies Association, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Society, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, and the International Hopkins Society. Her work has appeared in various collections of essays and academic journals, including Victorian Poetry and Religion and the Arts.