Associate Professor of English Bob Cowser tackles academics and football with equal aplomb and acclaim.

Bob Cowser’s highly regarded 2004 book Dream Season: A Professor Joins America’s Oldest Semi-Pro Football Team  was recently released in paperback; it highlights both his favorite hobby and his academic specialty of creative nonfiction, particularly memoir and literary journalism. A book of collected short fiction by Cowser is about to published, and he is conducting research for yet another book, the story of the abduction and murder of one of his grade school classmates in 1979 and the eventual execution 20 years later of the man convicted of killing her.

Hailing from a rural northwest Tennessee college town, Cowser found himself in a similar environment when he joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 1998. “My parents, lifelong professors of English who understood their work to be a vocation,” are his inspiration, he says.  He joined the St. Lawrence English faculty in….

Cowser earned a B.A. from Loyola-New Orleans in English and print journalism, an M.A. in English from Marquette and a Ph.D. in creative writing from the University of Nebraska.

“It’s hard to pick just one valuable experience I’ve had here at St. Lawrence,” says Cowser. “Relationships are the truest source of enjoyment in my work. I value greatly relationships I’ve formed with students and colleagues.”