Academic History

M.A., Ph.D., University of Illinois (Urbana)
B.A., Calvin College (Grand Rapids)
At St. Thomas since 2001

Expertise/Specialties

Colonial and Early American Literature
Children's Literature

Selected Publications 

The Remarkable & Very True Story of Lucy & Snowcap. Tarrytown, NY:  Marshall Cavendish Children’s Books.  2008.

"Samson Occom and the Sermonic Tradition." Early Native Literacies in New England:  A Documentary and Critical Anthology.  Ed. Kristina Bross and Hilary Wyss.  University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.

"Sermon on Temperance and Morality," by Samson Occom.  Ed. Bouwman, with assistance from graduate students Margret Aldrich, Nicole Brudos Ferrara, Keri Henkel and Sara Hoffman, in Early Native Literacies in New England:  A Documentary and Critical Anthology.  Ed. Kristina Bross and Hilary Wyss.  University of Massachusetts Press.  2008.

Membership in Professional Organizations

National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)
Society of Early Americanists (SEA)
Children's Literature Network (CLN)
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI)