Madison U. Sowell
Provost
Madison U. Sowell is the provost at Southern Virginia University.
Dr. Sowell served as director of BYU’s Honors Program and associate dean of undergraduate education, retiring in 2009. From 1998 to 2001 he served as president of the Italy Milan Mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Dr. Sowell is a professor emeritus of Italian and comparative literature at Brigham Young University, where he was on the faculty for 30 years. He served as chair of the department of French and Italian for nearly a decade, was named an Alcuin Fellow, a Karl G. Maeser General Education Professor, and the Scheuber and Veinz Professor of Humanities and Languages.
While at Harvard, he won the Jacoby Prize for scholarship and his department’s prize for outstanding teaching.
His academic research and teaching focus primarily on the Italian epic tradition from Dante to Tasso.
B.A., Brigham Young University, 1975; M.A., Ph.D., Harvard University, 1976, 1979
Contact Information:
Southern Virginia University
One University Hill Drive
Buena Vista, VA. 24416
101 Main Hall
540-261-4122 office
540-261-8451 fax
madison.sowell@svu.edu