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Isiah Lavender, Thoughts on My Friend John Lowe, MELUS , Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2024, Pages 219–220, https://doi.org/10.1093/melus/mlae016

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John Wharton Lowe III is a saint in the Lavender household. We affectionately call him Saint John because of what he’s done as my mentor, ever since I took a Harlem Renaissance graduate seminar with him at Louisiana State University (LSU) twenty-seven years ago. He directed my MA thesis at LSU in the spring of 1998. He encouraged me to go to the University of Iowa for my PhD and knew I had gotten in with a fellowship weeks before the official announcement. He wrote a recommendation letter for my first job at the University of Central Arkansas in 2004 and kept in touch over the years with emails and phone calls. It was an easy thing to convince him to come to Eureka Springs and give the keynote address at the Arkansas Philological Association Conference in 2009. He encouraged me to step down in rank and away from tenure to move forward in my career by returning to LSU in 2013. He improved on that trick by getting me to move from LSU to the University of Georgia (UGA) in 2019 with a single phone call, where he made me aware of the Sterling-Goodman professorship by suggesting that I apply. And not just me, but my wife Heather. The point here is that for nearly twenty-seven years, when John called, I listened.

I had the privilege of being his suitemate for my first four years at UGA, the privilege of conversing with him about everything, especially his oddly choosing to be a Dawg rather than a Tiger in terms of football loyalties, the privilege of seeing him prep a Faulkner novel such as Absalom, Absalom! (1936) by rereading it, even though he must have taught that text countless times in his career. I saw his hunger for knowledge production. Believe me, it was unabated by retirement! He had three more book projects in the works that I was aware of: a completed biography on Ernest J. Gaines, a Colson Whitehead collection, and the long-gestating book “Faulkner’s Fraternal Furies” at his secret library carrel! John exemplified the life of the mind. My absolute favorite memory is walking behind Dr. Lowe in Allen Hall and listening to him and a colleague converse in English, Italian, German, and a bit of Spanish in a single conversation that I couldn’t possibly understand and thinking, wow! That was Saint John from my perspective. And if you didn’t experience his cooking, then that’s just too damn bad! Impossibly, he actually could have been a better chef than he was a scholar. So, then, this is my last goodbye to my friend, mentor, and colleague. The multilingual world traveler, foodie extraordinaire, opera lover, racquetball king, staunch Atlanta Braves supporter, Georgia Bulldog-loving sports fanatic, and scholar of American literature across a wide swath of disciplines has moved on to his next great adventure.

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