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Louise Cowan

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Mary Louise Cowan was an American critic and teacher, and wife of the physicist and University of Dallas president Donald Cowan. She taught at Texas Christian University and Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. Cowan lived in Dallas, where she taught at both at the University of Dallas and the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture. She was a prominent figure in Dallas society as a mentor and friend to many Dallas dignitaries and as one of the city's leading intellectuals.