Associate Professor
English Department, St. Johns Liberal Arts and
Sciences
St. John Hall, Room B-40
Queens campus
(718) 990-5314
kinga@stjohns.edu
Educational Background
BA, 1990, Bates College, English
MA, 1993, Harvard University, English and American Literature and
Language
PhD, 1998, Harvard University, English and American Literature and
Language
Profile
Amy King teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in
nineteenth-century British literature, including Victorian
Literature, Romantic Literature, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel.
Dr. King has published widely in the field of the
nineteenth-century novel, with a particular emphasis on the
relationship between literature and science in the period. Dr. King
is the author of Bloom: The Botanical Vernacular in the English
Novel (Oxford University Press, 2007, 2003). Her current
book project, “Reverent Form: Natural History and Natural Theology
in the British Novel, 1789-1867,” examines the relationship between
natural history and the early-Victorian novel. Her essays most
recently have appeared in Victorian Studies and
Literature Compass.