Assistant Professor
English Department, St. Johns Liberal Arts and
Sciences
St. John Hall, 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 has been teaching at St. John’s since 2004.
Prior to joining the English faculty at St. John’s Dr. King was an
Assistant Professor of Literature at the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena, CA. She teaches undergraduate and
graduate courses in nineteenth-century British literature,
Victorian literature, and theories of the novel. Dr. King has
published widely in the field of the nineteenth-century novel, with
an especial 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). She is currently working on a manuscript about
natural history and the imprint of natural theology on the
early-Victorian novel. Her essays most recently have appeared
in Victorian Studies and Literature Compass.