Associate Professor
English Department, St. John's Liberal Arts and Sciences
St. John Hall, Room B40-2
Queens campus
Phone: (718) 990-5631
lowneyj@stjohns.edu
Education
Ph.D., 1991, Brown University, English and American
Literature
M.A., 1986, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, English and
American Literature
B.A., 1979, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, English and
American Literature
Profile
John Lowney is an Associate Professor and the Director of
English Graduate Studies at St. John’s. Since joining the
faculty of St. John’s in 1996, he has taught undergraduate and
graduate courses in twentieth-century American and African American
literary and cultural studies, including American poetry, modernism
and postmodernism, American literature and culture of the 1930s,
and the Harlem Renaissance. He is the author of two
books on twentieth-century American poetry: The American
Avant-Garde Tradition: William Carlos Williams, Postmodern Poetry,
and the Politics of Cultural Memory (Bucknell University Press,
1997) and History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American
Poetry, 1935-1968 (University of Iowa Press, 2006). Each of
these books addresses the cultural politics of how modernism has
been constructed in U.S. literary history. He has also been
the recipient of grants such as the Donald C. Gallup Fellowship in
American Literature at the Beinecke Library (Yale University) and a
National Endowment for the Humanities Study Grant. He is
currently pursuing research on jazz, internationalism, and African
American modernism.