Assistant Professor
English Department, St. John's Liberal Arts and Sciences
St. John Hall, Room B40-13
Queens campus
(718) 990-5615
lubeyk@stjohns.edu
Education
Ph.D., 2005, Rutgers University, English Literature,
M.A., 1999, State University of New York at Buffalo, English
Literature
B.A., 1997, Ithaca College, summa cum laude, English Literature
Profile
Kathleen Lubey joined the English faculty at St. John’s in 2005
and teaches courses in eighteenth-century British literature and
culture as well as in sexuality and gender studies. Her book
manuscript, entitled Excitable Imaginations: Aesthetics and
Eroticism in British Literature of the Eighteenth Century, examines
the role of sexuality in the period’s literary and philosophical
efforts to instruct readers in matters of taste and conduct.
Articles derived from this project have been published in
Eighteenth-Century Studies (2006) and
Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2008). In 2008-09, Dr. Lubey
was on leave from St. John’s for a Mellon post-doctoral fellowship
at the University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Humanities Forum, and she
has been awarded fellowships for research at the Clark, Huntington,
and British Libraries.