Associate Professor
English Department, St. John's Liberal Arts and Sciences
St. John Hall, Room B40-3
Queens campus
(718) 990-5615
lubeyk@stjohns.edu
Education
Ph.D., 2005, Rutgers University, English
M.A., 1999, State University of New York at Buffalo, English
B.A., 1997, Ithaca College, summa cum laude, English
Profile
Kathleen Lubey’s research and teaching interests include the
literature and culture of eighteenth-century Britain, sexuality and
gender studies, the history of pornography, and theories of the
novel and literary form. Her book Excitable
Imaginations: Eroticism and Reading in Britain,
1660-1760, forthcoming from Bucknell University Press,
examines how pornographic elements of literature became a means for
eighteenth-century authors to instruct readers on matters of
taste, morality, and reason. Articles derived from this
project have been published in Eighteenth-Century Studies
(2006) and Eighteenth-Century Fiction (2008). Her next book
project asks how the conventions of novel-writing impacted personal
correspondence and journal writing in the second half of the
century. Dr. Lubey has been awarded fellowships for research by the
University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Humanities Forum, the Clark and
Huntington Libraries, and the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies.