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,
after finishing her doctorate in English at Rutgers University, and
specializes in eighteenth-century British literature and sexuality
and gender studies. Her book manuscript, entitled Excitable
Imaginations: Aesthetics and Eroticism in British Literature of the
Eighteenth Century, is nearing completion. The study reads authors’
experimentations with narratives of sex as an integral part of the
consolidation of aesthetic philosophy that was underway from 1660
to 1760. Articles derived from this project have been published in
Eighteenth-Century Studies (2006) and Eighteenth-Century Fiction
(2008); and Dr. Lubey’s broader interest in sexual representation
and aesthetics is reflected in her essay on pornography,
aesthetics, and Freudian psychoanalysis that appears in differences
(2006). She has won fellowships for research at the Clark,
Huntington, and British Libraries. At St. John’s, she teaches
courses in her field at both the graduate and undergraduate level
and acts as advisor to Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor
Society.