Associate
Professor
English Department, St. John's Liberal Arts and Sciences
Rosati Hall, Room 204
Staten Island campus
Phone: (718) 390-4403
mowrym@stjohns.edu
Education
Ph.D., 1993, University of Delaware, Dissertation:
(Re)Productive Histories: Epistolary Fiction and the Origin of the
English Novel. Director, Jerry C. Beasley.
1989, Dartmouth College, School of Criticism and Theory.
M.A., 1988, University of Delaware, Thesis: "Subversion: The
Ineffable Feminine in Shelley and Derrida." Director, Charles E.
Robinson.
B.A., 1985, Boston University, cum laude
Profile
Dr. Mowry joined St. John’s in 2001. She received her
Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Delaware where her
dissertation on eighteenth-century fiction was distinguished as the
best dissertation in the humanities for that year. Dr. Mowry
has published extensively on eighteenth-century literature and
culture in journals like the Journal of Women’s History,
SEL, and The Eighteenth Century: Theory and
Interpretation. In addition to her book The Bawdy
Politic in Stuart England: Political Pornography and
Prostitution (Aldershot: Ashgate Press, 2004), which was
singled out as a “New and Noteworthy” book in the Chronicle of
Higher Education, Dr. Mowry has completed and annotated a new
edition of Daniel Defoe’s novel, Roxana, which is
forthcoming from Broadview Press in 2008.
Dr. Mowry also serves as co-editor of Genders, the
leading humanities journal publishing work on gender and
sexuality.