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.