Mary Poovey is an American cultural historian and literary critic whose work focuses on the Victorian Era

Victorian era

The Victorian era of British history was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It was a long period of peace, prosperity, refined sensibilities and national self-confidence...

. She is currently Samuel Rudin University Professor in the Humanities at New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

,and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge. Her PhD was from the University of Virginia

University of Virginia

The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...

 (1976). Poovey has taught at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...

, Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College

Swarthmore College is a private, independent, liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of about 1,500 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles southwest of Philadelphia....

, and Yale University

Yale University

Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...

.

Works

Her books include:

• Proper Lady and the Woman Writer. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1984.
• Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1989
• Florence Nightingale: Cassandra and other Selections from Suggestions For Thought. London: Pickering, 1991.
• Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1995.
• A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1998.
• The Financial System in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating value in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain. Chicago: U Chicago P, 2008

External links

• http://www.nyu.edu/fas/ihpk/Poovey_txt.htm
• The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities
  The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities
  The Sigmund H. Danziger, Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities is an annual honorary bestowed upon an “established scholar of classical literature, who has made substantial contributions to the critical analysis of classical literature, or has been exceptionally skilled at inspiring an...
  
  (Sigmund H Danziger, Jr Memorial Lecture in the Humanities 1997-1998)
• Catastrophic Generic Change: Understanding Global Interconnectedness - A presentation at the Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota April 6, 2009