John T. Lowney Jr. ’91 PhD

John T. Lowney Jr. ’91 PhD, of Mattapoisett, Mass., formerly of New York; Sept. 12. He taught at Benedictine University (Ill.) for four years prior to joining the faculty at St. John’s University (N.Y.), where he taught general classes in American Literature, Contemporary and Modern Poetry, and African American Literature, as well as specialized classes on the Poetry of the 1930s, Jazz Literature, Modernist New York, and African American Literature and the Civil Rights Movement. He was the author of three books: The American Avant-Garde Tradition: William Carlos Williams, Postmodern Poetry, and the Politics of Cultural Memory (Bucknell UP 1997); History, Memory, and the Literary Left: Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968 (University of Iowa Press 2006); and Jazz Internationalism: Literary Afro-Modernism and the Cultural Politics of Black Music. He also published numerous distinguished articles in academic journals. He was an avid Red Sox and Celtics fan and enjoyed gardening, running, and taking walks with his daughter. He is survived by his daughter; his former wife, Ashley Cross ’89 AM, ’94 PhD; two sisters and brothers-in-law; a brother and sister-in-law; and nieces and nephews.