Paula McDowell

Paula McDowell is Professor of English at New York University. She is the author of books and essays addressing “media effects” from the eighteenth century to today, including The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730 (Oxford) and The Invention of the Oral: Print Commerce and Fugitive Voices in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Chicago), which won the John Ben Snow Prize of the North American Conference on British Studies. Known for her groundbreaking archival research, her latest project is another archives-based book, titled “McLuhan’s Women.” This will be the first-ever focused study of the women historians, literary scholars, educators, editors, urban planners, anthropologists, family members, nuns, students, staff members, and others who profoundly shaped this influential Canadian philosopher and media theorist’s ideas and works. McDowell also recently edited Reading McLuhan Reading (Routledge).