Tabitha Lowery

Tabitha Lowery is an Assistant Professor at Coastal Carolina University, affiliated with the Department of English under the School of Humanities. She specializes in African American literature and teaches courses focused on this discipline.

• Ph.D., West Virginia University (2020)
• M.A., Texas Tech University (2014)
• B.A., Southern Arkansas University (2012)

Her research explores print and manuscript culture, African American Literary History, and Afrofuturism. She examines how cultural values of readers and editors from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries shape alternative representations of early Black authors.

One notable article analyzes Frances E. W. Harper’s children’s poetry, uncovering her intersectional philosophy and reimagining her legacy as a children's poet. This work contributes to broader trends in African American literature and reception history studies.

• Society of Early Americanists’ Junior Scholar of the Month (2020)
• Professor of the Year, English Department (2020-2021)

Dr. Lowery’s office hours are Mondays/Wednesdays from 10:00 am to 11:30 am, with availability by appointment.