Maureen Montgomery was born in London, England, and emigrated to New Zealand in 1986 to take up a lectureship in American Studies. She taught American Studies at the University of Canterbury until 2012, when the programme was terminated, and has since been an Adjunct Associate Professor in the History Department at UC, teaching US history with Peter Field. She has also taught at US universities and held a visiting chair in US history at Salve Regina University, in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2014-15. She was active as an office-holder in American Studies associations, both here in Australasia and in the United States, and served on several editorial boards of journals in American Studies.
She is author of Gilded Prostitution: Status, Money and Transatlantic Marriages 1870-1914 (Routledge, 1989) and Displaying Women: Spectacles of Leisure in Edith Wharton’s New York (Routledge, 1998). She is currently editing a scholarly edition of Edith Wharton’s last, unfinished, posthumously published novel, The Buccaneers, for Oxford University Press’ Collected Works of Edith Wharton.
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