Erin Barry

Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor of American Studies

Email : [[embarry]]
Office: Samuel E. Jones House, 214
Area of expertise/Teaching Interests/Research Interests: Pornography and obscenity; Gender and sexuality; Legal history; 20th century United States history; history of human rights.

Education

BA in History, Boston College

MA in History, Washington University in St. Louis

Ph.D. in History, Washington University in St. Louis

Bio

Erin Barry received her BA in History and Women and Gender Studies from Boston College and her MA and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. Her research and teaching has focused on the history of pornography and obscenity in the United States in the 20^th century, the Supreme Court, and the experiences of women and sexual minorities in the 1970s. Her dissertation focused on three Supreme Court cases dealing with the regulation of pornographic movie theaters in Jacksonville, Florida, Atlanta, Georgia, and Detroit, Michigan. She is also the author of works on sexual violence in Tijuana Bibles, pornographic comic books from the 1930s and 1940s.