Professor Lori Davis Perry was commissioned in the United States Air Force in 1986 and served as an Intelligence Officer. She worked in Special Operations and Rescue, the Korean theater of operations, and Acquisition Intelligence. She served two tours as military faculty at USAFA. She has been a civilian faculty member in the Department of English and Fine Arts since 2008.

B.A. from Pacific Lutheran University (1986) with a minor in Music, a minor in German, and a Certificate in Creative Writing

M.A. in English from Iowa State University (1992)

Ph.D. in English and American Literature from Brandeis University (2003), completing language requirements in both German and Italian.

Professor Davis Perry has taught at Iowa State University, Colorado State University Pueblo, and the United States Air Force Academy. She has taught all the core and many major's courses at USAFA, including Rhetoric and Composition, Advanced Composition and Speech, War Literature and Speech, Literature and Intermediate Composition, the Literature of Vietnam, the Bible as Literature, Jane Austen and Film, British Literature I (Beowulf to Wordsworth), Spenser and Milton (senior seminar), Early Modern British Drama, Restoration Drama, and more. She has served as the Book Review Editor of War, Literature, & the Arts. She has served as a panelist and panel chair at numerous academic conferences, both in the United States and Europe.

Professor Davis Perry is a lifetime member of Phi Kappa Phi.

Professor Davis Perry specializes in British literature of the long seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Her research interests include textual criticism, literature by women in the long eighteenth century, the intersection of science and religion in the early modern to modern period, systems of violence in literature (such as war gaming and racialized violence), anti-Semitism in Anglophone literature from the Middle Ages to the present, and Graphic Literature. Outside of literature, she studies art and music.