About
Heather Heckman-McKenna is an English Literature Ph.D. Candidate, Research Assistant, and Graduate Instructor at the University of Missouri. Her research interests include British Romanticism and the eighteenth-century, nineteenth-century American literature, and women writers of the period. To date, Heather is also a memoirist and creative nonfiction writer. Education
University of Missouri, PhD Candidate, English Literature
Simmons College, MA, English Literature
Emerson College, BFA, Writing, Literature, & Publishing, with a concentration on nonfiction Publications
“
Redefining Love in Atwood’s ‘Variation on the Word Sleep.’” The Explicator, vol. 74, no. 2, 2016, pp. 92-98.
“
Target.” Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, 26 June 2018, web.
“
Drive.” Newfound, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018.
“
Securely Bound.” Bacopa Literary Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 2016, pp. 158-162.
“
Second Memory.” Inwood Indiana: Reaping, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, p. 118.
“
Bus Ride.” The Doctor T.J. Eckleburg Review, May 2014, web.
Upcoming Talks and Conferences
“Women in Hysterics and Female Agency: Subverting Patriarchal Hegemony Through Performances of Femininity in Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline,” International Conference on Romanticism, forthcoming October 2018. Greenville, SC.
