Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Yale University
Associate Professor WGSS, and Affiliate, Department of English
Department: Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Office: #
Phone: (845) 257-2808
E-mail: hewetth@newpaltz.edu
Web Site: heatherhewett.com
Career History & Promotions/Job Changes
On leave, 2022-2024
Associate Professor, 2012-present
Assistant Professor, 2005-2011
Teaching Interests
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; transnational feminisms; memoir, personal essay, and creative nonfiction
Research/Creative Activity
#MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).
Awards, Honors & Recognition
2018
Robert Sillins Family Foundation Grant
Co-recipient with Jan Schmidt for Literature of Witness class
2015-16
Teacher of the Year
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, SUNY New Paltz
2015
NEH Summer Institute
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Publications
Edited Volumes
#MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture. Edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett. Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021.
Selected Journal Articles
O’Sullivan, Meg Devlin, Karl Bryant, and Heather Hewett. “Unlearning Introductions: Problematizing Pedagogies of Inclusion, Diversity, and Experience in the Women’s and Gender Studies Intro Course.” Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture and Social Justice / Études critiques sur le genre, la culture, et la justice sociale, vol. 37, no. 2, 2016, pp. 22-33.
Hewett, Heather. “Mothering Across Borders: Narratives of Immigrant Mothers in the U.S.” WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly, vol. 37, no. 3, 4, 2009, pp. 121-139.
Hewett, Heather. “At the Crossroads: Disability and Trauma in The Farming of Bones.” MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States, vol. 31, no. 3, 2006, pp. 123-145.
Hewett, Heather. “Coming of Age: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the Voice of the Third Generation.” English in Africa, vol. 32, no. 1, 2005, pp. 73-97.
Selected Chapters in Edited Volumes
Hewett, Heather and Meg Devlin. "Women." Rethinking Women’s and Gender Studies, Vol. II, edited by Catherine Orr and Ann Braithwaite. Forthcoming, Routledge 2022.
Hewett, Heather and Mary Holland. “Introduction: Literary Studies as Literary Activism,” #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021, pp. 1-27.
Hewett, Heather. “Theorizing “Toxic” Masculinity across Cultures and Nations: The Case of Achebe’s Things Fall Apart.” #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture, edited by Mary Holland and Heather Hewett, Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2021, pp. 259-274.
Hewett, Heather. “Motherhood Memoirs.” The Routledge Companion to Motherhood, edited by Lynn O’Brien Hallstein, Andrea O’Reilly, and Melinda Vandenbeld Giles, Routledge, 2019, pp. 191-201.
Hewett, Heather. “Linking Economic Justice and Women’s Human Rights: Feminist Approaches for the Human Rights Classroom.” Teaching Human Rights in Literary and Cultural Studies, edited by Alexandra Schultheis Moore and Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, MLA Press, 2015, pp. 143-156.
“Rewriting Human Rights: Gender, Violence, and Freedom in the Fiction of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.” The Critical Imagination in African Literature: Essays in Honor of Michael J. C. Echeruo, edited by Maik Nwosu and Obiwu Iwuanyanwu, Syracuse University Press, 2015, pp. 166-184.
Selected Personal and Opinion Essays
Hewett, Heather. “Dressing Up.” Minerva Rising, Issue 16, Spring 2019, pp. 48-52.
Hewett, Heather. “Parenting without a Rope.” The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality, edited by Avital Norman Nathman, Seal Press, 2014, pp. 41-47.
Hewett, Heather. “Food Allergies and the Good Enough Mother.” Allergic Living magazine, June 2014, pp. 69-71.
Certificates & Licenses
Doctoral Certificate, African Studies
Committee Memberships & Professional Organizations
National Women’s Studies Association
The Association of Writers and Writing Programs
Modern Language Association
African Literature Association
Volunteer & Other Service Activities
Editorial board member, WSQ
Board member, Blossom Hill Foundation
