Hewett, Heather
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
Associate Professor
Associate Professor
Office: JFT 410
Phone: (845) 257-2730
E-mail: hewetth@newpaltz.edu
Website
Office Hours
Professor Hewett -- Sabatical Fall 2013
Teaching Interests
Professor Hewett teaches for both the English Department and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Her courses examine topics such as women’s literature, postcolonial literature, human rights and literature, transnational feminism, motherhood and mothering, and nonfiction writing.
Research/Creative Activity
With training in African and African diasporic literature, feminist theory, and interdisciplinary cultural studies, Professor Hewett has published scholarship that examines gender, feminism, motherhood, disability, and the work of contemporary women writers. She is also a nonfiction writer who has published essays, reviews, and creative nonfiction stories. She is currently at work on a project examining narratives about food allergy in the 21st century.
Publications
Her scholarship has appeared in journals such as Women’s Studies Quarterly, MELUS, English in Africa, The Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, The Scholar & Feminist Online, and essay collections such as Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction (Routledge). Her essays and reviews have been published in a range of popular and literary venues, including The Washington Post, CNN.com, Women’s Review of Books, Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, and books such as A Slant of Light (Codhill) and The Good Mother Myth (forthcoming, Seal Press). She blogs with other feminist scholars, writers, and thinkers at Girl w/Pen.
