Emma Heaney
Professor • Department of
Languages (other than English)
French Italian SpanishDegrees
Specialization
Modernist Literature (British and American), LGBT Studies, Women's Literature, 19th and 20th Century European Literature, African-American Literature
Representative Publications
The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory ;
Evanston, IL; Northwestern University Press;
2017
“They Were Right There Together: Black Abundance in Home to Harlem and Vernacular Indifference to Sexological Expertise”;
Routledge Companion to Queer Theory and Modernism; Routledge;
“Daily Life Frequently Interrupted Like a Slap”: Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels as Chronicles of 1970s Italian Feminism;
Textual Practice;
2021
Sexual Difference without Cisness in Ulysses;
Textual Practice;
Volume
Supporting Undocumented Students and Workers on Campus: Lessons from a New Jersey experiment;
Academic Labor beyond the College Classroom: Working for Our Values; Routledge;
2019
Representative Presentations
Feminism Against Cisness
The Trans Allegory and International Studies, School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary University of London
“Literature After Cisness”
The Ghost Cousins at Mid-Century
The Materialist Disarticulation of Sexual Difference From Cisness
Fellowships, Grants and Research
MacDowell Fellowship
Notable Courses Taught
Women in Literature, Nineteenth-Century Women's Voices, The Harlem Renaissance, Queer Literature, Twentieth-Century European Literature