Heffernan, Teresa -

Submitted by halifax on Mon, 2010/08/09 - 6:25pm
Personal Information
First Name: 
Teresa
Last Name: 
Heffernan
Other: 
English Department
University Affiliation: 
St. Mary's University
Phone: 
(902) 496-8294
Email Address: 
teresa.heffernan@smu.ca
Area of Research
Specific Area of Research: 
Twentieth and twenty-first century fiction and theory, travel writing, orientalism, feminism, post humanism and science studies, and apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic culture
Academics
PHD University: 
University of Toronto
Major Publications: 
Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel (University of Toronto Press, 2008) “Bovine Anxieties, Virgin Births, and the Secret of Life” in Cultural Critique and “From Inoculation to Vaccination: Smallpox and the Shifting Ground of What it Means to be Human,” in Subject Matters (special issue on “Posthuman Conditions” guest edited by Neil Badmington)
Courses Taught: 
Travelling East; Contemporary Issues of Feminism: Feminism, Gender, and Orientalism; Feminist Literary Theory; Special Topics: Virginia Woolf, Modernism, and Feminism; History and Theory of the Novel 11; History and Theory of the Novel 1