| In recent years, my areas of
interest have shifted and expanded
to include ecofeminist and environmental justice issues in contemporary
women's literature (and film). I look at how women writers
(in
fiction and nonfiction) depict environmental degradation in relation to
the female body--how women respond to and are impacted by the poisoning
of our earth. Writers who combine science with literary
narrative, such as Rachel Carson and Sandra Steingraber, have
influenced my thinking in this field. I have explored the
topic
of ecofeminist theory in presentations at national academic
conferences, in my courses and in public lectures here at Stony Brook,
and in the book I am currently writing. I am very excited to
be
part of the new Climates Project at the Humanities Institute Stony
Brook, where I will be giving a lecture in Fall 2008 on ecofeminism and
film. My interests also include teaching the literature and
history of women writers from a variety of periods--from the
Restoration to the present. |
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Heidi Hutner
Associate
Professor of
English. Ph.D., University of Washington, 1993. Feminist studies;
ecofeminism and ecocriticism; race studies; women writers; Restoration
and 18th Century studies.
Courses:
Fall 08- Literary Analysis & Argumentation (EGL 204)
- Eighteenth-Century Novel (EGL 347)
Awards:
- Women's Studies Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship, 2006.
Selected Publications:
Books:
- Colonial Women: Race, Culture and Stuart Drama. Heidi Hutner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. Ed. Heidi Hutner. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
Articles:
- "Ecofeminism, motherhood, and the Post-Apocalyptic Utopia in Into the Forest and Parable of the Sower,” Barbara Cook ed. Women, Writing, Nature (Lexington/Roman University Press, 2007)
- "Rereading Aphra Behn: An Introduction," Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. Ed. Heidi Hutner. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, 1-13.
- "Revisioning the Female Body: The Rover, parts I and II," Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. Ed. Heidi Hutner. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993, 102-120.
- "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: The Politics of Gender, Race and Class," Living By the Pen: Early Women Writers. Ed. Dale Spender. New York: Teacher's College, Columbia University Press, 1992, 39-51.
- "Evelina and the Problem of the Female Grotesque," Genre 23 (1990): 191-203.
Reviews:
- “Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture: 1748-1818” (Cambridge UP, 2004) in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Spring 2006.
- “Wollstonecraft's Daughters,” Ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr; “Revolutionary Feminism,” Gary Kelly; “Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft,” Ed. Maria J. Falco, Signs, 24 (1999): 788-792.
Edited Texts:
- "The Fond Husband,” by Thomas Durfey. Heidi Hutner (with Tony Jarrells) Eds. Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama. J. Douglas Canfield Ed. Toronto: Broadview Literary Texts, 2001.
Work in Progress:
- Polluting Mama: Ecofeminism in Contemporary Literature and Film. A book project looking at ecofeminist and environmental justice theories in contemporary women’s literature and film.
- Special Edition for FEMSPEC on Mothering, Literature and Theory (forthcoming).