Heather Hicks
Associate Professor of English at Villanova University
Schools
- Villanova University
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Biography
Villanova University
Education:
- Ph.D., Duke University (1996)
- B.A., Dartmouth College (1989)
Areas of Interest:
- Postmodern Fiction and Theory
- Feminist Theory
- Science Fiction
- Labor Fiction
- Apocalyptic Narrative
Publications:
Books:
The Post-Apocalyptic Novel in the Twenty-First Century: Modernity Beyond Salvage. New York: Palgrave, 2016.
The Culture of Soft Work: Labor, Gender, and Race in Postmodern American Narrative. New York: Palgrave, 2009.
Articles and Book Chapters:
"'Enough to Change a Planet': Feeling Extinction in Contemporary Literature." Reconsidering Extinction in Terms of the History of Global Bioethics. Ed. Stan Booth and Chris Mounsey. New York: Routledge, 2021. 1-26
“Disaster Response in Post-2000 American Apocalyptic Fiction.” Apocalypse in American Literature and Culture. Ed. John Hay. New York: Cambridge UP, 2020. 212-224.
"Smoke Follows Beauty": The Femme Fatale and the Logic of Apocalyptic Affiliation in Claire Vaye Watkins's Gold Fame Citrus", ASAP/Journal 3.3 (2018): 623-651.
"Apocalyptic Fiction, 1950-2015", Oxford Research Encyclopedia. March 2017.
"This Time Round": David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and the Apocalyptic Problem of Historicism." Postmodern Culture 20:3 (2011).
"Impalement: Race and Gender in Bryan Singer's X-Men." CineAction 85 (2011): 52-63.
"Suits vs. Skins: Immigration and Race in Men in Black." Arizona Quarterly 63:2 (2007): 109-136.
"Hoodoo Economics: White Men's Work and Black Men's Magic in Contemporary American Film." Camera Obscura 53 (2003): 27-55.
"On Whiteness in T. Coraghessan Boyle's The Tortilla Curtain." Critique 45 (2003): 43-64.
"This Strange Communion': Surveillance and Spectatorship in Ann Petry's The Street." African American Review 37 (2003): 21-37.
"Rethinking Realism in Ann Petry's The Street." MELUS 27 (2002): 89-105.
"Striking Cyborgs: Reworking the "Human"" in Marge Piercy's He, She, and It." Reload: Rethinking Women and Cyberculture . ed. Mary Flanagan and Austin Booth. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. 85-106.
"Postindustrial Striptease: The Full Monty and the Feminization of Work." Colby Quarterly 36 (2000): 48-59.
"Automating Feminism: The Case of Joanna Russ's The Female Man." Postmodern Culture 9:3 (1999).
"'Whatever It Is That She's Since Become': Writing Bodies of Text and Bodies of Women in James Tiptree, Jr.'s 'The Girl who Was Plugged in' and William Gibson's 'The Winter Market'." Contemporary Literature 37 (1996): 62-93.
"Paper Mills ." This Fine Place So Far From Home: Voices of Academics from the Working Class. ed. Carolyn Leste Law & E.L. Barney Dews. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
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