Teresa Heffernan

Professor of English, Faculty of Arts, Saint Mary's University

Literary Theory, the Contemporary Novel, Modernism, Postmodernism, Short Fiction, Travel Writing, English Literature

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Biography

Teresa Heffernan is Professor of English at Saint Mary’s University. She teaches courses in literary theory, the contemporary novel, modernism, postmodernism, short fiction, and travel writing.

She is author of Post-Apocalyptic Culture: Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel (University of Toronto Press, 2008/2012), Veiled Figures: Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism (University of Toronto Press, 2016). She is co-editor (with Daniel O’Quinn) of a critical edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s The Turkish Embassy Letters (Broadview Press, 2012). She is a book series editor, with Reina Lewis, of Cultures in Dialogue, co-editor (with Jill Didur) of a special issue of Cultural Studies: “Revisiting the Subaltern in the New Empire”, and a special issue of Cultural Critique (with Jill Didur and Bart Simon): “Critical Posthumanism.” Her articles have appeared in journals such as Studies in the Novel, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Arab Journal for the Humanities, Subject Matters, Canadian Literature, Twentieth Century Literature, English Studies in Africa, and Framework: Journal of Cinema and Media.

Expertise

  • Literary Theory
  • Contemporary Novel
  • Modernism
  • Postmodernism
  • Short Fiction
  • Travel Writing
  • English Literature