Heather Heckman-McKenna
Heather Heckman-McKenna
MA in English from Simmons University
BFA in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College
Areas of Study
- Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Literature
- Romantic Period
- Restoration and 18-Century Studies
- Creative Writing
- Women's and Gender Studies in English
Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
I’m an English Literature Ph.D. Candidate, Research Assistant, and Graduate Instructor at the University of Missouri. My research interests include British literature of the long eighteenth-century, nineteenth-century American literature, and women writers of the period. My work predominantly focuses on matters of feminism, power differentials, subversive overthrows of hegemonic establishments, and identity. I’m also a memoirist, and I am writing (and publishing chapters from) a book about surviving and recovering from domestic violence.
Awards and Honors:
Scholarly Awards
International:
2022 Gale-ASECS Non-Residential Fellowship
University of Missouri Graduate School:
2022 Mary Elizabeth Gutermuth Award for Community Engagement
2020 John D. Bies International Travel Award, 2020-2021
2020 Dissertation Research Travel Scholarship, 2020-2021
University of Missouri English Department:
2022 English Department Fellowship, 2022
2021 Harry J. and Richard A. Hocks Dissertation Fellowship, 2021-2022
2021 Mary-Joe Purcell Fellowship, 2021-2022
2020 English Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2020-2021
2020 Donald E. and Mary Frances Hayden English Fellowship, 2020-2021
2020 The Judith A. and Richard B. Schwartz Award, 2020-2021
2019 Mary-Joe Purcell Fellowship, 2019-2020
2019 Elizabeth T. Barnes Memorial Graduate Fellowship, 2019-2020
2019 Graduate Student Best Paper Award, 1st Place, 2019
2018 Mary-Joe Purcell Fellowship, 2018-2019
2018 Graduate Student Best Paper Award, 2nd Place, 2018
2017 Elizabeth T. Barnes Memorial Graduate Fellowship, 2017-2018
2016 Donald E. and Mary Frances Hayden English Fellowship, 2016-2017
Creative Awards:
National:
2019 Pushcart Prize nomination for “Tilt,” December 2019
2018 Pushcart Prize nomination by Contributing Editor Joseph Hurka, December 2018
2018 “Drive” selected as a “Memoir Magazine Notable Essay,” April 2018
Publications:
Refereed Journal Articles:
2019 Heringman, Noah and Heather Heckman-McKenna. “Commentary for Plate 1.57, Engraving of a Hypocaust Found at Lincoln.” Vetusta Monumenta. 12 June 2019.
2016 “Redefining Love in Atwood’s ‘Variation on the Word Sleep.’” The Explicator, vol. 74, no. 2, 2016, pp. 92-98.
Book Reviews:
2022 Book Review for Placing Charlotte Smith, forthcoming in Aphra Behn Online.
Refereed Headnotes:
2022 Biography for Mary Julia Young, Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry, 28 March 2022.
Literary Journal Publications:
Creative Nonfiction:
2022 “April 18th 2012; Echoes.” Past Ten, 18 April 2022.
2021 “Fall.” The Carolina Quarterly, 71.1, 2021.
2021 “Chroma.” The Journal, 44.3, 2021.
2019 “Tilt.” CutBank, 90, 2019.
2018 “Target.” Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, 26 June 2018, web.
2018 “Drive.” Newfound, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018.
2016 “Securely Bound.” Bacopa Literary Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 2016, pp. 158-162.
2014 “Bus Ride.” Eckleburg, May 2014, web.
Fiction:
2016 “Second Memory.” Inwood Indiana: Reaping, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, p. 118.