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
- Restoration and 18-Century Studies
- Creative Writing
- Women's and Gender Studies in English
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.
Scholarly Awards:
University of Missouri Graduate School
John D. Bies International Travel Award, 2020-2021
Dissertation Research Travel Scholarship, 2020-2021
University of Missouri English Department
English Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2020-2021
Donald E. and Mary Frances Hayden English Fellowship, 2020-2021
The Judith A. and Richard B. Schwartz Award, 2020-2021
Mary-Joe Purcell Fellowship, 2019-2020
Elizabeth T. Barnes Memorial Graduate Fellowship, 2019-2020
Graduate Student Best Paper Award, 1st Place, 2019
Mary-Joe Purcell Fellowship, 2018-2019
Graduate Student Best Paper Award, 2nd Place, 2018
Elizabeth T. Barnes Memorial Graduate Fellowship, 2017-2018
Donald E. and Mary Frances Hayden English Fellowship, 2016-2017
Simmons University
Graduate Student Development Award, 2015
English Literature Merit Scholarship, 2014-2015
Creative Awards:
National:
Pushcart Prize nomination for “Tilt,” December 2019
Pushcart Prize nomination by Contributing Editor Joseph Hurka, December 2018
“Drive” selected as a “Memoir Magazine Notable Essay,” April 2018
University of Missouri
“Tilt” for the Creative Writing Program Prize in Creative Nonfiction, 2nd Place, Judged by Jericho Parms, 2018
Competitive Travel Awards:
English Department Travel Award, 2020, 2018, 2017
Graduate Professional Council Travel Award, 2019, 2016
English Graduate Student Association Travel Award, 2019, 2017, 2016
18th and 19th Century Studies Travel Award, 2018 (x2)
Graduate Student Association Travel Grant, 2
Peer Reviewed Publications:
Heringman, Noah and Heather Heckman-McKenna. “Commentary for Plate 1.57, Engraving of a Hypocaust Found at Lincoln.” Vetusta Monumenta. 12 June 2019.
“Redefining Love in Atwood’s ‘Variation on the Word Sleep.’” The Explicator, vol. 74, no. 2, 2016, pp. 92-98.
Literary Journal Publications:
Creative Nonfiction:
“Chroma.” Forthcoming in The Journal.
“Tilt.” CutBank, 90, 2019.
“Target.” Open: Journal of Arts & Letters, 26 June 2018, web.
“Drive.” Newfound, vol. 9, no. 1, 2018.
"Securely Bound." Bacopa Literary Review, vol. 8, no. 1, 2016, pp. 158-162.
“Bus Ride.” Eckleburg, May 2014, web.
Fiction:
"Second Memory." Inwood Indiana: Reaping, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, p. 11
