Helene Meyers
Professor of English
Areas of expertise
Contemporary Literature, Jewish Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Gothic Studies
Education
PhD, Indiana University 1991
MA, University of Florida 1985
BA, Pennsylvania State University 1982
Positions
Professor of English
Southwestern University
January 01, 2002 - present
Acting Chair of Feminist Studies, Spring 2009, Spring 2006
Associate Professor of English, Southwestern University, 1997-2002
Chair of Women's Studies, Southwestern University, 1996-1999
Assistant Professor of English, Southwestern University, 1991-1997
Courses: Fall 2009
Amazing Adventures of M.Chabon
Reel Jews
Paideia Seminar 1A
Publications
BOOK:
Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience. SUNY UP, Feminist Theory and Criticism Series, 2001. Reprint of Chapter 4, "The Construction of the Sadomasochistic Couple," in Gale's Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Vol. 202 (2008).
ARTICLES and ESSAYS:
"Educating for a Jewish Gaze: The Close Doubling of Philosemitism and Antisemitism in Sandra Goldbacher's The Governess." Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, eds. Phyllis Lassner and Lara Trubowitz (U of Delaware P, 2008).
"The Death and Life of a Jewish Judith Shakespeare: Rebecca Goldstein's Mazel." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Spring 2007.
"Jewish Gender Trouble: Women Writing Men of Valor." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. Fall 2006.
Signed entries on Michael Chabon, Rebecca Goldstein, Laura Hobson, Judith Katz, Lesléa Newman, Lev Raphael. Greenwood Encylcopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. 2005.
"The Lesbian and the Mishpachah: Newman's In Every Laugh a Tear." Studies in Jewish American Fiction 22 (2003).
"Introduction." Best Short Fiction of Lesléa Newman. Alyson Books, 2003.
"To Queer or Not to Queer: That's Not the Question." College Literature. Feb. 1997.
"Appropriating the Master Appropriator: The James Joyce Murder as Feminist Critique." In Joyce and Popular Culture. Ed. R.B. Kershner. University of Florida Press, 1996.
"Industry or Community: Joyce and the Social Function of Criticism." James Joyce Quarterly. Winter 1994.
Honors & Awards
Brown Senior Faculty Fellowship. 2004-2005
Fellow of the Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. Northwestern University. Summer 2000.
Southwestern University Distinguished Teaching Award. Spring 2000.
Southwestern University Award for Fostering Diversity. Spring 2002.
Brown Faculty Fellowship. Southwestern University. 1994-95.
Cullen Faculty Development Grants. Southwestern University. 1992-2009.
Graduate Council Fellowship. University of Florida. 1983.
University Scholar, Pennsylvania State University. 1982.
Phi Beta Kappa, Pennsylvania State University. 1982.
