Helene Meyers Professor of English PhD, Indiana University MA, University of Florida BA, The Pennsylvania State University Location: MBH 210 Phone: 512-863-1492 English Dept. Home Page

ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD Professor of English, Southwestern University, 2002- Acting Chair of Feminist Studies, 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   CAREER AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS Senior Brown 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. 1992-2005. Graduate Council Fellowship. University of Florida. 1983. University Scholar, Pennsylvania State University. 1982. Phi Beta Kappa, Pennsylvania State University. 1982.   RESEARCH AREAS Contemporary Literature Jewish Cultural Studies Feminist Theory Gothic Studies   REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience. SUNY UP, Feminist Theory and Criticism Series, 2001. "Jewish Gender Trouble: Women Writing Men of Valor." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature. Fall 2006. "The Death and Life of a Jewish Judith Shakespeare: Rebecca Goldstein's Mazel." Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. "Educating for a Jewish Gaze: The Close Doubling of Philosemitism and Antisemitism in Sandra Goldbacher's The Governess." Forthcoming in Antisemitism and Philosemitism in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, eds. Phyllis Lassner and Lara Trubowitz (U of Delaware P, 2008). 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.   MORE INFORMATION Personal Web Site Work-in-progress: book manuscript on contemporary narratives of Jewish identity Under submission: article on the relationship between diaspora and Zionism in Rebecca Goldstein's Mazel Scholar-in Residence for Your Heart's Desire: Sex and Love in Jewish Literature, a public library series on Jewish Literature underwritten by a grant from Nextbook and the American Library Association (Spring 2006) MLA Executive Committee for Jewish Cultural Studies, 2001-2005 Invited Talk. "Jewish Gender Trouble." Women's Studies Program. Texas A&M. Oct. 2006.