Heather Heckman-McKenna holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Missouri and is currently an Instructor of English and a Gale-ASECS Fellow. Her research primarily surrounds eighteenth-century women’s literature, the subversive body, and digital humanities, and she is also a memoirist and creative nonfiction writer. Heather’s scholarly work has appeared in the Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry, Aphra Behn Online, The Explicator, and elsewhere and her creative work has appeared in The Carolina Quarterly, CutBank, and The Journal, amongst others. She also holds an Associate Editor position at The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation.
