Dr. Heather Love

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Biography

Heather Love is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania, where she explores the intersections of gender and sexuality studies, twentieth-century literature and culture, affect studies, sociology and literature, disability studies, and film and visual culture. She holds an A.B. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Love is the author of 'Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History' (Harvard University Press) and 'Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory' (University of Chicago Press). She has also co-edited a special issue of GLQ titled 'Rethinking Sex' and contributed to the volume 'Literary Studies and Human Flourishing' (Oxford University Press). Her research interests encompass a variety of contemporary issues including social stigma, compulsory happiness, transgender fiction, and the aesthetics of spinsters. Currently, she is working on a new project titled 'To Real,' which is funded by the Guggenheim Foundation and involves personal queer writing.

Research Interests

Gender Studies Sexuality Studies Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture Affect Studies Sociology and Literature Disability Studies Film and Visual Culture Critical Theory

Courses

ENGL 0785.401 Queer Archives, Aesthetics, Performance ENGL 7900.401 New Directions in Queer and Trans Studies ENGL 0040.001 Love Work: Race, Sex, Class in America ENGL 0070.001 Literature and Medicine ENGL 1300.401 Queer Politics, Queer Communities ENGL 8000.301 Pedagogy ENGL 0340.301 Scenes of Teaching (First Year Seminar) ENGL 7600.401 Realisms Seminar: 19th-Century to Contemporary ENGL 598.401 Sex and the Human Sciences ENGL 280.401 Queer Archives, Aesthetics, Performance ENGL 105.001 Queer Politics, Queer Communities ENGL 065.001 20th-Century British Novel ENGL 096.401 Queer Politics/Queer Communities ENGL 290.401 Modern Queer Novel ENGL 015.401 Queer Novel and the Marriage Plot ENGL 096.401 Theories of Gender and Sexuality: Queer Theory/Queer Politics ENGL 790.301 New Reading Methods in Literary Studies ENGL 090.401 Sexuality, Race, and Empire in Modernism ENGL 790.401 Queer Methods ENGL 096.402 Queer Politics, Queer Communities ENGL 390.401 Friendship ENGL 105.401 Disability Narratives ENGL 090.401 Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Sexuality, Race, Empire in Modernism ENGL 016.401 Scenes of Teaching ENGL 790.401 Sociology and Literature ENGL 016.401 Burden of Representation ENGL 790.401 Stigma and Archive ENGL 105.401 Gender and Sexuality Studies: Queer Politics, Queer Communities ENGL 265.401 Modernisms: Bloomsbury, Harlem, Paris ENGL 390.401 Burden of Representation ENGL 592.401 Queer Theories and Histories ENGL 105.401 Gender and Sexuality: Queer Politics, Queer Communities ENGL 600.301 Proseminar: Introduction to Theory and Criticism ENGL 065.950 London Calling: The Modern British Novel ENGL 261.950 Bloomsbury Experiments ENGL 096.401 Theories of Gender and Sexuality ENGL 390.401 Topics in Gender, Sexuality, and Literature: Friendship ENGL 065.401 Twentieth-Century Novel: Nightmare and History ENGL 102.401 Secrecy, Sexuality, and the Modern Novel ENGL 801.302 Pedagogy ENGL 096.401 Theories of Gender/Sexuality ENGL 265.301 Topics in Modern British Literature: In Particular: Exile Literature ENGL 773.401 Affects and Modernity ENGL 065.001 20th Century British Novel ENGL 260.301 Theories of Sexuality

Requirements for University of Pennsylvania

Doctorate Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.6
GRE General
Verbal
Required:162
Quantitative
Required:162
Overall
Required:162
GMAT
Total Score
Required:728
Overall
Required:728
TOEFL
Total
Required:115
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree or equivalent Strong quantitative background
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