Associate Professor
Office: 506P Jane E. Leonard Hall
Phone: 724-357-2280
Email: heflin@iup.edu
Education
PhD, University of Southern California, 2009
Research and Teaching Interests
- American literature and culture (1848-present)
- Women's literature, feminist theory, and gender studies
- Autobiography theory, diary, memoir, and life narrative
- Graphic memoir, outsider art, women's hybrid narrative (comics, scrapbook, collage, quilt)
- Narrative psychology, the unconscious, psychoanalytic & affect theories, subjectivity
- Fairy tale, magical realism, myth, the fantastic, and the phantasmagoric
- Indigenous literature and critical race studies
- Archival research, manuscript and ephemera archives, digital archives
Courses Taught at IUP
- ENGL 983: Seminar in American Literature: "Activism in the Americas, 1848-2018"
- ENGL 983: Seminar in American Literature: "Hidden Voices: Suppressed, Contested, and Recovered Texts in American Literature"
- ENGL 983: Seminar in American Literature: "Songs of the Self: The Autobiographical Impulse in American Literature"
- ENGL 956: Literary Theory for the Teacher and Scholarly Writer
- ENGL 872/772: Topics in Women's Literature: "Mystery and Manners: Fairy Tale, Magic, and the Uncanny in Women's Literature"
- ENGL 853/753: Literature as a Profession: "Seductive, Deceiving, Dangerous"
- ENGL 340: The Novel: "Banned Books and Dangerous Fictions"
- WMST 200: Introduction to Women's Studies: "The Personal is Political"
- ENGL 101: Composition I: "Writing to Be Read" and "1960s Culture and Counterculture"