State University of New York at New Paltz

Faculty Member, English and Women's Studies

Associate Professor

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

About

Heather Hewett writes about women, gender, and culture.  She has published on a wide variety of topics, including motherhood and parenting, feminism, and the work of contemporary women writers from Anglophone Africa, the Caribbean, and the U.S.  Her work has been published in a range of academic and popular venues, including Women's Studies Quarterly, Women's Review of Books, The Washington Post, CNN.com, Ms. Magazine Online, and Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers.  She also blogs with other feminist scholars, writers, and thinkers at Girl w/Pen (http://girlwpen.com/).

Her background includes several years of experience working full-time as a freelance journalist.  She earned her Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also received a Graduate Certificate in African Studies.  She received her B.A. from Yale.
     
She is an Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she teaches courses in transnational feminism, motherhood and mothering, women's literature, postcolonial and world literatures, and nonfiction writing.  From 2005-2011, she served as the Coordinator of the Women's Studies Program.