{"id":43,"date":"2018-08-21T11:03:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T18:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vendor.hub.wp.nau.edu\/women-and-gender-studies\/meredith-heller\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:45:26","slug":"meredith-heller","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/program-women-gender-studies\/meredith-heller\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Meredith Heller – Women’s and Gender Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meredith Heller, PhD<\/span><\/h3>\n
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\"Meredith
\nSenior Lecturer
\n<\/span>Undergraduate Program Coordinator
\nWomen’s and Gender Studies
\nBldg 70 Rm #273
\nPhone:<\/span> 928-523-8063
\n<\/a>M.Heller@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n

Personal Page<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Meredith Heller is Senior Lecturer of Queer Studies in the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program at Northern Arizona University. She specializes in queer theory and critical identity studies, with additional expertise in performance studies and digital media.<\/p>\n

INTERESTS
\n<\/strong>Gender and Sexuality<\/em>: queer theory, critical identity studies, historical sexuality
\nMedia Studies<\/em>: digital media, discourse analysis
\nPerformance<\/em>: drag, popular entertainment, performativity<\/p>\n

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EDUCATION
\n<\/strong>Ph.D. University of California Santa Barbara (Theater Studies, Feminist Studies doctoral emphasis)
\nM.A. California State University, Sacramento (Theater Studies)
\nB.A. Pacific Lutheran University (Women\u2019s Studies)
\nB.F.A. Pacific Lutheran University (Theater)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

COURSES TAUGHT
\n<\/strong>Introduction to Queer Studies
\nWomen, Gender Identity, and Ethnicity
\nFeminist Theories
\nAdvanced Readings in Queer Studies
\nControversies in Cross-Dressing (graduate course and Queer Studies capstone levels)
\nFeminist Media Studies
\nSex, Love, and Romance<\/p>\n

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TEACHING AWARDS
\n<\/strong>University Award for Liberal Studies Excellence, NAU 2019
\nEarly Career Teaching Award, Social and Behavioral Sciences, NAU 2019
\nMost Influential Faculty Member, Gold Axe Award, NAU 2016<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

BOOK
\n<\/strong>Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending<\/em><\/a>. Indiana University Press, 2020.
\n\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*Named as one of NBC News\u2019 \u201c10 LGBTQ books to watch out for in 2020\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS
\n<\/strong>Bowles Eagle, Ryan and Meredith Heller. \u201cThe \u2018Camptopia\u2019 Experience: Utopia and\u00a0Revolution in Media Representations of Alternative Youth Sleepaway Camps.\u201d<\/a> Social Semiotics\u00a0<\/em>(2019): 1-16.<\/p>\n

Heller, Meredith. \u201cRuPaul Realness: the Neoliberal Resignification of Ballroom Discourse.\u201d<\/a> Social Semiotics <\/em>(2018): 1-15.<\/p>\n

Heller, Meredith. \u201cIs She He?: Drag Discourses and Drag Logic in Online Media Reports of Gender Variance.\u201d<\/a> Feminist Media Studies <\/em>vol. 16, no. 3 (2016): 445-459.<\/p>\n

Heller, Meredith. \u201cFemale-Femmeing: a Gender-Bent <\/em>Performance Practice.\u201d<\/a> QED: A Journal of LGBTQ Worldmaking <\/em>vol. 2, no. 3 (2015): 1-23.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Heller, Meredith. \u201cGender-Bending in El Teatro Campesino (1968\u20131980): A Mestiza<\/em> Epistemology of Performance.\u201d<\/a> Gender & History<\/em> vol. 24, no. 3 (2012):<\/p>\n

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RECENT PRESENTATIONS
\n<\/strong>\u201cCamp OUTdoors: Utopian Space Creation and Revolutionary Vision of LGBTQ Youth Summer Camps.\u201d National Women\u2019s Studies Association Annual Meeting. Atlanta, November 8-11, 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwitter Realness: the Social Media Re-Signification of Drag Ballroom Discourse.\u201d The Southwest Popular\/American Culture Association Annual Meeting. Albuquerque, February 7-10, 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Politics of Realness in Contemporary Drag Werk.\u201d The Popular Culture Association\/American Culture Association Annual Meeting. San Diego, April 12-15, 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cStorm\u00e9 DeLarverie, Stonewall, and the Stakes of Butch Identification.\u201d National Women\u2019s Studies Association Annual Meeting. Milwaukie, November 12-15, 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cI Tumbl(r) for You: Confronting \u2018Post\u2019 Entrenchment with Praxis-Based Learning.\u201d Console-ing Passions International Conference on Television, Audio, Video, New Media, and Feminism Annual Meeting. Dublin, June 18-20, 2015.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meredith Heller, PhD Senior Lecturer Undergraduate Program Coordinator Women’s and Gender Studies Bldg 70 Rm #273 Phone: 928-523-8063 M.Heller@nau.edu Personal Page Meredith Heller is Senior Lecturer of Queer Studies in the Women\u2019s and Gender Studies Program at Northern Arizona University. She specializes in queer theory and critical identity studies, with additional expertise in performance studies […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/program-women-gender-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/program-women-gender-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/program-women-gender-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/program-women-gender-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/program-women-gender-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/program-women-gender-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/program-women-gender-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/program-women-gender-studies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}