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Dr. Dana Heller, Professor and Chair Department of English

 

Ph.D. City University of New York
M.F.A. Columbia University
B.A. Goddard College


757-683-3719
dheller@odu.edu

Teaching

  • American Studies
  • Popular Culture(s)
  • Gender Studies
  • Postmodernity
  • The History of the Subject
  • Research

  • American Studies
  • Popular Culture(s)
  • Gay and Lesbian Studies
  • Comparative Cultural Studies
  • Recent Publications

    Books

    Hairspray. Oxford and Boston: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

    Vital Ideas: Money. (Co-edited with Claire Pamplin). Chicago: The Great Books Foundation, 2011.

    Makeover Television: Realties Remodeled (Edited with Introduction). London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

    The Great American Makeover: Television, History, Nation (Edited with Introduction). New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

    The Selling of 9/11: How a National Tragedy Became a Commodity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).  

    Journal, Guest Editor

    Post-Soviet American Studies. (Edited with introduction) American Studies International. 41.1&2 (2003).

    Articles

    "Sex and the Series: Paris, New York, and Post-National Romance."  American Studies 46.2 (Summer, 2005): 5-29.

    "Buried Selves: Gothic Democracy in Six Feet Under." Reading Six Feet Under: TV To Die For. Janet McCabe and Kim Akass, eds. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005: 73-86.

    "A Passion For Extremes: Hollywood's Cold-War Romance with Russia." Comparative American Studies 3.1. (March 2005): 89-110.

    "In the Zone: Margaret Cho Stands Up." Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life. (Posted: February 8, 2005). Online. http://bad.eserver.org/reviews/2005/hellercho.html

    "Taking the Nation From Drab to Fab: Queer Eye For the Straight Guy." Feminist Media Studies 4.3 (November 2004): 347-50.

    "Anatomies of Rape."  American Literary History 16.2 (2004): 329-49.

    "States of Emergency: The Labors of Lesbian Desire in ER." Genders 39 (2004). http://www.genders.org/

    "Idiot Nation: Holy Fools, Secular Saints, and Illiterate Saviors in American Literature and Popular Culture." CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal. 5.3 (2003). http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb03-3/heller03.html

    "Russian 'Sitkom' Adaptation: The Pushkin Principle." Journal of Popular Film and Television. 31.2 (Summer 2003): 60-72.

    "How Many Lesbians Does It Take To Screw in a Lightbulb" (Co-authored with Janet Bing). Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 16.2 (2003): 157-182.

    "The Holy Fool in Russian and American Culture: A Dialogue." (Co-authored with Elena Volkova). American Studies International. 41. 1 &2 ( 2003): 152-178.

    "Salesman in Moscow." The Futures of American Studies. Donald Pease and Robyn Wiegman, eds. Durham: Duke University Press, 2002: 183-210.

    "Commodity Nationalism: The Marketing of 9/11," (in Russian). Topos: Journal of Philosophy and Culturology. 2.7 (2002): 145-164.

    "Found Footage: Feminist Histories Lost in Time." Tulsa Journal of Women's Studies. 21.1, Spring 2002: 85-98.

    "Shooting Solanas: Radical Feminist History and the Technology of Failure." Feminist Studies. 27.1, Spring 2001: 167-189.