Helene Meyers
American writer and professor
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Helene Meyers is an American writer, author, and professor.[1] Her work is focused on the intersections of literary and film studies, feminist and queer studies, and Jewish studies.[1]
University of Florida (MA)
Indiana University Bloomington (PhD)
Helene Myers | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Pennsylvania State University (BA) University of Florida (MA) Indiana University Bloomington (PhD) |
| Genre | non-fiction |
| Subject | Feminism, anti-Semitism |
Biography
Helene Meyers was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received her education at Pennsylvania State University (B.A.), University of Florida (M.A.), and Indiana University Bloomington (Ph.D.).[1]
Meyers often tacklles feminist, antisemitism, and queer themes as well as literary and film studies. In her book, Movie-Made Jews, she explored the onscreen depictions of antisemitism, assimilation, the Holocaust, queer Jews, intersectional alliances, and feminism.[2] She also argued that movies are important because they help in forming "our images of ourselves, others, and the world."[2] Her works had been published in Lilith, Forward, Tablet, Ms. Magazine’s Blog, the Washington Independent Review of Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Education.[3] Her feminist publications included an analogy of gender discrimination to a component of a Gothic world where women are continuously at risk as they roam the streets, make love in their bedrooms, enter their gynecologists' office, or when they consume and produce culture.[4]
She serves as Professor of English and McManis University Chair at Southwestern University. She is Jewish, and a native New Yorker.[5][6]
Bibliography
Honors and awards
- McManis University Chair, 2009
- Brown Senior Faculty Fellowship. 2004-2005
- Fellow of the Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. Northwestern University. Summer 2000
- Southwestern University Distinguished Teaching Award. Spring 2000
- Southwestern University Award for Fostering Diversity. Spring 2002
- Brown Faculty Fellowship. Southwestern University. 1994-95
- Cullen Faculty Development Grants. Southwestern University. 1992-2009
- Graduate Council Fellowship. University of Florida. 1983
- University Scholar, Pennsylvania State University. 1982
- Phi Beta Kappa, Pennsylvania State University. 1982
