Helene Meyers

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]

Helene Myers
NationalityAmerican
Alma materPennsylvania State University (B.A.), University of Florida (M.A.), and Indiana University (Ph.D.)
Genrenon-fiction
SubjectFeminism, 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 (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
  • Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition. Rutgers University Press.[7]
  • Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness. SUNY Press, 2011.[8]
  • Reading Michael Chabon. Greenwood Press, 2010.
  • Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience.[9]

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

References
  1. "Helene Meyers". www.southwestern.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  2. "What Makes a Movie Jewish?". Alma. 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  3. "Dr. Helene Meyers". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  4. Lanone, Catherine (2004). Les Vestiges Du Gothique: Le Rôle Du Reste. Presses Univ. du Mirail. p. 29. ISBN 978-2-85816-716-6.
  5. Identity Papers. www.sunypress.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  6. "Dr. Helene Meyers". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  7. Meyers, Helene (2021-09-03). Movie-Made Jews. doi:10.36019/9781978821927. ISBN 9781978821927. S2CID 251704797.
  8. Helene., Meyers (1220). Identity papers : contemporary narratives of American Jewishness. SUNY Press. ISBN 1-4384-3922-9. OCLC 833248898.
  9. Helene., Meyers (2001). Femicidal fears : narratives of the female gothic experience. State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-5151-8. OCLC 45714656.


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