Heather Nelson

• Colorado State University-Pueblo, Visiting Assistant Professor of English, 2017-2018
• Antioch College, Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature, 2015-2016

Courses Taught at Western

Fall 2022:

• ENG 102–Academic Writing: American Short Stories
• ENG 148–Film and Culture: Hitchcock’s Adaptations
• ENG 250–Critical Approaches to Literature: Feminist Theory
• ENG 493–Senior Seminar I: Jane Austen

Spring 2023:

• ENG 102–Academic Writing: American Short Stories
• ENG 250–Critical Approaches to Literature: Feminist Theory
• ENG 371–Literary Theory and Criticism: Shakespeare
• ENG 494–Senior Seminar II: Futures

Publications

• I Do?: Women, Consent, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century England. University of Toronto Press, 2024.
• Elizabeth Bennet’s Proposal Scenes and Nonconsensual Consent.” Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, no. 42, 2020, pp. 194-206.
• “‘Nothing That She Could Allege Against Him in Judicious or Judicial Ears’: ‘Consensual’ Marital Abuse in Victorian Literature.” George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, vol. 69, no. 1, 2017, pp. 89-119.
• “‘She Sins While She Remains Away’: Marital Consent, Restitution of Conjugal Rights, and Anthony Trollope’s Phineas Novels.” Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, no. 129, Spring 2016, pp. 98-111.
• “‘When a Daughter Elopes to Gretna, Generally It Is a Wicked Thing’: Female Consent, Clandestine Marriage, and Susannah Frances Reynolds’s Gretna Green; Or, All for Love.” ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, vol. 28, no. 2, April-June 2015, pp. 79-86.
• “‘You Could Be Judas’: Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Black Slaveowner.” Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, vol. 22, no. 1, Spring/Summer 2015, pp. 16-44.