B.A., Stanford University, English
Ph.D., 1988, University of Washington, English
Office: UW1-348
Phone: 425.352.5354
Email: jheuving@u.washington.edu
Mailing: Box 358530, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA 98011-8246
In my teaching, I wish to involve students in how cultural entities occur, whether cultural events, cultural beliefs, or cultural texts. By understanding how, for example, a literary text is constructed or how sexuality is constituted through many different disciplinary approaches, students can understand how the world around them comes to exist through diverse intellectual and practical actions--actions that they themselves can elect to further or alter. Existing at a specific historical time, we inherit a vast array of cultural beliefs and practices. A college education should help students learn how to participate in the very make-up of the world around them.
BIS 311 Creative Writing: Prose
BIS 378 Languages of Poetry
BIS 387 Women and American Literature: Between Sincerity and Masquerade
BIS 455 Literature and Sexuality
BIS 486 Studies in Women and Literature: The Location of Culture
I am currently working on a book, Restive Eros: Poetic Possession and Dispossession in the Twentieth Century, in which I consider how twentieth century poets write eros in a century in which concepts of love and sexuality are often divorced. My first book, Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore, explores how gender is crucial to the writing of the modernist poet Marianne Moore, even when she herself does not directly focus on gender issues. I have published multiple articles and essays on innovative poetry and poetics and engage in hybrid forms of writing that simultaneously take on creative and critical modes. I am a recipient of NEH and Fulbright Research Grants, and on the editorial advisory board of HOW2, an electronic journal devoted to dialogue about innovative writing between writers and critics. I am a member of the Subtext Collective in Seattle, a group of writers dedicated to putting on a nationally recognized reading series of innovative writers.
