Jeanne Heuving (she/her)

Professor

Graduate Faculty in English, UW Seattle

Jeanne Heuving (she/her)

Professor

Graduate Faculty in English, UW Seattle

Education

B.A., Stanford University, English & Creative Writing
Ph.D., University of Washington Seattle English & Creative Writing

Courses

  • BISIA 207 Introduction to Creative Writing
  • BISIA 310 Poetry Writing
  • BCWRIT 502 Processes of Thinking and Memory

Teaching Interests

I teach classes in creative writing and poetics, literature and other arts, and cultural studies. In many of my courses, I emphasize poetics, or why we write how we write. In general, I place a strong emphasis on how something occurs. By understanding, for example, how an essay or poem is constructed or how in the twentieth century the concept of sexuality emerges at the same time as do many new specialized academic disciplines, we are better positioned to understand and to intervene in our existence. Each of us comes into our lives through different historical junctures, inheriting a diverse and sometimes conflicting array of cultural beliefs, ideas, and practices. I hope to help students learn how to participate more actively in the very make-up of their lives—in its furtherance and alteration.

Research and Scholarship Interests

My scholarship is in the areas of traditional and experimental poetry and cross genre works. In addition I write and publish poetry and cross genre work. I am engaged by scholarly approaches that address the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality, among other socially defined attributes.

Creative Interests

My scholarship and creative work are the same.

Cultural / Literary Scholarship
  • Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out: Essays On His Work, Introduction and editor, Contemporary North American Poetry Series, University of Iowa Press, 2021. This collection includes essays by Maria Damon, Joseph Donahue, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Norman Finkelstein, Luke Harley, Peter O’Leary, Adalaide Morris, Fred Moten, Anthony Reed.
  • Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry, co-edited with Tyrone Williams, Recencies Series, University of New Mexico Press, 2019. This collection includes essays by Charles Altieri, Sarah Dowling, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Elisabeth Frost, Lyn Hejinian, Jeanne Heuving, Cynthia Hogue, Nathaniel Mackey, Aldon Nielsen, Vanessa Place, Brian Reed, Leonard Schwartz, Ron Silliman, Tyrone Williams.
  • The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics, Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series, University of Alabama Press. Editors of Series: Charles Bernstein and Hank Lazer. 2016.
  • Omissions Are Not Accidents: Gender in the Art of Marianne Moore, Wayne State University Press. 1992.
Poetry, Cross Genre
  • Crypta, selva oscura press, forthcoming 2026.
  • Indigo Angel, Black Square Editions, 2023.
  • Brilliant Corners, Chax Press, 2022.
  • Mood Indigo, selva oscura press, 2019.
  • Transducer, Chax Press, 2008.
  • Incapacity, Chiasmus Press, 2004.
  • Offering, bcc press, 1996.
  • Judith E. Wilson Fellowship in Poetry, Cambridge University, UK, 2021-2022.
  • Distinguished Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Award, University of Washington Bothell, Spring 2017. (A new award given by my campus to one faculty member per year. I was the fourth recipient of this honor.)
  • The H.D. Fellowship in American or English Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, 2003.
  • Royalty Research Fund Fellowship, University of Washington, 1999-2000. (summer stipend, quarter teaching release).
  • Simpson Humanities Fellow, Simpson Center for the Humanities Fellowship, University of Washington, 1998-1999.
  • National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1998.
  • Fulbright Foundation, Research and Teaching Grant, Goteborg University, Sweden 1996.
  • Royalty Research Fund, Summer Stipend, University of Washington, 1995