About Heather Hewett
Heather Hewett writes about women, feminism, and culture in the U.S. and globally. Her essays have appeared in several books, including Chick Lit: The New Woman’s Fiction and Mothering in the Third Wave. Her work on the myths and realities of motherhood and family life has appeared in academic and mainstream publications including The Washington Post, CNN.com, The Christian Science Monitor, The Scholar & Feminist Online, Mothers Movement Online, Ms. Magazine Online, Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers, Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering, and Women’s Studies Quarterly.
Hewett has given numerous conference presentations and lectures about motherhood and contemporary women’s writing. During 2008-2009, she was a Global Scholar at the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women. She is an associate professor of English and Women’s Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she directed the Women’s Studies Program from 2005-2011. She teaches courses on women’s literature, world literature, transnational feminism, motherhood and mothering, and nonfiction writing. Born and bred in Oklahoma, she lives in the lower Hudson Valley with her family.
Her column, Global Mama, appears the first Thursday of every month. If you would like to contact Heather Hewett, or serve as a guest columnist for Global Mama, please email her at globalmama at gmail.com.
Sample posts:
Maternal Health, One Year Later
