Dr. HEIDI HUTNER Professor, Writer, Filmmaker Curriculum Vitae
ADDRESS:
English Department Stony Brook University Stony Brook, NY 11795-5350 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.heidihutner.com Cell Phone: 631-786-5763 Affiliate: Sustainability Studies/SOMAS; Women’s and Gender Studies
EDUCATION
Ph.D. English, University of Washington, Seattle, 1993. M.A. English, University of Washington, Seattle, 1988. B.A. English, Hunter College, CUNY, New York, 1987. Summa Cum Laude. Graduated with highest awards in English and Fellowships for Graduate Study.
AWARDS
Long Island Sierra Club Environmentalist of the Year 2015 Women’s and Gender Studies Teaching Award 2008 Women’s and Gender Studies Teaching Award 2005
Documentary Film Project (in production):
Accidents Can Happen: The Women of Three Mile Island
A documentary about the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear meltdown told through a feminist lens. This is the story of four mothers, Paula, Beth, Joyce, and Linda; they lived five miles from the nuclear power plant at time of the meltdown. The accident turned the lives of these conservative stay-at-home-moms upside down and they became antinuclear activists. The women believe the public has been lied to and suspect there has been a cover up. The Women of Three Mile Island explores the mothers’ journey to learn the truth.
Film Website: Accidents Can Happen: The Women of Three Mile Island. Companion Book to the film (in progress): Radiophobia: A Nuclear Memoir
REPRESENTATION: Julia Lord Literary Management
BOOK-IN-PROGRESS
Radiophobia: A Nuclear Memoir Radiophobia weaves feminist nuclear history with memoir. After Heidi Hutner’s mothers’ death, she learns that her mom was a key part of Women Strike for Peace, the peace-activist group that stopped atmospheric bomb testing in the early 1960s. WSP was largely responsible for President Kennedy, the U.K. and the U.S.S.R signing the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963). Learning about her mother’s involvement with Women Strike for Peace led Hutner to set off on a quest to uncover other silenced women’s nuclear stories around the globe-- Rocky Flats, Three Mile Island, Fukushima, the Marshall Islands, Navajo Nation, and more. Gender-inflected radiation science and history informs these powerful women’s nuclear stories.
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS:
Colonial Women: Race, Culture and Stuart Drama. Heidi Hutner. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. Ed. Heidi Hutner. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
EDITED BOOKS and TEXTS:
The Conclusions to The History of Miss Sidney Bidulph, by Frances Sheridan. Heidi Hutner and Nicole Garret Eds. Toronto: Broadview Literary Texts, 2013.
The History of Miss Sidney Bidulph, by Frances Sheridan. Heidi Hutner and Nicole Garret Eds. Toronto: Broadview Literary Texts, 2011.
“The Fond Husband,” by Thomas Durfey. Heidi Hutner (with Tony Jarrells) Eds. Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama. J. Douglas Canfield Ed. Toronto: Broadview Literary Texts, 2001.
ARTICLES & Chapters in Books:
“A Grieving Landscape: Wombs and Homes Cannot Protect,” Doom With A View. Eds Kristen Iversen and Warren J. Perry (Fulcrum Press, 2020).
“Women, Gender, and Fukushima,” Oral History and the Environment. Ed. Stephen Sloan (Cambridge UP, 2019).
“Radioactive: Trump, Hyper-Masculinity and How Women Will Rid the World of Nuclear Bombs,” Fury: Women’s Responses to the Election of Trump. Ed. Amy Roost (Regal Press, 2019)
“Fukushima: Mothers and Anti-Nuclear Activism,” The Sustainability Handbook, Case Studies and Practical Applications. Ed. Robert Brinkmann (Palgrave, 2018)
“Nuclear Fall-Out Family.” Journal of Florida Studies March, 2016.
“Hurricane Sandy Diary.” ISLE Winter, 2014 (Oxford).
“Mothering and Cancer: The Awakening of an Ecofeminist Professor.” Maternal Pedagogies: In and Outside the Classroom. Eds. Deborah Byrd and Fiona Green. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2011.
“The Birth of An Eco-Mom: Cancer, Feminism, and the Environment.” Environmental Natures: The Natural, The Social, The Built. MIRCI 2.1. July, 2011: 39-53.
“An Introduction to Miss Sidney Bidulph.” The History of Miss Sidney Bidulph. Frances Sheridan. Ed. Heidi Hutner (with Nicole Garret). Toronto: Broadview Literary Texts, 2011.
“Ecofeminism and Motherhood.” Encyclopedia of Mothering. Ed. Andrea O’Reilly. Golson Books, 2010.
“Ecofeminism, Motherhood, and the Post-Apocalyptic Utopia in Into the Forest and Parable of the Sower.” Ed. Barbara Cook Women, Writing, Nature. Kentucky: Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
"Rereading Aphra Behn: An Introduction," Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. Heidi Hutner, Ed. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
"Revisioning the Female Body: The Rover, parts I and II," Rereading Aphra Behn: History, Theory, and Criticism. Ed. Heidi Hutner. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993.
"Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: The Politics of Gender, Race and Class," Living By the Pen: Early Women Writers. Ed. Dale Spender. New York: Teacher's College, Columbia University Press, 1992.
"Evelina and the Problem of the Female Grotesque," Genre 23 (1990).
BLOGGER:
Ms. Magazine.
Spirituality and Health Magazine.
Tikkun Daily.
Mom’s Clean Air Force.
ARTICLES FOR POPULAR PRINT AND ONLINE MAGAZINES (selected):
“Chernobyl Dogs,” Animal Mind, Fall 2019
“Climate Change and Nuclear Do Not Mix,” AEON Magazine, 2019.
“Rocky Flats,” Proximity Magazine, Fall 2018.
“Women Will Rid the World of Nuclear Bombs,” Dame Magazine, March 9, 2018.
"A Mother and Daughter who Marched are ‘tentatively hopeful’ about Feminist Activism under Trump." Public Radio International. January 24, 2018.
"The Weapons in Our Lives." Proximity Magazine. October 5, 2017.
"In Madagascar Test, Drone Delivers Medicine by Air." New York Times, Dot Earth Blog. November, 2016.
“Activist Casey Camp-Horinek on Mothering and the Standing Rock Protest,” Mom’s Clean Air Force. October, 2016.
"A Conservationist's Call For Humans to Curb Harm to Our Animal Kin," New York Times, Dot Earth Blog. July 2016.
“A Conversation with Heidi Cullen, Climate Scientist,” Moms Clean Air Force, July, 2016.
“It’s All About the Kids: Climate Play-In For Climate Action.” Mom’s Clean Air Force, July, 2016.
“Talking to Josh Fox.” Garnet News, July, 2016.
“Paris Envy.” Garnet News, December, 2015.
“Notes for My Next Book.” Proximity Magazine, Fall, 2015.
“Invisible Victims.” Ms. Magazine, (Print) Summer, 2015.
“A Lack of Precaution is the Biggest Problem in U.S. Chemical Regulation.” Tikkun, July 31st, 2015.
“Aileen Mioko Smith: The Story of A Japanese Green Activist.” Ms. Magazine, March, 2015.
“Pete Seeger: My Spiritual Father.” Spirituality and Health Magazine, January, 2014
“Women’s Earth and Climate Initiative.” Spirituality and Health Magazine, October, 2013.
“Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth.” Spirituality and Health Magazine, July, 2013.
“Alice Walker: A life.” Yes! Magazine, August, 2013.
“Fracking as Toxic Trespass.” Ms. Magazine, April, 2013.
“Living Downstream: Sandra Steingraber.” Ms. Magazine, October 19, 2012.
“Why I’m Going to the Women’s Congress For Future Generations,” Tikkun Magazine, September, 2012.
“A Mothers Movement for Future Generations.” Yes! Magazine, September, 2012.
“In Japan, A Mothers’ Movement Against Nuclear Power.” Yes! Magazine, April 25, 2012.
“One Year After Fukushima: Why We Must Shut Down Indian Point Now.” Sierra Club Atlantic, March, 2012.
“Thanksgiving Victories and some Leftovers.” Common Dreams, November 26, 2011.
“A Personal Response to the President’s Cancer Panel.” Enviroblog: Enviromental Working Group. July, 2010.
REVIEWS:
“Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture: 1748- 1818.” (Cambridge UP, 2004) in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, Spring 2006.
“Wollstonecraft's Daughters,” Ed. Clarissa Campbell Orr; “Revolutionary Feminism,” Gary Kelly; “Feminist Interpretations of Mary Wollstonecraft,” Ed. Maria J. Falco, Signs, 24 (1999): 788-792.
TED TALK:
TEDX “Eco-Grief and Ecofeminism.” November (2015).
TV:
NBC TV News: “Water Rights as a Human Right” (2017)
KEYNOTE and Featured TALKS (select):
“The Women of Three Mile Island,” Physicians for Social Responsibility Gala, Washington D.C. November, 2019.
“Women, Patriarchy, and Nuclear Power,” Keynote Address, Snake River Alliance, Boise, IDAHO, October, 2019
“Women and Nuclear History,“ IPSEC Indian Point Event, Cortlandt, NY, June 2019
“Women and the Three Mile Island Meltdown,” Burns Gallery, NY, NY April, 2019
“Environmental film and Activism,” Earth Day event for Senator James Sanders, Queens, New York 2019
“Ecofeminism, Environmental Justice, Nuclear Voices,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Oregon, 2019
“Nuclear Stories from the Field,” Michigan State University, Spring 2018.
Women, Activism, and the Environment, Wesleyan University, Spring 2018
“Environmental Media and Communication,” SOMAS 50th Anniversary, 2017
“Women, Mothers, and Nuclear Disaster,” Cornell University, Fall 2017
“Women and Nuclear Disaster,” ASLE Conference 2017
“What is Sustainability?” (Opening Address) Stony Brook University Sustainability Conference, September 2015.
“Teaching and Living Environmentalism.” Sierra Club, Long Island, August 2015.
“Sustainability, Writing and Nature.” Omega Institute, July 2014.
“Literature, Language, and Sustainability.” Omega Institute, July, 2013.
Keynote Address: ARM Conference. “Ecofeminism and Mothering in Literature and Film.” Toronto 2009.
“What is Ecofeminism?” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY for Greenweek. March 2009.
WEB SHOW:
Coffee with Hx2, Heidi Hutner with Sustainability Experts --Hosted at the Alan Alda Center For Communicating Science --Hosted at Society for Literature and the Environment --Appeared three times on New York Times online. --Hosted at HeidiHutner.com and youtube
RADIO:
Eco-Media, 2019 Nuclear Hotseat, 2019 Green Inside Out Green Divas Radio Show Women’s Media Center Live with Robin Morgan. Interview with Heidi Hutner
INVITED PRESENTATIONS:
“An American Commune.” Humanities Institute, Fall 2016.
“Debate on Nuclear Power.” Hofstra University, Fall 2014.
“Environmental Disasters.” Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, December 2014.
“Maternal Anti-Nuclear History.” St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia, Summer, 2012.
“Feminism and Anti-Nuclear Mothers.” Green Festival. Javits Center, NYC, Spring, 2012.
“Mothers and Anti-Nuclear Activism.” With Susan Griffin and Medea Benjamin. Poets and Busboys, Washington, DC. Fall, 2011.
“After Fukishima: Nuclear Power and Public Health.” The Great Debate, Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University. Fall, 2011.
“Sandra Steingraber’s Ecofeminism and Cancer: An Introduction to Living Downstream, the Film.” Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University. Spring 2011.
“Ecofeminism and the Post-Apocalyptic in Parable of the Sower and Into the Forest,” Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, 2007.
“What is Ecofeminist Theory?” Environmental Club of Stony Brook, SUNY Stony Brook, 2006.
“Reflowering the Garden: Ecofeminism and Literature,“ Mill Pond House, Stony Brook NY, 2005.
PAPERS PRESENTED:
“Gender and Radiation,” Environmental Humanities Conference, UC Santa Barbara, Fall, 2016
“Into the Ecofeminist Classroom,” Association of Writers and Writing Programs, Los Angeles, 2016.
“Cancer/ed Female Bodies and the Beauty Myth,” Left Forum. John Jay College, NYC, June, 2014.
“Nuclear Mothers, Anti-Nuclear History,” Left Forum, Pace University, NYC, June, 2012.
“Nuclear Mothers, Nuclear Films.” NEMLA, Rutgers University, Spring, 2011.
“Polluting Mama: Representations of Cancer and Motherhood.” ARM, New York, New York, May, 2008.
“Environmental Justice and the Mother Body.” ASLE, Spartanberg, SC. 2007.
“Cancer and the Personal Narrative in Ecofeminist Discourse.” ASLE, Spartanberg, SC 2007.
“Ecofeminism and the Post-Apocalyptic Utopia in Parable of the Sower and Into the Forest,” NEMLA, Philadelphia, PA, March 2006.
“Ecofeminism, Literature, and Film.” NWSA, Orlando, Florida, June 2005.
“The Problem of Motherhood in Sheridan’s Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph,” ASECS, New Orleans, LA, 2002.
“Maternity and Colonialism,” GEMCS, Philadelphia, PA 2001
“Racial Complications: The Case of Aphra Behn,”Aphra Behn Society, New Haven, CT, 1997.
“Teaching the Canon, Teaching the Other,” Aphra Behn Society, Athens, GA, 1996.
“Disney’s Pocahontas.” Modern Language Association, Chicago, IL,1995.
“The Politics of Gender and Race in The Mock-Tempest.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Tucson, AZ, 1995.
"'Cou'd I but meet my Match'; Virgins, Whores, Monster Jewesses: What Aphra Behn Did With Thomas Killigrew's Thomaso or the Wanderer." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Seattle, WA, 1992.
"'All Untaught and Unsavage': Colonial Discourse and Dryden's The Indian Emperor." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991.
"'Aphra Behn and the Myth of the Golden Age." Western Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies, Albuquerque, NM, 1991.
"Romancing the Indian Queen: Aphra Behn's The Widow Ranter, Nathaniel Bacon and the Legend of Pocahontas." Gender Studies Conference, Portland, OR, 1990.
"Evelina and the Problem of the Female Grotesque." Aphra Behn Society, San Diego, 1990.
"Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: the Politics of Gender, Race, and Class." Samuel Johnson Society of the Northwest, Seattle, 1989.
"Evelina and the Problem of the Female Grotesque." Gender Studies Conference, Portland, Oregon, 1989.
EDITORIAL:
Editorial Board: The New AnthropoScene SLSA Book SERIES Penn State University Press. Editorial Board: Sustainability Book Series, Palgrave. Guest Editor: MIRCI.
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Ecofeminism Ecocriticism Environmental Film and Media Environmental Justice Sustainability Narrative Nonfiction Gender Studies Women Writers Colonial/Post-Colonial and Race Discourse Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature Drama Novel
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Associate Dean, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. 2017—January 2019.
Director of Sustainability Studies, June 2014—2019.
Interim Director of Sustainability Studies, June 2013-June 2014.
Director of Environmental Humanities-Stony Brook Sustainability Studies Program, February 2012-2019.
Graduate Program Director of English, Department of English, SUNY Stony Brook: 2003/4, 2000/1.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SUNY Stony Brook, Fall 1995-present. Undergraduate courses: History and Literature of Sustainability; Ecofeminism, Literature and Film; Environmental Media; Environmental Literature; Literature and Real Life Utopias and Dystopias; Environmental Justice; Ecocriticism; Feminist Theory; Environmental Mothering, Literature and Film; African American and Women Writers of Color; Honors College Seminar on Ecofeminism, Literature and Film; Environmental Literary History; Mothering Theory and Contemporary Literature; The Age of Dryden; Neoclassical Literature; The Eighteenth-Century Novel; Eighteenth-Century Women Writers; Literary Analysis and Argumentation; Survey of Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Literature; Feminism, Literature, and Culture. Graduate seminars: Ecofeminism; Environmental Justice and Ecocriticism; Environmental Literature and Film; Environmental Advocacy; Women Writers of Color; Feminist Theory; Mothering and Literature; Eighteenth-Century Women Writers; Eighteenth-Century Novel; Race, Gender, Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Literature; Histories and Theories of Maternity; Feminism and Pedagogy; Eighteenth Century and Post-colonial discourse; Independent Studies and Masters Theses: African-American Literature; Women Writers; Eighteenth-Century Literature; Eighteenth- Century History; Eco-Feminist and Feminist Theory; Colonial Discourse; Mothering Theory and Literature; African-American Women Writers.
Teaching Abroad: St. Petersburg University, St Petersburg, Russia—graduate course on Ecofeminism, Summer, 2012. Faculty Fellowship. CentreValBio, Ramonfana, Madagascar (with Dr. Patricia Wright)—teaching: Environmental Travel Writing. Summer 2015.
Hunter College, City University of New York, Visiting Assistant Professor, Spring 1994: Introduction to Literature; Eighteenth-Century Literature. Instructor: Introduction to Literature (Fall 1993; Spring 1991); Freshman Honors English (Fall 1989); Expository Writing (Spring 1989; Fall 1988); Advanced Expository Writing (Spring 1987; Fall 1986).
New York University, Instructor: Rhetoric (Fall 1993); International Writing Workshop (Fall & Spring 1992; Fall 1991).
University of Washington, Instructor: Writing about Literature (Fall & Spring 1990); Expository Writing (Spring 1988; Fall 1987)
COMMITTEES and Service (select):
Associate Dean, School of Oceanic and Atmospheric Science Director of Sustainability Studies Humanities Institute Board Environmental Humanities Major (Director) Sustainability Hiring Committee (Director) –Multiple Faculty Searches School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences Advisory to Dean Film Showings and Speaker Series-Sustainability Studies SOMAS/Engineering/Geosiences/Sustainability Cluster Hire Stony Brook University Cluster Hire –University wide Graduate Admissions -English Graduate Program -English Undergraduate Program -English Chair, Four Faculty Hiring Committees –Sustainability Studies and English Earthstock Committee Humanities Institute (Climate Group) Environmental Humanities Group Environmental Humanities Mellon Grant Consortium
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Extensive involvement and leadership with environmental groups, environmental events, and film showings on Long Island and NYC and in U.S. Environmental mentoring of youth in Long Island and NYC area. Assorted Environmental Advocacy Groups-Clearwater, Omega Institute, Grassroots Environmental Education, WECAN (Women’s Climate Group), Women’s Environment for Future Generations, Center for Environmental Health, Small Islands (UN), Mom’s Clean Air Force, Climate Mama, Sierra Club, Food and Water Watch, SANE ENERGY, Peace Boat, UN environmental groups, and many others.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS (select):
Chick and Egg: Applied, Pending. ITVS. Applied 2019. Pending. ITVS. Applied 2019. Not Awarded. Guacamole Fund Grant. Awarded. 2019 Oregon Foundation Grant. Awarded. 2019. Sierra Club Film Grant. Awarded 2019. Sawyer Mellon Grant Co PI (Applied 2015, not awarded) NASA co PI (Not awarded). FAHSS AWARD SUNY Stony Brook, 2018. Individual. Awarded. FAHSS AWARD SUNY Stony Brook, 2015. With Environmental Humanities Group. Awarded. FAHSS AWARD SUNY Stony Brook, 2014. Shared with Chris Sellers. Awarded. Teaching Travel & Research Award St. Petersburg, Russia. 2012. Awarded. FAHSS AWARD SUNY Stony Brook, 2010. Individual. Awarded. University of Washington Teaching Stipend and Tuition Fellowship, 1987-93. Hunter College Graduate Study Fellowship, 1987. Hunter College English Graduate Study Award, 1987. Jewish Women’s Federation Scholarship Award 1986.
PhDs conferred: Dr. Ula Klein, Assistant Professor Dr. Nicole Garrett, PhD Co-Director: Jenny Standberg, ABD (Philosophy) Director: Sarah Davis, ABD PhD committees: dissertation and oral exams (over 15). MA Theses: Director (over 15)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Society of Environmental Literature International League of Conservation Writers AWP
RECOMMENDATIONS:
President Dennis Assanis, University of Delaware Professor Robert Markley, University of Illinois, Urbana Professor Martin Schoonen, Director of Environmental Science at Brookhaven Laboratory, Stony Brook University Dean Robert Brinkmann, Hofstra University Professor Stephen Zunes, University of San Francisco Larry Schweiger, Past President, National Wildlife Federation Professor Kristen Iversen, University of Cincinnati Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Ithaca College