Helene Meyers

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Helene Myers
NationalityAmerican
Education Pennsylvania State University (BA)
University of Florida (MA)
Indiana University (PhD)
Genrenon-fiction
SubjectFeminism, anti-Semitism

Helene Meyers is an American writer, author, and professor. [1] Her work is focused on the intersections of literary and film studies, feminist and queer studies, and Jewish studies. [1]

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Biography

Helene Meyers was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received her education at Pennsylvania State University (B.A.), University of Florida (M.A.), and Indiana University (Ph.D.). [1]

Meyers often tacklles feminist, antisemitism, and queer themes as well as literary and film studies. In her book, Movie-Made Jews, she explored the onscreen depictions of antisemitism, assimilation, the Holocaust, queer Jews, intersectional alliances, and feminism. [2] She also argued that movies are important because they help in forming "our images of ourselves, others, and the world." [2] Her works had been published in Lilith, Forward, Tablet, Ms. Magazine’s Blog, the Washington Independent Review of Books, the Chronicle of Higher Education, and Inside Higher Education. [3] Her feminist publications included an analogy of gender discrimination to a component of a Gothic world where women are continuously at risk as they roam the streets, make love in their bedrooms, enter their gynecologists' office, or when they consume and produce culture. [4]

She serves as Professor of English and McManis University Chair at Southwestern University. She is Jewish, and a native New Yorker. [5] [6]

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  2. 1 2 "What Makes a Movie Jewish?". Alma. 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  3. "Dr. Helene Meyers". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2021-12-03.
  4. Lanone, Catherine (2004). Les Vestiges Du Gothique: Le Rôle Du Reste. Presses Univ. du Mirail. p. 29. ISBN   978-2-85816-716-6.
  5. Identity Papers. www.sunypress.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  6. "Dr. Helene Meyers". Jewish Women's Archive. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
  7. Meyers, Helene (2021-09-03). Movie-Made Jews. doi:10.36019/9781978821927. ISBN   9781978821927. S2CID   251704797.
  8. Helene., Meyers (1220). Identity papers : contemporary narratives of American Jewishness. SUNY Press. ISBN   1-4384-3922-9. OCLC   833248898.
  9. Helene., Meyers (2001). Femicidal fears : narratives of the female gothic experience. State University of New York Press. ISBN   0-7914-5151-8. OCLC   45714656.