Helene Meyers

Helene Myers
Nationality	American
Education	Pennsylvania State University (BA) University of Florida (MA) Indiana University Bloomington (PhD)
Genre	non-fiction
Subject	Feminism, 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]

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 Bloomington (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]}

Bibliography

• Movie-Made Jews: An American Tradition. Rutgers University Press. ^[7]
• Identity Papers: Contemporary Narratives of American Jewishness. SUNY Press, 2011. ^[8]
• Reading Michael Chabon. Greenwood Press, 2010.
• Femicidal Fears: Narratives of the Female Gothic Experience. ^[9]

Honors and awards

• McManis University Chair, 2009
• Brown Senior Faculty Fellowship. 2004-2005
• Fellow of the Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization. Northwestern University. Summer 2000
• Southwestern University Distinguished Teaching Award. Spring 2000
• Southwestern University Award for Fostering Diversity. Spring 2002
• Brown Faculty Fellowship. Southwestern University. 1994-95
• Cullen Faculty Development Grants. Southwestern University. 1992-2009
• Graduate Council Fellowship. University of Florida. 1983
• University Scholar, Pennsylvania State University. 1982
• Phi Beta Kappa, Pennsylvania State University. 1982

References

1. "Helene Meyers". www.southwestern.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-05.
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.