Dr Naomi Hetherington
BA, MA, PhD FHEA
Department for Lifelong Learning
University Tutor: Foundation Programme
Admissions Tutor
- Profile
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I joined the Department for Lifelong Learning in September 2014. Before taking up my current position, I taught for five years in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, where I received a Birkbeck Distinguished Teaching and Scholarship Award. I have also taught at the University of Hertfordshire, Roehampton University, Queen Mary, University of London, and London Metropolitan University, where I held a Visiting Research Fellowship at The Women’s Library (then at Old Castle Street).
I am an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English and a member of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have a particular interest in Object Based Learning and Teaching and inclusive assessment. In addition to my academic work, I have a background in supported housing and hold a Combined Certificate in Counselling Skills and Theory (Central School of Counselling and Therapy, London).
- Qualifications
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- BA Theology and Religious Studies (Newnham College, Cambridge)
- MA Victorian Literature (Manchester)
- PhD New Women, New Testaments: Christian narrative and New Woman fiction (Southampton)
- Research interests
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My research interests are in religion and gender in popular literature and culture, mainly in the late-Victorian period, but I also have an ongoing interest in representations of religion and the Bible in the popular TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).
I co-lead the Gothic Bible Project with Mary Going in the School of English and co-organised Buffy and the Bible, a two-day interdisciplinary conference taking place at the University of Sheffield on 4-5 July 2019 and funded by WRoCAH and the International Gothic Association.
I am currently co-editing a special issue of the Victorian Popular Fictions Journal on Religion and Victorian Popular Literature and Culture (with Ciare Stainthorp) due out in late 2023.
- Teaching activities
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ACE0348 Foundations of English (module convenor)
ACE0340 Academic Literacy and Communication Skills
ACE0349 Extended Project
ACE1002 Culture, Language and Meaning
- Publications
Books
Hetherington, Naomi (General ed.), Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society, a 4-vol annotated set of rare primary texts (Routledge 2020).
Hetherington, Naomi & Clare Stainthorp (eds.), Nineteenth-Century Religion, Literature and Society, Vol 4. Disbelief and New Beliefs (Routledge 2020).
Hetherington, Naomi & Nadia Valman (eds.), Amy Levy: Critical Essays (Ohio University Press, 2010).
Special Issues
Victorian Review 37.2 (2011), special issue entitled ‘Late Nineteenth-Century Religion and Sexuality’ (co-edited with Joy Dixon).
Women: A Cultural Review 21.3 (2010), special issue entitled ‘Rethinking the History of Feminism’ (co-edited with the History of Feminism Collective).
Key Articles and Book Chapters
Hetherington, Naomi, ‘Freethought, feminism and sexual subjectivity in colonial New Woman fiction: Olive Schreiner and Kathleen Mannington Caffyn’, Victorian Review 37.2 (2011), pp. 47-59.
Hetherington, Naomi, ‘“A Jewish Robert Elsmere”? Amy Levy, Israel Zangwill and the post-emancipation Jewish novel’, in Amy Levy: Critical Essays ed. Naomi Hetherington & Nadia Valman (Ohio University Press, 2010), pp. 180-197.
Hetherington, Naomi, ‘New Woman, “New Boots”: Amy Levy as Child Journalist’, in The Child Writer from Austen to Woolf ed. Christine Alexander & Juliet McMaster (Cambridge University Press, 2005), pp 254-268.
Public Scholarship
New Women and the Gothic, Saturday guest lecture for Romancing the Gothic, 22 August 2020.
#VPFA Religion Twitter Taster for the VPFA Study Day on Religion and Victorian Popular Literature and Culture, postponed due to Covid-19, 13 May 2020.