HEIDI HUTNER
Curriculum Vitae
ADDRESS:
Director of Sustainability Studies
Associate Dean, SoMAS
Director of Environmental Humanities Major
Associate Professor Sustainability,
English, Women’s and Gender Studies
Sustainability Studies Program
Stony Brook University
Stony Brook, NY 11795-5350
Email: [email protected]
Program Website: http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/sustainability/
Personal Website: http://www.heidihutner.com
Cell Phone: 631-786-5763
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.
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.
BOOKS IN PROGRESS:
Ecological Minds: Notes From a Mother and Professor. A work combining memoir and
narrative about creating and teaching a college-level study program on Sustainability-by drawing from both a career of teaching literature and the humanities and significant
personal experiences with cancer and progressive politics.
Nowhere: An Atomic Memoir. A family memoir that examines maternal anti-nuclear
history, civil rights and anti-war activism, 1960s Berkeley culture--within an
environmental context.
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.
DISASTERS WEBSITE (under construction):
Environmental Disasters—co-constructed with Dr. Chris Sellers (Historian) and other
environmental historians. My section includes video interviews and case studies with
people impacted by nuclear disasters from Fukushima, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and U.S.
uranium mines.
ARTICLES:
“Butterflies and Birds: Radiation, Gender, and Environmental Justice in Fukushima and
Chernobyl,” Environmental Justice Reader (tentative title) Eds. Robert Figueroa and
Barbara Muraca (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2017)
“Fukushima: Mothers and Anti-Nuclear Activism,” Ed. Robert Brinkmann, The
Sustainability Handbook, Case Studies and Practical Applications (Palgrave, 2016/17)
“Narratives of Environmental Disaster: History and Literature,” (tentative title) with Chris
Sellers, Oral Histories of Disaster (tentative title). Ed. Stephen Sloan (Oxford UP, 2016).
“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:
Lexington/Roman, 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):
“Climate Change and Gender Activism.” Ms Magazine. February, 2106.
“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, 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.
KEYNOTE and Featured TALKS:
“Ecofeminism and Art.” Seneca Falls Art Conference. Summer, 2016. (Funding Pending
for Event)
“What is Sustainability?” (Opening Address) Stony Brook University Sustainability
Conference, September 2015.
Keynote Address: ARM Conference. “Ecofeminism and Mothering in Literature and
Film.” Toronto 2009.
“What is Ecofeminism?” Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY for Greenweek. March 2009.
RADIO:
Green Divas Radio Show
Women’s Media Center Live with Robin Morgan. Interview with Heidi Hutner
INVITED PRESENTATIONS:
“Debate on Nuclear Power.” Hofstra University, Fall 2014.
“Environmental Disasters.” Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University, December
2014.
“Sustainability, Writing and Nature.” Omega Institute, July 2014.
“Literature, Language, and Sustainability.” Omega Institute, July, 2013.
“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:
“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 EighteenthCentury 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.
Guest Editor: MIRCI
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Ecofeminism
Ecocriticism
Environmental Film
Environmental Justice
Sustainability and Resilience
Narrative Nonfiction
Media, Video, Film
Women’s and Gender Studies
Women Writers
Colonial/Post-Colonial and Race Discourses
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
Drama
Novel
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SUNY Stony Brook, Associate Professor of English and Sustainability, Fall 1995present, and of Sustainability, Environmental Humanities 2012-present. Undergraduate
courses: History and Literature of Sustainability; Ecofeminism, Literature and Film;
Environmental Writing and the Media; Environmental Literature; Literature and Real Life
Utopias and Dystopias; Environmental Justice; Ecocriticism; Feminist Theory;
Environmental Mothering, Literature and Film; Honors College Seminar on
Ecofeminism, Literature and Film; Environmental Literary History; Mothering Theory and
Contemporary Literature; The Age of Dryden; Neoclassical Literature; The EighteenthCentury 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 (independent study);
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; EighteenthCentury History; Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice; 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. Won faculty fellowship to participate.
CentreValBio, Ramonfana, Madagascar (with Dr. Patricia Wright)—undergraduate
course on Environmental Travel Writing.
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).
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE:
Associate Dean, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences. Start date: Spring 2016.
Director of Sustainability Studies, June 2014—present.
Interim Director of Sustainability Studies, June 2013-June 2014.
Director of Environmental Humanities-Stony Brook Sustainability Studies Program,
February 2012-present.
Graduate Program Director of English, Department of English, SUNY Stony Brook:
2003/4, 2000/1.
COMMITTEES and Service (select):
Humanities Institute Board
Sustainability Hiring Committee (Director) –Mulitiple Hires
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, 2003 to present.
Humanities Institute (Climate)
Environmental Humanities Group
Environmental Humanities Mellon Grant Consortium
COMMUNITY SERVICE:
Extensive involvement with environmental groups and film showings on Long Island and
NYC and in U.S.: programming of speakers, events, film showings, and conferences.
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, Peace Boat,and
many others.
TEACHING AWARDS:
Women’s Studies Award for Teaching and Scholarship, Stony Brook, 2008
Women’s Studies Award for Teaching and Scholarship, Stony Brook, 2006
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS (select):
Sawyer Mellon Grant Co PI (applied 2015, not awarded; reapplying in 2016)
NASA co PI (not 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
Numerous PhD oral exams (committee/advisor)
Numerous MA Theses (Director/committee)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Society of Environmental Literature
International League of Conservation Writers
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Professor Robert Markley, University of Illinois, Urbana
Professor Martin Schoonen, Director of Environmental Science at Brookhaven
Laboratory, Stony Brook University
Larry Schweiger, Past President, National Wildlife Federation
Dr. Sandra Steingraber, Ithaca College
Provost Dennis Assanis, Stony Brook University (soon to be President of Delaware)
Professor Ira Livingston, Pratt Institute