CURRICULUM VITAE
Dr. Leslie L. Heywood
Professor of English & Creative Writing
Binghamton University, State University of New York
EDUCATION
1993
1989
1988
1986
Ph.D. in English with a Critical Theory Emphasis, University of California,
Irvine. Director: J. Hillis Miller, UCI Distinguished Research Professor of
English and Comparative Literature
M.A. in English, University of California, Irvine
M.F.A. in Creative Writing, University of Arizona
B.A. in Creative Writing, University of Arizona (honors, Phi Beta Kappa)
EMPLOYMENT
2002-present
2010
2007
2006
2006
2003-4, ’07-8
2003-4
2001-5
1999-01
1993-99
Professor, Department of English, Binghamton University, SUNY
Visiting Artist, California State University Summer Arts
Proposal Review Chair, National Women’s Studies Association
Dean’s Visiting Professor, University of Kentucky (spring)
Visiting Artist, California State University Summer Arts
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of English, Binghamton
University, SUNY
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University
Trustee & Executive Vice-President, Women’s Sports Foundation
Associate Professor, Department of English, Binghamton University,
SUNY
Assistant Professor, Department of English, Binghamton University,
SUNY
FIELDS OF STUDY
Gender Studies, Sport Studies, Creative Writing, Science Studies, Third Wave Feminism,
Globalization & the Environment.
AWARDS
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activities, 2009
SUNY Chancellor's and University Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1997
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Poetry twice nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
Lost Arts nominated for the CNY Book Award.
Built to Win received Honorable Mention, North American Society for the Sociology of
Sport Book Award, 2004.
Lingua Franca named Pretty Good for a Girl a “Breakthrough Book” in the February,
2000 issue.
The Nation named Third Wave Agenda a “Notable Book” in 1998.
Election to Trustee and Executive Vice-President of the Women’s Sports Foundation,
2002: The Women’s Sports Foundation, founded by Billie Jean King in 1973, is the
world’s largest foundation devoted to women’s sports.
American Association of University Women Community Action Grant, 1999-2000,
“Strong Girls, Strong Women: Community Outreach and Education to Encourage
Participation and Ethics in Girls’ and Women’s Sports.”
State of New York/UUP Campus Grant, Spring 1999, “Exploring Possibilities for the
Establishment of The Nell Jackson Center for the Study of Female Athletes.”
ACADEMIC BOOKS
The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism. (Greenwood
Reference Works, 2005).
As the General Editor of the first major reference work on third wave feminism, I was
responsible for all stages of production from conceptualization to organization to
writing critical introductions to proofreading. This 1,000-page work includes a
companion volume, The Primary Documents of Third Wave Feminism.
The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism. (Jaipur &
New Delhi: Rawat Publications, 2007. (Edition of the above published in India).
Built To Win: The Rise of the Female Athlete as Cultural Icon (University of Minnesota
Press, 2003). Co-authored with Shari L. Dworkin.
Honorable Mention North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award,
2004.
Bodymakers: A Cultural Anatomy of Women’s Bodybuilding (Rutgers University Press,
1998).
Third Wave Agenda: Being Feminist, Doing Feminism (University of Minnesota Press,
1997). Co-edited with Jennifer Drake.
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Named a “Notable New Anthology” by The Nation, and a “Recommended Book” by
the New York Review of Books Reader’s Catalog.
Dedication to Hunger: The Anorexic Aesthetic in Modern Culture (University of
California Press, 1996).
CREATIVE BOOKS
Abnormal Repetitive Behaviors: Poems (Red Hen Press, forthcoming Spring 2016).
Lost Arts: Poems (Louisiana Literature Press, 2013).
Natural Selection: Poems (Louisiana Literature Press, 2008).
The Proving Grounds: Poems (Red Hen Press, 2005).
Pretty Good for a Girl (paperback edition, University of Minnesota Press, 2000).
Named a “Breakthrough Book” by Lingua Franca.
Pretty Good for a Girl: A Memoir (hardback, The Free Press/Simon & Schuster, 1998).
IN DEVELOPMENT/FORTHCOMING BOOKS
Sport, Gender, and Affective Embodiment. This book expands on my transdisciplinary
“cultural neuropsychology of sport” model by interrogating sport in terms of the
importance of athletes’ sociocultural contexts and the connections, simultaneously
synergistic and oppositional, between movement, cognition, emotion, and human
neurobiology as they are situated according to gender, race, sexuality, and class. I
explore the ways in which our most basic emotions and bodily responses to
environmental stimuli interact with the ideological maps provided by culture to produce
the performance specifically manifested in sport and inflected by gender and other
situational variables. Drawing heavily on cultural and affective neuropsychology, and
intersections with feminist and queer theories, this project looks at the ways in which the
gendered embodiment of sport must include consideration of athletes’ neuroceptions, as
individuals and teams, which in turn impact sport performance, with implications for
representation, policy, safety, pleasure, and health.
Bioculture of Gender. Co-edited with Justin. R. Garcia. While recently there has been an
explosion of interest in gender and biosciences, a specifically feminist perspective has
been effaced, with gender essentialisms supposedly rooted in science (a trend Cordelia
Fine has named “neurosexism”) dominating the larger cultural conversation. Building on
the important cultural work of Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen E. Longino’s last anthology
on the topic in 1996, this edited collection will present work from biologists, social
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scientists, behavioral scientists, humanists, and biomedical anthropologists that
demonstrates the co-constitutive nature of feminist and scientific paradigms.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“Moving toward integrative feminist evolutionary behavioral sciences,” forthcoming
Feminism & Psychology. Co-authored with Justin R. Garcia.
"`We're In This Together:' Neoliberalism and the Disruption of the Coach/Athlete
Hierarchy in CrossFit", Sports Coaching Review (forthcoming).
“The CrossFit Sensorium: Visuality, Affect, and Immersive Sport,” special issue,
Screening Embodiment, for Paragraph: A Journal of Modern Critical Theory 38.1
(2015): 20-36, eds. Nicholas Chare & Liz Watkins.
"Hunger, Emotions, and Sport: A Biocultural Approach," in Symploke: A Journal for
the Intermingling of Theoretical, Cultural, and Literary Scholarship, Vol. 19, No.1-2.
2011: 119-142.
“Affective Infrastructures: Toward a Cultural Neuropsychology of Sport,” in Frontiers
in Evolutionary Neuroscience, online edition,
http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/Abstract.aspx?s=411&name=evolutionary_neuroscien
ce&ART_DOI=10.3389/fnevo.2011.00004, print October 2011, Vol. 3, article 4: 1-5.
"Walking the Walk to Teach the Talk: Implementing Ancestral Lifestyle Strategies as
the Newest Tool in Evolutionary Studies," in Evolution: Education and
Outreach ISSN 1936-6426, Volume 4, Number 1 (2011) pp. 41-51. Co-authored with
Steven M. Platek & Glenn Geher & Hamilton Stapell & J. Ryan Porter & Tia Y. Walters.
“Ins and Outs: An Evolutionary Approach to Fashion.” The Evolutionary Review Vol. 1
(Issue 1), 2010, pp. 30-35. With Justin R. Garcia.
“Mind the Gap: Appropriate Evolutionary Perspectives Toward the Integration of the
Sciences and Humanities.” Science and Education 2009. DOI 10.1007/s11191-0099193-7. With Justin R. Garcia and David Sloan Wilson. Print version, Science &
Education, 19 (2010): 505-522.
"Immanence, Transcendence, and Immersive Practices: Female Athletes in U.S.
Neoliberalism, The Scholar & Feminist. Special issue "The Cultural Value of Sport: Title
IX and Beyond," eds. E. Grace Glenny and Janet Jakobsen, (Issue 4.3, Summer 2006)
http://sfonline.barnard.edu/sport/heywood_01.htm.
"The Unreadable Text: Conrad and `The Enigma of Woman' in Victory." Conradiana
25:3 (Spring 1994): 1-13.
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"Gendering Conrad's Corpus: Alternative Modernisms in The Arrow of Gold." A British
Studies Sampler, ed. Richard D. Fulton (Vancouver: Cannel, 1994): 131-147.
"The Shattered Glass: The Blank Space of Being in Absalom, Absalom!.” The Faulkner
Journal 3.2 (1988): 12-23.
PEER-REVIEWED CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
(as with the articles listed above, these articles were all peer-reviewed by at least three
readers, sometimes more--the volume editors, 2-3 expert readers for the press, and
sometimes the Press editorial board/director)
"Transdisciplinarity," Routledge Handbook of Physical Culture Studies, eds. D.L.
Andrews & Michael Silk (Routledge, forthcoming 2016).
“Third Wave Feminism and Sport,” in Mansfield, Caudwell, Watson & Wheaton, eds.
The Handbook of Feminisms in Sport, Leisure and Physical Education (Palgrave
MacMillan)
“`Strange Borrowing’: Affective Neuroscience, Neoliberalism, and the `Cruelly
Optimistic’ Gendered Bodies of CrossFit,” Twenty-First Century Feminism: Forming
and Performing Femininity, eds. Claire Nally and Angela Smith (Palgrave MacMillan,
2015): 17-40.
"Affective Forms: Neuroscience, Gender, and Sport," in The Routledge Handbook of
Sport, Gender, and Sexuality, Jennifer Hargreaves and Eric Anderson, eds. Routledge,
2014: 348-357.
“The Quick and the Dead: Gendered Agency in the History of Western Science and
Evolutionary Theory,” In Evolution’s Empress: Darwinian Perspectives on the Nature of
Women. Maryanne M. Fisher, Justin R. Garcia, Rosemarie Sokol Chang, eds, Oxford
University Press, 2013.
“Economies of Surf: Evolution, Territorialism, and the Erosion of Localism,” In David
Andrews and Michael Silk, eds. Neoliberalism and Sport. Temple University Press,
2012.
“Fashion as Adaptation: The Case of American Idol,” in Fashion Talks: Undressing the
Power of Style (SUNY Press, 2012), eds. Shira Tirrant and Marjorie Jolles, pp. 67-81.
With Justin R. Garcia.
"Building Otherwise: Bodybuilding as Immersive Practice," in Critical Readings in
Bodybuilding, ed. Adam Locks and Niall Richardson, a volume in the Routledge
Research in Sport, Culture and Society Series, (Routledge, 2011), pp. 122-139.
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"Ambassadors of the Last Wilderness: Surfers, Environmental Ethics, and Activism in
America," in Tribal Play: Sport Subcultures and Countercultures, eds. Kevin Young and
Michael Atkinson. This book is part of the Elsevier book series "Research in the
Sociology of Sport" (Elsevier, 2008), pp. 153-172.
"Third Wave Feminism, The Global Economy, and Women's Surfing: Sport as Stealth
Feminism in Girls' Surf Culture," in The Post-Feminist, Post-Subculture Reader, ed.
Anita Harris. (Routledge, 2008), pp. 63-82.
“The Room” as ‘Heterosexual Closet’: The Life and Death of Alternative Relationalities
in Six Feet Under,” Jane Puts It in a Box: Third Wave Media Theory and HBO, ed.
Merri Lisa Johnson (Palgrave, 2007), pp. 189-217.
“Producing Girls: Empire, Sport, and the Neoliberal Body” in Physical Culture, Power,
and the Body, eds. Patricia Vertinsky and Jennifer Hargreaves (Routledge, 2006), pp.
101-120.
“It’s All About the Benjamins: Economic Determinants of Third Wave Feminism” in
Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration, eds. Stacy Gillis, Becky Munford and
Gill Howie (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), pp. 13-23.
“Introduction: A Fifteen-Year History of Third-Wave Feminism,” The Women's
Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of Third-Wave Feminism. (Greenwood Reference
Works, 2005): xv-xxii.
“Achievement and Decline: The Importance of Women’s Sport Participation to Public
Health,” Femininities, Masculinities, and the Politics of Sexual Difference, eds. Dorothy
Sue Cobble, Beth Hutchinson, and Amanda B. Chaloupka (Rutgers University Press,
2004), pp. 89-93.
“The Individual’s Ghost: Toward a New Mythology of the Postmodern,” American
Mythologies: Essays on Contemporary Literature, eds. William Blazek and Michael K.
Glenday (Liverpool University Press, 2004), pp. 79-104.
“Foreword” to Susan Bordo’s Unbearable Weight, 10th Anniversary edition (University
of California Press, 2003), pp. v-xii.
“The Importance of Being Lester,” Jane Sexes it Up, ed. Merri Lisa Johnson (Four
Windows, Four Walls, 2002), pp. 281-292.
“The Girls of Summer: Social Contexts for the Year of the Woman at the `96 Olympics,”
in The Olympics at the Millenium: Power, Politics, and the Olympics, eds. Kay Schaffer
and Sidonie Smith (Rutgers University Press, 2000): 99-116.
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“Ghettos of Obscurity: Individual Sovereignty and the Struggle for Recognition in
Female Bodybuilding,” in Picturing the Modern Amazon, ed. Joanna Frueh (Rizzoli,
2000): 72-85.
“When Descartes Met the Fitness Babe: Academic Cartesianism and the Late Twentieth
Century Cult of the Body,” in Feminist Interpretations of Descartes, ed. Susan Bordo
(Penn State University Press, 1999): 261-279.
“All-American Girls: Jock Chic, Body Image and Sport,” in Adios, Barbie!: Women
Write About Body Image and Ethnicity, ed. Ophira Edut (Seal Press, 1998), pp. 201-210.
"Masculinity Vanishing: Bodybuilding and Contemporary Culture," in Building Bodies,
ed. Pamela L. Moore (Rutgers University Press, 1997): 165-183.
"Gendered Restraints: Heart of Darkness and the Anorexic Logic of Literary
Modernism" in Modernism, Gender, and Culture: A Cultural Studies Approach, ed. Lisa
Rado (Garland Publishing, 1997): 353-374. This article was cited in the definitive
critical casebook on Heart of Darkness, in “A Critical History of Heart of Darkness”,
which spanned 100 years of Conrad criticism. Two of twenty-three pages were devoted
to my article (pp. 151-2). See Ross C. Murfin, ed. Heart of Darkness: Case Studies in
Contemporary Criticism, 3rd edition (New York: Palgrave, 2011, pp. 137-159).
NON-PEER REVIEWED ACADEMIC ARTICLES
“Affective Morality” for the Center for Humans and Nature Series, Mind and Morality,
Where Do They Meet? (forthcoming)
“What It Means to be Human,” Center for Humans and Nature “Big Questions” Series,
edited by Mary Midgley and D.S. Wilson, http://www.humansandnature.org/what-doesit-mean-to-be-human--question-2.php
“After the Northern Lights: Florence Griffith Joyner and the Making of Contemporary
Women’s Sport,” Mesomorphosis Interactive,
http://www.mesomorphosis.com, November 1998 (Vol. 1, No. 2).
“Athletic vs. Pornographic Eroticism: How Muscle Magazines Compromise Female
Athletes and Delegitimize the Sport of Bodybuilding in the Public Eye,” Mesomorphosis
Interactive, http://www.mesomorphosis.com, June 1998 (Vol. 1, No. 1).
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Cross-Country Running”; “Narrative Theory”; “Social Constructivism,” in the Berkshire
Encyclopedia of World Sport (Berkshire Reference Works, 2005): pp. 398-404; 10561060; 1441-1444.
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“Deconstruction”; “Memoir,” in The Women's Movement Today: An Encyclopedia of
Third-Wave Feminism. (Greenwood Reference Works, 2005): 85-6; 214-15.
“Girl Studies,”Routledge International Encylopedia of Women, (N.Y.: Routledge,
2002): 62-69.
“Masculinity/Femininity,” International Encyclopedia of Women and Sport, (N.Y. and
Boston: Berkshire Reference Works/Macmillan, 2001), eds. Allen Guttmann and
Gertrud Pfister: 392-95.
“Women’s Contributions to Cross-Country,” same as above, pp. 283-87.
JOURNALISM ARTICLES
“Strategies Used Against Women’s Causes and Effective Counter-Strategies,” The
Women’s Sports Experience Vol. 11, Issue 3, Fall 2002 pp. 7-9.
“Anti-Feminist Rhetoric and Title IX,” Women’s E-News; The Press and Sun Bulletin,
July 2002.
“Ally McBeal and Postfeminism,”Chronicle of Higher Education, September 4, 1998, p.
B9.
“Female Harassment is Still Widespread in Sport,” The New York Times, November 8,
1998, B39.
“Despite the Positive Rhetoric About Women’s Sports, Female Athletes Face a Culture
of Sexual Harassment,”Chronicle of Higher Education, January 8, 1999, B4-5.
“If You Let Me Play: the Adventure in Women’s Sport,” HUES March/April 1999: 1617).
“Bodybuilding and Body Image,” in HUES, Winter 1998.
“My Body, My Corset: Body Rituals, Then and Now,” HUES (website, December
1998).
“Cyberlove: New Technologies, New Relationships, HUES (Jan/Feb.1999, pp. 8-9).
REPRINTS
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The chapter from Pretty Good for a Girl called “One of the Guys” was reprinted in The
Prentice-Hall Reader, 6th edition, ed. George Miller, (2000).
"Despite the Positive Rhetoric about Women's Sports, Female Athletes Face a Culture of
Sexual Harassment," A Freshman English Reader, (Miami, Ohio: Kendall/Hunt, 2001).
“Despite the Positive Rhetoric About Women’s Sports, Female Athletes Face a Culture
of Harassment,” originally published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, was
reprinted in the college textbook Everything’s An Argument, eds. Andrea Lunsford and
John J. Ruskeiwicz, (Bedford/St. Martins, 2001).
The introductory chapter to Bodymakers was reprinted in the college textbook America
on the Edge: New Directions in Thinking and Writing, eds. Matthew Murray and David
Starkey, (Allyn & Bacon, 2001).
An excerpt from Built to Win appeared in Health magazine, April 2004.
NATIONAL POLICY REPORTS
“Their Lives Depend On It: Sport, Physical Activity, and the Health and Well-Being of
American Girls,” (Women’s Sports Foundation, 2004), with Don Sabo, Merrill Melnick, and
Kate Miller. This research has been cited in an amicus brief submitted to the US Supreme Court,
Jackson v. Birmingham in a case is related to Title IX legal issues.
Consultant on “The Women’s Sports Foundation Report: Title IX and Race in
Intercollegiate Sport” (Women’s Sports Foundation, 2003).
“The Women’s Sports Foundation Report: Addressing the Needs of Female Professional
and Amateur Athletes” in conjunction with the Women’s Sports Foundation and the U.S.
Olympic Committee (Women’s Sports Foundation, 1999). Based on focus group research
with top professional and amateur female athletes regarding problems in their sports and
initiatives for solutions. Results presented at the National Athlete’s Summit July 21.
1999.
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
“Women, Sports, and Success: A Winning Formula,” Keynote Address for the St.
Bonaventure Annual Women of Promise Awards, March 19, 2013.
“Flow: The Bio-physiology of Sport and Art,” keynote address for the conference
“Bodyworks: Intersections of Sport, Art, and Culture” (York University, Toronto,
Canada, November 5, 2009). The idea behind the conference was to bring together
academics, researchers, athletes and artists, for the purposes of creating dialogue between
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disciplines that can foster original, creative, beneficial research and/or cultural
collaborations.
“Immanence, Transcendence, and Immersive Practices: Female Athletes in U.S.
Neoliberalism,” Gender and Women’s Studies Interdisciplinary Conference, Susan B.
Anthony Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Rochester, April 17,
2009.
“Hard Body Panic: Body Ideals in Fight Club, the Mass Media, and Your Local Gym,”
Falcone Endowed Lecture, Cayuga College, October 3, 2005.
“The Futures of Feminism,” Presidential Address, with Jennifer Drake, National
Women’s Studies Association Annual Conference, June 2006.
“Participatory Sport, Competitive Sport, and Public Health: Reconsidering the Definition
of `Sport’,” Keynote Speaker for Southeastern Colorado Area Health Education Annual
Sports and Fitness Symposium, Colorado State University, March 4, 2005.
“It’s All About the Benjamins: Economic Determinants of That Third Wave Feminist
Thang,” keynote address, with Jennifer Drake, for the Third Wave Feminism Conference,
Purdue University, April 6, 2002.
INTERNATIONAL LECTURES
“Flow: The Bio-physiology of Sport and Art,” keynote address for the conference
“Bodyworks: Intersections of Sport, Art, and Culture” (York University, Toronto,
Canada, November 5, 2009).
“Producing Girls: Empire and Women’s Sport,” Invited Feature Speaker, University of
British Columbia Physical Culture, Power, and the Body International Symposium,
October 15-16, 2004.
A series of lectures on postmodernism and sport studies at The Norwegian University of
Sport and Physical Education in Oslo, Norway from October 9-13, 2000, and a paper,
“Women We Love Who Kick Butt, Male Body Panic, and Other Synechdoches for Our
Time.”
"The Babe Factor: Female Athletes, New Gender Orders, Pretty Sets of Pecs." University
of Alberta, March 3, 2000. Sponsored by Women’s Studies, the Faculty of Physical
Education and Recreation, and the Department of English.
INVITED LECTURES (post-tenure)
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“Seeking and Playing: Affective Infrastructures and the Evolutionary Function of Sport,”
April 4, 2011, SUNY-New Paltz.
"Immanence, Transcendence, and Immersive Practices: Female Athletes in U.S.
Neoliberalism,” University of Kentucky, March 2006.
"Karyotypes: The Myths and Mutations of Third Wave Feminism." University of
Kentucky and Berea College, March 2006.
"Environmentalism, Authenticity and 'Selling Out' in Skater/Surf Culture," North
American Society for the Sociology of Sport, October 2005.
“Producing Girls: Title IX, Empire, Sport,” Invited Feature Speaker for University of
Maryland 2005 Kinesiology Symposium, “Sport as Discursive Technology,” February
18, 2005.
“Producing Girls: Title IX, Empire, Sport,” Invited Feature Speaker for “Women and
Sport: Before, During, and After Title IX Symposium” at Bowling Green State
University, February 2-6, 2005.
“Shifting the Lens: Athlete Commentary on How Media and Gender Inform Sport
Experience,” North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference,
November 4, 2004. (I also organized and moderated the panel this paper was part of).
“Elephants Among Gazelles: Body Type in Particular Sports,” Invited Feature Speaker
for University of Toronto Symposium on “The Politics of Obesity,” September 8, 2004.
“Shifting the Lens: Athlete Commentary on How Media and Gender Inform Sport
Experience,” North American Society for Sport History Annual Conference
May 30, 2004. (I also organized and moderated the panel this was part of).
“The Male Body and Consumer Culture”, LeMoyne College, April 20, 2004.
“Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA: A Third Wave Feminist Take on Female Athletes, for
"Cultural Politics and Third Wave Feminisms," American Sociological Association
meetings, August 16-19, 2003.
“Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA: Representation, Public Health, and Title IX,”
University of Illinois, Chicago, March 26, 2003. Also did a book reading and signing,
and served as a consultant for the athletic department. “Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA:
Representation, Public Health, and Title IX,” Cornell College, March 5-8, 2003. Also
readings from Pretty Good for a Girl, book signing, served as a consultant for athletic
department, and taught women’s studies class.
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“Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA: Representation, Public Health, and Title IX,” John
Carroll University, March 12, 2003. Also taught a women’s studies class and served as a
consultant for the athletic department.
“Media, Bodies, and Sport,” Bentley College, November 17-19, 2002. Also readings
from Pretty Good for a Girl, book signing, and taught women’s studies classes.
“The Physiology of Image: Female Athletes and the Life Behind New Body Ideals for
Women,” State University of New York, Buffalo, September 28, 2002.
“Hard Body Panic: Reactions to the Six-Pack Imperative in Fight Club, American
Beauty, and Your Local Gym,” North American Society for the Study of Sport History,
University of Western Ontario, May 29, 2001 (the same paper was presented at the North
American Society for the Sociology of Sport, November 8, 2000).
“Addressing Homophobia in Sport,” and “Dealing With Sexual Harassment in Sport,” at
the Women’s Sports Foundation’s Annual Summit, Phoenix, Arizona, May 4-5, 2001
“Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA, or, Where’s Tiger Woods Naked in a Cape When You
Really Need Him?,” at Pomona-Pitzer Colleges, April 5-6, 2001. I also met with the
students from the campus Pitzer Women’s Center, attended a dinner in my honor
sponsored by the Dean of Faculty, Dean of Students, Student PACT, Academic Events,
Student Senate, and Gender and Feminist Studies, and gave a reading from Pretty Good
for a Girl.
“Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA, or, Where’s Tiger Woods Naked in a Cape When You
Really Need Him?,” University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, March 23, 2001. I also
directed the reading group in Body Studies, gave a presentation on methodology for
faculty and graduate students in the Kinesiology Department, and a reading from Pretty
Good for a Girl.
“Women and Power, Body Image and Sport,” for "Body Politics: Women, Culture, and
Experiences of the Physical Self," Randolph-Macon Women’s College, November 9-11,
2000. This was a combination of academic presentation and a physical demonstration of
power lifting.
“Bodies, Babes, and the WNBA, or, Where’s Tiger Woods Naked in a Cape When You Really Need
Him?,”at “OLYMPIA’S DAUGHTERS: GENDER, SPORT, and the NEW MILLENNIUM,”
University of Texas, Austin, November 4, 2000.
“Body Image in the Hyperreal,” invited speaker for the Fisher Lecture Series on Gender
and Culture, Hobart, William, and Smith College, September 20-21, 2000.
“Postmodernism and Sport Studies,” Braudel Center Culture & Colloquium Series,
SUNY-Binghamton, September 28, 2000.
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RECENT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“Situating Affect: Affective Neuroscience and the Postcolonial,” at the ACLA 2013
Annual Conference, “Global Positioning Systems,” University of Toronto, April 4-7,
2013.
Organized 3 panels for the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference,
September 27-30, 2012, and presented “Affective Maps, Literature, Gender, and
Emotional Endophenotypes” on one of them.
“Bioculture, Affect, and Sport,” Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology Society
Conference, March 2011.
“The Practical Factual: Literature, Transcendence, and the Bio-epistemology of Cultural
Evolution,” The 2010 International Conference on Narrative, Case Western Reserve
University, April 8-11, 2010.
“Feminism and Evolutionary Psychology,” Northeastern Evolutionary Psychology
Society Conference, SUNY-New Paltz, March 26-28, 2010.
“The Neurogenetics of Creativity,” The Encultured Brain Conference, University of
Notre Dame, October 2009.
“The Wolf in the Albuquerque Hotel Bed,” and “"Biocultural Perspectives and the
Importance of the Literary: William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom as a Case Study,"
presented at the Fifth Annual Environmental Writer’s Conference in Honor of Rachel
Carson, June 2008.
CREATIVE WRITING PUBLICATIONS
CREATIVE NON-FICTION
“What It Means to be Human,” September 2012, The Center for Humans and Nature
“Big Questions” Series, edited by Mary Midgley and D.S. Wilson,
http://www.humansandnature.org/what-does-it-mean-to-be-human--question-2.php
“Machine,” in Runners on Running: The Best Nonfiction of Distance Running, ed. Rich
Elliot (Champaign, Il.: Human Kinetics, 2011): 29-34.
“Wedding Toast for Joe Weil,” Paterson Literary Review 40 (2011-2012).
“The Importance of Being Lester,” in Jane Sexes It Up: New Takes on Writing,
Feminism, and Theory, ed. Lisa Johnson (N.Y.: Four Walls, Four Windows, 2002): 281292.
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“Spot Erotic,” Nerve.com, December 2000, http://www.nerve.com/content/spot-erotic.
“Bench Press, Or, Becoming a Girl Again,” in Whatever It Takes: Women Writing on
Women’s Sport, eds. Joli Sandoz and Joby Wynans (Farrar Strauss Giroux, 1999): 298305.
Pretty Good for a Girl
POETRY
“What Light Is,” “Spotlight,” “Parasite,” “Caelan at 13,” Paterson Literary Review 44
(2016-17).
"My Father's Shoulders," Paterson Literary Review 43 (2015-16): 45.
"He Didn't," Paterson Literary Review 43 (2015-16): 46.
“Watching the River,” “Leave the Light On,” “Tilt,” “Never Won Anything,” Paterson
Literary Review 42: 99-103.
“Cairn,” and “Off to the Side,” in Animal Companions, Animal Doctors, Animal People,
ed. Hilde Weisert, Guelph Press, 2012.
“For Art,” Clockhouse Review, 2012.
"Of Glass," "Five Years In," "White Paint," "The Death She Sings," "Combustion,"
Paterson Literary Review 41(2012-13).
“Raggedy Anne,” “It Happens Like This,” “Calling Them,” “The Bonds of Words,”
“Lizard Corral,” Paterson Literary Review 39 (2011-2012): pp. 39-44.
“On Science,” North American Review 25 (2), Spring 2010, p. 30.
“How To Bury Your First Born,” “Why Do I Always Want More,” “Supposed To,”
“Blue Spruce,” and “Digging a Grave,” Paterson Literary Review 38 (2010-11), pp. 138143.
“Shame,” “Starlings,” “What She Said,” Paddlefish 3 (2009): pp. 169-171.
“Lost Arts,” “Don’t Eat the Tuna,” “Western Style Blue,” “Deer Blind,” “Two Year Old
Stars,” Paterson Literary Review 37 (2009-2010): pp. 60-64. “Don’t Eat the Tuna”
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2009.
“Nylon,” “Emmanuel Vasquez, Age 11,” “Evolution,” “Intensive Care,” Paterson
Literary Review 36 (2008-2009): pp. 66-71.
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“In Tucson No One Sleeps,” “Any Star You Wished,” and “January Mud Slides,” Lips
26/27 (Fall 2006/Winter 2007): pp. 96-100.
“Frere Jacques” in Prairie Schooner, Vol. 80 no. 1 (Spring 2006): 63-64.
“Soil Profile,” “Having a Life,” “Don’t Find Me,” “Number 23,” “Work,” Paterson
Literary Review 35 (2006): pp. 102-107.
“Love or Something Like It,” “My Good Friend Pete,” and “Cats in Tiaras,” Paterson
Literary Review 34 (2005): pp. 86-89.
“One of Us,” and “For the Women’s Cross Country Team, 1983,” Women’s Studies
Quarterly 33 (Spring/Summer 2005): pp. 171-174.
“Fountainheads” and “Caelan at Two,” Louisiana Literature, Spring/Summer 2005: pp.
16-18.
“Repair Shop” and “Planetarium” published in Caduceus, vol. 2, 2004 (Yale Medical
Group Art Place): pp. 59-61.
“History of Cars,” “My Dog Teaches Me to be Human,” “Flash Floods and Slower
Speed,” “Bringing in Wood,” Paterson Literary Review 33 (2004): pp. 39-43.
“Ethics,” “Dylan and Hendrix in a Jar,” and “News,” Prairie Schooner, Summer/fall
2004: pp. 40-45.
“Live Through This,” “Fractures,” and “Prom Girls,” Ugly Poets, Beautiful Poems
(Lagoon Drive Press, 2004): pp. 55-56; 91-92; 110-111.
“Manic Depression” and “Canadian Geese,” The Connecticut Review, Fall 2004: pp. 5253.
“Pixels” and “1973,” Louisiana Literature, Summer 2004: pp. 43-46.
“Girl Love,” “Ponytails,” and “Telescope,” The Paterson Literary Review 32 (2003): pp.
37-39.“Telescope”
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2003.
“Reference Point,” Folio Spring 2001: pp. 8-11.
READINGS FROM CREATIVE WORK
Invited Feature Reader, “Words on Fire: Feinberg Library Series,” SUNY-Plattsburg,
October 2015.
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Invited Feature Reader, Cavanaugh Reading Series, St. John Fisher College, Rochester,
NY. March, 2015.
Literati Reading Series, Broome County Arts Council, Binghamton, NY. April 2015.
Binghamton University Writer’s Series Faculty Reading, November 12, 2013
Syracuse YMCA Writer’s Series, Invited Reading, October 19, 2013
Invited Reading and Workshop, Warren County Poetry Festival, September 28. 2013
Barron Arts Center, Invited Reading, July 10, 2013
Invited Reading on WSKG, “On the Page,” April 16, 2013
Carriage House Poetry Series, Invited Reading, May 21, 2013
Book Launch for Lost Arts, River Read Books, April 19, 2013
Montclair Library Poetry Reading Series, January 2011
Feature reading, California State University, Fresno, July 2010.
Barnes & Noble Readers’Series, May 2010.
Norwich Arts Festival, September 2010.
River Read Books, November 2009.
International Writer’s Series, Roberson Museum, November 2009.
Creative Non-Fiction Craft Talk, Broome County Literary Festival, November, 2009.
Publishing Panel, Writing By Degrees Conference, September 26, 2009.
West Caldwell Library Poetry Series, June 2009.
Barnes & Noble Readers’ Series, May 2009.
University of Indianapolis, invited reader for the Kellogg Writer’s Series, April 2009.
Binghamton University, November 2008.
Environmental Writers' Conference in Honor of Rachel Carson."The Wolf in the
Albuquerque Hotel Bed," June 2008.
Bucks County Community College Poetry Series, Poetry Reading, March 2008.
Barnes & Noble Readers' Series, Clifton, N.J., Poetry Reading, May 2008.
Poetry Reading/Workshop,Yogi Berra Museum, Montclair State University,
April, 2007. A public reading of my poetry and a writing workshop for students.
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA July 2006.
Ruskin Art Club, Los Angeles, June 2006.
NWSA Conference, June 2006.
Passaic Poetry Series, May 2006.
Paterson Museum, April 2006.
Montclair State College, April, 2006.
University of Kentucky, March 2006.
Cal State Sacramento, March 2006.
University of the Pacific, March 2006.
Cal State Stanislaus, March 2006.
Poetry Reading, Yogi Berra Museum, Montclair State University, April 2006.
A public reading of my poetry and a writing workshop for students.
Coastal Carolina University, November 2005.
Binghamton University, November 2005.
Poetry Reading, Yogi Berra Museum, Montclair State University, April 2005.
A public reading of my poetry and a writing workshop for students.
Bowery Poetry Club, 2004.
University of Illinois-Chicago, 2003.
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Cornell College, 2003.
Bentley College, 2002.
Pomona-Pitzer, 2001.
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, 2001.
Bluestocking Books, NYC, 1999.
INTERVIEWS RELATED TO POETRY
Did hour-long radio interviews on the following dates and stations:
April 16, 2013, “Off the Page,” Binghamton, NY, WSKG (NPR affiliate)
June 13, 2006: Los Angeles, California, "Poet's Café," KPFK FM
June 16, 2006: Oakland, California, "Cover to Cover," KPFA FM
July 1, 2006: Boston, Mass., "Gender Talk," WMBR FM
July 20, 2006: Fresno, CA, "Local Events."
INTERVIEWS / NEWSPAPER FEATURES
Interviewed by and featured in article by Natalie Angier, “Curriculum Designed to Unite
Art and Science,” The New York Times, May 27, 2008,
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/science/27angi.html?em.
KVPR FM Television interview: June 13, 2006: Los Angeles California, "World of
Wonder," The Discovery Channel (on the cultural significance of women's sports in the
'90's).
PBS, Second Opinion, a national medical series hosted by Dr. Peter Salgo of Columbia
University dedicated to making viewers better consumers of their own healthcare. Tape
date 8/28/05 in Rochester, N.Y. air date, 200 PBS stations, December 2005.
Consulted on a story on the sexualization of female athletes for “World News Tonight,”
August, 04.
NPR affiliates in 2004: KXCI radio in Tucson (January ’04), WBUR in Boston
(February ’04), KPCC in Southern California (March ’04), and the public radio station
Triple J, part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (March ’04).
“Realgoodwords, KAXE Public Radio, October 2003
“Talk of the City,” KPCC (NPR affiliate), August 2003
“On Point” WBUR (Boston NPR), September 2003
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Newsweek Magazine, April 2003
Discovery Channel documentary “The Eye of the Beholder,” May 2003
Chronicle of Higher Education, July 2001.
Sports Illustrated, June 2001.
Sports Illustrated for Women, May 2001.
"Let's Talk Women's Sports,"(radio) March 2001.
Providence Phoenix, April 2001.
Women’s E-News, June 2002.
WNBC, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 2003
The Jim Bohanan Show, Washington, D.C., July 15, 1999.
Sport in the Morning, WBNF, Binghamton, NY, July 20, 1999.
Fifty-One Percent, National Public Radio, WAMC, February 5, 1999.
Today in New York, NBC TV, December 14, 1998.
To the Best of Our Knowledge, National Public Radio, taped at WNYC Radio, December
14, 1998.
Sports: New York One News, CBS TV, December 14, 1998.
The David Essler Show, Westwood 1 Radio Production, December 6, 1998.
The Ed Buggs Show, Baton Rouge, LA, WJBO radio, December 1, 1998.
The Golden Hours, Portland, Oregon, WMXB, November 23, 1998.
Channel 12 News at Five, Binghamton, N.Y. WBNG TV, November 13, 1998.
The Liz Maita Show, Somerset, N.J. WCTC radio, November 10, 1998.
The Dick Mendenhall Show, Athens, GA WGUA radio, Oct 28, 1998.
The Warren & Jacqueline Pierce Show, Detroit, MI WYUR radio, October 23, 1998.
The Leeza Show, (television) October 19, 1998 (tape date October 14).
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Australian Broadcasting Commission, 1 hour long radio broadcast, interviewed by
Michaela Perska, July 16, 1998.
The Dick Staub Show, Chicago, Illinois, June 1996, (live, on Dedication to Hunger)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Member of the Women’s Sports Foundation Advisory Board and serving on the
Research and Education Steering Committee; service as a Trustee and as an
Executive Vice-President.
The Women’s Sports Foundation, founded by Billie Jean King in 1973, is the world’s
largest foundation devoted to women’s sports. It is ranked among the top 10 public
women’s fund’s, with grant dollars for girls’ and women’s sport programs, researchers,
student-athletes, and leaders in women’s sports exceeding $500,000 in 1999. The
Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organizational Member of the United Nations and
has Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council, and serves as an advisor to
the International Olympic Committee. As the “voice of women’s sports,” the Foundation
is quoted in both electronic and print media, with an annual total of more than 1.6 billion
media impressions in 2001. The Foundation is regularly consulted on policy decisions
regarding women’s sports both nationally and internationally. The Foundation’s Board
of Trustees, to which I was elected in 2001, and then to a position as one of the Executive
Vice-Presidents in 2002, is a small group of famous athletes who are also activists (Billie
Jean King, Lisa Leslie, Julie Foudy), research scholars, and private donors that directs
policy and strategic planning for the organization. As a Women’s Sports Foundation
Trustee and member of the Executive Committee, I have influence on international issues
concerning women’s sports, from the direction of research to policy decisions. My
appointment is a significant honor and speaks to the importance of my work in the field.
I consider this a very important part of my academic career, for it is allows me a forum to
use my research to directly influence public policy. In addition to the national policy
reports I authored for the foundation, I also worked on the “Homophobia in Sports
Project,” which is a joint venture with the NCAA, and the “Diversity Project,” dedicated
to improving opportunities for women of color on all levels of sport, and on the fight
against the recent challenges to Title IX.
National Women’s Studies Association, Proposal Review Chair, 2006-7. Was
responsible for the assignment of reviewers to all proposals received for the national
conference, and for the assignment of individual papers to panels.
CONSULTING
Gender and Sport Video, American Sport Education Program
Playing Unfair, Media Education Foundation
Sync or Swim, documentary film
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Battle of the Sexes, documentary film, PBS
Athletic Department, John Carroll University
Athletic Department, Cornell College
The Purity Myth: The Virginity Movement’s War Against Women, Media Education
Foundation
EDITORIAL BOARDS
Gender and Popular Culture Series, I.B. Tauris books (UK)
Journal of Sport and Social Issues
The Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport
EvoS: the Journal of the Evolutionary Studies Consortium
Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences
EDITORSHIPS OF CREATIVE JOURNALS
Creative Non-Fiction Editor, Ragazine.
Involves fielding submissions, selecting work, and writing critical introductions to the
work for this bi-monthly publication.
The Evolutionary Review, Creative Writing Editor.
MANUSCRIPT READER
PRESSES
Harvard University Press (manuscripts on sciences & humanities)
Duke University Press (manuscripts on the body & sport)
University of Illinois Press (manuscripts on the body)
University of Indiana Press (manuscripts on the body)
Northeastern University Press (manuscripts on third wave feminism)
Rowman & Littlefield (manuscripts on third wave feminism)
Prentice-Hall (manuscripts for textbooks for memoir/creative nonfiction courses)
SUNY Press (manuscripts on body image/eating disorders)
University of Minnesota Press (manuscripts on cultural studies/sport)
Temple University Press (cultural studies)
University of Michigan Press (third wave feminism)
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JOURNALS
Sociology of Sport Journal
Gender and Society
Journal of Sport and Social Issues
Sociological Inquiry
Our Bodies, Ourselves, 2004 & 2008 editions.
National Women’s Studies Association Journal
Feminist Theory Journal
Studies in American Culture
Feminist Media Studies
Mosaic
Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology
Evolution: Education and Outreach
Physical Culture Studies
DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED
Chutima Pragatwutisarn (1997). Associate Professor, Chulalongkorn University.
(Dissertation: Critical and Feminist Theory).
Merri Lisa Johnson (1998). Associate Professor and Director of Women’s Studies,
University of South Carolina, Upstate. (Dissertation: Gender Studies).
Mary Pernal (2000). Associate Professor, Green Mountain College. (Dissertation:
Gender Studies).
Liana Vrajitoru (2002). Associate Professor, South Texas College. (Dissertation:
Feminism and 20th Century Literature).
Vincent Golphin (2005). Associate Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology.
(Dissertation: Creative Writing—creative non-fiction).
Maria Giura (2006). Assistant Professor, Department of English, Montclair State
University. (Dissertation: Creative Writing—creative non-fiction).
Bambi Lobdell (2007). Lecturer, SUNY Oneonta. (Dissertation: Gender Studies).
Tom O’Connor (2008). Assistant Professor, Tulane University. (Dissertation: Media
Studies).
Mark Montgomery (2008). Associate Professor, Department of English, Cayuga
Community College. (Dissertation: Creative Writing—creative non-fiction).
Raquel Goodison (2008). Assistant Professor, Borough of Manhattan Community
College. (Dissertation: Creative Writing—creative non-fiction).
Jeremy Schraffenberger (2008). Assistant Professor, University of Northern Iowa.
(Dissertation: Creative Writing—poetry).
Laura White (2009) Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University.
(Dissertation: Ecocriticism).
Joe Schatz (2010). Director of Speech and Debate, Binghamton University.
(Dissertation: Media Studies).
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Sarah Jefferis (2010). Lecturer, Cornell University. (Dissertation: Creative Writing—
creative non-fiction).
David Michelson (2012, Evolutionary Studies). Lecturer: NJIT.
Chris Mackowski (2012, Creative Non-Fiction) (Full Professor, St. Bonaventure
University).
Christopher Baratta (2013, Ecocriticism). Lecturer: Binghamton University.
Current doctoral students: Marissa Schwalm (Creative Non-fiction); Jennifer Case
(Creative Non-fiction); Joseph Montalbo (Creative Non-fiction); Kim Vose (Creative
Non-Fiction); Kate Sweeney (Creative Non-Fiction).
Fulbright Student (2008). Du Lan-lan from Tsinghua University in China came to study
with me to do her dissertation in third wave feminism.
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Modern Languages Association
American Sociological Association
American Studies Association
Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment
Associated Writing Programs
North American Society for Sport History
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
National Women’s Studies Association
Feminist Evolutionary Psychology Society
REPRESENTATIVE COURSES TAUGHT (graduate and undergraduate levels)
Gender and Sport
Gender, Globalization, and the Environment
Globalization, Consumer Culture, and the Environment
Gender Activism and Rock Rebellion
Neuroaesthetics
Literature and/on the Brain
Animal Studies
Creative Non-Fiction Workshop
Poetry Workshop
COMMUNITY SERVICE
“Personal Narratives of Women in Sport,” for National Girls and Women in Sports Day,
Windsor High School, March 7, 2002.
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(Spring 2000) Brought in speaker Kym Hampton of the WNBA for National Girls and
Women in Sports day for a talk that was open to the public. The event attracted about 95
people from campus and community.
Spoke at Brookside Elementary on the importance of sports for girls (April, 2000).
Served as an assistant strength coach and consultant for intercollegiate athletics (19992000), and as a consultant for Broome County Special Olympics in powerlifting (1999).
July 1999 spoke to athletes at the Broome County Cross-Country Training camp.
“Power Girls: Why Girls and Women in Sport Deserve Their Own Day.” Keynote talk
given for National Girls and Women in Sports Day at a community-wide motherdaughter program at Chenango Valley Middle School, Chenango, N.Y. February 4, 1999.
Also helped facilitate/run day-long program.
“Pretty Good for Girls: Why We Should Play Sports, and How We Can Change Them.”
Invited by the Women’s National Book Association, Vestal, N.Y. March 31, 1999 (at
Vestal Public library).
“Villians, Heroes, and Sumptuous Babes: A Cultural History of Women in Sport,”
invited speaker for the University Women’s Annual Symposium, Vestal, N.Y. April 14,
1999 (at Vestal Public Library).
CONTACT INFORMATION
Dr. Leslie L. Heywood
E-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 607-785-5367
Address: 513 S. Benita Blvd. Vestal, NY 13850
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