Heather Love

Heather Love is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. Her book Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (Harvard, 2007) was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award.  She was also the co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History (”Is There Life after Identity Politics?”). Her articles have appeared in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Criticism, new formations, Feminist Theory, and The Journal of Lesbian Studies.  Her areas of interest include gender studies and queer theory, modernism and modernity, affect studies, film and visual culture, sociology and literature, and critical theory. She is currently at work on a project on the source materials for Erving Goffman’s 1963 book, Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity (”The Stigma Archive”).