Heather King Ph.D.
she/her/hersDepartment Chair; Professor
English
About
Heather King teaches a range of courses at the University, from her research field of eighteenth-century British Literature to contemporary "genre" fiction like sci fi, mysteries, and superhero comics.
Education
- Ph.D., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- M.A., English, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- B.A. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Boston University
Professional Background
Prior to joining the faculty at University of Redlands, Professor King lectured at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has been a research fellow at Trinity College Dublin's Long Room Hub and an Adam Smith Fellow at Liberty Fund Inc. She is the secretary to the board of the Jane Austen Collaborative at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and facilitates the Austen in Adaptation Panel for the Jane Austen Summer Program. Her work to develop the #URReading program at Redlands has been supported by grants from California Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Areas of Expertise
- Adaptation
- Eighteenth-century literature, including prose fiction, drama, women’s writing, and satire
- Harry Potter
- Jane Austen
- The novel
- Shakespeare
- Young adult fiction
Publications
Articles
King, Heather. "Frances Burney's Cecilia." Palgrave Encyclopedia of Romantic-era Women Writers, 2022. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-11945-4_136-1
King, Heather. "The Strategy of 'Faculty of Letters.'" Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture, vol. 49, 2020.
King, Heather, and Nora Nachumi. "Adapting Austen in the Classroom." Adapting the Eighteenth Century, edited by Kristen Saxton and Sharon Harrow, U of Rochester P, 2020.
King, Heather. "Domestic Virtues and National Importance: Sailors, Commerce, and Virtue in Mansfield Park, Persuasion, and The Wealth of Nations." International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, special issue on "Economics and the Novel," February 2016.
King, Heather. "Harry Potter and the Invisible Hand: The Virtue of Business That Is Not Serious." Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature: Perspectives on Business from Novels and Plays, edited by Edward Younkin, Lexington Books, 2016.
King, Heather. "Pictures of Women in Frances Burney's Cecilia and Camilla: How Cecilia Looks and What Camilla Sees." Beyond Sense and Sensibility: Moral Formation and the Literary Imagination from Johnson to Wordsworth, edited by Peggy Thompson, Bucknell UP, 2014.
King, Heather. "Shakespeare in the Restoration Theatre: 'Staging' Assignments." Digital Defoe, special issue on eighteenth-century studies and the state of education, 2011.
King, Heather. "Nay Then, 'tis Past Jesting: Piety and Women's Friendship in Catharine Trotter's Love at a Loss." The Pious Sex: Essays on Women and Religion in the History of Political Thought, edited by Andrea Radasnu, Lexington Press, 2010.
King, Heather. "'Be Mistress of Yourself, and Firm to Virtue': Moral Friendship in Trotter's Unhappy Penitent." Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Work, and Culture, vol. 3, 2003.
Reviews
Review of Pride and Profit: The Intersection of Jane Austen and Adam Smith, by Cecil E. Bohanon and Michelle Albert Vachris. The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, March 2018.
"Publishing Private Vices: The Role of the Eighteenth-Century Press in Politicizing Morality." Review of Donna Andrew, Aristocratic Vice: The Attack on Dueling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England. Eighteenth Century Theory and Interpretation.
Review of The 'Invisible Hand' and British Fiction, 1818–1860; Adam Smith, Political Economy, and the Genre of Realism, by Eleanor Courtemanche. The Journal of the History of Economic Thought, September 2014.
Review of Whore Biographies, edited by Julie Peakman. The Scriblerians and Kit Kats, spring 2007.
Review of Pope to Burney, 1714–1779: Scriblerians to Bluestockings, by Moyra Haslett. The Scriblerians and Kit Kats, spring 2005.
Public Humanities
- Blog series for Adam Smith Works (adamsmithworks.org) on "The Good Place"
- "Happy Smithsgiving" for Adam Smith Works
- Bulldog Blog essays:
- Interviewed for Och Tamale, "A Window and a Mirror"
- Interviewed for Education column in Forbes magazine, "Tumultuous Times Have Us All Looking for Windows and Mirrors"
- Pop and Locke podcast interview on Wonder Woman
- Necromancer podcast interview on Austen's Northanger Abbey
- Chair, Public Relations Committee, 2023 Jane Austen Summer Program, including blog contributions/oversight: https://www.janeaustensummer.org/news
- Advisor, Sigma Tau Delta Banned Books Week programming, 2020–present
Awards and Service
- Multidisciplinary Faculty Seminar, University of Redlands
- aTUG Grant (internal technology grant), 2015
- Hunsaker Teaching Grant, University of Redlands
- Invited participant, Restoration Shakespeare workshop, Folger Library, Washington, D.C., 2014
- Nominated for Mortar Board Professor of the Year; named English Professor of the Year by Sigma Tau Delta, 2012
- Visiting research fellowship, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin (in residence April 2011)
- Nominated for Mortar Board Professor of the Year; Outstanding Service Award, Faculty Review Committee, 2009
- Gwin J. and Ruth Kolb Research Travel Award, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2005
- Campus nominee, NEH Summer Fellowship, 2004
- Research Grant, University of Redlands Banta Center for Business, Ethics, and Society, 2004
- Neal K. Pahia Advisor of the Year Award, University of Redlands, 2003
- Nominated for Mortar Board Professor of the Year, 2003
- Nominated for Outstanding Faculty Award in Innovative Teaching, 2002
- Distinction in English for senior thesis, “To Virtue and Her Friends a Friend,” 1991
- Dean’s College Prize for Excellence in Classical Studies, 1991
Affiliations
- Faculty advisor, Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society
- American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Frances Burney Society
- Jane Austen Society of North America (JASNA), Southwest