Department of English

OMNIA’s Origin Stories series highlights the journeys of Penn faculty as they followed their paths from impressionable young students to world-class scholars working at the cutting edge of their fields. In this special edition, OMNIA profiles Professor of English Heather Love.

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From the OMNIA website:

During a childhood spent moving around, literature and school were constants for Heather Love. She found new vistas at Harvard, but after she graduated she wasn’t sure what she wanted to do, so she worked in a furniture store for five years. By the time she went to graduate school, studies of queer theory, the history of sexuality, and other questions around LGBT justice that fascinated her were underway. Now the professor and graduate chair of English teaches gender studies and continues to expand her interests and influence. She’s won several teaching awards and recently was named a Guggenheim Fellow.