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Heather Hewett writes about women, feminism, and culture.\u00a0She has published on a wide variety of topics, including motherhood, disability, and the work of contemporary women writers from Anglophone Africa, the Caribbean, and the U.S.\u00a0 Her articles and essays have appeared in a range of academic and popular venues, including\u00a0Women\u2019s Studies Quarterly<\/i>,\u00a0Women\u2019s Review of Books<\/i>,\u00a0The Scholar & Feminist Online<\/i>,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/i>,\u00a0CNN.com<\/a>,\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor<\/i>,\u00a0Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers<\/i>,\u00a0Journal of the Association for Research on Mothering<\/i>, and book collections such as\u00a0Chick Lit: The New Woman\u2019s Fiction<\/i>\u00a0(Routledge).\u00a0Her personal essays have appeared or are forthcoming in\u00a0Kaleidoscope<\/i>,\u00a0Ducts<\/i>,\u00a0The Good Mother Myth<\/i>\u00a0(Seal)\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0A Slant of Light: Contemporary Women Writers of the Hudson Valley<\/i>\u00a0(Codhill).<\/span><\/p>\n Heather\u2019s background includes several years of experience working full-time as a freelance journalist.\u00a0 She earned her Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also received a Graduate Certificate in African Studies. She received her B.A. from Yale.\u2028\u00a0She has been a Global Scholar at the Rutgers Institute for Research on Women and has taught in several high schools and colleges, including Universit\u00e9 Gaston Berger in Senegal, where she served as a visiting lecturer.<\/p>\n Currently she is an associate professor of English and Women\u2019s Studies at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she directed the Women\u2019s Studies Program from 2005-2011. She teaches interdisciplinary courses that examine gender, human rights, feminism, and narrative.\u00a0Born and bred in Oklahoma, she lives in the lower Hudson Valley with her family.<\/p>\n Her column, Women Across Borders, appears the first Thursday of every month. If you would like to contact Heather Hewett, or serve as a guest columnist for Global Mama, please email her at hewetth [at]\u00a0newpaltz.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n Follow Heather on Twitter:\u00a0<\/em>@heatherhewett<\/a><\/p>\n Sample posts:<\/strong><\/p>\n Mother’s Day Challenge<\/a><\/p>\n Maternal Health, One Year Later<\/a><\/p>\n Wish List for Mother’s Day<\/a><\/p>\n Nannies on Motherhood<\/a><\/p>\n