| Heather is Associate Professor in the English Department at Penn, where she has taught since 2003. She has lived in the College House system for the past six years as a Faculty Fellow in both Gregory and Ware. Professor Love received her A.B. from Harvard University in Literature and her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in English. Her areas of interest include gender studies and queer theory, the literature and culture of modernity, affect studies, film and visual culture, psychoanalysis, race and ethnicity, disability studies, and critical theory. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (2007) and is currently writing a book about the source materials for Erving Goffman's 1963 sociological work, Stigma: On the Management of Spoiled Identity ("The Stigma Archive"). She lives with her partner, Dr. Mara Mills (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the History and Sociology of Science and Media Studies at Penn), their two children, Emaline and Juliet Kelso, and their Boston Terrier, Lily.
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