Faculty & Staff Directory
Assistant Professor of English
Department of English
Office: Humanities/Social Sciences (H/SS) 211
Office Phone: 478-471-5316 | Department Phone: 478-471-5793
Email:
Website: N/A
Courses Teaching
MSC: “Introduction to Literature,” “Freshman Composition,” “Perspectives on Narrative,” “British Literature”; Upper division electives: “The Vampire in Popular Culture,” “Nineteenth-Century British Poetry and Prose,” “The Fatal Woman in Literature and Film,” “Adolescent Literature,” "The Novel"
Office Hours
MW 11-2pm
Advising Hour: T, 2pm
Education
Heather Braun received her Ph.D. in English from Boston College (2007), her M.A. from Claremont University (1999), and her B.A. from Lafayette College (1997). She joined the Macon State faculty in 2007 and taught previously at Boston College, Harvey Mudd College, and Citrus College in California.
Research Interests
Her research interests include nineteenth-century British literature, the vampire tale, the Gothic novel, and revivals of medieval romance. She has published on Victorian humor, David Mamet, Sydney Owenson, Mary E. Braddon, and minor Victorian poet, Mary E. Coleridge. Her book, The Rise and Fall of the Femme Fatale: From Gothic Ghosts to Victorian Vamps, was published by Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in 2012.
Awards
Macon State College:
Outstanding Scholarship Award, 2012
IST Award for Travel to the UK for Research, 2008
Boston College:
Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-07
University Fellow, 2001-06
Teaching Fellow, 2001-05
Claremont University:
Tuition Scholarship, 1997-99
Lawrence and Anne Glenn Fellowship
Lafayette College:
1998-99 Francis A. March Fellowship, 1997
Class of 1883 Prize, 1997
Clubs / Professional Organizations
Executive Board, Crossroads Creative, Inc. 2008-present
Programming Chair, Crossroads Writers Conference, (Macon’s first and only writers’ conference) 2010-present (crossroadswriters.org)
Chair, Institutional Review Board, Macon State College, 2011-12
Chair-Elect, Institutional Review Board, Macon State College, 2010-11
Recorder, Institutional Review Board, Macon State College, 2009-10
Manuscript Reader, ANQ, Columbus State University, 2010-present
Manuscript Reader, College Literature, West Chester University, 2009-present
Co-Founder, Bragg Jam’s Moonlight Miles 5k, Macon’s first evening road race, 2007-present
Co-Advisor, Alpha Rho Sigma chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, Macon State College, 2010-present
Co-Advisor, Fall Line Review, literary-arts journal, Macon State College, 2007-present
Co-Advisor, Women’s Studies Association, Macon State College, 2007-10
South Atlantic Modern Language Association. Long Eighteenth-Century Panel: Chair, 2010; Secretary, 2009;