Associate Professor of English / Coordinator of English Teaching Programs
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Dr. Heather Fox
Contact Information
Department: English
Office: Beckham 337
Mailing Address: Beckham 100
Email: heather.fox@eku.edu
Phone: 859-622-2992
Bio
Heather Fox is an associate professor of English and Coordinator of English Teaching Programs. She is also the author of Arranging Stories: Framing Social Commentary in Short Story Collections by Southern Women Writers (UP of Mississippi, 2022) and co-editor of Students in the Archives: Archival Pedagogy in Practice (under contract with U of Illinois P). Her broad range of scholarship–English education, interdisciplinary approaches to 19th-20th-century American literature, women’s literature, writing pedagogy, narrative theory, and archive studies–has been published in south: a scholarly journal, The Explicator, The Faulkner Journal, Teaching/Writing, The New Americanist, and other journals. The methodologies developed from these interests inform her approach to teaching, which seeks to connect areas of English studies, highlight interdisciplinary relationships, and support undergraduate research through collaboration and professional opportunities. She especially enjoys working with Honors students to teach seminars, supervise conference presentations, and mentor theses.
A Teaching & Learning Annual Themed Award (2024), EKU Libraries Partnership Award (2022) and High-Impact Practice Teaching Award (2021) recipient, she partners with the Department of Teaching, Learning, & Educational Leadership to advise majors preparing for careers in English education. In addition to her work on Students in the Archives, current projects include two multi-year IRB studies—“Teaching English/Language Arts with Magic Lantern Slides” and “Evaluating Professional Competencies Development”—and a project that examines connections between 19th-century women’s literature and contemporary Young Adult literature by women writers. When not teaching, writing, or researching in the archives, she enjoys historic renovation projects, gardening, and time with her family and their three rescued coonhounds in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. Further information is available on her website.