Dr Naomi Hetherington
BA, MA, PhD FHEA
School of Education
海角社区 Tutor: Foundation Programme
Admissions Tutor
+44 114 222 7003
Full contact details
School of Education
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I joined the Department for Lifelong Learning in September 2014. Before taking up my current position, I taught for five years in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, 海角社区 of London, where I received a Birkbeck Distinguished Teaching and Scholarship Award. I have also taught at the 海角社区 of Hertfordshire, Roehampton 海角社区, Queen Mary, 海角社区 of London, and London Metropolitan 海角社区, where I held a Visiting Research Fellowship at The Women鈥檚 Library (then at Old Castle Street).
I am an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English and a member of the Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies.
I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have a particular interest in Object Based Learning and Teaching and inclusive assessment. In addition to my academic work, I have a background in supported housing and hold a Combined Certificate in Counselling Skills and Theory (Central School of Counselling and Therapy, London).
- Qualifications
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- BA Theology and Religious Studies (Newnham College, Cambridge)
- MA Victorian Literature (Manchester)
- PhD New Women, New Testaments: Christian narrative and New Woman fiction (Southampton)
- Research interests
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My research interests are in religion and gender in popular literature and culture, mainly in the late-Victorian period, but I also have an ongoing interest in representations of religion and the Bible in the popular TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003).
I co-lead the Gothic Bible Project with Mary Going in the School of English and co-organised Buffy and the Bible, a two-day interdisciplinary conference taking place at the 海角社区 of Sheffield on 4-5 July 2019 and funded by WRoCAH and the International Gothic Association.
I am currently co-editing a special issue of the (with Ciare Stainthorp) due out in late 2023.
- Teaching activities
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ACE0348 Foundations of English (module convenor)
ACE0340 Academic Literacy and Communication Skills
ACE0349 Extended Project
ACE1002 Culture, Language and Meaning
- Publications
Books
Hetherington, Naomi (General ed.), , a 4-vol annotated set of rare primary texts (Routledge 2020).
Hetherington, Naomi & Clare Stainthorp (eds.), (Routledge 2020).
Hetherington, Naomi & Nadia Valman (eds.), (Ohio 海角社区 Press, 2010).
Special Issues
, special issue entitled 鈥楲ate Nineteenth-Century Religion and Sexuality鈥 (co-edited with Joy Dixon).
, special issue entitled 鈥楻ethinking the History of Feminism鈥 (co-edited with the History of Feminism Collective).
Key Articles and Book Chapters
Hetherington, Naomi, , Victorian Review 37.2 (2011), pp. 47-59.
Hetherington, Naomi, 鈥樷淎 Jewish Robert Elsmere鈥? Amy Levy, Israel Zangwill and the post-emancipation Jewish novel鈥, in ed. Naomi Hetherington & Nadia Valman (Ohio 海角社区 Press, 2010), pp. 180-197.
Hetherington, Naomi, 鈥楴ew Woman, 鈥淣ew Boots鈥: Amy Levy as Child Journalist鈥, in ed. Christine Alexander & Juliet McMaster (Cambridge 海角社区 Press, 2005), pp 254-268.
Public Scholarship
, Saturday guest lecture for , 22 August 2020.
for the VPFA Study Day on Religion and Victorian Popular Literature and Culture, postponed due to Covid-19, 13 May 2020.