Geraldine Heng

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Geraldine Heng is Perceval Professor of English and Comparative Literature, with a joint appointment in Middle Eastern studies, and an affiliate of Women’s studies and Jewish studies, at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] She is noted as a key figure in the development of postcolonial approaches to the European Middle Ages, premodern critical race studies, and critical early global studies. Her book The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (2018) won four awards, including the American Academy of Religion prize for historical studies, the Otto Gründler prize in medieval studies, the Robert W. Hamilton grand prize, and the Association of American Publishers PROSE prize for world history.[2]

Education and career[]

Heng completed her MA degree at the National University of Singapore in 1980, with a thesis entitled "Tilting at Windmills: A Study of Nick Joaquin".[3] She proceeded to study at Cornell University, completing her PhD thesis, Gender Magic: Desire, Romance, and the Feminine in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in 1990.[4]

Heng coedits the Cambridge University Press Elements series in the Global Middle Ages, and the University of Pennsylvania Press series, RaceB4Race: Critical Studies of the Premodern. She is also noted for the article 'State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore', co-written with her husband Janadas Devan,[5][6] critiquing social eugenics in Singapore.[7] Among her various keynotes and plenaries, Heng was the keynote speaker at the 46th Annual New England Medieval Conference, 3 December 2020. Her talk was entitled 'The Politics of Race in the European Middle Ages'.

Books[]

  • The Global Middle Ages: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
  • England and the Jews: How Religion and Violence Created the First Racial State in the West (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
  • The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages [1] (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018)
  • Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, 2004, 2012), ISBN 0231125275

References[]

  1. ^ Geraldine Heng
  2. ^ 'Association of American Publishers Announces Subject Category Winners of 2019 Prose Awards', States News Service (29 January 2019).
  3. ^ Geraldine Heng Guan Noi, "Tilting at Windmills: A Study of Nick Joaquin" (unpublished MA thesis, National University of Singapore, 1980).
  4. ^ Geraldine G. Heng, "Gender Magic: Desire, Romance, and the Feminine in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Cornell University, 1990).
  5. ^ Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2018), p. xiii.
  6. ^ K. Kanagalatha, 'Mother was our World', The Straits Times (13 May 2018).
  7. ^ Geraldine Heng and Janadas Devan, 'State Fatherhood: The Politics of Nationalism, Sexuality, and Race in Singapore', in Bewitching Women, Pious Men: Gender and Body Politics in Southeast Asia, ed. Aihwa Ong and Michael G. Peletz, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 195–215.

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