• Ph.D. in English (American Literature), University of Alabama
• M.A. in English, University of Alabama
• B.A. in English/Spanish, University of Georgia

• Composition
• American Literature
• Creative Writing
• Drama of the U.S.

• American Literature
• Composition
• Creative Writing
• Drama of the U.S.

Heather Duerre Humann is the author of five books: Domestic Abuse in the Novels of African American Women: A Critical Study (2014), Gender Bending Detective Fiction: A Critical Analysis of Selected Works (2017), Another Me: The Doppelgänger in 21st Century Fiction, Television, and Film (2018), Reality Simulation in Science Fiction Literature, Film, and Television (2019), and A Tale Told by a Machine: The AI Narrator in Contemporary Science Fiction Novels (2023). Dr. Humann has also published in a variety of academic and literary journals.

Conference Presentations:

• “Monstrous Culture, Monstrous Context: JK Rowling’s The Ichabog.” 93rd Annual SAMLA Convention, November 4-6, 2021 (Virtual).
• “Law and Embodiment in Dystopian Science Fiction: Altered Carbon and Six Wakes.” Juris Apocalypse Now! Law in End Times Conference, Law, Literature and the Humanities Association of Australasia (LLHAA), Southern Cross University, Gold Coast Campus, Bilinga, Queensland, Australia, December 2-4, 2019.
• “Representation and Reality in Chronic City.” Florida College English Association (FCEA) Annual Conference, Boca Raton, Florida, October 17-19, 2019.
• “Genre and Narrative Technique in Octavia Butler’s Kindred.” Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Conference (SSAWW 2018), Denver, Colorado, November 7-11, 2018.
• “Doppelgängers and Contemporary Political Debates in Starz’s Counterpart.” 90^th Annual SAMLA Convention, Birmingham, Alabama, November 2-4, 2018.
• “Gender and Detection in Mark SaFranko’s The Suicide.” 89^th Annual SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 3-5, 2017.
• “The Ethics of (Im) Mortality: Technology and the Post-Human Body in Fringe and Terminator: Salvation.” “Figures of the Immortal,” Annual Conference of the Post Scriptum journal, University of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 27th-28th, 2017
• “Nachträglichkeit and ‘Narrative Time’ in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad.” Florida College English Association (FCEA) Annual Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, October 12-15, 2016.
• “Genre and the Imaginary in Donna Tartt’s ‘Detective’ Fiction.” Society for the Study of Southern Literature: The South in the North Conference, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, March 10-12, 2016.
• “Genre in Bloodchild and Other Stories.” Octavia E. Butler Conference: Celebrating Letters, Life, and Legacy, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia, February 26-28, 2016.
• “The Multiplicity Motif and IVF Effect in Orphan Black: Redefining Identity in the Digital Age.” PCA-ACA 2015 Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1-4, 2015.
• “Vigilante Justice, Vendettas, and Villainy in Post 9/11 Popular Culture.” 86^th Annual SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 7-9, 2014.
• "Domestic Violence through A Science Fiction Lens: Octavia Butler’s Seed to Harvest.” PCA-ACA 2014 Conference, Chicago, Illinois, April 16-19, 2014.
• “Political Power and Pandemonium in Panem: Teaching The Hunger Games Trilogy in the Context of Totalitarian Literature.” 85^th Annual SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 8-10, 2013.
• “‘There are Many Copies’: The Multiplicity Motif in Battlestar Galactica.” Forms of Life Conference, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, April 12-13, 2013.
• “Out of Body, Out of Mind, Out of Time: Mixed Reality, the Female Body, and Represented Worlds.” 84^th Annual SAMLA Convention, Durham, North Carolina, November 9-11, 2012.
• “Langston Hughes and the Politics of Protest.” 83^rd Annual SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 4-6, 2011.
• “‘Treading in the Steps Already Marked’: Teaching the Post-Human." PCA-ACA 2011 Conference, San Antonio, Texas, April 20-23, 2011.
• “Close (d) to God, Negotiating a Moral Terrain: Questions of Agency and Selfhood in The Road and Sophie’s Choice.” 82^nd Annual SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 5-7, 2010.
• “Bastard out of Carolina: Race, Region, and Domestic Abuse.” ACETA: 62^nd Annual Conference: Step into the River: Tradition and Innovation in English Studies. University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama, February 26-27, 2010.
• “The Meaning of Freedom: Human Rights in/and V.S. Naipaul’s ‘One Out of Many.’” 81^st Annual SAMLA Convention, Atlanta, Georgia, November 6-8, 2009.
• “Gender and Genre in Mickey Spillane’s Vengeance is Mine.” 2009 Georgia Philological Association, Brewton-Parker College, Mount Vernon, Georgia, April 3, 2009.
• “Body Politics in Corregidora.” ACLA 2009: Global Languages, Local Cultures, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 27, 2009.
• “Transformation and Testimony: The Female Body in Corregidora.” Graduate Student Association’s 12^th Annual Research and Thesis Conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 7, 2009.
• "‘Saved’ or ‘Ruined’ by Marriage? Marriage and Mayhem in Hardy, Lawrence, and Lessing’s Shorter Fiction.” 80^th Annual SAMLA Convention, Louisville, Kentucky, November 7-9, 2008.
• “Domestic Space in The Handmaid’s Tale.” 80^th Annual SAMLA Convention, Louisville, Kentucky, November 7-9, 2008.
• “The (Trans) Formation of Abusive Relationships: Representations of Domestic Violence in Joyce Carol Oates’s Solstice and Freaky Green Eyes.” Crime and Popular Culture: A Multi-Disciplinary Exploration, University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri, October 28-30, 2008.
• “Genre in/and Wright’s Native Son.” The International Richard Wright Centennial Conference, American University-Paris, Paris, France, June 20, 2008.
• “J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace: Control and Transformation.” English Graduates for Academic Development (EGAD), Texas A&M University-Commerce, Commerce, Texas, April 6, 2002.

Invited talks:

• Faculty – Ask Me Anything. Presented by Sigma Tau Delta and PAGES, Florida Gulf Coast University, Ft. Myers, Florida, November 16, 2020.
• The Glass Menagerie Panel. Synergy Series, Gulfshore Playhouse, Naples, Florida, October 18, 2015.
• “Dysfunctional Domesticity: Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye.” Blount Foundations Speaker Series, Blount Undergraduate Initiative, University of Alabama, March 9, 2015.
• “What a Drag! Lady Gaga, Jo Calderone, and the Politics of Representation.” Feminism Spoken Here Brown Bag Series, Women’s Resource Center, Division of Student Affairs, University of Alabama, November 7, 2012.

• Felicia Campbell Innovative Contributions to Popular Culture Studies Award (2023)
• International Crime Fiction Association (ICFA) 2020 Book Prize (for The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction, an edited collection where which includes my chapter on “Hybridisation”)
• Florida Gulf Coast University Library’s Author Series, January 2019 Honoree (for Another Me: The Doppelgänger 21^st Century Fiction, Television and Film)
• Recommended Nonfiction Book, American Library Association’s “Over the Rainbow” Recommended Book List, 2018 (for Gender Bending Detective Fiction)
• Florida Gulf Coast University Library’s Author Series, Summer 2017 Honoree (for Gender Bending Detective Fiction)
• University of Alabama, Mini-Grant for “Researching the Impact of Innovative Practices on Student Learning" (2012)
• The Peter Rollins Grant for Early-Career Faculty, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association (2011)