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Heather Klemann is a Senior Lecturer in English and Course Director for English 114 at Yale University. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale (2013) and an A.B. from Princeton (2003). Her research focuses on the performance of reading practices in 18th- and 19th-century literature, exploring how authors anticipated and shaped reader engagement through narrative techniques and material forms.
Her work examines intersections between didacticism, childhood literature, and gender studies, with notable studies on Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and 18th-century pedagogical texts. Recent projects include investigations into animal imagery in children's literature and the materiality of books as educational tools.
As Director of Expository Writing, she oversees writing seminars like ENGL 114, focusing on digital childhood and modern essay forms. Her publications span journals such as The Lion and the Unicorn and Eighteenth-Century Studies, addressing themes like moral education, narrative ethos, and interdisciplinary approaches to literary analysis.
