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Andrea Glass-Heffner

Assistant Professor
Women & Gender Studies
University of Delaware
304 McDowell
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-8474
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Biography

​Andrea Glass-Heffner, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Women & Gender Studies at the University of Delaware. Dr. Glass received her PhD in American Studies from The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, with concentrations in Gender and Sexuality, Urban Culture and History, Space and Place, Visual and Popular Culture, and Folklore and Ethnography. Dr. Glass teaches at the University of Delaware, Labouré College, Boston, MA, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, and The Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, PA, with particular focus on Sexualities and Gender Studies, Women's Studies, American Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies and Research, and Museum Education and Interpretation.  Dr. Glass has served as a board member of the LGBT Center of Central Pennsylvania; president of the Ephrata Performing Arts Center, a theater dedicated to showcasing diverse voices; and executive director of the Ephrata Area Chamber of Commerce, leading community efforts in economic development and social justice.   She is a 2020 grant recipient for the "Teaching Online Together Program," from the University of Delaware.

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Glass, Andrea. "Scenes Through the Rear-View Mirror: 1970s New York and the Cultural and Spatial Influence of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver." Journal of Popular Film and Television 45, No. 4 (2017).

Glass, Andrea. "'I Want to be a Witness:' Blogging for Urban Authenticity and Cultural Authority in the East Village." New Directions in Folklore 14, No. 1 (2017): 3-39.

Book Chapter

Glass, Andrea. "Postcards, Pussy Hats, and Protest Pins: Documenting the Folklore of Feminist Resistance at Mio Studio in Lancaster." In Pussy Hats, Politics, and Public Protest, edited by Rachelle H. Saltzman. Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, November 2020.

Reference Articles

Glass, Andrea and Simon J. Bronner. "Charleston and Lowcountry, South Carolina."

In Encyclopedia of American Folklife, ed. Simon Bronner. Armonk, NY: ME Sharpe, Inc., 2006.

Queer Becomes Her: The Death and Life of Spaces, Places, Saints, and Heroes.

Select Panel Presentations

● "La Virgencita, Fridolatry, and Saint AOC: Crafting a Transnational Feminist Folk Religion for the 21st Century." National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, Minnesota, MN, 2020. (Presentation accepted, but conference cancelled due to COVID-19).

● "Street Tacos, Hot Chicken, and Bao Buns: The Gentrification of Food and the Re-Colonization of Urban Foodways in Popular Culture." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2020. (Presentation accepted, but conference cancelled due to COVID-19).

 ●"Lesbutantes, Guerilla Queers, and Dyke Nights: Transgressing Heteronormative Borders and the Politics of Queer Resistance." National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, November 2019.

●"From White Coffee to Hot Chicken: The Gentrification of Food and the Re-Colonization of Urban Foodways." American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, November 2019.

●"Lesbutantes, Guerilla Queers, and Dyke Nights: Transgressing Heteronormative Borders and the Politics of Queer Resistance." American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, October 2019.

●"'Tits and Sass:' The Rise of Vernacular Resistance to the Gentrification of Sex." Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 2019.

●"'America Needs Lesbian Farmers:' Rural Utopias, Womyn's Lands, and Folk Responses to Gentrification." National Women's Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2018.

●"Gentrification, Interrupted: The Emergence of Narratives of Loss in the New Urban Borderlands." American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2018.

●"Queering the Land: Rural Utopias and the Folk Response to Gentrification." American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Buffalo, NY, October 2018.

●"Navigating the New Urban Borderlands: Sexual Dislocations and the Gentrification Frontier."

Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua: El Mundo Zurdo, San Antonio, TX, May 2018.

●"America Needs Lesbian Farmers: The Commodification of Queer Identities in the Trump Era." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, March 2018.

●"Postcards from the Resistance: The Politics and Practices of the Lesbian Community in Lancaster."

American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, November 2017.

●"Postcards, Pussy Hats, and Protest Pins: Documenting the Folklore of Resistance." American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2017.

●"Narratives of Loss: Documenting Place-Based Identity, Vanishing Landscapes, and the War on Gentrification in Urban America." Future of American Folkloristics, Bloomington, IN, May 2017.

●"Postcards, Pussy Hats, and Protest Pins: Documenting the Folklore of Resistance in Central Pennsylvania." Western State Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Eugene, OR, April 2017.

●"#SaveNYC: Unfinished Narratives at the Intersection of Urban Folklore and Gentrification Studies." American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, October 2016.

● "Cities for Tomorrow." Invited Participant, New York Times Conference Series, New York, NY, July 2016.

●"New York Uncensored: Guiding the Naughty, the Amoral, and the Curious." New York Metro American Studies Association Meeting, New York, NY, November 2015.

●"Swipe Right, Look Up, and Play Hard: Sexual Encounters in a Post 9/11 New York City." American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA, October 2015.

●"At the Crossroads of Folklore and Museum Education." American Folklore Society Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, November 2014.

●"Has Sex Disappeared from the City?: Clicking Through the Sexual Geography of Urban America." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 2015.

●"From Sodom to Disney on the Hudson: New York's Continued Role as America's Sexual Frontier." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2014.

●"Green Day's American Idiot: If this is the future of musical theater, RUN don't walk to the nearest exit." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, April 2014.

●"Scenes Through the Rear-View Mirror: 1970s New York and the Cultural and Spatial Influence of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver." Eastern American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, March 2014.

●"Gentrification Movement in Post 9/11 New York." American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., November 2013.

●"From Sodom to Disney on the Hudson: New York's Continued Role as America's Sexual Frontier." Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ, November 9, 2013.

●"The New 400: Comparing and Contrasting the Art of Philanthropy and Collecting in America's Two Gilded Ages." Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April 2013.

●"Blogging for Urban Cultural Authority: The Media Battles of the East Village Blog Mafia." Eastern American Studies Association, Harrisonburg, VA, March 2013.

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