The Women's Studies Executive Committee
Coordinator of Women's Studies:
Valerie Hegstrom, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature
Executive Committee of Women's Studies:
Heather Belnap Jensen, Assistant Professor of Art History
Amy Harris, Assistant Professor Professor of History
Tim Heaton, Professor of Sociology
Anca Sprenger, Associate Professor of French Literature
Leslee Thorne-Murphy, Assistant Professor of English Literature
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Heather Belnap Jensen
Assistant Professor of Art History and Women's Studies Executive Committee Memberheather_jensen@byu.edu (801) 422-8242 | 3122E JKB
Heather Belnap Jensen is an assistant professor of art history who specializes in nineteenth-century European art and culture and gender studies. Her research focuses on women in the art world of post-Revolutionary France. She is the co-editor, along with Temma Balducci and Pamela Warner, of Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1789-1914 (Ashgate, 2011), with a contribution on the artist and father-daughter portraiture.
Jensen and Balducci are currently working on a pendant to this volume that centers on women, bourgeois femininity, and public spaces in nineteenth-century visual culture. She is also working on a book manuscript tentatively titled Art, Fashion, and the Modern Woman in Post-Revolutionary France.
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Amy Harris
Assistant Professor Professor of History and Women's Studies Executive Committee Member
amy.harris@byu.edu (801) 422-2276 | 1065 JFSB
Professor Harris is a member of the Women’s Studies Executive committee and an active participant in Women’s Studies at BYU. A native of Ogden, Utah, she completed her undergraduate degree in family history at BYU. After receiving an MA from American University and a PhD from University of California, Berkeley, she joined the BYU History department in 2006.
Her historical and genealogical research focuses on families and women in early modern Britain. She teaches European history and British genealogical research courses. Two of her courses, European women and European families, are among the elective options for Women’s Studies minors. Her book, Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England: Share and Share Alike, will be published by Manchester University Press in 2012. Her current research focuses on ways poor families managed poverty and kinship in early modern Britain. |
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Tim Heaton
Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies Executive Committee Member
tim_heaton@byu.edu (801) 422-3280 | 2033 JFSB
Tim B. Heaton holds a Camilla Kimball chair in the Department of Sociology at Brigham Young University. His research focuses on demographic trends in the family. Research in the United States and Indonesia has focused on trends in and determinants of marital dissolution. He has examined the relationship between family characteristics and children’s health in Latin America. He is currently analyzing religious group differences in socio-economic status, family characteristics, and health in developing countries. He is a co-editor of Biodemography and Social Biology
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Valerie Hegstrom
Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Coordinator of Women's Studies
hegstrom@byu.edu (801) 422-3191 | 3148 JFSB
Valerie Hegstrom's research involves the recovery of Early Modern Spanish and Portuguese women authors and their works. She has published books and art
Articles about Early Modern women playwrights and their theater, particularly María de Zayas and Angela de Azevedo. She is currently working on an edition of Bernarda Ferreira de Lacerda's volume of poetry Las soledades de Buçaco (1634), as well as a translation of poems, prose, theater, and letters by Soror Maria do Ceo.Hegstrom offers courses on Spanish women authors, including "Early Modern Women Writers" and "Convent Literature." She has mentored student performances of La muerte del apetito by Sor Marcela de san Félix (2008), El muerto disimulado by Angela de Azevedo (2004), "La fiestecilla del nacimiento" by Sor María de san Alberto (1994), and the Loa al Divino Narciso by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1993). Additionally, she teaches "Introduction to Women's Studies" and supervises the "Women's Studies Colloquium."She is a founding member of GEMELA, Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas (pre-1800). She has served as Coordinator of Women's Studies since February 2011.
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Anca Sprenger
Associate Professor of French Literature and Women's Studies Executive Committee Member
anca_sprenger@byu.edu (801) 422-2306 | 3119 JFSB
Dr. Sprenger received her bachelor's degree in French Literature at the University of Bucharest and her PhD at the University of Southern California. Here at BYU she commonly teaches Introduction to French Litary Analysis, and Introduction to Romanian Literature and Culture. Her research interestes include French Literature, especially the persistence of the discourse of the sacred in modern literaty texts. She is currently working on a book about the life and work of Canadian author Gabrielle Roy.
Dr. Anca Sprenger's interests focus in French Literature, especially the persistence of the discourse of the sacred in modern literary texts. Dr. Sprenger examines the impact of secularization and loss of the "Ancien Régime" values on the 19th century French society. She analyzes the way in which sacred gestures, spiritual discourses are recuperated and encoded in modern French literature. |
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Leslee Thorne-Murphy
Assistant Professor of English Literature and Women's Studies Executive Committee Member
leslee_thorne-murphy@byu.edu (801) 422-1506 | 4034 JFSB
Leslee Thorne-Murphy is an assistant professor of English with a specialty in Victorian literature. She teaches survey courses in British literature as well as more specialized courses in various aspects of Victorian literature and women’s studies.
Her research interests include women’s literature, book history, and scholarly editing. Presently she is working on two book-length projects. The first is an edited volume of diaries written by Rhoda Ann Burgess, an LDS pioneer who settled in southern Utah. The diaries give invaluable insight into the daily life of a common woman on the frontier.
Her second project is a monograph exploring print culture at Victorian fundraising bazaars. Almost entirely organized, supplied, and staffed by women, these bazaars contributed to the massive philanthropic efforts common to the Victorian period and became a vital component in women’s cultural experience.
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