Eric Heyne
Department of English
University of Alaska Fairbanks
United States of America
Biography
Eric Heyne is a professor belongs to the department of English from the university of Alaska Fairbanks.
Research Interest
Eric Heyne has been teaching at UAF since 1986. He received his doctorate in critical theory and American literature from Ohio State University in 1984. He has served as Chair of the English Dept., President of the Faculty Senate, and Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. He has published essays on American literature, northern and Alaskan literature, and the theory of the fiction/nonfiction distinction, in Modern Fiction Studies, Narrative, Western American Literature, River Teeth, Extrapolation, The Northern Review, and elsewhere, and is the editor of Desert, Garden, Margin, Range: Literature on the American Frontier (Twayne 1992). He has published poetry in Platte Valley Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Ice-Floe, Scintilla, Eclectica, and elsewhere.
Publications
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“‘Such Humble Awareness’: The Emergence of a Northern Vision in the Fiction and Nonfiction of Nancy Lord.†The Northern Review 28 (2007), 60-78.
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“Truth or Consequences: Individuality, Reference, and the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction.†Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik: A Quarterly of Language, Literature, and Culture. Special issue on “Constructing Media Reality: The New Documentarism,†56.2 (2008), 117-127
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“’A Bruised, Cartoonish Quality’: The Death of an American Supervillain in Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis.†Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 54 (2013), 438-451.
