Dr. Melissa Heidari
Program Chair
Martha Youmans Edens Professor of English
Biography
Dr. Heidari is the Martha Youmans Edens Professor of English at Columbia College, where she teaches American literature. Her book publications include “To Find My Own Peace”: Grace King in Her Journals, 1886- 1910 (University of Georgia Press, 2004) and Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers: Grace King and Modernism, co-edited with Brigitte Zaugg (Routledge Press, 2019). In addition to her scholarship on Grace King, she has published and presented papers on other 19th-century writers, with a special interest in American gothic fiction.
Awards & Accomplishments
- Faculty Senior Excellence Award, Columbia College, 2018
Publications
- Nineteenth-Century Southern Women Writers: Grace King and Modernism. Ed. Melissa Walker Heidari and Brigitte Zaugg. London: Routledge Press, 2019.
- “To Find My Own Peace”: Grace King in Her Journals, 1886- 1910. Ed. Melissa Walker Heidari. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.