Heather Hayton
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Heather Hayton with a colleague at UCLA. |
Heather Hayton is an associate professor of English and current chair of the English Department. She also shares coordinator responsibility for the Medieval and Early Modern Studies program with Tim Kircher (History Department). Heather earned her PhD in Comparative Literature at The Pennsylvania State University and her primary research/teaching areas include British and European literature of the middle ages and early modern periods.
At Guilford, Heather regularly teaches a range of courses including: ENGL 151 (King Arthur), ENGL 221 (British Literature I), ENGL 223 (Shakespeare), ENGL 288 (Shakespeare and Film), ENGL 306 (Medieval Lit), ENGL 309 (Early Modern Lit), ENGL 377/IDS 409 (Queer Studies), and GST 225 (Medieval Culture). She frequently offers special topics courses on Chaucer, Restoration Lit, Tolkien's Epics, and Dante, in addition to teaching a senior seminar called "Recreating the Past."
Having an abiding love of anything cultural studies, Heather watches lots of bad tv, zombie flicks, and listens to appalling 80s-influenced music (current rotation includes The Virgins and Airborne Toxic Event). Thanks to her two teenage kids, she knows the lyrics to most of The Lonely Island cd, and is an avid fan of college bball.
Heather's current research is on postmodern concepts of temporality and the premodern past. Check out her website at http://www.guilford.edu/classes/engl/hhayton, or stop by her office (104 Archdale) for chocolate!