Heidi Oberholtzer Lee
Assistant Professor of English

Contact Information: P.O. Box: 3017 E-mail: hlee@messiah.edu Phone: (717) 796-1800, ext. 2234 Office: Boyer 202 Fax: (717) 796-4790

Education:
Ph.D., English, University of Notre Dame

M.A., English, The Pennsylvania State University

B.A., English and Spanish, Houghton College

Courses Taught:

Selected Works of American Literature

American Authors Before 1900

Bible As Literature

Research Interests:

Early American Literatures (Anglo and Ibero)

Travel Writing, Religion and Literature, and Food Studies

Publications:

Articles

Oberholtzer Lee, Heidi.  “Turtle Tears and Captive Appetites: The Problem of White Desire in the Caribbean.”  Travel and the Body.  Ed. Marguerite Helmers and Tilar J. Mazzeo. Spec. issue of Journal of Narrative Theory 35 (2005): 307-25.

Oberholtzer Lee, Heidi.  “‘The Hungry Soul’: Sacramental Appetite and the

Transformation of Taste in Early American Travel Writing.”  Early American Studies 3.1 (2005): 65-93.

Oberholtzer, Heidi.  “Two Unpublished Letters of James Fenimore Cooper.”  English Language Notes 38.3 (2001): 77-84.

Edited Works

Oberholtzer, Heidi, ed. and intro.  Pilgrimage in Literature of the Americas: Spiritualized Travel and Sacred Place.  Spec. issue of Religion & Literature  35.2-3 (2003).

Personal Statement:

It is a joy to interact with students and to help introduce them to the pleasures of reading and writing and of engaging with scholarship and great literature.

Fun Fact:

In the past, I have been a clarinetist, pianist, harpist, and xylophonist, but, more recently, have taken up scrapbooking in my leisure time.

 

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