Publications and Presentations

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Essays

Rea-Hedrick, Eden. “Cripping the Sexual Psychopath: The Disability Politics of Leopold and Loeb.” Modernism/modernity (forthcoming).

Rea-Hedrick, Eden. “‘See things my way’: Conveying and Critiquing Consciousness in Contemporary Screen Adaptations of Jane Austen.” Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture 58, no. 3 (2025): 411-431. DOI: 10.1215/00166928-11995224.

Rea-Hedrick, Eden. “Charles Thrale: Disability and Gender Anxiety in WWII.” The Polyphony: Conversations Across the Medical Humanities, July 2025.

Book Reviews

Rea-Hedrick, Eden. Silent Film and the Formation of U.S. Literary Culture: Literature in Motion by Sarah Gleeson-White, Oxford University Press, 2024. Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 45, no. 4 (2025). DOI: 10.1080/01439685.2025.2554369.

Rea-Hedrick, Eden. Re-Understanding Media: Feminist Extensions of Marshall McLuhan edited by Sarah Sharma and Rianka Singh, Duke University Press, 2022. The Communication Review 26, no. 2 (2023). 204-6. DOI: 10.1080/10714421.2023.2189398.

Presentations

Guest lecture on disability pedagogy for History of Science and Medicine 4630: Care Work: Intersectional Pedagogical, Experiential, and Theoretical Approaches to Healing, Yale University, February 2026.

“Care Work in Mary Renault’s The Charioteer.” Modernist Studies Association, Boston, October 2025.

“Reimaging Lesbian Health in Han Suyin’s Winter Love.” Lesbian Lives, CUNY Graduate Center, October 2025.

“Cripping the Sexual Psychopath: Leopold and Loeb and the Limits of Health.” ROLES Sexuality and Gender Studies Network, University of Birmingham, June 2025.

“Disavowal and Diagnosis: Reckoning with Queer Disability in Han Suyin’s Winter Love.” Feminist Perspectives on Body, Disability, and Health, Penn State University, March 2025.

Respondent for Imani Tucker’s “Emulation Rewarded: Villette’s Lessons in Plotting.” 18^th/19^th Century Colloquium, Yale University, April 2024.

Guest lecture on Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin for English 194: Queer Modernisms, Yale University, November 2023.

“Leopold and Loeb on Film: Queer Criminality and Medical Machinations, 1959 to 1992.” Malady, Georgetown University, October 2023.

“In a Happier Year: Disease, Cure, and Becoming ‘Normal’ in E. M. Forster’s Maurice from 1913 to 1987.” Queen’s Graduate Conference in Literature, Queen’s University, May 2023.

“‘Write me out, Doady’: Feminist Revision and Creative Authority in Armando Ianucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield.” Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium, Yale University, February 2022.

“Images for Cocteau: Adrienne Rich Re-Visioning Orpheus.” Crossing Boundaries in Literature, Theory, and Culture, Purdue University, March 2021.

“Toward a Queer Humanism in Where Angels Fear to Tread.” Re-Orientating E. M. Forster: Texts, Contexts, Receptions, University of Cambridge, April 2020. (cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic)