Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Heather Brook Adams

Associate Professor, Department of English

Email: hbadams@uncg.edu
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Appointed through Spring 2024

Heather Brook Adams is an associate professor of English and cross-appointed faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. With a specialty in rhetorical studies, Heather engages in feminist and historiographic research and studies discourses of gender, reproduction, and shame. Her work has appeared in journals such as Quarterly Journal of Speech, Rhetoric Review, Women’s Studies in Communication, College English, Computers and Composition, Pedagogy, Peitho, and Composition Forum as well as in various edited collections She is working on a monograph, “Rhetorics of Shame: A Recent History of Righteous Reproduction,” and is co-editing a collection, “Rhetorics of Reproduction: Rights, Health, Justice” with Dr. Nancy Myers. Adams’s scholarship has won awards from the Conference on College Composition and Communication (James Berlin Memorial Outstanding Dissertation Award) and Rhetoric of Health and Medicine Symposium (Distinguished Paper Award). Adams teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on contemporary rhetoric, rhetorics of health and medicine, feminist pedagogy, and advocacy and argumentation.