Eden Rea-Hedrick
Eden Rea-Hedrick is a fourth-year PhD candidate in English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale. They have also completed Yale’s graduate certificate in Film and Media Studies. Their research interests broadly encompass disability, 20th-century Anglo-American fiction, film and media, the novel, feminist and queer theory, and the history of sexuality. Their dissertation project uses literary scholarship informed by disability theory to explore the imbrication of queer sexuality and disability in the midcentury U.S. and Britain. Eden earned a B.A. in English from Indiana University, Indianapolis and studied English and Comparative Literature at St Anne’s College, Oxford. In Yale’s English department, they convene the Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Colloquium and serve on the Graduate Student Advisory Committee. Through the Poorvu Center, they work as a graduate lead mentor in the Academic Strategies Program and a lead writing partner in the Yale College Writing Center. They are the proud pet parent of a spoiled Shih tzu/Yorkie mix named Wilkie Collins.