Sharon M. Hekman

Sharon Hekman is the Assistant Dean for the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Columbia College Chicago.

Hekman holds a Master’s degree in professional communication and is a PhD candidate in English at Northern Illinois University (NIU). She has held a variety of teaching and editorial positions, including teaching writing at NIU, creating and presenting academic assimilation workshops for international students (also at NIU), and serving as the Editorial Assistant for the journal College Composition and Communication.

Hekman’s research interests include the history of rhetoric, women’s rhetoric, and 17th century English and American literature. She has presented academic papers with regularity at scholarly conferences, such as the conferences of the Renaissance Society of America, Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Midwest Medieval Association, and the Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Her essay, “Lactation Rhetoric, Religion, and The Countesse of Lincolnes Nurserie (1622)” was included in the Proceedings of the Northern Plains Conference on Early British Literature (2006). Hekman’s essay “The Seasons Compared: A Re-Evaluation of Thomson and Hinchliffe” is forthcoming later this year as a book chapter in a volume edited by Marianna D'Ezio and published by Cambridge Scholars.