Jon Heggestad

Visiting Assistant Professor

About

Jon Heggestad is an interdisciplinary scholar whose teaching focuses on literature, media, and technology. With an emphasis on multimodality, his classes draw on a wide range of texts that include dating simulators, comics, novels, artist's books, zines, algorithms, streaming platforms, virtual pets, and more. The greater body of his research is located at the intersection of queer studies and digital studies, with recent works appearing in publications like Queer Studies in Media and Popular Culture, Transformative Works and Cultures, and Camera Obscura, as well as on public-facing platforms like Inside Higher Ed, Public Books, and Xtra Magazine.

Research Interests

  • Digital studies
  • Film Studies
  • Gender and sexuality
  • Science fiction
  • Nineteenth-century literature
  • Visual rhetorics
  • Book arts and book history
  • Popular culture