Email: hbadams@uncg.edu
Office: MHRA 3330
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University-2012
M.A. Bread Loaf School of English/Middlebury College–2008
M.A. University of Maryland College Park–2008
B.A. University of Mount Union (formerly Mount Union College)-2000
Dr. Adams currently serves as director of the UNCG Humanities Network and Consortium. She is a PI for and the director of Humanities at Work, a Mellon Foundation-funded paid-internship program at UNCG.
Dr. Adams’s feminist rhetorical research investigates reproduction and pregnancy in relation to affect, gender, race, and class. She published Enduring Shame: A Recent History of Unwed Pregnancy and Righteous Reproduction (University of South Carolina Press) in 2022. The book was awarded the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition’s Winifred Bryan Horner Outstanding Book Award in 2024. Her most recent book, with Dr. Nancy Myers, is the collection Inclusive Aims: Rhetoric’s Role in Reproductive Justice (Parlor Press, 2024).
Dr. Adams’s scholarly and pedagogical interests also include advocacy, rhetorics of health and wellness, visual rhetorics, intersectional feminist methodologies, and undergraduate research. She regularly teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in these and related areas.
Dr. Adams is a cross-appointed faculty member in UNCG’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program. She is also a board member for Switchback Books and an advisory board member of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition.
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