Rebecca Weaver-Hightower

Rebecca Weaver-Hightower is a professor in the Department of English.

Weaver-Hightower, whose research interests include postcolonial studies and settler narratives, held a similar leadership position at North Dakota State University prior to joining Virginia Tech in July 2020. She earned her PhD in English literature at the University of Kentucky.

She recently coauthored Cinematic Settlers: The Settler Colonial World in Film, and she authored both Frontier Fictions: Settler Sagas and Postcolonial Guilt and Empire Islands: Castaways, Cannibals and Fantasies. She is also a coeditor of Archiving Settler Colonialism: Culture, Space and Race; Postcolonial Film: History, Empire, Resistance; and Robert Greacen: Selected & New Poems.