About Teresa Heffernan Teresa Heffernan is a professor in the Department of English at St. Mary’s University. Books by Teresa Heffernan Veiled Figures Women, Modernity, and the Spectres of Orientalism by (author) Teresa Heffernan Post-Apocalyptic Culture Modernism, Postmodernism, and the Twentieth-Century Novel by (author) Teresa Heffernan The Turkish Embassy Letters by (author) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu edited by Teresa Heffernan & Daniel O'Quinn