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Heffernan, Valerie (2024) Adapting (to) Non-Motherhood: Ulrike Kofer’s Film What We Wanted (2020). Negotiating Non-Motherhood: Representations, Perceptions, and Experiences. pp. 221-238. ISSN 978-3-031-66697-1

Heffernan, Valerie and Stone, Katherine (2021) #regrettingmotherhood in germany: Feminism, motherhood, and culture. Signs, 46 (2). pp. 337-360. ISSN 0097-9740

Heffernan, Valerie and Wilgus, Gay (2018) Introduction: Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century—Images, Representations, Constructions. Women: A Cultural Review, 29 (1). pp. 1-18. ISSN 0957-4042

Heffernan, Valerie (2018) Mending the Torn Fragments of a Relationship: An Interview with Sarah Strong. Women: A Cultural Review, 29 (1). pp. 97-111. ISSN 0957-4042

Heffernan, Valerie (2017) Dementia narratives in contemporary German women’s writing. Journal of Romance Studies, 17 (3). pp. 361-378. ISSN 1473-3536

Heffernan, Valerie (2010) Swimming Against the Current? Rolf Lappert’s Nach Hause schwimmen. FIGURATIONEN: GENDER-LITERATUR-KULTUR 1, 11 (1). pp. 113-128. ISSN 2194-363X

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Heffernan, Valerie (2015) Matrilineal Narrative and the Feminist Family Romance. In: German Women's Writing in the Twenty-First Century. Boydell & Brewer, Camden House, UK., pp. 37-53. ISBN 9781782044864

Heffernan, Valerie (2014) Mediating the Mommy Wars in Contemporary Germany. In: Stay-at-Home Mothers: Dialogues and Debates. Demeter Press, Bradford, ON, pp. 129-139. ISBN 978-1-927335-44-4

Heffernan, Valerie (2013) Perspectives on the Borderline: Julia Franck’s Lagerfeuer. In: Transitions: Emerging Women Writers in German Language Literature. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 69-89.

Heffernan, Valerie and Pye, Gillian (2013) Trends and Transitions in Contemporary German-language Writing by Women. In: Transitions: Emerging Women Writers in German Language Literature. Rodopi, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp. 1-34.

Heffernan, Valerie (2011) Julia Franck, Die Mittagsfrau: Historia Matria and Matrilineal Narrative. In: Emerging German-Language Novelists of the Twenty-First Century. Camden House, pp. 148-161. ISBN 978-1-57113-421-9

Barkoff, Jürgen and Heffernan, Valerie (2010) Einleitung: Mythos Schweiz. In: Schweiz schreiben : zu Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion des Mythos Schweiz in der Gegenwartsliteratur. De Gruyter, pp. 7-27. ISBN 9783484108127

Heffernan, Valerie (2010) Unschweizerische Schweizerliteratur? In: Schweiz schreiben : zu Konstruktion und Dekonstruktion des Mythos Schweiz in der Gegenwartsliteratur. De Gruyter, pp. 283-295. ISBN 9783484108127

Heffernan, Valerie (2008) '"Nicht wahr, es klingt so schoen". Zur Musik des Walser-Textes'. In: Bildersprache Klangfiguren. Spielformen der Intermedialitaet bei Robert Walser. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, pp. 219-226. ISBN 978-3-7705-4711-1

Heffernan, Valerie (2008) Robert Walser (1878-1956) ‘Lange wohnte sie nun schon im Turm der Geduld’ (1929). In: Prose Project: Irish Germanists interpret German Short and Very Short Narrative Texts. Hartung-Gorre Verlag, pp. 133-140.

Heffernan, Valerie (2007) Walter M. Diggelmann’s Die Hinterlassenschaft and the landscape of Swiss ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’. In: From the Margins to the Centre: Irish Germanists on Swiss Culture and Literature. Peter Lang AG, pp. 265-282. ISBN 978-3-0391--716-2