Rich Heldenfels

Title: Senior Lecturer
Dept/Program: English
Office: Olin 329
Email: rdh22@uakron.edu

Biography

Part of the University of Akron adjunct faculty since 2011, Rich Heldenfels has also had a long career writing about popular culture. He has been a critic and columnist for newspapers in Virginia, New York and Ohio, including at the Akron Beacon Journal from 1994 to 2016, and writes a weekly column answering entertainment questions for the Tribune News Service. Publications include the book Television’s Greatest Year: 1954, and, with Tom Feran, the books Ghoulardi: Inside Cleveland TV’s Wildest Ride and Cleveland TV Memories. Shorter works include "More Than the Hood Was Red: The Joker as Marxist" in The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime and "The Bat, the Cat ... And the Eagle? Irene Adler as Inspiration for Catwoman" in The Supervillain Reader. 

Education

BA, Princeton University; MA, University of Akron

Courses

Film Appreciation, English Composition