Desiree Henderson
Assistant Professor, Early American Literature

Personal Website

Carlisle Hall - Rm 603

(ph):817.272.0960


Email Professor Henderson

Education:

Ph.D., University of California at San Diego, 2001

B.A., Occidental College, 1994
                              

Current Research:

Currently writing a book, tentatively titled The Mourner’s Book: Grief and Genre in Early America, a study of memorial genres such as funeral sermons, eulogies, and mourning manuals and their influence upon eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature. Professor Henderson is also co-editing a collection of essays to be titled, Beyond Charlotte Temple: New Approaches to Susanna Rowson, which examines Rowson’s lesser-known novels, periodical writing and editing, pedagogies and geographies, poetry and acting career.

Recent Publications:

“Illegitimate Children and Bastard Sequels: The Case of Susanna Rowson’s Lucy Temple.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 24.1 (2007): 1-23.

“Understanding the Fear and Love of Death in Three Premature Burial Stories: ‘Premature Burial,’ ‘Morella,’ and ‘The Fall of the House of Usher.’” MLA Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry. Eds. Jeffrey A. Weinstock and Anthony Magistrale. Modern Language Association Press. Forthcoming Fall 2007.

Contributing Editor, “Harriet Beecher Stowe,” The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Ed. Paul Lauter, et al. 5th edition. Houghton-Mifflin, Co. 2005. 2547-49.

“The Imperfect Dead: Mourning Women in Eighteenth-Century Oratory and Fiction.” Early American Literature 39.3 (December 2004): 487-509.

“Mourning, Masculinity, and the Drama of the American Revolution.” American Drama 13.1 (Winter 2004): 31- 45.

 

 

 

 

 

Back to Faculty Directory