Dr. Katherine Henninger

Associate Professor - English

Bachelor's Degree(s): B.A., English Literature, University of Pennsylvania

Master's Degree: M.A, English, University of Texas at Austin

PhD: Ph.D., English, University of Texas at Austin

Phone: (225) 578-7807

Fax: (225) 578-4192

E-mail: kth@lsu.edu

Office: 245C Allen, 260 Allen

Area of Interest

Southern literature and culture; 20th Century American Literature; women's and gender studies; photography and literatur; Louisiana and Caribbean studies

Awards & Honors

Louisiana Board of Regents Enhancement Fund: “Project to Enhance the Program in Louisiana
and Caribbean Studies at Louisiana State University” AY 2006-2008. Co-Principal
Investigator.
Louisiana Board of Regents Enhancement Fund: “Southern Women Authors Project."
Pedagogical website for courses that engage writing by southern women. AY 2006-2008.
Principal Investigator.
Learning Community Incentive Grant, "Multi-disciplinary Seminar on the City of New Orleans."
LSU Center for Faculty Excellence, 2005. Co-Principal Investigator.
Board of Regents Research Grant, Louisiana State University, full teaching release, Spring 2004.
Faculty Research Grant, Southern Sexualities in the National Imagination, AY 2004-2005.
Louisiana Board of Regents Enhancement Fund: “Enhancing Interdisciplinary Studies at LSU:
Louisiana and Caribbean Studies.” Two-year grant to establish interdisciplinary program.
AY 2003-2005. Co-Principal Investigator.
Council of Research Summer Grant, Louisiana State University. Summer 2002, 2003, 2006.
Artist in Residence, The Lillian E. Smith Center for the Creative Arts, Clayton, GA. Summer
2001.

Selected Publications

Ordering the Façade: Photography in Contemporary Southern Women’s Writing. Chapel Hill:
The University of North Carolina Press. March 2007.
“Faulkner, Photography, and a Regional Ethics of Form.” Faulkner and Material Culture. Joseph
Urgo, ed. Jackson, MS: U Mississippi Press, 2007: 121-138.
“Claiming Access: Controlling Images in Dorothy Allison” Arizona Quarterly 60:3 (Autumn
2004): 83-108.
“Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and the Postcolonial Gaze.” Mississippi Quarterly 56:4
(Fall 2003): 579-593.
“The Death of the Southern Male Gaze: Josephine Humphreys’ Revisionings.” The Southern
Quarterly 39:4 (Summer 2001): 17-34.
“‘It’s a outrage’: Pregnancy and Abortion in Faulkner’s Fiction of the Thirties.” Faulkner Journal
12 (Fall 1996): 23-41.
“The Trouble with Friendship” book review of Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships
in Contemporary Southern Fiction. By Sharon Monteith. Southern Literary Journal 36:1
(Fall 2003): 153-156.
“How New? What Place?: Southern Studies and the Rest of the World.” book review of South to
a New Place: Region, Literature, Culture, Edited by Suzanne W. Jones and Sharon
Monteith. Contemporary Literature 45:1 (Spring 2004): 177-85.