Carol E. Henderson (B.A. University of California, Los Angeles; M.A. California State University, Dominguez Hills; Ph.D. University of California, Riverside) is the author of Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature (University of Missouri Press, 2002). She has published articles in Religion and Literature, Legacy, Modern Fiction Studies, Alizes, MAWA Review, as well as a number of critical essays, book reviews, and biographical entries in edited volumes and reference collections. She is also the editor of James Baldwin's Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical and Critical Essays (forthcoming 2006, Peter Lang Publishers), a collection which considers the biblical, spiritual, and religious implications of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the writings of James Baldwin. Currently, she serves as an affiliate faculty member to Women's Studies and has a secondary joint appointment in Black American Studies. She has taught undergraduate survey courses in 19th and 20th Century African American and American literature and classes in African American Women's Literature and Criticism. Her recent graduate seminar "Imag(in)ing America: The African American Body in Literature" considered the writings of such authors as George Schuyler, Toni Morrison, Mark Twain, Nella Larsen, Lee Harper, Ntzoke Shange, Walt Whitman, Octavia Butler, among others. She has received numerous professional and academic awards, including the "Richard "Dick" Wilson Community Award from the Center for Black Culture (2002) and the "Excellence in Teaching" Award in 1996.
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