Dr Margaret Henderson
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
BA (Hons), MA, PhD
St Lucia Campus Office: 416 Michie Building
phone: 3365-2338
email: m.henderson@uq.edu.au
Book
- Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia, 2006
Co-editor:
- The Terra of Re-Cognition: New Essays in Australian Studies, 2006. With Leigh Dale
Selected Recent Articles:
- "Memoirs of Our Nervous Illness: The Queensland Police Special Branch Files of Carole Ferrier as Political Auto/Biography." Life Writing (forthcoming 2009). With Alexandra Winter.
- "The Feminine Mystique of Individualism is Powerful: The Memoirs of Betty Friedan and Robin Morgan”. A/B: Auto Biography Studies. In press.
- “Feminism in the Hearts and Minds and Words of Men: Revisiting Men’s Cultural Remembrance of Australian Feminism in the New Millennium.” Dialogue (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia) 27.3 (2008): 29-46.
- “Wonders taken for Signs: The Cultural Production of the Australian Women’s Movement as Avant-Garde Reformation.” Lilith 17 (2008).
- "The Best Motorbike: The Ducati 916 Superbike" In Beautiful Objects in Popular Culture. Ed. Alan McKee. Oxford; Malden, MA.: Blackwell, 2007. 124-43
Research Interests:
- The cultural poetics of the women’s movement, postmodernism, and the subcultures of sport (particularly motorcycling and surfing).
Current Projects:
- Co-editing a special issue of Australian Literary Studies: “Manifesting Literary Feminisms in Australia”; researching a study of Kathy Acker’s writing as punk feminism
Grants & Fellowships:
- Mary S. Lily Research Award, 2008. Sallie Bingham Centre for Women’s History and Culture, Duke University
- UQ Firstlink Fund 2007. “The Australian Feminist Memory Project: Cultures of Activism, 1970-1990”
- Faculty Research Fellow, Centre for Cultural and Critical Studies, the University of Queensland, Semester One, 2004
- UQ Research Development Grants Scheme 2003. "Mnemonics for Political Amnesiacs: American and British Feminist Autobiographies of the 1990s."
- UQ Early Career Researcher Grant 2000. "The Struggle for Memory: Histories and Texts of the Australian Women's Movement."
Journal Work:
- Member of editorial boards of Australian Feminist Studies: Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation; Kurungabaa: A Journal of Literature, History and Ideas for Surfers; and Outskirts: Feminisms Along the Edge
- Reviews Editor: Australian Literary Studies