{"id":240,"date":"2009-06-29T11:35:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T15:35:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=240"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:42:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T14:42:00","slug":"jennifer-henderson","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/jennifer-henderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Henderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Cross-appointed with the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/canadianstudies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">School of Canadian Studies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Canadian literary and cultural studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Settler colonialism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Neoliberalism<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Feminism and gender studies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critical media and policy studies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current research<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am interested in the relationship between literature and liberal government in the settler colonial context, a conjuncture I first examined in <em>Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada<\/em> (2003). That book describes the contours and contradictions of 19<sup>th<\/sup> century liberal feminisms projected onto colonial space. It is also a kind of genealogy of a late 20<sup>th<\/sup>-century genre, the woman\u2019s survivor story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I continue to move between the 19<sup>th<\/sup> and 20<sup>th\/<\/sup>21<sup>st<\/sup> centuries, but I have turned to the child as a figure through which settler-colonial futures and pasts are imagined and normative programs of liberal selfhood configured. This line of research has taken me from turn-of-the-century pedagogies of freedom through play (\u2018playing Indian\u2019), to residential schools, to historical reckoning through the lens of childhood trauma, to the current narratives of \u2018human development\u2019 and \u2018resilience.\u2019 <em>Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress<\/em> (2013), a collection I co-edited, is about the broader discourses and languages of justice-seeking organized around historical injury today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another line of research I am zeroing in on the specificities of neoliberalism in settler-colonial contexts, where the logic of \u2018privatization\u2019 is inseparable from colonial histories of imposing the private household, and the overlapping questions of how to govern the poor and the Indigenous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1538\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Settler-Feminism-and-Race-Making-in-Canada-1024x1538.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27327\" style=\"width:192px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Settler-Feminism-and-Race-Making-in-Canada-1024x1538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Settler-Feminism-and-Race-Making-in-Canada-512x769.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Settler-Feminism-and-Race-Making-in-Canada-320x480.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Settler-Feminism-and-Race-Making-in-Canada-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Settler-Feminism-and-Race-Making-in-Canada-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Settler-Feminism-and-Race-Making-in-Canada-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/2009\/06\/Settler-Feminism-and-Race-Making-in-Canada-scaled.jpg 1705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/utppublishing.com\/doi\/book\/10.3138\/9780802037039\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada<\/a><\/em>. University of Toronto Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Edited Books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(co-edited with Bruce Curtis and Mythili Rajiva) Alison Prentice, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/utppublishing.com\/doi\/book\/10.3138\/9781487570255\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The School Promoters: Egerton Ryerson and His Circle, Second Edition<\/a><\/em>. University of Toronto Press, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(co-edited with Pauline Wakeham) <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utppublishing.com\/Reconciling-Canada-Critical-Perspectives-on-the-Culture-of-Redress.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress<\/a>.<\/em> University of Toronto Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(co-edited with Eva C. Karpinski, Ray Ellenwood, and Ian Sowton) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlupress.wlu.ca\/Books\/T\/Trans-acting-Culture-Writing-and-Memory\"><em>Trans\/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory: Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard.<\/em><\/a> Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Translations<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"399\" height=\"399\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/Eye-of-the-Master-cover-003.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-22795\" style=\"width:166px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/Eye-of-the-Master-cover-003.jpg 399w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/Eye-of-the-Master-cover-003-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/Eye-of-the-Master-cover-003-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/147\/Eye-of-the-Master-cover-003-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dalie Giroux, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mqup.ca\/eye-of-the-master--the-products-9780228016373.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Eye of the Master: Figures of the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois Colonial Imaginary<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0Carleton Library Series\/McGill Queen&#8217;s UP, 2023 &#8212; translation of Dalie Giroux, <em>L&#8217;oeil du ma\u00eetre.\u00a0<\/em>M\u00e9moire d&#8217;encrier, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Chapters in books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Neoliberal Gothic, Settler Social Imaginaries, and the Case for Decolonization on Two Fronts,&#8221; in&nbsp;<em>Land\/Relations: Possibilities of Justice in Canadian Literatures<\/em>. Eds. Larissa Lai and Smaro Kamboureli. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Resilience.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Sage Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood Studies<\/em>, Sage Publications (Oakland, CA: 2020)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Journal articles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Residential School Gothic and Red Power: Genre Friction in <em>Rhymes for Young Ghouls,&#8221; American Indian Culture and Research Journal, <\/em>42.4 (2018) 43-66.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cResidential Schools and Opinion-Making in the Era of Traumatized Subjects and Taxpayer-Citizens.\u201d <em>Journal of Canadian Studies<\/em>&nbsp;49.1 (2015), 5-43.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(co-authored with Keith Denny) \u201cThe Resilient Child, Human Development, and the \u2018Post-democracy,\u2019\u201d <em>Biosocieties, <\/em>10.3 (September 2015), 352-378.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8221; &#8216;Upgrade Life!&#8217;: Rupture, Development, and Constellation on the &#8216;Oblates Lands&#8217; ,&#8221; Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Triennial Conference: Ruptured Commons, Toronto Metropolitan University, July 11, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Feeling Gothic, Feeling Resilient: Dilemmas of Recursivity and Recuperation in Post-Statist Imaginaries,&#8221; Gothic in a Time of Contagion, Populism and Racial Injustice: Gothic-Without-Borders Conference of the International Gothic Association, Simon Fraser University, March 11, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Resilience, Indigeneity, and Human Capital as a Nexus of Neoliberal Governmentality,&#8221;&nbsp;Canadian Political Science Association, &#8220;Resilience, Recognition, Vulnerability, Apology: Logics and Politics of Care in Neoliberal Canada&#8221; panel, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Current PhD supervisions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Farley Ratcliffe, Doctoral Candidate in English, &#8220;Feminism and &#8216;Folk&#8217;: A Cultural History&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Breanna Kubat, Doctoral Candidate in Canadian Studies, &#8220;Student Organizing and Institutional Change&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8923,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Jennifer","cu_people_last_name":"Henderson","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[22],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-240","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-professors"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (York)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"jennifer_henderson@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27328,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/240\/revisions\/27328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}