{"id":4937,"date":"2021-07-12T16:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=4937"},"modified":"2025-04-29T11:13:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T15:13:47","slug":"jennifer-henderson","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/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<p>Jennifer Henderson is cross-appointed to the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/henderson-jennifer\/\">Department of English Language and Literature<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/sics\/\">School of Indigenous and 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&nbsp;<em>Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada<\/em>&nbsp;(2003). That book describes the contours and contradictions of 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;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>&nbsp;and 20<sup>th\/<\/sup>21<sup>st<\/sup>&nbsp;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&nbsp;<em>Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress<\/em>&nbsp;(2013), a collection I recently 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<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utppublishing.com\/Settler-Feminism-and-Race-Making-in-Canada.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Settler Feminism and Race Making in Canada<\/em><\/a>. University of Toronto Press, 2003.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Edited collections<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(co-edited with Pauline Wakeham)&nbsp;<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>&nbsp;University of Toronto Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(co-edited with Eva C. Karpinski, Ray Ellenwood, and Ian Sowton)&nbsp;<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>&nbsp;Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Chapters in books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Camp, the School, and the Child: Discursive Exchanges and (Neo)liberal Axioms in the Culture of Redress,\u201d in&nbsp;<em>Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress.<\/em>&nbsp;Eds. Jennifer Henderson and Pauline Wakeham. University of Toronto Press, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(with Brian Johnson) \u201cMaddin, Melodrama, and the \u2018Pre-National,\u2019\u201d in&nbsp;<em>Double-Takes: Intersections Between Canadian Literature and Film.&nbsp;<\/em>Ed. David Jarraway. University of Ottawa Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSomething not unlike enjoyment\u201d: Gothicism, Catholicism, and Sexuality in&nbsp;<em>Kiss of the Fur Queen\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em>Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic.<\/em>&nbsp;Eds. Cynthia Sugars and Gerry Turcotte. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt Normal School: Ernest Thomson Seton, L.M. Montgomery, and the New Education.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature<\/em>. Ed. &nbsp;&nbsp;Cynthia Sugars. University of Ottawa Press, 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFemme(s) Focale(s): Gail Scott\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Main Brides<\/em>&nbsp;and the Post-Identity Narrative.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<em>Gail Scott: Essays on Her Works<\/em>. Ed. Lianne Moyes. Guernica Editions, 2002. 72-100. (Reprint.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Journal articles<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cResidential School Gothic and Red Power: Genre Friction in&nbsp;<em>Rhymes for Young Ghouls,\u201d American Indian Culture and Research Journal,&nbsp;<\/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&nbsp;<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&nbsp;<em>Biosocieties<\/em>&nbsp;10.3 (September 2015) 352-378.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTransparency, Spectatorship, Accountability: Indigenous Families in Settler-State \u2018Postdemocracies,\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<i>English Studies in Canada<\/i>&nbsp;38.3 Special issue: Childhood and Its Discontents. Forthcoming, Fall 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cColonial Conjugality in Susan Frances Harrison.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Canadian Literature&nbsp;<\/em>212 (Summer 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(with Pauline Wakeham) \u201cColonial Reckoning, National Reconciliation?: First Peoples and the Culture of Redress in Canada,\u201d&nbsp;<em>English Studies in Canada<\/em>,&nbsp; Vol. 34, Issue 4, Spring 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCan The Third Wave Speak?\u201d&nbsp;<em>Atlantis<\/em>&nbsp;32.1 (2007) 68-78.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOf Bombs, Baking, and Blahniks\u201d (with Lauren Gillingham, Julie Murray, and Janice Schroeder).&nbsp;<em>English Studies in Canada,&nbsp;<\/em>Readers\u2019 Forum on \u201cThe State of Feminism.\u201d31.2-3 (June\/September 2005) 22-30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHow Janey Canuck Became a Person.\u201d&nbsp;<em>Topia: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 13&nbsp;<\/em>(Spring 2005) 73-87.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFat Shoes\u201d in&nbsp;<em>Tessera<\/em>&nbsp;31 special issue on \u201cFetishism\u201d (Winter 2002) 5-13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCritical Canadiana.\u201d&nbsp;<em>American Literary History<\/em>&nbsp;13:4 (Winter 2001). 789-813.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recent Presentations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFeeling Gothic, Feeling Resilient: Dilemmas of Recursivity and Recuperation in Post-Statist Imaginaries,\u201d 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>\u201cResilience, Indigeneity, and Human Capital as a Nexus of Neoliberal Governmentality,\u201d&nbsp;Canadian Political Science Association, \u201cResilience, Recognition, Vulnerability, Apology: Logics and Politics of Care in Neoliberal Canada\u201d panel, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of British Columbia, May 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTowards a Genealogy of the Settler Public\/Private: Land, Labour, and the 19th Century Colonization Company.\u201d Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Regina, May 28, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNeoliberal Gothic and Settler Social Imaginaries.\u201d Cultures of Capitalism, Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Conference, Massey University, Wellington. December 6, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGenre and the Politics of Public Memory:&nbsp;<em>Rhymes for Young Ghouls<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;Residential School Gothic.\u201d Mikinaakominis\/Transcanadas Conference. University of Toronto. May 26, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReframing Residential School Gothic.\u201d Maladies of the Soul, Emotion, Affect Conference, Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta\/Canadian Studies Centre, University of Innsbruck. Banff, Alberta, September 25, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGender and Liberal Government in&nbsp;<em>The Manor House of De Villerai.\u201d&nbsp;<\/em>Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Calgary, May 28, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNeoliberal Memorialization and Indigenous Resurgence.\u201d&nbsp; Research Works lecture series.&nbsp; Carleton University.&nbsp; October 9, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSettler Sense and Indigenous Resurgence.\u201d&nbsp; Keynote lecture presented to the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures and the Canadian Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies.&nbsp; Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, May 30, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMelodrama, Statistics: Indigenous Families in Settler-State \u2018Post-Democracies.\u2019\u201d Crossroads in Cultural Studies. Universit\u00e9 de la Sorbonne Nouvelle. Paris, July 5, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cReading&nbsp;<em>Crackpot<\/em>&nbsp;Today.\u201d Association of Canadian and Quebecois Literatures, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Wilfrid Laurier University and University of Waterloo. May 27, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFeeling Better(ment):&nbsp;<em>Third World Canada<\/em>&nbsp;and Change\u2019s Private Sphere.\u201d Canadian Cultural Studies Association meetings, McGill University, Montreal. Nov. 4, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIndigenous Neoliberation in Aotearoa and Canada.\u201d Post\/Colonial (Re)Constructions of Indigenous Parenthood and Family Life,&nbsp; Canadian Anthropology Society meetings, St. Thomas University, Fredericton. May 12, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(co-presented with Keith Denny) \u201cChildhood resilience, human development, and politics as police.\u201d Mapping the Landscapes of Childhood conference. Lethbridge, Alberta. May 6, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGenre and Affect in Settler-State Discourses of Reconciliation.\u201d Presented at Living Together Differently workshop, meeting of the Tauhara Research Network. Taupo, New Zealand. February 23, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cComparative Canadian Redress: Reading Tropes of Confinement and Childhood in Two Movements for Reparations.\u201d Narrating the Nation panel, Canadian Law and Society Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, June 2, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>PhD supervisions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaun Stevenson, \u201cHydrosocial Relations and the Ethics of Indigenous Land Claims\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amy Chamberlin, \u201cEn\/countering Indian Day Schools: Troubling Reconciliation and Embodying Trans-Systemic Knowledge Systems\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miranda Lebeil, \u201cThe Representation of Indigenous Children and Families in Provincial Child Death Inquiries\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4938,"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":[51],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-4937","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-canadian-studies"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Professor","cu_people_degree":"B.A. (McGill), M.A., Ph.D. (York)","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"jennifer.henderson@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"2367","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\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/4937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=4937"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicaleconomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=4937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}