Mae Gwendolyn Henderson

Mae Gwendolyn Henderson is professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of articles on African American and feminist criticism and theory, pedagogy, and cultural studies and is editor of Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology (2005), Borders, Boundaries and Frames (1995), and co-editor (with John Blassingame) of the five-volume Antislavery Newspapers and Periodicals: An Annotated Index of Letters, 1817-1871 (1980). She is also author of the widely anthologized essay, “Speaking In Tongues: Dialogics, Dialectics, and the Black Woman Writer’s Literary Tradition” as well as the more recently published “Josephine Baker and La Revue Nègre: From Ethnography to Performance.”