Glenn Hendler
Associate Professor
Specialty
Nineteenth- and twentieth-century American fiction and culture, critical theory, and cultural studies
Degrees
B.A., Brown University; Ph.D., Northwestern University
Profile
Glenn Hendler's research interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American fiction and culture, gender studies, critical theory, and cultural studies. He is the author of Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature, which explores "the logic of sympathy" in fiction by Walt Whitman, Louisa May Alcott, T. S. Arthur, Martin Delany, Horatio Alger, Fanny Fern, Nathanial Parker Willis, Henry James, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. He is also co-editor, with Mary Chapman, of Sentimental Men: Masculinity and the Politics of Affect in American Culture. Hendler is currently working on a book to be called Riot Acts: Writing Public Violence in Nineteenth-Century America, and is completing two editing projects: an edition of Walt Whitman's temperance novel Franklin Evans or, The Inebriate and Keywords of American Cultural Studies.
Recent Publications
Public Sentiments: Structures of Feeling in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. Chapel Hill: University of North Caroline, 2001.
Whitman, Walt. Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate. Edited by Glenn Hendler and Christopher Castiglia. Chapel Hill: Duke University Press, forthcoming.
Hendler, Glenn and Bruce Burgett, eds. Keywords of American Cultural Studies. New York: New York University Press, forthcoming.
"Masculinity and the Logic of Sympathy in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," edited by Beverly Clark. Norton Critical Edition. New York: W. W. Norton, forthcoming.
Recent Honors and Awards
Chair, Nineteenth-Century American Literature Division Executive Committee, Modern Language Association, 2006.
Keynote address, "Situation Critical: Subjects in Transformation," Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, March 2004.
American Antiquarian Society/Northeast Modern Language Association Fellowship, 2002-3.
Contact Information
356 O'Shaughnessy Hall
(574) 631-6618
ghendler@nd.edu
http://www.nd.edu/~ghendler