Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts & Science
Enter the New Negro: African American Literary Activism in a New Century
Elizabeth McHenry is an Associate Professor of English, and specializes in African-American literature, culture, and intellectual history; nineteenth and twentieth-century United States literature; and the history of the book. She is the recipient of numerous scholarly awards, including: Columbia College Alumna Achievement Award, Columbia University, 2004; Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Nonfiction, 2003; John Hope Franklin Center Book Award, 2002; National Humanities Center, National Endowment of the Humanities Fellow, 1998 – 1999. Professor McHenry is the author of Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies (Duke University Press, 2002), and several articles.