Professor Caroline Gebhard, a University of Virginia Ph.D., has taught at Tuskegee since 1994. She examines how gender and race, as well as history and place, shape art. She co-curated “African Visions/ American Spirit: Edward L. Pryce,” at the Carver Museum. She won a UNCF fellowship to conduct oral histories, researching work in progress, Invisible Legacy: The Women of Tuskegee, 1881-1981.
Representative publications:
“Constance Feminore Woolson’s Two Women: 1862.: A Civil War Romance of Irreconcilable Difference,” Witness to Reconstruction: Constance Fenimore Woolson and the Postbellum South, 1873-1894, ed. Kathleen Diffley (U of Mississippi P, 2011), 90-106.
“Albert Murray and Tuskegee Institute: Art as the Measure of Place,”Albert Murray and the Aesthetic Imagination of a Nation, ed. Barbara A. Baker (U of Alabama P, 2010), 114-129.
“Post-Bellum–Pre-Harlem”: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919, anthology of original essays co-edited with Barbara McCaskill (NYU P, 2006.)
“Reconstructing Southern Manhood: Race, Sentimentality, and Camp in the Plantation Myth,” in Haunted Bodies: Gender and Southern Texts, ed. Anne Goodwyn Jones & Susan V. Donaldson (U of Virginia P, 1997), 132-155.
English
HENDERSON
Research Fields:
19th Century American Literature
20th Century American Literature
Psychoanalytic Theory
The American Gothic
Mark Henderson, Ph. D.
Assistant Professor, English
College of Arts and Sciences
Email: mhenderson@mytu.tuskegee.edu
Office Phone: 334-725-2337
Office Address: 70-329 John A. Kenney Hall
Tuskegee University
Tuskegee, AL 36088
Biographical Sketch:
Mark Henderson received his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He received his doctorate in English from Auburn University in August 2013. His research interests are 19th- and 20th-century American literature, psychoanalytic theory, and the American Gothic.
Representative publications:
Ph. D. Dissertation: “Striking Back at the New Overseer: Response to White Panopticism in the Works of Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Ralph Ellison”.
Marilyn Pryce Hoytt is a graduate of Spelman College. She holds a Master of Education degree in French from Auburn University. Fluent in French, Hoytt studied, lived and worked extensively in Paris, France, and in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; studied at la Sorbonne, l’Institut Britannique; received Diplome des Affaires Françaises, Certificat de l’Institut Catholique, Paris, France.
Representative Publications (in progress):
Preface to Sentimentalement Votre, by Dr. Bill Ndi.
L’Arbre Solitaire de Marilyn Hoytt (original children’s book in French, illustrated by Edward L. Pryce)