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Anna Henchman
henchman@bu.edu

Assistant Professor

Education: B.A. Yale University; M.A., Ph.D. Harvard University.

Teaching/Research Interests: Victorian poetry, nineteenth-century British literature and culture, theory and history of the novel, history of science and technology.

Selected Publications:

"Hardy's Cliffhanger and Narrative Time." English Language Notes. 45.2. Fall/Winter 2007. 127-34.

“‘The Globe we groan in’: Astronomical Distance and Stellar Decay in In Memoriam.” Victorian Poetry. Special Issue on Science and Victorian Poetry. Vol. 41: No. 1. 29-45.

Work in Progress:
The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and Consciousness in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Honors/Grants/Awards:
John Clive Teaching Prize (2007); Harvard Society of Fellows Junior Fellowship (2004-2007); Bowdoin Prize (2004); Walter L. Arnstein Prize (2004); Certificates of Distinction in Teaching (2001, 2002, 2006); Packard Fellowship (2002); Merit Fellowship (2001); Arthur Lehman Scholarship (2001); Ralph Paine Memorial Prize (1993); Edward Thompkins McLaughlin Scholarship (1992).