
Education: Ph.D. U. of Minnesota 1985
Office Location: PAR 14
Office Hours: F 10:00-1:00
Phone: (512) 471-4942
henkelj@uts.cc.utexas.edu
Research Interests: Her academic interests include the relation of linguistics to literary criticism; ordinary language philosophy; narrative theory; and language and gender.
Recent Publications: Professor Henkel has written for the journals Poetics, Journal of Literary Semantics, College English, and PMLA, and she has published a full-length study of linguistics in Area X (entitled The Language of Criticism) with Cornell University Press. She is currently working on attitudes toward American Indian languages in 17th century linguistic culture.