Brown University

Associate Instructor at Indiana University Bloomington
Freelance journalist

Writer, scholar, and teacher of African American Literature, gender and sexuality, global modernism, and dance and performance in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Columbia University

Assistant Professor

Acts as a liaison between graduate students and the Modernist Studies Association, responsible for community building, educational and professional support, and creating programming geared towards graduate students at the MSA annual conference.

MODERNIST STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Graduate Student Representative

Zoë Henry is a writer and doctoral candidate in Literature at Indiana University, where she researches global modernism, gender and sexuality, and Black studies. She is completing a dissertation entitled "The Public Interior: Modernism, Theatricality, and Interracial Aesthetics", arguing that women figures of the twentieth century negotiated new forms of urban and racial visibility by remaining ‘private in public.' She reads a range of Black and interracial authors and texts to do so, from Jessie Redmon Fauset and Nella Larsen to Mina Loy, James Joyce, Langston Hughes, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks and Gayl Jones. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Modernism/modernity Print Plus, Feminist Modernist Studies, and the edited collection Teaching James Joyce in the 21st Century. 

Zoë has presented papers at three consecutive MLA conventions, and has given guest lectures at New York University, Washington University, Tulane University, and California State University Fresno. In November 2022, she led a seminar at the Modernist Studies Association conference, entitled “Transracial Circuits, Transnational Modernism," with invited participants Paul K. Saint-Amour and Juno Jill Richards, of the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University, respectively. She has received numerous grants and travel awards to support her research, including an NEH fellowship, a College of Arts and Humanities Institute award, and a New York State Summer Writers fellowship. In addition to her scholarship, Zoë has taught numerous undergraduate writing-intensive classes, including a self-designed course on representations of Blackness in U.S. popular culture, from Spike Lee to Kara Walker and Ta-Nehisi Coates. She can be reached at zlhenry@iu.edu, or on Twitter @ZoeLaHenry.

Indiana University Bloomington

PHD Candidate

Associate Instructor

--Pitches regular story ideas and angles based on the news 
--Breaks news relevant to small business owners
--Writes 1-2 daily posts for Inc.com
--Writes regularly for the magazine

Inc. Magazine

Staff Writer

--Contributed weekly posts to Inc.com
--Assisted the editor-in-chief and senior editors with reporting, writing, and various administrative tasks 
--Solicited, edited, and published book excerpts on Inc.com

Editorial Assistant

--Evaluated weekly copy for facts, clarity, punctuation, and consistency 
--Helped to decide which creative nonfiction submissions were selected for publication

Atticus Books

Managing Editor

--Solicited and edited blurbs for upcoming publications 
--Conducted marketing research for current U.C. Press publications

Zoë L. Henry