About Gretchen Henderson

Gretchen Ernster Henderson is the Associate Director for Research at The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She writes across the arts, humanities, and environmental sciences. In 2018-2019, she was the Annie Clark Tanner Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the University of Utah and co-director of an NEH Institute on Museums: Humanities in the Public Sphere. Her fourth and latest book was Ugliness: A Cultural History (Reaktion Books of London/University of Chicago Press). Recent individual and collaborative work has appeared in Ecotone, Nature Sustainability, Environmental Conservation, Notre Dame Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere.