Gretchen Ernster Henderson

Gretchen Ernster Henderson writes across environmental arts, cultural histories, and public humanities. Her five books include Life in the Tar Seeps: A Spiraling Ecology from a Dying Sea (Trinity University Press, 2023) and Ugliness: A Cultural History (Reaktion, 2015), alongside media arts and opera libretti. Gretchen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin, teaches across ecosystems, and in 2018-2019 co-directed a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute in Washington, DC on “Museums: Humanities in the Public Sphere.”