Chris Henson
Chris Henson has been teaching in
the English Department at California State University, Fresno,
since 1984. Her specialty is 20 century American literature.
In addition to American literature survey courses, she
teaches Introduction to Literature, Modem World Literature,
composition, and such topics courses as Faulkner, James and
Wharton, American Women Poets, American Modernist Poets, and
Japanese Novel.
She and her husband, Fresno State Professor Emeritus Eugene
Zumwalt, own and operate Scrub Jay Press, publishing work from the
San Joaquin Valley as well as works of national significance. The
press has published two books of poetry by Valley writers, a study
of the Vedanta religion, a book of Louisiana Depression-era history
and photographs, and a book on the Lewis and Clark expedition near
the mouth of the Columbia River.
The press specializes in small editions of fine quality books, some printed on an antique platen press, using handset type.
