Laurel Hendrix
Dr. Laurel Hendrix joined the
English Department faculty in 1990. Her teaching interests include
late medieval and early modern literature, and she has taught
courses in Renaissance and Restoration, eighteenth century British
literature, Spenser, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton, Arthurian
literature, medieval and Renaissance world literature, and early
modern women writers.
Dr. Hendrix has presented numerous conference papers at
regional, national, and international conferences, and has
published articles on Spenser, Chaucer, and Marguerite de Navarre
in journals including
English Literary Renaissance, Spenser Studies,
Exeinpiaria, and
Thalia. Her current research focuses on chaos complexity
theory and its applications to early modern romance-epic
narratives.
From 1999-2002, Dr. Hendrix served as the president of the
Renaissance Conference of Southern California, a regional affiliate
of the Renaissance Society of America. Dr. Hendrix has also been
active in the department’s composition program, having
coordinated the Writing Center (1991-92) and English A (1993-96).
She currently coordinates the essay assessment portion of the
university’s Upper Division Writing Exam.
Dr. Hendrix is a member of the Highway 168 Fire Safe Council and is a volunteer firefighter for the Pine Ridge Volunteer Fire Department.