Academic Publications
Articles
“‘In Pieces:’ Nina Simone’s Critical Geographies and Listening as Incommensurable Practice,” TDR: The Drama Review, 69, no. 2 (April 2025): 25-46. doi:10.1017/S105420432500005X. ** Honorable Mention: TDR Annual Graduate Student Essay Prize.
“(W)right of Way: Black Geographies and American Interstates,” Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance: Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity, eds. DeRon Williams, Khalid Young, and Martine Green-Rogers (Bloomsbury Press, 2023).
Art & Book Reviews
“Can Machines Be Kin? Suzanne Kite, ‘List Projects, 31’ (Review),” Visual Anthropology Review (forthcoming, Fall 2025).
“Cracking Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century by Katelyn Hale Wood (Review),” Theatre Journal 75, no. 2 (2023): 252-254.
Public-Facing Writing
Arts & Culture
“Simply ‘Too Much:’ My Review of Lena Dunham’s Latest,” Active Listener, August 17, 2025.
“Yes, Sydney Sweeney’s American Eagle Ad Really Is That Bad,” Active Listener, August 3, 2025.
“Sorry I Don’t Want to Hate-Watch Something I Once Loved, or: Why I’m Abstaining From This Season of And Just Like That…“ Active Listener, July 20, 2025.
“Lorde is Born-Again on Virgin,” Active Listener, July 13, 2025.
“Cowboy Carter’s America,” Active Listener, July 6, 2025.
“The Crisis of the Contemporary Romantic Comedy: What does Materialists say about love, sex, and worth, and why does it matter?” Active Listener, June 29, 2025.
“What do pop stars owe us?” Active Listener, June 22, 2025.
Personal Essays
“Can envy be a generative emotion?” Active Listener, August 24, 2025.
Interviews & Features
“Lily Xie and Jenny Henderson on Washing (洗作) — memorializing vibrant art and community despite displacement caused by freeways through Boston’s Chinatown,” discussion with Xie and Jasmine Mahmoud, Journal of Urban Cultural Studies (blog), April 24, 2022.
“Alumni Spotlight: Daphne Lei,” Tufts University Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Annual Graduate Magazine, November 2022.
“Art at Work: Equity and Justice at TPS,” Tufts University Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Annual Graduate Magazine, November 2022.
“Putting Cape Verde ‘On the Map’ and Performance as Research with Tufts Alumna and Skidmore Associate Professor Dr. Eunice S. Ferreira,” Tufts University Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Annual Graduate Magazine, November 2020.
“Faculty and Grad Instructors Tackle Virtual Learning and Research,” Tufts University Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies, Annual Graduate Program Magazine, November 2020.
Lists & Guides
“Summer Reading List,” Active Listener, July 27, 2025.
Awards
• American Association of University Women—American Fellow, AAUW 2024-5
• Emerging Writer—Nonfiction Finalist, Lighthouse Writers Workshop 2025
• Professor Kalman A. Burnim Prize for Scholarly Excellence in Drama, Tufts University 2025
• TDR Graduate Student Essay Contest—Honorable Mention, TDR 2025
• Tisch Library Graduate Fellow for the Arts & Humanities, Tufts University 2023
• Doctoral Comprehensive Exams—Meritorious Distinction, Tufts University 2022
• Outstanding Academic Scholarship at a Master’s Level—Nominated Finalist, Tufts University 2021
• Emerging Undergraduate Scholar, Mid-America Theatre Conference 2019
• Senior Award in Academic Excellence in the College of Creative Arts Miami University of Ohio 2017
• Barbara E. Nicholson Essay Prize, Women and Gender Studies, Miami University of Ohio 2017
• Outstanding Critical Essay Prize, Department of English, Miami University of Ohio 2017
• Darling Research Scholarship—Two-Time Awardee, Theatre, Miami University of Ohio 2015 & 2016
• International Education Travel Week Essay Contest Winner 2015
Writing Workshops
• Lighthouse Writers’ Workshop, Advanced Nonfiction with Claire Dederer (2025)—Selected Participant
• Tufts Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies Dissertation Writing Workshop (2024-5)—Founder and Participant
• Harvard University, Home as Doorway to Departure and Return with Melissa Cundieff – Creative Nonfiction (2024)—Participant
• Harvard University, Past Lives, Future Ghosts with Melissa Cundieff – Creative Nonfiction (2023)—Participant
• Miami University of Ohio, Advanced Graduate Workshop in Creative Nonfiction with Daisy Hernandez (2017)—Participant
• Miami University of Ohio, Creative Nonfiction with Tarashea Nesbit (2016)—Participant
• Craft and theory seminars available upon request.
Jenny Henderson, PhD 