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Anna Henchman is an Associate Professor of English at Boston University, affiliated with the Kilachand Honors College. She holds a BA from Yale University, an MA and PhD from Harvard University. Her research focuses on Victorian literature, particularly the intersection of literature and science, exploring themes like perception, astronomy, and the boundaries of being. She is the author of The Starry Sky Within: Astronomy and the Reach of the Mind in Victorian Literature (2014) and a forthcoming book on tiny creatures in 19th-century British imagination.
Her work bridges disciplines, teaching courses on climate change, children’s literature, and animals in literature. Notable awards include the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2019–2020) and BU’s Undergraduate Academic Advising Award (2019). She has organized panels on Victorian Studies and co-chaired the Cognitive Theory and the Arts Seminar at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center.
Her publications critically engage with writers like Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, and Charles Darwin, examining how literature challenges human-centric perceptions. Recent articles explore sentience, Darwin’s earthworm studies, and Edward Lear’s fragmented narratives. She advocates interdisciplinary approaches, emphasizing literature’s role in reimagining space, time, and cognition.
