Margaret Henderson

Associate Professor Margaret Henderson is a literary scholar in the School of Communication and Arts at the University of Queensland, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. She holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), a Master of Arts (Research) in English Literature, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Queensland, where she completed her PhD in 1997 on the topic of women/postmodernism/Australia: Australian women's writing and postmodern discourse. Her career at the University of Queensland includes teaching in the literature area, with courses on literary theory, contemporary women’s writing, and postmodern fiction. She has supervised doctoral research and contributed to various research projects archiving Australian feminism.

Henderson's research specializations include contemporary life writing, the writings of Kathy Acker, feminist material culture, postmodernism, and the cultural poetics of the women's movement. She is the author of Marking Feminist Times: Remembering the Longest Revolution in Australia (Peter Lang, 2006), a study of Australian feminist cultural memory; Kathy Acker: Punk Writer (Routledge, 2021); and co-author with Anthea Taylor of Postfeminism in Context: Women, Australian Popular Culture, and the Unsettling of Postfeminism (Routledge, 2020). She co-edited Things that Liberate: An Australian Feminist Wunderkammer (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), Manifesting Australian Literary Feminisms: Nexus and Faultlines (Australian Literary Studies, 2016), and Terra-Recognita: New Essays in Australian Studies. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals such as Signs, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Australian Feminist Studies, Contemporary Women's Writing, and Journal of Australian Studies, exploring topics including punk feminism, postfeminist television adaptations, feminist objects, and women's rock memoirs. Henderson served as a consultant to the National Museum of Australia on a collection documenting the modern Australian women's movement. She has participated in ARC-funded projects such as the Digital Labour, Australian Women Authors, and Public Persona-Building Linkage Project (2024-2027) and the Australian Feminist Memory Project (2007-2009). Her current project is a monograph on women’s punk and post-punk memoirs.