Henderson Belton, Carol
Associate Professor, English
Dr. Carol E. Henderson Belton is Associate Director and Director of Undergraduate Studies for the University of Delaware’s Black American Studies Program, Newark campus, as well as Associate Professor of English and Black American Studies. Her recent publications under her publishing name “Carol E. Henderson” include an essay on spirituality and ancestry entitled “Refiguring the Flesh: The Word, The Body, and the Process of Being in Beloved and Go Tell It On The Mountain” in James Baldwin and Toni Morrison: Comparative Critical and Theoretical Essays, Eds. Lovalerie King and Lynn O. Scott (Palgrave 2006), an edited book, James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain: Historical and Critical Essays (Peter Lang Publishers, Modern American Literature Series 2006) which includes three of her own articles, as well asa book published by the University of Missouri Press, Scarring the Black Body: Race and Representation in African American Literature (November 2002). In addition to numerous articles in professional journals and critical volumes, she has following forthcoming essays: “Allegories of the Undead: Rites and Rituals in Tales from the Hood” in Folklore and Popular Film, eds. Mikel J. Koven and Sharon Sherman (Utah State UP Fall 2007), “Writing from No Man’s Land: The Black Man’s Quest for Freedom from Behind the Walls” in Confinement Literature from the Plantation to the Prison, ed. Tara T. Green (Mercer UP2008), “Notes of a Native Daughter: The Nature of Black Womanhood in Wright’s Native Son” in Richard Wright’s Native Son: Critical Essays, ed. Ana M. Fraile (Salamanca, Spain Fall 2007), and “King Kong Ain’t Got Sh** On Me: Allegories, Anxieties, and the Performance of Race in Mass Media” in The Journal of Popular Culture. She has recently completed work on an edited collection of essays entitled Imag(in)ing America: The African American Body in Literature and Culture, and is beginning work on a monograph entitled Ethnic Notions: Race, Sex, and the Venus Hottentot. In her spare time she does community outreach with Beautiful Gate Outreach Center, Wilmington, Delaware—a faith-based community outreach center that offers a myriad of services for individuals affected/effected by HIV/AIDS.
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