B.A. 2004 Vassar College
Ph.D. 2009 The University of Western Australia
On the PSU faculty since 2012

FIELDS: Editing and publishing, book history, print culture studies, Australian studies, postcolonial literature, and regional literature

BIOGRAPHY:
Originally from a small town in northern Minnesota, Per Henningsgaard received his B.A. in 2004 from Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. From there, he migrated downstream to New York City, where he worked as an Editorial Assistant for a multinational publishing house. Then, in 2005, he was awarded a Fulbright Grant on the basis of a proposal to study book publishing and regional literature in Western Australia. A planned 12-month stay in Australia was extended when he was offered a scholarship to enroll in a graduate program and continue his research under its auspices. Per received his Ph.D. in 2009 from The University of Western Australia in Perth, Western Australia. He returned to the United States later that same year in order to take a job as Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where he directed a student-staffed publishing house, Cornerstone Press. In 2012, Per joined the faculty at Portland State University as Assistant Professor of English and Director of Publishing.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Henningsgaard, P. (Forthcoming 2012). Sally Morgan's My Place and A.B. Facey's A Fortunate Life. In P. Genoni and T. Dalziell (Eds.), Telling Stories: Australian Literary Cultures, 1935–2010. Melbourne: Monash University Press.

Henningsgaard, P. (Forthcoming 2012). Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia. In P. Genoni and T. Dalziell (Eds.), Telling Stories: Australian Literary Cultures, 1935–2010. Melbourne: Monash University Press.

Henningsgaard, P. (2010). A postcolonial perspective on regional literature in Australia. In N. O'Reilly (Ed.), Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature. Amherst, NY: Cambria Press.

Henningsgaard, P. (2009). Book publishing in Western Australia: A world elsewhere. Australian Studies 1.1.

Henningsgaard, P. (2009). From Soundings to Yeera-muk-a-doo: The early years of Fremantle Arts Centre Press. Westerly 54.1, 112–21.

Henningsgaard, P. (2008). The teaching of “book history” in English and Cultural Studies units. Preparing for the Graduate of 2015 “Proceedings of the 17th Annual Teaching and Learning Forum.”

Henningsgaard, P. (2007). Regional literature as a mirror: Reflecting back onto the region and out into the wider world. Tamkang Review 38.1 “Literary Regionalism: A Special Issue,” 145–67.

Henningsgaard, P. (2007). The decline of regionalism in Australian literature and culture. Antipodes 21.1, 53–59.

Henningsgaard, P. (2007). Regional literature and “the liminal”: Exploring the spaces in-between national and international literatures. Limina “Special Edition 2007: On the Beach.”

RECENT PRESENTATIONS:
Henningsgaard, P. (2012). Indigenous literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Changes in content, style, and mode of production from the 1980s to today. Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association seminar “The Catastrophe of Contact,” Brown University, Providence, 29 March–1 April 2012.

Henningsgaard, P. (2012). Psychology and book history: A new frontier. Paper presented at American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, 16–18 February 2012.

Henningsgaard, P. (2010). The rise and rise of book history approaches in Australian literary studies. Paper presented at Association for the Study of Australian Literature, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 7–10 July 2010.

Henningsgaard, P. (2010). Literature as an agent of social change: Teaching Sally Morgan's My Place and Upton Sinclair's The Jungle at an American university. Paper presented at Reading Across the Pacific: Australian–United States Intellectual Histories, University of Sydney, Sydney, 14–15 January 2010.