With a Ph.D. in English from The Ohio State University, Dr. Cheryl Hindrichs came to Boise State University as a member of the faculty of the Department of English. She has two master's degrees, in English and Women's Studies, also from Ohio State. Dr. Hindrichs has published articles on Virginia Woolf, American poet Hilda Doolitle (H.D.), and Germaine Dulac, as well as on late modernist literature, and gender and film studies. She studies how writing style and innovation have been influenced by social, economic, and political tensions, shifting classes, new technologies, and gender ideologies. She also looks at how writers used forms from other arts (music, painting, and cinema) in their writing to respond to the culture of their time. Her current research focuses on the role of illness in the aesthetics and ethics of modernist fiction. In 2010, Dr. Hindrichs was named a recipient of Boise State’s inaugural Arts & Humanities Fellowship, allowing her time and space to work on a book manuscript on the role of physical illness in modernist fiction titled “Pandemic Modernity: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Illness in Modernist Literature.” She is also working to develop courses that will enrich students’ research and service-learning opportunities, an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute short course that will strengthen contacts and cooperation with the Boise community, and a reading group and lecture series that will support collaboration among faculty and health care professionals.
Articles
Reading "Moments of Being" Between the Lines of Bach's Fugue: Lyric Narrative in Virginia Woolf's "Slater's Pins Have No Points", Studies in Short Fiction: An Independent Scholarly Quarterly (2012)
"The tune began; the first note meant a second; the second a third. Then down...
Late Modernism, 1928–1945: Criticism and Theory, Literature Compass (2011)
In contrast to the well-established body of criticism on early modernism in 20th-century literature, late...
Feminist Optics and Avant-Garde Cinema: Germaine Dulac's "The Smiling Madame Beudet" and Virginia Woolf's "Street Haunting", Feminist Studies (2009)
In the story essay, "Street Haunting: A London Adventure" (1927), Virginia Woolf's narrator describes the...
H.D.’s Palimpsest: The Work of the ‘Advance-Guard’ in a History of Trauma, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 (2006)
The personal and public trauma of the First World War led H. D. to question...
Contributions to Books
‘Find Our Own Way for Ourselves’: Orlando as an Uncommon Reader in the Critical Theory Classroom, Woolf & the City: Selected Papers from the Nineteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2010)
Cheryl Hindrichs presents the many merits of using Orlando as the central text in a...
Reading the Other, Editing the Self: Mentoring in Woolf and Welty, Woolf Editing / Editing Woolf: Selected Papers from the Eighteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2009)
In April and May of 2008, there was a fascinating discussion on the Virginia Woolf...
Presentations
On Being Well: Literature in Sickness and in Health, Fettuccine Forum (2011)
Dr. Hindrichs led a panel looking at how the arts and humanities can inform health...
Women Writers' No Man’s Land: The Modernist Terrain of Illness, International Conference on Narrative (2011)
'Falling Out of a Picture': The Australian Landscape in D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo, 64th Annual Conference of The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association (2010)
‘Find Our Own Way for Ourselves’: Orlando as an Uncommon Reader in the Critical Theory Classroom, 19th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf (2009)
Nick Greene’s recurrence in Virginia Woolf ’s Orlando: A Biography (1928) as “the most influential...