Margarita Hendrickson, Professor of Spanish

Margarita Hendrickson, Professor of Spanish, holds the M.A. and Ph.D. from Tulane University, and the B.A. in French from Louisiana State University. As an undergraduate Professor Hendrickson studied French language at Université de Paris-Sorbonne. Margarita’s primary areas of interest are twentieth-century literature of Spain and of Latin America. In March of 2006 Hendrickson presented the paper “Rigoberta Menchú: testimonio, historia y controversia” in Caceres, Spain at the XIV Congreso Internacional de Literatura Centroamericana. Hendrickson has authored scholarly articles on the poetry of Rosario Castellanos, Alfonsina Storni and Jorge Tellier. Her essay “Quarterly West” appeared in the Literary Magazine Review, 22 2004. The article “Christianity and Social Change in the Poetry of Ernesto Cardenal,” was published in the book Conferences on Central America, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Margarita Hendrickson has presented scholarly essays on the narrative of Gabriel García Márquez at a number of national and international conferences. Hendrickson’s creative writings have appeared in the University of Arizona’s Saguaro, in Gypsy Cab, and in 13 Localities: Outdoor Installations on the UWRF Campus booklet by Matthew Fischer. Margarita shares the rich cultural traditions of New Orleans, her hometown, in her writings and by presenting cultural programs on local cable television such as “The Jazz Funeral: A New Orleans Cultural Tradition” and “Cajun Culture: Survival in Monolithic America,” River Falls Public Access Cable TV. Hendrickson is working on the collection Marie Laveau and Other Stories. In May 2007 she was a participant in the National Latino Writers Conference in Albuquerque where she read "Earl González: Louisiana Isleño," and participated in a writing workshop led by author Oscar Hijuelos. "Earl González" is part of the manuscript Louisiana Isleños: Décimas, Romances and Folk Literature, which incorporates research of oral traditions of Canary islanders who arrived in Spanish Louisiana in the 1700's.