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Cheryl Hindrichs, In Memoriam

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Dr. Cheryl Hindrichs

Cheryl Hindrichs

In Memoriam


Professor of English, Boise State University
Director, Hemingway Literary Center

Dr. Cheryl Hindrichs was a beloved professor, scholar, and public intellectual whose work enriched Boise State University and the wider literary community. As a faculty member in the Department of English, she specialized in twentieth-century British literature, literary criticism and theory, and modernist, gender, and film studies. She also had a deep interest in the intersections of literature and lived experience, often teaching courses that explored illness and literature, as well as food and literature.

Her scholarly publications examined major modernist writers such as Virginia Woolf, H.D., Germaine Dulac, D.H. Lawrence, and Dorothy Richardson, and included a broad survey of late modernist literature. Dr. Hindrichs’s research often focused on how literature portrayed the dual traumas of World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic, particularly in terms of how these events shaped gendered identity in the early twentieth century. At the time of her passing, she was working on a book titled Pandemic Modernity, which explored the literary legacy of that era’s public health crisis.

Dr. Hindrichs’s later research focused on writers such as Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Bowen, examining their portrayals of insider/outsider figures within communities distinct from mainstream culture. In addition to her academic writing, she was exploring the health humanities through short fiction, investigating themes of dislocation and institutional space—particularly hospitals—as sites of personal transformation and vulnerability.

Beyond the classroom, Dr. Hindrichs made literary scholarship accessible to the public. She directed Boise State’s Hemingway Literary Center, led the university’s “Literature for Lunch” lecture series at the Boise Public Library, and taught at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Her warmth, humility, and intellectual rigor left a lasting impression on students, colleagues, and community members alike.

Dr. Cheryl Hindrichs passed away in July 2022. A public memorial service was held at Boise State on September 16, 2022. Her legacy endures through the students she inspired, the scholarships she established, and the community she helped build.

Education

  • Ph.D., English, The Ohio State University
  • M.A., English, The Ohio State University
  • M.A., Women’s Studies, The Ohio State University

Interests

Twentieth-century British literature; literary criticism and theory; modernist, gender and film studies; the role of illness in the aesthetics and ethics of modernist fiction

Publications

  • “Things as they are’: Intersubjective Materiality in Dorothy Richardson and Virginia Woolf.” Forthcoming: Clemson University Press.
  •   “A Vision of Greyness’: The Liminal Vantage of Illness in Heart of Darkness.” Modern Fiction Studies. 65.1 (Spring 2019): 177-206.
  •  “I’m Not Sick.’ I Said, ‘I’m Wounded’”: Disrupting Wounded Masculinity Through the Lyrical Spaces of War.” Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature. Ed. Kara Watts, Robin Hackett, and Molly Hall. Gainesville: U of Florida P, 2018. 79–102.
  •  “The Fly and the Displaced Self: Affective Potential in the Epiphanic Moments of Mansfield, Woolf, and Lawrence.” Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf. Ed. Gerri Kimber, Tim Martin, and Christine Froula. Edinburg: Edinburg U P, 2018. 102-116.
  •  “Woolf and Illness.” Virginia Woolf Miscellany. 90 (Fall 2016): 1, 44-48.
  •  “Reading ‘Moments of Being’ Between the Lines of Bach’s Fugue: Lyric Narrative in Woolf’s ‘Slater’s Pins Have No Points.’” Studies in Short Fiction  37.1 (Winter 2012):  1-26.
  •  “Void of Contradiction’:  the Australian Landscape in D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo.”  D.H. Lawrence Review.  36.2 (2011): 43-71.
  •  “Late Modernism, 1928-1945: Criticism and Theory.” Literature Compass.  8.11 (2011): 840-855.
  •  “Find Our Own Way for Ourselves’: Orlando as an Uncommon Reader in the Critical Theory Classroom.”  Woolf and the City: Selected Papers from the Nineteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf.  Ed. by Elizabeth F. Evans and Sarah E. Cornish.  Clemson: Clemson U P, 2010.  195-203.
  •  “Feminist Optics and Avant-Garde Cinema: Germaine Dulac’s The Smiling Madame Beudet and Virginia Woolf’s ‘Street Haunting,’” Feminist Studies 35.2 (Summer 2009): 294-322.
  •  “Reading the Other, Editing the Self: Mentoring in Woolf and Welty.”  Woolf Editing / Editing Woolf.  Ed. by Eleanor McNees and Sara Veglahn.  Clemson:  Clemson U P, 2008.  96-103.
  •  “H.D.’s Palimpsest: The Work of the ‘Advance-Guard’ in a History of Trauma.” The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 2 (2006): 87-112.