C.C. Hendricks, PhD

C.C. Hendricks is an Associate Professor and former Director of First-Year Writing in the Business and Communication Arts & Sciences department and core faculty member of the Women's and Gender Studies department at the University of New Hampshire. She is a mom and feminist rhetorician. She has held many Writing Program Administrative positions and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Rhetoric and Composition, Professional and Technical Communication, English Education, Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies. C.C. has also served as a consultant in writing centers and a Writing Across the Curriculum program. Her research interests include feminist rhetorics, histories, and pedagogies, teacher education, Writing Program Administration, and Writing Across the Curriculum.

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She is the author of The Feminist Rhetorics, Storytelling, and Teachings of Diane di Prima: Reinventing the World, published by Routledge in August 2026, the first comprehensive study of the feminist rhetorics and storytelling strategies of a key woman in the Beat generation. Drawing on memoirs, poetry, archival materials, and editorial work, it examines how narratives of gender and sexual alternatives, activist networking, and critical subjectivity were mobilized to foster feminist consciousness and social change. The book blends rhetorical analysis with interdisciplinary perspectives from feminist and queer studies, the book situates these strategies within Beat literature and historiography, demonstrating di Prima's influence on feminist rhetoric through layered methodological approaches.

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Praise for the book:

• "Reinventing the World, an innovative gendered treatise, defies definition. This fascinating examination of Diane di Prima’s life and labor relies upon storytelling, feminist scholarship, methodology, historiography, and rhetorical biography to create a powerful profile of a poet, community organizer, editor/publisher, and mother. Hendricks admirably intertwines her own twenty-first-century experiences with archival materials and meticulously researched historical narratives as she amplifies possibilities within feminist, queer, and cultural storytelling and social circulation theories—a must-read for those interested in novel approaches to intersectional rhetorical history and memoir.”

Lynée Lewis Gaillet, Co-editor of Blurred Boundaries: Feminist Essays on Twenty-first Century Academic Labor

• “Hendricks surpasses her goal to circulate and promote di Prima’s ‘story and boundless contributions to the possibilities of feminist rhetoric.’ Contributions from writer and activist di Prima, from feminist storytelling to circulation, are laid out as theories, practices, lessons, and a balm in these fraught times. Hendricks’ engagement with di Prima—and with us—is reflexive, participatory, and intimate, defining and modeling critical subjectivity: using narrative and critical reflection for feminist critique. This book is a gem that I’ve recommended to students and peers.”

Charlotte Hogg, Author of White Sororities and the Cultural Work of Belonging​