Linda Naranjo-Huebl

Education

Professor Naranjo-Huebl received her bacholor of arts with summa cum laude distinction from the University of Colorado at Denver in 1992. She went on to study at the University of Colorado at Boulder, receiving her masters of arts in literature in English in 1994 and her PhD in American literature in 2001. After completing her doctoral work, she joined the faculty in the Calvin College English department.

Biography

Recent Activities

Professor Naranjo-Huebl is heavily involved in shaping conversations about gender and multiculturalism on campus. The second edition of her book, Prolife Feminism: Yesterday and Today (co-authored with Mary Krane Derr and Rachel MacNair) was published in 2006 by Xlibris.

Favorite Books

• Face of an Angel by Denise Chávez, 
• Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
• The Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. Southworth

Hobbies

• music (vocals, guitar, piano, hand percussion)
• art appreciation/collecting

Additional Information

• Stepping Up for Pregnant Women & Unborn Children In Her Own Home: Reflections from Linda Naranjo-Huebl, on the Nonviolent Choice blog
• The Road to Perdition: E.D.E.N. Southworth and the Critics, in American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism and Bibliography
• Helped lead a special interim chapel worship team in 2008.
• Profiled in Calvin's Mosaic publication in 2004.

Academic interests

• American ethnic literature (African American, Latino, Native American, Asian American)
• American literature
• women’s literature
• sentimentalism
• psychological and psychoanalytic theory
• feminist theory

Recent Activities

Professor Naranjo-Huebl is heavily involved in shaping conversations about gender and multiculturalism on campus. The second edition of her book, Prolife Feminism: Yesterday and Today (co-authored with Mary Krane Derr and Rachel MacNair) was published in 2006 by Xlibris.