Gail Turley Houston

GAIL TURLEY HOUSTON {[email protected]} is a professor in the English Department at the University of New Mexico. She has published four books and numerous articles on the Victorian period and is now focusing on Charlotte Brontë and a little known early nineteenth-century radical named Eliza Sharples.

Review: Mother, May We? Dove Song: Heavenly Mother in Mormon Poetry. Edited by Tyler Chadwick, Dayna Patterson, and Martin Pulido.

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 3

Roundtable: When Did You Become Black?

Articles/Essays – Volume 51, No. 3

Dialogue 51.3 (Fall 2018): 193–200
After taking a genelogy DNA test, Houston finds some African ancestory. “Where to begin in answering all those questions? But at the most basic level, I simply liked that I was from Africa. The percentage was small but the jolt large and wondrous. In the nineteenth century, the United States had the one-drop rule about race: if you had one drop of African blood you were considered to be Black.”

Personal Voices: Dreaming After Trump

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 2

Restless Grace: Leap by Terry Tempest Williams

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 3

My Belief

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 4