Professor of English named interim chief academic officer for CSU System

The interim CAO role is a 30% appointment and Hentschell will retain her senior associate dean duties for the College, focusing her efforts on growing and enhancing the college's undergraduate and graduate programs,including graduate student involvement in governance and faculty mentoring.

Hentschell recently completed the American Council on Education (ACE) Fellows program, immersed in the study and practice of higher education leadership, both with the ACE curriculum and in the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of California San Diego, her host campus. In addition to teaching in the English department since 2002 and serving in the Dean's Office since 2016, she teaches in the Honors Program, serves on several university-wide committees, and has helped build several education abroad programs, including a program at the CSU center in Todos Santos, Mexico.

A scholar of early modern literature and culture, Hentschell's most recent book, St Paul's Cathedral Precinct in Early Modern Literature and Culture: Spatial Practices, was published in 2020 from Oxford University Press. Next year, her collection on the humanities and higher education leadership will be published by Purdue University Press.