Rosemary Hennessy (born March 2, 1950) is an American academic and socialist feminist. She is a professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University. She has been a part of the faculty at Rice since 2006.
She has written extensively on materialist feminism.
Hennessy received her Ph.D in English from Syracuse University, her M.A. in English from Temple University, and her B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania.