Heather Houser
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Assistant Professor
PhD, 2010, Stanford University
Contact
E-mail: houserh@mail.utexas.eduPhone: 471-8766
Office: PAR 228
Office Hours: T 1:45-4:45p
Campus Mail Code: B5000
Interests
20th- and 21st-century Anglophone fiction (US focus); environmental literature and criticism; science, technology, and culture; the medical humanities; affect studies; description in narrative and new mediaBiography
Heather Houser is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She received a Ph.D. in English from Stanford University, and a B.A. from Reed College. She has completed a manuscript titled Eco-Sickness: Environment, Disease, and Emotion in Contemporary Fiction, which argues for the centrality of sickness and affect to environmental culture of the past three decades. She is also pursuing a project that offers an account of contemporary practices of novelistic description in the context of new technologies of visualization. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in American Literature (June 2012), Contemporary Literature (2010), and The American Book Review (2010), and in the collection, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace: Critical and Creative Assessments (U Iowa Press, 2012). She has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the US Department of Education's Jacob K. Javits Program, and Stanford University.
