Heather Houser
Assistant Professor — Ph.D., 2010, Stanford University
Contact
- E-mail: houserh@mail.utexas.edu
- Phone: 512-471-8766
- Office: PAR 228
- Office Hours: Summer 2013: by appointment
- Campus Mail Code: B5000
Biography
Heather Houser is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She received an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from Stanford University, and a B.A. from Reed College. Her first book, forthcoming from Columbia University Press, is Eco-Sickness: Environment and Affect in Contemporary US Fiction. It argues that contemporary fiction uses affect to bring audiences to environmental consciousness through the sick body. She is also working on a new project that gives an account of how techniques of literary description and digital visualization produce knowledge of environmental endangerment in an age of information.
Her essays appear in Public Culture (forthcoming), American Literature (2012), Contemporary Literature (2010), and The American Book Review (2010), and in the collections, The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (U of Iowa Press, 2012) and Time: A Vocabulary of the Present (NYU Press, forthcoming).
In 2013-14, she will be a visiting fellow at the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. She has received fellowships from UT Austin, the Mellon Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, the US Department of Education's Jacob K. Javits Program, and Stanford University.



