Heather Houser

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Heather Houser
Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Heather Houser is an assistant professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University, with a focus on contemporary fiction, the environmental humanities, literature and medicine, and affect studies. Her first book, forthcoming from Columbia University Press, is Ecosickness in Contemporary US Fiction: Environment and Affect. She is working on a new project, provisionally titled Environmental Art and the Infowhelm, that gives an account of the aesthetics of information management across environmental media. Her essays appear or will appear in American Literary History, Public Culture, American Literature, Contemporary Literature, American Book Review, and The Legacy of David Foster Wallace (U of Iowa Press).

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