Assistant Professor of English
Email: zhusing@uttyler.edu
Building: CAS 239
Department: Literature And Languages
Zita Hüsing
Degrees
Ph.D., English Language and Literature, Louisiana State University
M.A., North American Studies, University of Bonn
M.A., English Literatures and Cultures, University of Bonn
B.A., English Studies, University of Bonn
Biography
Zita Hüsing, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Tyler. Her teaching and research interests include the uses of multimodal technologies in writing pedagogies and the application of a range of critical theories in twentieth and twenty-first century American literature and Science Fiction.
Prior to her position at UT Tyler, she worked as an Assistant Director of Writing and Communication and Postdoctoral Marion L. Brittain Fellow at the Georgia Institute for Technology. She graduated with a Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University in 2022 with a concentration on 20th and 21stcentury American literature and a focus on Science Fiction. Prior to her doctoral degree, she graduated with two Master of Arts degrees in North American Studies and English Literatures and Cultures conferred by the University of Bonn (Rheinische-Friedrichs-Wilhelm Universität Bonn) in May 2018.
She has published widely on topics such as materiality in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, transhuman bodies, (dis)ability and de/colonialization in Nisi Shawl’s Everfair, the posthuman in HBO’s Westworld, dystopian technology in Netflix’s Black Mirror, and the biopolitical control of (post)human bodies in Minster Faust’s War and Mir in journals such as Fantastika Journal, Femspec, Messengers from the Stars: On Science Fiction and Fantasy, and the SFRA Review. She also published a chapter on the postmodern vampire in the edited collection Spoofing the Vampire: Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy and a chapter on hacking and neoliberalism in the edited collection Regimes of Capital in the Postdigital Age.