Zita Hüsing, Ph.D.
Hello! I am a researcher-scholar-teacher in the field of American studies.
I am an Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Tyler.
This position focuses on teaching excellence and as a faculty member I also engage in research and academic service.
My primary area of research is twentieth and twenty-first century American studies with a focus on Science Fiction and critical interests in Artificial Intelligence, Media studies, Posthuman, Disability Studies and Women and Gender studies.
I published widely on a variety of topics including the impact of virtual reality on students’ perceptions and competency in multimodal communication classes, representations of cyberpunk in the Blade Runner, 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. I also published a chapter on the postmodern vampire in the edited collection Spoofing the Vampire: Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy.
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