Amy Kahrmann Huseby is an editor, poet, visual artist, and scholar of the literature and culture of nineteenth-century England at Rice University. In 2024, Huseby was appointed Executive Editor of SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900. She also teaches in Rice’s department of English and Creative Writing as a Senior Lecturer.
Her nineteenth-century scholarship begins with attention to poetry’s forms, poetics, and politics, and also includes interest in the aesthetics of gender and sexuality, the history of science, book history, imperialism and colonization, natural history and the environment. She has published work in Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Victorian Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review, The Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature, Women’s Writing, Pedagogy: Critical Approaches to Teaching Literature, Language, Composition, and Culture, South Atlantic Review, and several edited collections. Her own poetry has appeared in and by anthologized by Atlanta Review, Wilderness House Literary Review, and Pearl, among others.
Huseby regularly collaborates with colleagues on editing projects and collections. Together with Dr. Heather Bozant Witcher (Auburn University), she is co-editor of Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). Together with Carolyn Dever (Dartmouth), she is co-editor of the Cambridge History of Victorian Women’s Writing and with Ana Parejo Vadillo of The Verse Dramas of Michael Field: Decadent to Modern Theater (both forthcoming from Cambridge UP 2026). From 2012-2024, she served in increasing positions of editorial responsibility for the scholarly journal Victoriographies (Edinburgh UP), including from 2020-2024 as co-Editor alongside Beth Palmer (Surrey, UK). Huseby currently serves on the Editorial Board of The Diaries of Michael Field digital humanities project (Dartmouth) and is an elected member of the Executive Board for the Midwest Victorian Studies Association. She is also the Founder of the Victorian Poetry Caucus of the North American Victorian Studies Association, for which she served as the first Caucus Representative and continues to serve on the Executive Board.
Prior to joining Rice, Huseby was an Associate Teaching Professor, Media Director, and Online Lit Program Coordinator in the English Department, Affiliated Faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies, and Honors College Fellow at Florida International University for seven years. Courses Huseby has taught include undergraduate classes on nineteenth-century British poetry; Victorian medievalism; apocalyptic and imperial writing by BIPOC women authors; adaptations of nineteenth-century novels in theater, film, and television; the figure of the double in nineteenth-century novels; the New Woman novel; domestic fiction and nonfiction; the Gothic; and the foundations of fantasy fiction. Huseby was also chosen as a Fellow in the FIU Honors College where she offered courses on climate fiction and on the co-constitutive influences of sexuality and urbanization. Recent graduate seminars include “Ecological Imperialism” and “Other Victorians,” the latter being a course that explores diversity and difference in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
RESEARCH AREAS
Nineteenth-Century poetry, prosody, and poetics; gender and sexuality; indigeneity, race, colonialism, and empire studies; science and technology studies, especially ecocriticism, social sciences, and mathematics; books history and material culture; social justice, political economy, and biopolitics
Education
PhD, English Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017)
MA, English Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2012)
BA, English Literature, Washington State University (2009)
Contact:
akhuseby@rice.edu
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