MONICA HUERTA

writer • professor • creatrix

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Curriculum vitae

Appointments


2019-present
Princeton University • Department of English & Program in American Studies • Assistant Professor
Donald A. Stauffer Bicentennial Preceptor, 2022-2025

Fall 2021
University of Pennsylvania • Visual Studies Program • Visiting Scholar

2016-2019
Princeton University • Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts • Link-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow

2014-2016
Duke University • Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies • Provost’s Postdoctoral Associate



Books

The Unintended: Photography, Property, and the Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism
2023, New York University Press, America and the Long 19th Century series
*New York University Press Featured Author


Magical Habits

2021, Duke University Press, Writing Matters! series
*Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Winner




National Field Presence


2022-present
Councilor, National Council, American Studies Association
*Executive Committee, 2023-present

2021-present

Co-editor with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Erica Rand, Jerry Zee, Writing Matters! series, Duke University Press

2021-present
Executive Committee, MS Visual Culture Forum, Modern Language Association
* Chair, 2024-present
* Secretary, 2023-2024



Teaching Fields


• histories of race & media • history of photography • law and humanities • photography criticism and theory • visual culture • American Studies • comparative studies of race & ethnicity •  historiography and theories of the archive



Selected Invited Talks



March 2024
“Vision is a Battlefield: Histories of Race and Media,” public roundtable with Brooke Belisle (SUNY-Stonybrook), Emilie Boone (NYU), and Nicholas Mirzoeff (NYU), with respondent Claire Bishop (CUNY Graduate Center), CUNY Graduate Center

May 2023
Keynote: “Pivots & Getting Lost,” Latinx Graduation, Princeton University.

May 2023

“The Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism,” Dartmouth Society of Fellows Visiting Scholar public campus talk.

May 2023
“Something Irreducible,” 19th Century Media Studies Workshop, Dartmouth College, convened by Colleen Boggs, Katie Hornstein, and Petra MacGillen.   

April 2023
Keynote: “In the Middle of a Habit,”  (IN)Habit: Annual English Graduate Conference, University of Toronto.


Selected Conference Presentations


January 2023
Respondent to “Looking Like Property” panel, sponsored by the Media Studies Visual Cultures Forum. Modern Language Association Annual Conference, San Francisco.

November 2022
“For the Love of Limits: Faces and Works.” The Face as Technology panel. American Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans.

November 2019

Respondent for Roundtable, “The Airing of Grievances: Grievance Studies and its Discontents.” American Studies Association Annual Conference, Hawaii. 



Education

2014
University of California, Berkeley • English • Ph.D.

2006
Princeton University • History • M. A.

2003
Harvard University • History & Literature • A. B. • Magna cum laude


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