MONICA HUERTA

writer • professor

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Projects


THE::SENSE::ARCHIVE



A collaboration with Ava Shirazi (Haverford) that embraces a speculative archival mode where scholarship, art, and community engagement meet. Through relationships with artists and designers, hosting artist-led workshops, and artist-scholar incubators, we explore the sensory potential of art to theorize embodied excavations of “the archival” as intimate potential for rearranging contemporary experience itself.



Project Archive



WOC* STUDENT-FACULTY CORNERS


These gatherings offered a space on campus for women* of color students and faculty to gather around a set of topics of interest to students, including navigating campus, graduate school, cultivating mentor-mentee relationships, and interdisciplinary research. Hosted by Rockefeller College and New College West (2018-2023).

ORGANIZING STORIES


Organizing Stories (2020-2023) created new avenues of exchange between Princeton University and community-based, social-justice work to support a scholarly-activist praxis that built on a tradition of connecting intellectual work and movement work.

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PERSONAL LIMITS


A virtual conversation series -- presented by Magical Habits, Labyrinth Books, and Princeton Public Library -- about contemporary experiments in personal-critical writing  during the Fall of 2021 and Spring of 2022. Guests included Lili Loofbourow, Namwali Serpell, Sarah Chihaya, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and other incredible folks!

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POETICS OF MATERIAL LIFE


An experimental symposium bringing historians, economists, poets, and critics to think together about what the study of poetics, broadly construed, contributes to our evolving understandings of modern market societies at Princeton University. Co-organized with world historian C. N. Biltoft. November 2019.

SPIRIT PICTURES


A symposium about 19th century spirit photography at Duke University co-organized with Cheryl Spinner. Invited guests: Louis Kaplan, Dana Luciano, Shawn Michelle Smith. March 2016.

IMPOSSIBLE ACCOUNTS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY


Art exhibit in East Duke Hall at Duke University of student’s final projects for “Imagining Slavery and Gender,” which Professor Huerta taught at Duke in 2015.