MONICA HUERTA

writer • professor • creatrix

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THE::SENSE::ARCHIVE


A collaboration with Ava Shirazi. the::sense::archive is an incubator, an emerging creative collective, and a research network. the::sense::archive is not a thing or a place; it is the pursuit for a way of working, dreaming, knowing, activating, and creating. the::sense::archive programs center artist-practitioners and their processes, and act as hubs for collective theorizing, where morphing sensoria take the lead over “sense-making” and logic-driven forms of making.

MAKING WRITING WORKSHOP


The Making Writing Workshop guides participants in rewiring their relationship to writing and research as creative making. Through visioning, collaging, and fictionalizing exercises, we loosen prominent blocks (e.g. insecurity, overwhelm) and become attuned to our creative biorhythms. By the end of the workshop, students deepen their practices toward their creative purpose, biorhythms, and writerly urgency. Reach out with inquiries!


Project Archive



WOC* STUDENT-FACULTY CORNERS


Monthly gatherings offering a space on campus for women* of color students and faculty to gather around topics of interest to students, including navigating campus, graduate school, mentor-mentee relationships, and interdisciplinary research. Hosted by Rockefeller College and New College West at Princeton from 2018-2023.

ORGANIZING STORIES


Organizing Stories created new avenues of exchange between Princeton University and community-based, social-justice work to support students’ exploration of a scholarly-activist praxis from 2020-2023.

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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. Guests included Lili Loofbourow, Namwali Serpell, Sarah Chihaya, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and other incredible folks from 2021-2022. 

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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 in November 2019. Co-organized with world historian C. N. Biltoft.

SPIRIT PICTURES


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

IMPOSSIBLE ACCOUNTS OF AMERICAN SLAVERY


An art exhibit in East Duke Hall at Duke University featuring students’ final projects for “Imagining Slavery and Gender,” which Professor Huerta taught at Duke in 2015.