Zita Hüsing, Ph.D.
Zita Hüsing is an Assistant Professor of Digital Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Tyler.
Before that, she worked as an Assistant Director of Writing and Communication and Postdoctoral Marion L. Brittain Fellow at the Georgia Institute for Technology after graduating with a Ph.D. in English from Louisiana State University in 2022 with a concentration on 20th and 21stcentury American literature and a focus on Science Fiction.
Prior to her doctoral degree, she graduated with two Master of Arts degrees in North American Studies and English Literatures and Cultures conferred by the University of Bonn (Rheinische-Friedrichs-Wilhelm Universität Bonn) in May 2018.
During her masters’, she attended Louisiana State University as a cultural exchange student from 2016 to 2017.
Prior to her masters’, she attended the University of Bonn where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English Studies and a minor in classical Archaeology in September 2015. During her undergraduate degree, she attended the University of Sheffield as an ERASMUS student from 2014 to 2015.
She has published widely on topics such as the potential uses of virtual reality in the multimodal writing classroom, cyberpunk in 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. She also published a chapter on the postmodern vampire in the edited collection Spoofing the Vampire: Essays on Bloodsucking Comedy and a chapter on hacking as a critique of neoliberalism in the edited collection Regimes of Capital in the Postdigital Age.
Zita Hüsing, Ph.D. 