New York University

Amy Huber received her doctorate in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley in 2009. Her dissertation, "The General Theatre of Death," is an interdisciplinary consideration of the pressures placed by 20th-century practices of total war on the narrative and visual forms of modernism. She is currently finishing a project that works with archival materials from the Strategic Bombing Survey of 1945 and considers how the American tactical and political use of terror against civilians in Japan and Germany (where Shock & Awe was first named and tested) raises a number of timely questions about fear and the rhetorical deployment of "security" in times of war. Huber has presented papers at the Amherst College 'Violent States' Series, the Institute for Advanced Studies, The International Association for Cultural Studies, the Modernist Studies Association, CUNY, Brown University and Stanford University, among others. She has an essay forthcoming in a special issue on Human Rights in Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. She comes to NYU from a year as a Copeland Fellow at Amherst College, and she has been awarded numerous other fellowships and grants. Huber brings to Gallatin an expertise in photography and the literature and culture of modernity, and an interest in violence and aesthetics that crosses disciplinary boundaries. She will be teaching a first-year seminar, "The Poverty of Literature," as well as two writing seminars, "Visual Texts" and "What is Terror: Literature and Critiques of Violence."