Heather Houser
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3625810 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Heather Houser |
| NOMBRES | Heather |
| APELLIDO | Houser |
| FIRMA | HOUSER H |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2840-3859 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
White Women Wondering and the Contortions of Childfree Writing
Creating meeting grounds for transdisciplinary climate research
In this position paper, we use the example of The University of Texas at Austin's Planet Texas 2050 (PT2050) to argue that the Grand Challenge (GC) framework for ambitious research initiatives must create meeting grounds for transdisciplinary integration of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), arts, and humanities, along with community perspectives. We trace the historical trajectory of GCs, and reframe GC initiatives within the …
Abundance Against Scarcity
Edible ecologies stuff Ross Gay's poetic Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015). A fig tree sprawls rich in fruit over a street in Philadelphia, so abundant it almost threatens. A woman “works hard / rinsing and scrubbing / the walk / lest some poor sod / slip on the / silk of a fig / and break his hip.” Lusciousness minimizes the possible damage as the speaker imagines the sod might “reach over to gobble up / the perpetrator.” The speaker's prese…
Drawing the Line on Oil in Petrochemical America
Petrochemical America, an art book and atlas cocreated by photographer Richard Misrach and landscape architect Kate Orff, is a rejoinder to commonplaces about oil’s invisibility and evasion of representation. The book’s visualizations produce a narrative atlas that depicts the oil industry’s transformations of US landscapes and communities. Central to this depiction is Orff’s use of the line, a form essential to visualization technique. Orff’s li…
Shimmering Description and Descriptive Criticism
What can studying novelistic description teach us about the allure of modes of reading falling within the descriptive turn, specifically, surface reading, new materialist ecocriticism, and computational analysis? This article's analysis of the paradoxes of description—specifically, its ability to evoke while revoking—in McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985), Sinha's Animal's People (2007), and Smith's White Teeth (2000) explains an apparent tension be…
Scatterplots and Designer Ecosystems
Research Article| March 01 2017 Scatterplots and Designer Ecosystems: Visualizing Loss in New Naturalist Media Heather Houser Heather Houser University of Texas at Austin [email protected] Heather Houser is Associate Professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin. Her publications include Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (2014), and essays in American Literary History, American Literature, Los Angeles R…
Writing the Goodlife
What does ecocriticism need? Three recent books spanning subfields of environmental literary study suggest it needs to negotiate the lived experiences of ecological disruption and the processes and institutions that shape those disruptions. Their approach is to read across myriad texts according to theme or potency. The studies by Adam Trexler, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Hubert Zapf fall, respectively, into the subfields of Anglophone climate fi…
The Aesthetics of Environmental Visualizations
Information visualizations (or “infovis”) have become a ubiquitous cultural form in the digital age. Environmental artists and activists increasingly trust in the ability of infovis to produce knowledge about environmental issues and to promote audience engagement. But does infovis elicit more than shock, admiration, and the pleasures of “infogasm”? Analyzing infovis through its aesthetic features, this essay raises the question of how the aesthe…
Wondrous Strange
Houser's essay argues for the centrality of sickness and affect to twenty-first-century environmental consciousness and therefore to ecocriticism, through an analysis of Richard Powers's novel, The Echo Maker. The essay focuses on wonder, an essential affect for promoting environmental investment and scientific interest. In line with much environmental writing, the novel aspires to increase readers' awareness of their surroundings as a way to pro…
The Aesthetics of Environmental Visualizations
Information visualizations (or “infovis”) have become a ubiquitous cultural form in the digital age. Environmental artists and activists increasingly trust in the ability of infovis to produce knowledge about environmental issues and to promote audience engagement. But does infovis elicit more than shock, admiration, and the pleasures of “infogasm”? Analyzing infovis through its aesthetic features, this essay raises the question of how the aesthe…
Wondrous Strange
Houser's essay argues for the centrality of sickness and affect to twenty-first-century environmental consciousness and therefore to ecocriticism, through an analysis of Richard Powers's novel, The Echo Maker. The essay focuses on wonder, an essential affect for promoting environmental investment and scientific interest. In line with much environmental writing, the novel aspires to increase readers' awareness of their surroundings as a way to pro…
Creating meeting grounds for transdisciplinary climate research
In this position paper, we use the example of The University of Texas at Austin's Planet Texas 2050 (PT2050) to argue that the Grand Challenge (GC) framework for ambitious research initiatives must create meeting grounds for transdisciplinary integration of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), arts, and humanities, along with community perspectives. We trace the historical trajectory of GCs, and reframe GC initiatives within the …
Shimmering Description and Descriptive Criticism
What can studying novelistic description teach us about the allure of modes of reading falling within the descriptive turn, specifically, surface reading, new materialist ecocriticism, and computational analysis? This article's analysis of the paradoxes of description—specifically, its ability to evoke while revoking—in McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985), Sinha's Animal's People (2007), and Smith's White Teeth (2000) explains an apparent tension be…
Wondrous Strange
Houser's essay argues for the centrality of sickness and affect to twenty-first-century environmental consciousness and therefore to ecocriticism, through an analysis of Richard Powers's novel, The Echo Maker. The essay focuses on wonder, an essential affect for promoting environmental investment and scientific interest. In line with much environmental writing, the novel aspires to increase readers' awareness of their surroundings as a way to pro…
The Aesthetics of Environmental Visualizations
Information visualizations (or “infovis”) have become a ubiquitous cultural form in the digital age. Environmental artists and activists increasingly trust in the ability of infovis to produce knowledge about environmental issues and to promote audience engagement. But does infovis elicit more than shock, admiration, and the pleasures of “infogasm”? Analyzing infovis through its aesthetic features, this essay raises the question of how the aesthe…
Scatterplots and Designer Ecosystems
Research Article| March 01 2017 Scatterplots and Designer Ecosystems: Visualizing Loss in New Naturalist Media Heather Houser Heather Houser University of Texas at Austin [email protected] Heather Houser is Associate Professor of English at The University of Texas at Austin. Her publications include Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (2014), and essays in American Literary History, American Literature, Los Angeles R…
Writing the Goodlife
What does ecocriticism need? Three recent books spanning subfields of environmental literary study suggest it needs to negotiate the lived experiences of ecological disruption and the processes and institutions that shape those disruptions. Their approach is to read across myriad texts according to theme or potency. The studies by Adam Trexler, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Hubert Zapf fall, respectively, into the subfields of Anglophone climate fi…
Shimmering Description and Descriptive Criticism
What can studying novelistic description teach us about the allure of modes of reading falling within the descriptive turn, specifically, surface reading, new materialist ecocriticism, and computational analysis? This article's analysis of the paradoxes of description—specifically, its ability to evoke while revoking—in McCarthy's Blood Meridian (1985), Sinha's Animal's People (2007), and Smith's White Teeth (2000) explains an apparent tension be…
Drawing the Line on Oil in Petrochemical America
Petrochemical America, an art book and atlas cocreated by photographer Richard Misrach and landscape architect Kate Orff, is a rejoinder to commonplaces about oil’s invisibility and evasion of representation. The book’s visualizations produce a narrative atlas that depicts the oil industry’s transformations of US landscapes and communities. Central to this depiction is Orff’s use of the line, a form essential to visualization technique. Orff’s li…
Creating meeting grounds for transdisciplinary climate research
In this position paper, we use the example of The University of Texas at Austin's Planet Texas 2050 (PT2050) to argue that the Grand Challenge (GC) framework for ambitious research initiatives must create meeting grounds for transdisciplinary integration of science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM), arts, and humanities, along with community perspectives. We trace the historical trajectory of GCs, and reframe GC initiatives within the …
Abundance Against Scarcity
Edible ecologies stuff Ross Gay's poetic Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015). A fig tree sprawls rich in fruit over a street in Philadelphia, so abundant it almost threatens. A woman “works hard / rinsing and scrubbing / the walk / lest some poor sod / slip on the / silk of a fig / and break his hip.” Lusciousness minimizes the possible damage as the speaker imagines the sod might “reach over to gobble up / the perpetrator.” The speaker's prese…
White Women Wondering and the Contortions of Childfree Writing
Art (7 obras) · Sociology (6 obras) · Aesthetics (5 obras) · Literature (5 obras) · History (4 obras) · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature (3 obras) · Environmental ethics (3 obras) · Epistemology (3 obras) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras)