Overview
Nicholas Huelster is a Visiting Lecturer in Cornell University’s Department of Literatures in English, where he teaches First-Year Writing Seminars and creative writing. A scholar and fiction writer, he recently completed a PhD in Romance Studies at Cornell, with a dissertation, Skeptical Poiesis: Montaigne, Rimbaud, on the intersection of skepticism and literary craft. His teaching and research reflect a dual investment in literary theory and creative practice. At Cornell, he has designed and taught courses on short story cycles, French and American cinema, and most recently, “Epiphanic Observances,” a seminar focused on observational practice in fiction writing. He is currently writing a short story cycle set in his Apostle Islands region of northern Wisconsin. A Saint Paul, Minnesota native, he holds a B.A. from Macalester College in French and Francophone Studies, Humanities, Media, and Cultural Studies, and with a Concentration in Critical Theory, and spent a year studying French literature, theory, and philosophy in Paris at the Centre Parisien d’Études Critiques and the Collège International de Philosophie.