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. He has designed and taught courses on short story cycles, French and American cinema, French language and literature, 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 along Lake Superior in 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, with a concentration in Critical Theory, and spent a year in Paris studying French literature, theory, and philosophy at the Centre Parisien d’Études Critiques and the Collège International de Philosophie.
