Overview
Nicholas Huelster is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell, where he recently received his PhD in French Literature. Before Cornell, he studied French and Francophone Studies, Humanities, Media and Cultural Studies and had a concentration in Critical Theory at Macalester College in his hometown of Saint Paul, Minnesota. He also studied in Paris at the Centre Parisien d'Études Critiques and with the Collège International de Philosophie. He is continuing his research project begun in his dissertation ("Skeptical Poiesis: Montaigne, Rimbaud"), which investigates the resonance between the skeptical writings of Montaigne and the poetry of Arthur Rimbaud. He is also continuing to theorize the importance of the Pyrrhonian Crisis for the wider realm of Early Modern French literature, and its subterranean resonance through the entire French 19th century, through to the contemporary moment. He is at heart a creative writer, and brings this zeal for literary practice to his teaching, in his French language and literature classes and in his Freshman Writing Seminar, "French Film: 1895 to the Present."