ANN A. HUSE

Ann A. Huse received her BA from Amherst College and her MA and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis.   With a specialty in British and Anglo-Irish seventeenth-century literature, she has published articles on Dryden's French mistress in The Huntington Library Quarterly and a chapter on the Earl of Rochester's poetry about "the French pox" in Textual Healing: Essays on Medieval and Early Modern Medicine (Brill, 2005). She has two forthcoming essays on Katherine Philips, the Anglo-Welsh poet and translator who was the most widely admired woman writer of the century; in addition, she is currently at work on a book about early modern British poets as French teachers. She also holds a credential for teaching English and social studies at the secondary level and has won several teaching awards, including a citation in Who's Who Among America's Teachers (2005).   Her other academic interests include the literature of the Vietnam War, pedagogy and composition, writing poetry, historical fiction for young adults, and Midwestern writers such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Twain.  

At John Jay, Professor Huse teaches writing-intensive sections of "Classical Literature" and "Medieval and Early Modern Literature," as well as "Gender in the Western Literary Traditions," "Reading and Writing Children's Literature," an Independent Study on "Women's Literary History," and the introductory course for the Justice Studies major.