Karla Huebner is a writer and art historian. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary and genre publications and her novel In Search of the Magic Theater will be published by Regal House in 2022. Other novels are underway. Her scholarly writing focuses on surrealism and Czech modernism, with interests in gender and sexuality, periodical studies, and film. Her monograph Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic will be out in November 2020 and is now available for pre-order from University of Pittsburgh Press. She is also preparing an anthology of Czech modernist writing on art, architecture, and visual culture 1900-1950.

Website: https://kh-magneticwoman.blogspot.com/

Twitter Username: @karlahuebner

Publications

• Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic , University of Pittsburgh Press (November 2020)
• The Magic Dobro Player , Opossum (2018)
• The Animalcuntent , Verbicide (2011)
• The Anarchists are Coming , Weave (2010)
• A Vampire, an Answering Machine, a Black Cat, and Yellow Freesias , The Sterling Web (1993)
• Drewno (Polish translation of "Heartwood" , Czerwony Karze? (1993)
• Anna , Nocturnal Lyric (1993)
• Botany , Carnal Chameleon (1993)
• Lisa , Mind in Motion (1992)
• Vanishing Point , Forbidden Lines (1991)
• Hurricane , Ceilidh (1991)
• Midnight Crossing , Nocturnal Lyric (1991)
• The Room with the Moa that We're Not Supposed to Write About , Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine (1990)
• When We Returned to the Hotel , Thin Ice (1990)
• Potatoes , Fantasy Macabre (1990)
• Shooting/Resurrection , Collages and Bricolages (1990)
• No Final Sanctuary , Fantasy Macabre (1989)
• The Year Before Gance Died , Sun Dog (1988)
• Night Bus , Fantasy Macabre (1987)
• The Gumby Phone , Thursday's Child (1986)
• One of Them Does , EFQ (1985)
• Woman in Red , Fantasy and Terror (1985)
• Stillberth , Minetta Review (1985)
• Occupational Hazard , Colorado State Review (1984)
• Heartwood , Northwest Review (1983)
• The Czech 1930s Through Toyen, in Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe , Indiana University Press (2016)
• Inter-War Czech Women’s Magazines: Constructing Gender, Consumer Culture and Identity in Central Europe, in Women in Magazines: Research, Representation, Production, and Consumption , Routledge (2016)
• Nostalgia and La Jetée , Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture (2015)
• Prague Flânerie from Neruda to Nezval, in The Flâneur Abroad: Historical and International Perspectives , Cambridge Scholars Press (2014)
• Otherness in First Republic Czechoslovak Representations of Women, in Competing Eyes: Visual Encounters with Alterity in Central and Eastern Europe , [Budapest] (2013)
• In Pursuit of Toyen: Feminist Biography in an Art-Historical Context , Journal of Women's History (2013)
• Girl, Trampka, or Žába? The Czechoslovak New Woman, in The New Woman International , University of Michigan Press (2011)
• Fire Smoulders in the Veins: Toyen’s Queer Desire and its Roots in Prague Surrealism , Papers of Surrealism (2010)
• The Whole World Revolves Around It: Sex Education and Sex Reform in First Republic Czech Print Media , Aspasia (2010)

Employment

• Associate Professor of Art History at Wright State University (September 2009 - )

Degrees

• Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from UC Santa Cruz
• Master of Arts in Art History from American University
• Doctoral Degree in Art History from University of Pittsburgh

Genres of Interest

Fiction, Creative nonfiction, Playwriting