Karla Huebner - Heartwood

Heartwood

Raz-Shumaker Prize finalist (2020). Stay tuned!

Boat-dwellers, anarchists, extinct birds, women made of flowers, and cheese-eating demons populate these tales of love, magic, loss, and horrible workplaces.

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Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic

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Selected Works

Fiction

The Corpse in the Trash Room (writing as Colette Tajemna)

"When a story opens with a wake for a dead hamster that produces a corpse of the human variety, you suspect you're in for a romp. And that's what Colette Tajemna provides in this witty story that is part farce and every bit a satisfying mystery. I laughed as I puzzled out this masterful whodunit."
—James H Lewis, author of the Chief Novak series

Too Early to Know Who's Winning

A novel of women approaching retirement in the age of Trump and climate crisis--launched in Spring 2023, from Black Rose Publishing!

"With clear eyes, courage, and wit, Karla Huebner's Too Early to Know Who's Winning captures the uncertainty, fear, desperation, and grief of the early Trump era." –Fredrick Soukup, author of Bliss and Blood Up North

In Search of the Magic Theater

Available now from Regal House!

"This engaging, erudite, yet accessible novel takes us on a cultural journey spanning millennia, from Greek mythology to Jimi Hendrix, from Elizabethan lyric poetry to performance art, revealing along the way the joy of self-discovery." -–Julie Wittes Schlack, author of This All-at-Onceness

Heartwood

A Raz-Shumaker Prize finalist in 2020. Stay tuned!

Art History

Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic

"Art historians owe Karla Huebner a considerable debt for this pioneering study." -- Derek Sayer, University of Alberta

"[It] is a gift. … some of the absolute best writing and scholarship in art history on Central Europe appearing today." -- Keith Holz, Western Illinois University

Books I'm In

The Routledge Handbook of Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia

Edited By Katalin Fábián, Janet Elise Johnson, Mara Lazda. Leading scholars examine the region's diverse politics, histories, cultures, ethnicities, and religions, and how these structures intersect with gender alongside class, sexuality, coloniality, and racism.

Czech Feminisms: Perspectives on Gender in East Central Europe

In this wide-ranging study of women's and gender issues in the pre- and post-1989 Czech Republic, contributors engage with current feminist debates and theories of nation and identity to examine the historical and cultural transformations of Czech feminism.

Women in Magazines: Research, Representation, Production and Consumption

Women have been important contributors to and readers of magazines since the development of the periodical press in the nineteenth century. This collection highlights the differing and at times contradictory images and understandings of women in a magazines and women's contributions to magazines in contexts from the late nineteenth century to the present in Britain, North America, continental Europe and Australia.

The Flaneur Abroad: Historical and International Perspectives

New perspectives on a crucial figure of nineteenth-century cultural history - the flaneur. Cities discussed here that provide counterpoints to Paris are Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Le Havre, London, Madrid, New York, Prague, and St Petersburg.

The New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s Through the 1960s

"In The New Woman International, editors Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco have gathered a group of intellectually stimulating and provocative essays that present the emergence, both tentative and triumphant, of this new global icon and her increasingly multicultural image. Written largely by historians of art and film, these essays emphasize visual analysis of the photographic and film media that carried the new woman's influential message."
---Norma Broude, American University