Sam Huber

I write broadly about American literature, feminism, and queer culture in the 20th century and today. I also serve as a Senior Editor at The Yale Review, and I teach courses in writing and editing. For the 2025-2026 academic year, I am the Marilyn Beaudry-Corbett Schlesinger Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.

I’m currently at work on a biography of Kate Millett, whose 1970 book Sexual Politics was a media phenomenon and feminist classic, at once launching and obscuring Millett’s career as a writer, visual artist, and activist on behalf of women, queer people, political prisoners, and survivors of psychiatric hospitalization. My essays and reviews have appeared in American Literature, Bookforum, The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and other publications, and from 2013 to 2017 I was a books columnist for Feministing.com.

I received my Ph.D. from Yale in 2022. My dissertation Every Day About the World: Feminist Internationalism in the Second Wave, which reconsiders second-wave feminism in the U.S. through the internationalist commitments of its participant writers, was awarded the Yale English Department Prize for Best Dissertation of the Year.

updated September 2025