Huehls is a nice guy. At first impression he doesn't come across as very friendly, but once you get to know him he is nice, funny, and most importantly fair. No wasted effort in this class. That said, he bombards you with information. Its difficult to take notes and grasp the abstract things he is talking about at the same time. Overall the workload of the class is fair, the grading is pretty lenient. The comments on the MT and paper make it sound like you did horrible and it turns out you got an A. Overall I'd recommend him, but brace yourself for information overload!

While I've heard decent things about him for 173C, perhaps the seminar setting of 182C is not where his teaching style belongs. That said, I took the 182C seminar on Human Rights Literature, and his conduct of the class was perhaps further skewed by the fact that he was teaching a class he was doing his own research on. As a result, I felt that instead of allowing ample opportunity for the class to make its own discoveries, to cultivate its own interests in the material, he steamrolled us. He definitely had a direction he wanted to steer the class in, and went to great lengths to make sure we spent 3 hours working towards his personal point. To his credit, he did have moments of clarity throughout the quarter in which he made efforts to be more inclusive of what issues we were interested in addressing, but those efforts were short-lived. Throughout the quarter, I couldn't shake the feeling that Huehls is still one of those intellects with some sort of chip on his shoulder, constantly having to prove how smart he is.

Overall, though, the class wasn't bad--the material was interesting, the workload a bit heavy (especially if taking other literature courses at the same time). A novel a week in addition to secondary texts, one-page response papers (which he--oddly, IMO--let people turn in up until week 9), all culminating in a final presentation and research paper. It's a bit of work, but as long as you put in a decent amount of effort in and outside of class, you should fare well.

Huehls is a great professor and I really enjoyed this class. He is incredibly engaged with all of the material and makes everything in the class super interesting to learn about. The reading load is a bit heavy but I found sticking to a reading schedule and using audiobooks very helpful. If you are considering this class I definitely recommend!

I took Huehls Fall '07 and he blew me away. You know those moments you're sitting in class and you feel like you're brain's about to explode with so many epiphanies? If you don't, it's because you haven't taken Huehls.

His lectures are structured very well which is very nice seeing as the class was on post-modern American fiction, a topic that isn't always easy to grasp. He introduced me to the topic and I've been hooked ever since.

He's also very concerned about students and is always available for office hours to discuss anything, not just the coursework. Take his classes, he's course will change your life! (maybe)

Professor Huehls is one of my favorite professors in the English department. His lectures are saturated with humor, and I appreciate how he values diversity in perspectives among students. He always provides numerous interpretations of the readings and allows us to make our own inferences about the text with the provided information, as opposed to enforcing one view upon us. We did have short quizzes every week, but they were brief plot questions; I'm normally a bad quiz/test taker, but doing well on his quizzes was more than manageable.
That being said, he's definitely not an easy essay grader, but I do think he's fair. He's immensely helpful as long as you reach out and don't wait until the last minute. I highly recommend going to his office hours, as they've provided me a lot of guidance about how to approach the two papers for the quarter. Overall, I really enjoyed Huehls's class and found the experience rewarding.