Recent News

XE alum Vero Chai's article "Editing the Archive: Alexandra Bell’s Annotation, Redaction, and Epistemic Resistance in Counternarratives" has made made the cover story of the summer 2021 issue of Art Journal CAA (Volume 80, Issue 2). This paper first developed through Professor Cole's graduate seminar "The Copy." Vero is thrilled to continue their research and writing as a doctoral student at Rutgers Comp Lit starting this fall.
        -Jun. 23, 2021

Congratulations to XE student Katrina Martinez, who recently received NYU's Cities Collaborative Fellowship. The NYU Cities Collaborative and the GSAS Public Humanities Initiative, with support from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, have launched the Summer Urban Public Humanities Fellowship for graduate students interested in exploring multi-disciplinary aspects of urban life and experience.
        -Jun. 17, 2021

 

Professor Peter Lucas' latest film, Before the Close of Day, won a prize for best experimental film at a virtual film festival in Florence, Italy and will be screening at the Manhattan Film Festival on the 25th of June at 5:00 p.m.  Tickets can be found here.
        -Jun. 9, 2021

 

Alum Matthew Zundel was awarded the Dean's Dissertation Fellowship for Academic Year 2021-2022, which will allow him to complete his dissertation titled, "Perversion, Polemic, Affect: Sexual Dissidence in 1970s Italy," in NYU's Department of Italian Studies. This Fellowship will be paired with an Honorary Fellowship from NYU's Center for the Humanities, giving Matthew the opportunity to develop his work with colleagues at the Center over the course of the academic year.
        -Jun. 8, 2021

 

Director Una Chaudhuri presented Dear Climate as part of the Madison Square Park Conservancy's annual symposium "Greening Public Art" on June 4th, 2021. Inspired by Maya Lin's Ghost Forest, this year's virtual event considered why artists, curators, journalists, and cultural and environmental leaders are advancing public art, dialogue, and activism to address inextricable crises facing the environment. More information on the event can be found here.

        -Jun. 4, 2021

Professor Lucy Ives's next novel, Life is Everywhere, will be published by the beloved independent press Graywolf, currently scheduled to be published in Fall 2022.
        -Jun. 3, 2021

Professor Elaine Gan presented at the conference "Modes of Embodiment: Race, Praxis, and Environmental Justice" at Stanford University on Thursday May 27, 4:30-6pm PST. Prof. Gan's presentation, "Agential Oryza: Un/making Bodies, Bits, and Bombs," was on current research and writing.
        -Jun. 1, 2021

Professor Elaine Gan's essay on "Diagrams: Making Multispecies Temporalities Visible" is coming out in June, as part of a collection titled Experimenting with Ethnography: A Companion to Analysis, co-edited by Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik, published by Duke. Cover by Brazilian artist Beatriz Milhazes. Book intro now available here.
        -May 21, 2021

XE's Incoming Director, Professor Jennifer Jacquet, has a new article out in the Washington Post. "The meat industry is doing exactly what Big Oil does to fight climate action" (May 14, 2021) can be found here. 
        -May 17, 2021
 

Congratulations to XE student Katrina Martinez on being selected as one of The Latinx Project's inaugural Public Humanities Fellows! This group of graduate students from NYU & the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium will be collaborating respectively with El Museo del Barrio, El Clemente Soto Velez Center, Pregones/PRTT, Lazos, Mil Mundos, Toppled Monuments Archive, and Museo de Los Sures.
        -May 7, 2021

XE student Ruqaiyah Zarook will be presenting her paper, "Bringing the War Back Home: Exploring Protest, Policing and Militarization in the U.S. Carceral Landscape after 9/11," at Convergence: York & University of Toronto Graduate History Conference on April 28, 2021. The theme of the conference is "Confronting Crisis: Writing History in Uncertain Times," which explores the concept of crisis in history and in historical practice, confronting questions such as: how do historians write history during moments of turmoil and upheaval? What is the aftermath of crises? How can crises be properly represented in history?
        -Apr. 26, 2021

XE student Kelly Lewis hosted a presentation on “Animal Allies: The History of Animals in Espionage” on Thursday, April 15 at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at MSU, formerly MSU Wonderlust, in partnership with the Belgrade Community Library. An MSU alumna, Kelly Lewis will introduced participants to the stories of espionage's most eminent animals and the human masterminds behind them. For decades, furry, aquatic and flying animal spies have been employed in some of the world's wildest espionage initiatives, from undersea defense and surveillance to cipher smuggling and anti-drone reconnaissance. More information can be found here.
        -Apr. 15, 2021

XE student Monica Dupuy will be hosting a panel at this summer's Media Ecology Association Convention. The panel, "Examining the Devolved Spectacle of Film," seeks to trace the lineage of the devolved spectacle of film beginning with its formerly powerful position as a megaspectacle, garnering large audiences and active participation, to its current fragmented de-centralization at the hands of streaming, accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
        -Apr. 15, 2021

XE is excited to share that current student Colin Stragar-Rice has been selected as a finalist in this year's GSAS Threesis Academic Challenge. Colin was elected as one of six finalists out of the competition's record 101 participants! Colin will be presenting their Master's Project, "Ontology of the Page: Towards a Critique of its Logic of Raciality" at the Threesis Final Round later this month.

        -Apr. 2, 2021

 

Alum Yvonne C. Garrett successfully defended her dissertation for the Ph.D. in History & Culture, Drew University (degree to be awarded May 2021). Dissertation title: "(Re)Constructing Identity: Structures of Female Empowerment in 1980s American Punk."
        -Apr. 1, 2021

XE Director Una Chaudhuri participated in a discussion on personal and community resilience during the pandemic, and how climate arts can connect our distant existential concerns to our closest shared values. The talk, Climate Arts in the Pandemic, focused on the work of artist Gabriela Salazar and was sponsored by the Climate Museum. 
        -Mar. 29, 2021

Professor Kimon Keramidas and alum Fiona Haborak recently presented the talk "Geeks at the Heart of the Sci-Fi Classroom" at the Geek/Art CONfluence, an online comic con that included cosplay, gaming, art, panels, and presentations. The talk covered their article "Context, Cosplay, and (Re)configurations: Centering the Geek at the Heart of Science Fiction Pedagogy," which was recently published in the journal Transformative Works and Cultures.
        -Mar. 20, 2021

XE Director Una Chaudhuri collaborated on the event dramaturgy for Bodies in Peril: A Collaborative Dwelling, an installment in the Performance in Critical Times series that asks the community to create connections and shared experiences for post-pandemic habitation. 
        -Mar. 19, 2021

XE student Sonia Epstein has curated Proceed with Caution, a new series at the Queens Drive-in, in Flushing Meadows Park, that pairs popular films with introductions by public health experts. The series begins on April 9 with Terry Gilliam's sci-fi classic 12 Monkeys and Chris Marker's 1962 La Jetee, introduced by epidemiologist Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo who will speak about what we can learn from the past to apply to pandemic preparedness. More information can be found here.
        -Mar. 18, 2021

XE faculty Elaine Gan's podcast, Multispecies Worldbuilding, is entering its second season with a new episode out featuring anthropologist and science studies scholar Lesley Green. The episode can be found here or wherever podcasts are found. 

        -Mar. 8, 2021

Professor Kimon Keramidas took part in the Think Digitally Act Humanely: Building DH Communities Locally and Globally panel as part of ITMO's annual DH Days event. The panelists discussed creating scholarly communities in each of their local areas as well as ways in which those local communities can be brought together in a global context. The panel will be translated and published in English, Russian, and Arabic in The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy later this year.
        -Mar. 4, 2021

Professor Kimon Keramidas was a visiting professor for two weeks at ITMO University, teaching an intensive two-week course titled Spatial and Three-Dimensional Approaches to Humanities Narratives. The course was offered as part of ITMO's Data, Culture and Visualization Master's Program. Professor Keramidas helps guide the development of the program and other initiatives at ITMO as Co-Director of ITMO's Digital Humanities Research Center.
        -Mar. 2, 2021

Alumna Yvonne C. Garrett has two book reviews published in the February issue of The Brooklyn Rail. Garrett's reviews can be found here and here.
        -Mar. 1, 2021

Alum Roy Schwartz's Master's thesis is being published as a scholarly book this spring, titled Is Superman Circumcised? The Complete Jewish History of the World's Greatest Hero. More information on the book can be found on the McFarland Publishing website.
        -Feb. 23, 2021

Alumna Jamia Wilson has recently assumed the position of Executive Editor at Random House, detailed here. Wilson was featured in this week's NY Magazine in an article titled "The Group Portrait Big-five publishing’s new power players."
        -Feb. 22, 2021


Professor Kimon Keramidas helped organize and taught three workshops during the 7th annual NYCDH Week. This year's DH Week brought together over 1500 registrations to more than 30 sessions offered virtually including workshops offered by researchers and scholars in the Middle East. The week's theme was Care and Repair and focused attention on NYCDH as a community that provides spaces for caring for one another and developing practices of repair at the personal and institutional level.
        -Feb. 8, 2021

XE faculty Peter Lucas was the creative / editing consultant on Nanfu Wang’s new film In the Same Breath which was the opening night film at the Sundance Film Festival on January 28th.  Using on the ground citizen footage, the film covers Wuhan in the early days of the Covid-19 outbreak and China’s attempt to censor what really happened.  The film will be streaming later in the spring on HBO. A review by The Guardian can be found here.
        -Feb. 4, 2021

Student Genevieve Pfeiffer has had her recent works published in two editions of the literary journal About Place. Links to her work can be found here and here. 
        -Feb. 4, 2021

 

Congratulations to XE faculty Elaine Gan, whose recent podcast on her work gained more listeners than any other on the radio of the Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona (MACBA), in which she talks about crop science, feral technologies, the global pandemic, radical difference, natureculture, the art of noticing, Matsutake mushrooms, and rice. The podcast can be found here.
        -Feb. 3, 2021

 

XE faculty Lucy Ives, along with artist Paul Chan, will discuss the writing, architecture, and life of Madeline Gins (1941–2014), a visionary interdisciplinary thinker and artist for Printed Matter’s Virtual Art Book Fair. Chan and Ives will explore related themes in critical theory, philosophy, and contemporary arts practice, as well as the editorial process for The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader, a collection of Gins’s long out-of-print or unpublished writings. Saturday, February 27 ~ 3:30–5pm EST. More information here.
        -Feb. 2, 2021

Professor Lori Cole will be giving a talk at the Institute of Fine Arts on February 18, 2021 as part of the panel New Approaches to Fanny Sanín: Women Artists and Geometric Abstraction. The link to RSVP for the event can be found here. 
        -Feb. 1, 2021

XE student Guillermo Sardi will be a panelist in the upcoming event in conjunction with NYU Libraries Love Data Week, Doing Qualitative research in Humanitarian settings: A Latin American Perspective. Please see the link here for the event information. 
        -Feb. 1, 2021

Congratulations to XE students Ruqaiyah Zarook, second place winner, and David Lamb, honorable mention in the Grey Art Gallery's "Taking Shape" writing prize! You can read their pieces and learn more about the prize via the Gallery's blog posts here.
        -Nov. 13, 2020

 

Current XE student Anastasia Walton's short story "Asé" - a poetic story of a girl unaware of her own death and left recounting her last day; will be published in the fourth issue of the art magazine The Ana. The Ana is a quarterly magazine hell-bent on redefining art and literature.
        -Nov. 13, 2020

 

XE alumni Andrea Hines' poem "Fitting In" will appear in the book Poetry for the Actor: A Guide to Deeper Truth, by Deborah Hedwall, due out December 2020 from Smith and Kraus.
        -Nov. 2, 2020

 

XE Director Una Chaudhuri reflected on the New Museum's first digital residency, Cucú and her Fishes, an ecofeminist drama conducted entirely online. More on the exhibit and Chaudhuri's reflections here. 
        -Nov. 1, 2020

 

XE Director Una Chaudhuri was featured on a recent episode of ASLE Podcast, now available here. Professor Chaudhuri spoke with the hosts about her work in the early development of eco-theatre as a field of study, the ways that theatre is uniquely suited to engage with environmental concerns, and her ongoing Dear Climate project.
        -Nov. 1, 2020

 

Professor Robin Nagle joins The Gotham Center for New York City History for an event titled "The 'World's Most Wasteful City'? New York and its Garbage" on October 6. Professor Nagle will be speakin in conversation with historian Martin Melosi about the various ways New York has tried to solve its growing trash problem, drawing on his giant new study Fresh Kills, about the notorious Staten Island dump.
        -Oct. 6, 2020

Professor Lucy Ives's first collection of short stories is forthcoming in March, 2021. Titled COSMOGONY, the collection is described as "an energetic, witty collection of stories in which supernatural events meet the anomalies of everyday life: deception, infidelity, lost cats, cute memes, amateur pornography, and more." Stories from the collection have previously appeared in BOMB, Conjunctions, and Granta, among other publications.
        -Oct. 5, 2020

Professor Lucy Ives has contributed a catalogue essay for artist Himali Singh Soin's film, A Wildness Distant, to be exhibited online via Columbia University's Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, from October 5 to 18, 2020. Both the essay and the film are freely accessible during this time. Singh Soin's work "recounts the tale of the omnipresent anxiety in Victorian England of an imminent glacial epoch. The disorienting fear of an invasive periphery sent shudders through the colonial enterprise, the tremors of which can be felt in contemporary times. Here, an alien figure traverses the blank, oblivious whiteness, and undergoes an Ovidian transformation into glimmering ice."
        -Oct. 5, 2020

Current XE student Shane Martin's first novel published on Amazon (available through kindle and paperback) was released this September, titled "Lost Souls: A Servant of Death." It is a historical fantasy, taking place during Imperial Rome, with fantastical elements added throughout.
        -Sept. 29, 2020

Alumni Fiona Katie Haborak's XE Master's Project has been revised for publication in the September 2020 issue of the journal Transformative Works and Cultures:
Haborak, Fiona Katie. 2020. "Identity, Curated Branding, and the Star Cosplayer's Pursuit of Instagram Fame." Transformative Works and Cultures, no. 34. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1949.
        -Sept. 29, 2020

 

XE student Sonia Epstein has curated the ongoing series Science on Screen at the Museum of the Moving Image. As part of this series, Epstein presented a free screening of Marjane Satrapi’s historical drama Radioactive (Dir. Marjane Satrapi. 2020, 109 mins.), followed by a conversation and Q&A with Satrapi and Pike, moderated by Epstein. Further screenings, in conjunction with the Queens Drive-in, will be held throughout the summer; more inforamtion on the series can be found here.
        -Sept. 1, 2020

 

XE faculty Elaine Gan is presenting at this year's 4S STS conference, as part of a three-panel series called "Alchemical Transformations." Sign up to view this presentation and others via the link here. 
        -Aug. 17, 2020

 

XE Alumnus Matthew Zundel, currently a PhD Candidate in the department of Italian Studies at NYU, has recently published their first article on the militancy of Italian gay liberation theorist Mario Mieli. The article is a revised and expanded version of their MA thesis, "Sono tutti checche latenti": Introducing a Radical Italian Queen, which was a Rose and Herbert H. Hirschhorn Thesis Award winner in 2015.
        -Aug. 15, 2020

 

XE student and metadata librarian Alexandra Provo will appear in conversation with University archivist Janet Bunde and Steven Fullwood, project director, Center for Black Visual Culture, NYU Institute of African American Affairs. The talk, entitled "Transforming a Collection into Data: The Soul of Reason Community Project," will include a discussion of NYU Libraries' collection of radio broadcasts created by Dr. Roscoe Brown, showcasing Black and Puerto Rican art, scholarship, and life in New York City from 1971-1978. The event will be held Tuesday, July 21, 5:00-6:00pm.  Register here.
        -Jul. 15, 2020

 

Congratulations to our alumni starting PhD and MFA programs in 2020, including:
Bentley Brown, Art History, NYU Institute of Fine Arts
Fiona Haborak, Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, University of Texas: Dallas
Jason Lobell, Creative Writing, City College of New York
Jayati Narain, Global Urban Studies, Rutgers University
Akane Okoshi, Visual Studies, University of California: Irvine
Valeria Seminario, Hispanic and Portuguese Studies, University of Pennsylvania
        -Jun. 30, 2020

 

XE is proud to share that current student Norrec Nieh has a piece published in Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, titled "'Approved Flesh': The Sacrificial Foundations of Modernity in Peter Shaffer's Equus."
        -Jun. 12, 2020

 

Congratulations to XE's Herbert H. and Rose Hirschhorn Master's Project Award winners, Cameron Fucile, Ben Montoya, and Valeria Seminario.
        -Jun. 5, 2020

XE faculty Lucy Ives has edited an anthology of writing--poems, essays, and experimental fiction--by Madeline Gins (1941–2014). This collection, The Saddest Thing Is That I Have Had to Use Words: A Madeline Gins Reader, brings her work back into print after a long hiatus. Professor Ives will be presenting the anthology at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research on May 7, 7pm @TheBrooklynInstitute on Facebook; as well as reading at BOMB Magazine on May 29, 5pm @bombmag on Instagram.
        -May 7, 2020

XE is very proud of current student Sonia Epstein, who was awarded the Dean's Fellowship for Distinguished Master's Students, a prestigious award given out by the Graduate School.

XE Director Una Chaudhuri was featured in conversation with EcoCultureLab’s Earth Week speaker, media artist Marina Zurkow in a talk on climate change, oceans, and the post-natural condition. Zurkow is one of the leading contemporary artists addressing how we think and feel about climate change and related ecological issues. In works like "Dear Climate," "Wet Logic," and "Oceans Like Us," she and her collaborators work with the tools of new media, virtual reality, video installation, and others to encourage personal engagement with the "wicked problems" of our time. Professor Chaudhuri's books include Animal Acts: Performing Species Today and Ecocide: Research Theatre and Climate Change.
        -Apr. 22, 2020

XE alumna Elizabeth Streb was recently featured in T Magazine's piece "The Renegades."
        -Apr. 13, 2020

XE student Isa Ananya Spoerry presented her thesis, which investigates the role of Sri Lankan food in the diaspora, at NewYorkScapes' 2020 Culture Mapping symposium in April 2020.
        -Apr. 18, 2020

 

Alumna Kristina Shull (c/o 2006) has accepted a tenure-track position in UNC Charlotte's Department of History as Assistant Professor of Post-1960 US History. Beginning in the Fall of 2020, Shull will teach courses on mass incarceration, immigration, climate change, and public/digital history.
        -Apr. 1, 2020

 

XE faculty Kimon Keramidas helped organize NYCDH Week 2020. Consisting of a half-day Kick-off Event symposium and more than 40 workshops, demonstrations, and events, NYCDH Week served over 400 members of the local digital humanities community. Professor Keramidas taught the workshops Introduction to Omeka and Advanced Omeka.

 

XE faculty Kimon Keramidas taught a week-long course titled Object-Based Digital Humanities for Cultural Heritage at the NYU Abu Dhabi Winter Institute in Digital Humanities.

 

Sonia Epstein, a current student at XE has published a piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Click here to read "The Way They Move."

 

Una Chaudhuri, Director of XE and part of the collaborative creative project Dear Climate was commissioned to install a campus-wide installation, entitled "Signs, Wonders, Blunders," at Appalachian State University, North Carolina. The installation will be up through August 2020, and will be the focus of many events and engagements, including an Artist's Talk by Una Chaudhuri and Marina Zurkow, and a faculty seminar led by Chaudhuri. 

 

XE Director Una Chaudhuri will be participating in a Skirball Salon exploring “Eraser Mountain,” the latest work by playwright-director Okada Toshiki, and a representative work of the new ecological theatre on Thursday, February 27th at NYU's Department of Performance Studies.

 

XE faculty Elaine Gan has released a podcast about climate change through her project the Multispecies Worldbuilding Lab. Please take a listen and share with friends or family! You can find the lab and podcast at multispeciesworldbuilding.com or at twitter and instagram @multispecieswb.

 

XE 2018-19 Visiting Scholar Dawn Chan will be giving commentary and response on the upcoming lecture with Concept Foreign Garments New York on a capsul collection comissioned by Triple Canopy. See the link here for further information.

 

Kimon Keramidas, Clinical Associate Professor at XE is speaking on a panel hosted by the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute titled "International and Interdisciplinary: Collaborations in Digital Humanities Research" on February 4, 2020. 

 

XE's 2018-19 Visiting Scholar Danielle Jackson will be giving a talk at the School of Visual Arts on Photography on On Tuesday, January 28th, 2020. More information on the event can be found here.

 

Robin Nagle was quoted in the New York Times Opinion Section on a piece on New York City waste management, "Why New York Can't Pick Up Its Trash."

 

XE faculty Kimon Keramidas was co-curator for the digital exhibition The Sogdians: Influencers on the Silk Roads which launched in April 2019. The exhibition, which was developed for the Freer|Sackler Asian Art Galleries of the Smithsonian, included an XE course taught in spring 2016 entitled, Telling the Sogdian Story: A Freer|Sackler Digital Exhibition Project in which students participated in early research and prototype development.

 

Peter Lucas was the creative producer on the documentary One Child Nation (2019), directed by Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang, which won the Grand Jury Award at Sundance. 

 

Jan Cohen-Cruz is the keynote speaker at the International Art and Community Meeting in Porto, Portugal, in September, 2019. 

 

Lucy Ives received a 2018 Creative Capital Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant to write the book She Is Raining: The Work and Life of Madeline Gins. Her novel Loudermilk, Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World, published in May 2019, was a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice.

 

Dear Climate, an arts collective including Una Chaudhuri, presented work at Storm King in Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, May 19 – November 12, 2018.

 

Lori Cole published Surveying the Avant-Garde: Questions on Modernism, Art, and the Americas in Transatlantic Magazines (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2018).


Congratulations to our alumni starting PhD Programs in 2019:

Anuli Akanegbu, Anthropology, NYU

Bryan Bove, American Culture Studies, Bowling Green State University 

Kristen Graves, Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto

Danielle Lucksted, Sociology, Stony Brook University

Luxuan Wang, School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University

 

Mary Thompson and Luxuan Wang won the Hirschhorn Thesis Award

 

Three XE students were finalists in the 2019 Threesis Competition:

Hermione Brice 
Mary Thompson 
Damla Alkan