Recent News

XE Professor Sam Dinger published the article, "The sakan shababiyy, or the world improvised: Displacement and masculine domestic space in Lebanon" in Ethnography. Check out the article here. 

        - Jan. 23 2023

XE's student-run interdisciplinary journal, Caustic Frolic, released their Fall 2022 issue, "CHAOS". See here for the interactive digital issue. 

        - Jan 10 2023 

XE Director Lori Cole received a Getty Library Research Grant. Congratulations, Professor Cole! 

        - Jan. 4 2023

Students in Microbial Cultures and Ecologies including XE students Sonia Epstein, Juan Ferrer, Ian Laughbaum, Joceylnne Martinez, Sophia Rizzolo, and Rachel Rosado created a collaborative microbial culture and biogeography visualizing engagements with microbes across the city. Check out the website HERE.

        - Dec. 13 2022        

XE student Ellie Botoman published a book review of Allison Cobb's Plastic: An Autobiography in C Magazine's Extraction issue. You can find the review on C Magazine's website or pick up a print copy of the publication.

        - Dec. 5 2022    

XE Professor Sam Dinger recently published the article, "Coordinating Care and Coercion: Styles of Sovereignty and the Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Lebanon," in Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development. Check out the article here.

- Nov. 7 2022

XE Professor Shiv Kotecha is an editor of Cookie Jar, a new pamphlet series published by the The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. The first volume, titled Home is a Foreign Place, features contributions by Ari Heinrich, M. Neelika Jayawardane, William E. Jones, Tan Lin, and Shaka McGlotten. The pamphlets that comprise Cookie Jar will be available in a limited print run, or as free downloads as of November 15, 2022. More information can be found here. Congratulations. Shiv!

- Oct. 31 2022

Current XE student Kyan Ng is hosting the Hong Kong documentary “Blue Island” with the Hong Kong Student Advocacy Group at NYU on October 29th. Free admission for NYU affiliates. RSVP here.

- Oct. 28 2022

XE Alum Colin Stragar-Rice is presenting at Cornell’s “Troubling the Water” conference October 29th at 2:45pm.

- Oct. 28 2022

XE alum Sharai Dottin's musical "Blackgirltopia" was part of the Emerging Artists' Theater's Fall 2022 New Works Festival. Congratulations, Sharai!

- Oct. 28 2022

XE Alum Bentley Brown is presenting at the "African American Art History: Present Coordinates Symposium at Boston University" on November 12, 2022 at 10:00am. RSVP here.

- Oct. 26 2022        

XE Alum José Álvarez Posada's master's project "Xoxo, Lord Byron" is being performed as part of the New York Theater Festival on November 14th, 18th, and 20th. Tickets can be purchased here. Congratulations, José!

    - Oct. 5 2022

 

XE student Ellie Botoman recently contributed an essay to the Long Now Foundation. Titled "Living in Mangrove Time," the piece explores the unique life cycles of mangroves and how they offer new ways of thinking about resilience and long-term adaptation to the climate crisis. 

    - Sep. 26 2022

Celebrate XE Faculty Lucy Ives' new novel coming out on October 4th this fall: Life Is Everywhere, published by Graywolf Press!

Join Lucy Ives for a reading and Q&A with novelist and Atlantic editor Juliet Lapidos as part of the Brooklyn Book Fest on Tuesday, September 27th at 7pm at POWERHOUSE Arena in Dumbo. More info and sliding-scale registration here.  

If you are not available to attend the event, but would like to purchase a copy of the book, please see here.    

    -Sep. 21, 2022

 

XE student Heesoo Jung has launched CONTEMPLATIVE, a magazine philosophizing daily issues and interdisciplinary topics. 

    -Jun. 28, 2022

 

Congratulations to this year's winners of XE's Hirschhorn Master's Project Award:

Sharai Dottin, Blackgirltopia: An Exploration of the Queer, Black Feminist and Afrofuturistic Possibilities of Musical Theater to Enact Liberation

Katrina Martinez, Disastrous Empire: Puerto Rican Laborers on Hawaiian Plantations

        -Jun. 9, 2022

 

XE Faculty Lori Cole received the New York University Research Catalyst Prize for her book project The Magazine as Museum: Displaying and Circulating Art in the Americas.


        -Jun. 7, 2022
 

Congratulations to our alumni starting PhD programs in 2022, including:

Michael Castellano, University of California, Los Angeles, History
Ashley Jackson, University of Chicago, Anthropology
Maeve Kozlark, New York University, Music
Luc Marraffa, University of Amsterdam, School of Cultural Analysis
Katrina Martinez, University of Connecticut, History 
Cella Masso-Rivetti, Columbia University, Religious Studies
Em Panetta, York University, Science & Technology Studies
Genevieve Pfeiffer, University of Oregon, English Ecocriticism
Guillermo Sardi, CUNY, Political Science
Colin Stragar-Rice, Cornell University, English
Sarah Jane Weill, Sarah Lawrence College, Creative Writing
Lupita Orozco, Columbia University Law

 

        -Jun. 6, 2022

 

XE Faculty Lori Cole received a Global Research Initiative Visiting Faculty Fellowship at NYU in Paris for Summer 2022.
        -May 27, 2022

 

Congratulations to XE student Allegra Rosenberg, who has also received an NYU Center for the Humanities Digital Humanities Graduate Student Summer Fellowship! 
        -May 18, 2022

 

XE student Sylvia Juliana Riveros Torres' photo project, Toñita's: One of the oldest Latinx Club bridges generations together, was recently published in the NYU Journalism Institute's Pavement Pieces. Toñita's is also exhibited at 20 Cooper Square, 6th Floor, NYU.
        -May 17,  2022

 

XE student Gabriela D'Addario has been awarded a GSAS Summer Urban Public Humanities fellowship. For two months this summer Gabriela will be working with the Black Gotham Experience as their Archivist and Research Coordinator. Congratulations, Gabriela!
        -May 9, 2022

 

XE alum Leslie Wooden, currently a doctoral student of Art History, has been selected to receive a 2022 National Security Education Program (NSEP) David L. Boren Fellowship to study the language Twi in Ghana through the African Languages Flagship Initiative. Congratulations, Leslie!
        -Apr. 25, 2022

 

Congratulations to XE student Helen Stec, who received an NYU Center for the Humanities Digital Humanities Graduate Student Summer Fellowship! This competitive fellowship is designed to allow students to develop unique digital humanities projects over the summer term. 
        -Apr. 22, 2022

XE is thrilled to announce that Emma Heaney will be joining the faculty this fall as a Clinical Assistant Professor. Emma Heaney is a scholar of comparative literature, feminist studies, and trans studies. Her first book, The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory (Northwestern UP, 2017) traces the medicalization of trans femininity and the uptake of the resulting diagnostic in works of literature and theory. Her forthcoming edited collection Feminism Against Cisness gathers essays by trans studies scholars that demonstrate the potential of feminist critique freed of the ideology that assigned sex determines sexed experience. Her current research derives a theory of the transformation of queer and trans identities from works of literature spanning the long twentieth century. Her fiction and essays can be found in the journals Asteri(x) and The Tampa Review.
        -Apr. 11, 2022

Congratulations to XE alum Sookyung "Vero" Chai, who has been selected to receive a 2022 Master's Award for Academic Achievement, which recognizes the most distinguished master's thesis or final project in each discipline. Vero's project is titled "Against Family Values: On Domestic Archives and Public Memories in Visual Art and Cultural Practice."
        -Apr. 8, 2022

XE student Ruqaiyah Zarook was awarded the Fall 2021 Student Writing Fellowship from The Nation magazine. Over the course of the eight-week fellowship, she wrote and published an article for The Nation, titled "Abolish the Debt Sentence," which can be found here.
        -Mar. 23, 2022

Congratulations to the XE Research Award winners! Spring awards are announced in March. This year's recipients include:

  • Seth Majnoon (Fall)
  • Luc Marraffa (Fall)
  • Achille Wangam (Fall)
  • Guillermo Sardi (Spring)
  • Mays Smithwick (Spring)
  • Ruqaiyah Zaroook (Spring)
            -Mar. 22, 2022

 

XE student Ruqaiyah Zarook co-wrote an article about how prison telecom giants profiteered off of incarcerated individuals and their families during the pandemic, titled "How Corporations Turned Prison Tablets Into a Predatory Scheme" which was published in Dissent Magazine and The Appeal.
        -Mar. 10, 2022

In the February 2022 issue of Artforum magazine, Professor Lucy Ives writes about the art of Toyen, a revolutionary and little-known Surrealist. Ives's long essay, "Mythic Being," describes Toyen's gender nonconformity as well as Toyen's engagement with pornography and that which escapes visual representation.
        -Feb. 16, 2022

XE student Sonia Epstein was selected as one of 200 film professionals from 70 countries to participate in the 20th anniversary of Berlinale Talents, the annual talent development platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for outstanding creatives from the field of cinema.
        -Feb. 12, 2022

Director Jennifer Jacquet wrote about new interdisciplinary research using genetic matches and other kinds of data to learn more about trafficking networks in illegal African ivory, released today in Nature Human Behaviour: "Clues to Crime in Ivory DNA."
        -Feb. 10, 2022

 

XE's Director, Professor Jennifer Jacquet, is featured in a New York Times video opinion piece on the power of the American agriculture lobby, and the many damanges it works to conceal. The piece can be viewed here: "Meet the People Getting Paid to Kill our Planet."
        -Feb. 1, 2022

 

Professor Lori Cole will be speaking at the virtual symposium for the exhibition "Surrealism Beyond Borders" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thursday Jan. 20th at 1pm.
        -Jan. 18, 2022