Each year XE admits a diverse and talented group of students. Here is a sampling of our student body:
Students
Research Interests: Italian studies, gender studies, Iabor studies, Italian labor feminism.
Email: aa8805@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Advocate for educational equity, enact positive change through research, motivation, and practice with the students. Enact positive change through research, motivation, and practice with the students. Bring more exposure to Paraguayan History and the production of cultural art, film, and literature that analyzes the intersections of Race, Power, and Lived experiences. Make significant contributions to historical memory, cultural studies, and the U.S. Latina/o/e/x Transnational Border Studies.
Email: dda8357@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Art & Communication, social theory, new technologies & digital communities, bioethics, climate change, consumer’s psychology & behavior, ecology
Email: aaa9814@nyu.edu
Research Interests: literary theory, social justice, creative writing, critical race theory, feminist theory, postcolonialism, belonging, diasporic relationships and communities, and human rights.
Email: rb5035@nyu.edu
Research interests: environmental art, climate justice through museums practice, climate resiliency in the art world, science fiction, ecopoetics, climate migration, ecofeminism, pollution materialities, speculative design, materialities of waste and pollution, internet culture
Email: eb3214@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Psychology of visual experience, aesthetics, memory and attention, art history and theory, philosophy of art, data science, machine perception, AR/VR
Email: adb8485@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Discard studies, performance, material culture, literary translation, art in the public and municipal spheres, autofiction and representation, Christian mysticism, theories of space and place, the city, the public humanities.
Email: kgd6512@nyu.edu
Research Interests: media studies, media histories, representation studies, globalization, gender and sexuality studies, Latinx studies, disability studies, language, culture, questions of identity, television writing, creative writing, genre fiction.
Email: mcd488@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Gender and Sexuality, LGBTQ and Queer Theories, Feminist Studies, Masculinity, Homoerotic and Bromance, Popular Culture and Entertainment Industry, Post-Socialist China’s film, television and screen culture, Chinese Studies, East Asian Studies, and Human Rights
Email: kd1758@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Environmental humanities, ecocriticism, natural history, environmental science, narrative (fiction and non-fiction writing), historical and cultural perspectives, post-colonialism, contemporary American Indian and American literatures, legend and myth, science and technology, poetry and screenwriting.
Email: jf3965@nyu.edu
Research Interests: contemporary art, performance, VR / AR / XR, interspecies relationships, queer ecology, science communication, science engagement, museum studies.
Email: juan@museodelhongo.cl
Research Interests: political science, decolonial studies, indigenous studies, Latin American studies, participatory media, transformative media, science and technology studies, queer and feminist studies, democracy, populism, authoritarianism, human rights, activism
Email: sg6898@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Social History, Immigration Community Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Historical Geography, Media and Cultural Studies, Pop Culture.
Email: yi.he@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Literature, poetry, psychology, neuroscience, art, cosmology, climate change, mental chronometry, futurism, superdeterminism, and the metaverse.
Email: hh2972@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Cross-culture research, gender studies, pop culture, human rights and digital media
Email: kisumjiang@163.com
Research Interests: Types of social immorality, social morality and ethics, justice, political philosophy, pro-social psychopathy.
Email: hj2249@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Literary Theory, 20th-century French Literature
Email: elifnaz.kayhan@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Writing, creative writing, storytelling, genre fiction, speculative fiction, comic studies, editing, literature, literary theory, feminist theory, queer theory, art history, digital art, and graphic design.
Email: eak9875@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Critical theory, masculinity, gender and sexuality, class politics, diaspora, cultural production, self-mythologisation, the unconscious, Essex
Email: djl9861@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Low culture, the carnivalesque, chain restaurants, porn studies, media ontologies, theme parks as media architectures, game studies, house and techno dance cultures.
Email: ibl2801@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Marxism, Capitalist Realism, Post//Hypermodernism, Digital Culture, Semiotics, Pop Culture, Masculinity, 20th Century American Literature
Email: nathanluckhurst@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Modern Politics, Popular Culture, Journalism, Feminist Theory, Gender Power Dynamics, Media Studies
Email: dam9973@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, migration studies, diaspora, cultural adaptation, Korean minorities, visual studies, design anthropology, social design, the art and social engagement, ethnographic film, cinema studies, documentary practice, photography.
Email: dgm8590@nyu.edu
Research Interests: qualitative sociology, ethnography, nationalism, racial formation, intergenerational trauma, feminist theory, diaspora studies, migration studies, imagined communitites, gender and sexuality, racial and ethnic relations, constructions of whiteness
Email: srm9558@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Curatorial Practice, Artivism, Interdisciplinary Performance, Art and Politics, Museum Studies, Psychology of Art, Art History.
Email: kn2245@nyu.edu
Reasearch Interests: Creative writing, storytelling, queer theory, gender and sexuality, fiction, literature, surrealism, feminist studies, identity, popular culture, critical theory, art history, graphic design.
Email: ljo6425@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Political and libidinal economies of the U.S. carceral state, histories of capitalist development and anti-capitalist struggle, social reproduction theory
Email: matthew.perry@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Diaspora, migration studies, decolonization, critical theory, cultural memory, identity politics, cultural pluralism, historiography, sociocultural anthropology, peacebuilding, cultural heritage, public humanities, community-based participatory research, community outreach, museum studies.
Email: ep2989@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Mass media and popular culture, narratives about culture and identity, racial formations in US history and culture, and migration
Email: rtr270@nyu.edu
Research interests: History of the web, online communities, fans & fandom, affinity cultures, genre fiction, the digital commons, transformative works, digital archives & preservation, transmedia & immersive narratives, popular music, the entertainment industry, gender and sexuality, digital anthropology, 19th-century culture and fashion, polar exploration, new media
Email: amr895@nyu.edu
Research Interests: humor studies; film and media studies; critical theory and philosophy; performance theory; feminist and queer theory; narrative studies; fiction writing and screenwriting; art criticism; popular culture studies; aesthetics and politics.
Email: mps10016@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Science Fantasy, Genre Fiction, Literary Fiction, Medieval Literature, Global Digital Culture, Media Studies, American Studies, Gay Rights in Asia, Cultural Relativism, Skepticism, Universalism, Orwellianism, Pluralism, Formalism, New Historicism, American Exceptionalism.
Email: js12290@nyu.edu
Research Interests: American studies, archival theory, history of print culture, feminist theory, literary studies, and digital humanities.
Email: helen.stec@nyu.edu
Research Interests: critical interventions against white supremacy, philosophy & intellectual history, critical accounts of identity & consciousness formation, James Baldwin's corpus, and theories of liberation.
Email: rms9423@nyu.edu
Research Interests: religious studies; Jewish, Christian, and Muslim interrelations; peacebuilding; Late Aniquity in the Near East; the study of Sacred texts and rituals throughout various religious traditions; social action; human rights; social justice; culture; cultural anthropology; race and ethnicity; racism in American Christianity.
Email: lav6861@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Photography, American history, environmental justice, immigration, sustainability, documentary film, and the Science of Happiness
Email: tim.vassallo1@gmail.com
Research Interests: Media Studies, Digital Humanities, Cross-Cultural Research, Popular Culture, Sociology of Culture
Email: wangbingyansq@163.com
Research Interests: Creative writing, gender and sexuality studies, communism, feminism, Chinese history, sex workers' rights, activism, digital humanities, queer literature, Asian American diaspora, Chinese American history, post-colonialism, journalism, social justice and activism in contemporary china, mass media.
Email: winifred.dongyi.wang@gmail.com
Research Interests: poetics, modernism, comparative literature, aesthetics, visual culture, religion, place, drama, philology, and philosophy
Email: annwu@nyu.edu
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Research Interests: New Media and Network Communication, Contemporary Popular Network Culture, Critical School of Communication, Communication Management and Cultural Industry, Chinese Internet Literature, Chinese Pre-Qin Literature, and Feminist Studies
Email: wz2089@nyu.edu