Each year XE admits a diverse and talented group of Master's degree candidates. Our students come from a variety of academic backgrounds with a broad range of interests. Here is a sampling of our student body:
Students
Research Interests: the politics of U.S. refugee & asylum policy, post-colonial approaches to refugee rights, reproductive justice, feminist epistemology, urban environmental sustainability, and food justice
Email: ea1007@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Postcolonialism, critical pedagogy, queer theory, gender and sexuality, speculative fiction, literary studies, critical theory, queer anarchism, activism, Gestalt theory, analytical psychology, psychotherapy and mental health
Email: jb6567@nyu.edu
Research interests: literary studies, environmental humanities, critical pedagogy and public scholarship, postcolonial and comparative ethnic studies
Email: sk6048@nyu.edu
Research Interests: critical theory, storytelling, literature, fragments, language and gender, theories of truth
Email: tzb205@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Human Rights, International Studies, Gender Studies, Transnational, Transgender Studies
Email: seb706@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Human Rights, International Relations, Critical Theory, and Gender Topics
Email: nkb318@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Modern American Literature, Critical Theory, Popular Culture, Communication, Literary Analysis, Prose, Journalism, Philosophy of Religion, Human Experience, Psychology, Gender and Queer Theories, Postcolonial Criticism, New Historicism
Email: mlb649@nyu.edu
XE Student Representative
Research Interests: Human Rights Structures of Power and Inequality, Legacies of Slavery, Racial/Ethnic dynamics and Community Building
Email: pab491@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Visual culture, postcolonial historiography, contemporary art, archival theory and documentation, human rights, and popular culture
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Research Interests: Human Rights, Women's Rights, Feminist Movements in Asia, International Diplomacy, Feminism
Email: ad5195@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Storytelling, Chinese Internet Literature, Modernism, Modernity, Feminist Studies, Gender and Technology, Media Studies
Email: buttonsadc@gmail.com
Research Interests: The individual in media and society; history, culture and society of the Arabian Peninsula; humane technologies; psychology; gender and sexuality; storytelling; art and social engagement
Email: mf4110@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: Comedy, Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysics, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Audio Drama, Literary Analysis
Email: cmf585@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Library & Information Science; Digitization; Public History; Curation; Museums; Communication
Email: arg370@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Cultural ascriptions of value, cultural economics, beauty standards, status, ownership
Email: jh5877@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Creative writing, literary studies, language acquisition, language equity, gender studies
Email: 97emilyhope@gmail.com
Research Interests: Cross-culture research, gender studies, pop culture, human rights and digital media
Email: kisumjiang@163.com
Research Interests: adolescent development; arts education; performance; poetry; curriculum development; psychology; healing & mental health; creative writing
Email: tayllorljohnson@gmail.com
Research Interests: literary studies, environmental humanities, critical pedagogy and public scholarship, postcolonial and comparative ethnic studies
Email: sk6048@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Gender and sexuality, critical theory, South Asian and diasporic studies, theatre, disability studies, sustainability, and digital culture
Email: ak4481@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Creative writing, Africana Studies, Gender and Sexuality studies, Metropolitan studies, Comparative Literature, Caribbean studies, French, Media, Culture, and Communication, Inequality and Race Relations, Feminist Theory, Activism
Email: clp390@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, ethnographic film, media studies, ethics of representation, education, gender, anthropology of development, indigenous media, human rights
Email: sm7961@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Literature, Theatre and Performance Studies, Legal Studies, Criminal Justice, Politics, Activist Theory, International Studies, and Music
Email: Jmoniz1145@gmail.com
Research Interests: radio studies, audio production, orality, American literature, multimedia storytelling, race and ethnicity, hegemonic masculinity, cross cultural literacy
Email: bcm734@nyu.edu
XE Student Representative
Research Interests: urban studies, human-environment interaction, public spaces, ethnography
Email: jn1963@nyu.edu
Research Interests: violence, ritual, mimesis, theater, Greek tragedy, mythology, religious studies, science fiction, psychosis, creative writing
Email: ccn245@nyu.edu
Research Interests: comedy, live art, drama therapy, playwriting, the business of art and art of business
Email: kar343@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Thinking the global & race formation, political economy & settler-colonialism, Black studies, practices of failure, parrhesia & governmentality, post-Kantian philosophy, early modern philosophy & the formation of the human, paraontology, theories of the flesh & corporeality, probelmatics of reading, socio-poesis // sociopoetics, French postmodernism, discourses of the end of the world
Email: csr374@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Gender and sexuality studies, Visual culture, Ethics, Aesthetics and Love
Email: mpriosm@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Literature, Philosophy, creative writing, 20th-century literature, 19th-century literature, American literature, the American Novel, aesthetics, feminist literature, queer literature, feminist liberalism, care ethics, queer liberalism
Email: sebastian71195@gmail.com
Editorial Director - Caustic Frolic
Research Interests: Cultural, narrative, and historical theory of Interactive Digital Media (video games), with a current focus on the Kaizo/Super Mario Maker speedrunning community.
Email: nds395@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Latin American Science Fiction Literature, Decolonialism, Nation-building, Utopian Literature, History of Science, Intertextuality, Gothic Romance
Email: vs2160@nyu.edu
Research Interests: factory farming, food systems, sustainable population practice, animal ethics, plant-based public health, education and advocacy
Email: ks5249@nyu.edu
Research Interests: South Asian studies, diaspora communities, human rights, education
Email: isa.spoerry@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Audio-Visual Art, Creativity, Maker Culture, Computation, Digital Humanities.
Email: ht1271@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Historical anthropology, Buddhism, Ethnographic film, legend and folklore, Urban studies, Tibetan and nomadic culture
Email: st3526@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Feminism, Race, Gender, LGBTQ, Human Rights, Digital humanities, Foreign Language studies
Email: anw366@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Creative Writing, Trauma Theory, Illness and Injury, Literature, Popular Culture
Email: weills01@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Inequality; Public Policy; Human Rights; International Studies; Socio-economics; and Sociology, specifically related to low-income, and sexual and domestic violence survivors in relation to U.S. policies.
Email: aw3798@nyu.edu