Each year XE admits a diverse and talented group of students. Here is a sampling of our student body:
Students
Research Interests: Italian-American literature, Italian-American studies, gender studies, queer studies, Italian language, Italian culture, Italian studies.
Email: aa8805@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Critical theory, queer theory, gender and sexuality, story telling, language, theater and performance studies, cultural anthropology, contemporary art, pop culture, feminist studies, the art of the subversive.
Email: jda8839@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: storytelling, postcolonialism. literary studies, art as resistance, critical theory & pedagogy, diasporic communities & questions of belonging
Email: slb607@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: 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
Research Interests: Historiography, Ancient History, Intellectual History, Religious Studies, Philosophy, Literary Theory, Critical Theory, Philology, Human Rights, Museum Studies.
Email: moc9485@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: Identity formation, feminist theory, mental health, education, screenwriting, critical film studies, and storytelling
Email: md3833@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: Storytelling, creative writing, gender studies, disability studies, neurodiversity, autism, psycholinguistics
Email: gjh7947@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Queer theory, gender and sexuality, critical theory, communications
Email: taylorbhollister@gmail.com
Research Interests: settler colonialism, imperialism, decolonization, critical race theory, afro pessimism, diaspora studies, and indigenious studies.
Email: atj6544@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
Reasearch Interests: inequality and stratification, anthropology, food studies, religion, ethnography, ethnotheatre, education and social change, curriculum development
Email: nk3062@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Gender Studies, Feminist and Queer Theory, Literary Theory, 20th-century French Literature
Email: elifnaz.kayhan@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: Modern Politics, Popular Culture, Journalism, Feminist Theory, Gender Power Dynamics, Media Studies
Email: dam9973@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Contemporary continental philosophy, decolonial thought, critical theory, classical music, queer theory, French theory, creolisation, détournement, subversive reappropriations, fugitivity, hegemony, cultural imperialism, creative writing, afrofuturism, radical politics
Email: lmm8671@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Philosophy, meta-ethics, applied ethics, Ancient Egyptian/Greek/Roman history and mythology, American Revolution/Native American history, story telling, speculative fiction, world-building, character development, piano playing, music, martial arts and PC gaming.
Email: sm7003@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Puerto Rican culture and diaspora studies, Caribbean visual cultures, comic studies, media studies, Latinx literature, storytelling, postcolonial historiography.
Email: km4118@nyu.edu
Research Interests: feminist theories of sacrifice, transing religion, bodily practices and embodied knowledges, liberation theology, religious power structures, collaborative/community-based research models.
Email: fmm7771@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: Curatorial Practice, Artivism, Interdisciplinary Performance, Art and Politics, Museum Studies, Psychology of Art, Art History.
Email: kn2245@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Violence, ritual, mimesis, theater, Greek tragedy, mythology, religious studies, science fiction, psychosis, creative writing
Email: ccn245@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: Critical theory; queer theory; gender and transgender studies; feminist science and technology studies; questions of belonging, identity, and language; theories of flesh and corporeality; poetry and poetics
Email: ejp9769@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Speculative and genre fiction, community- engaged participatory research, archaeology, cartography, intentional communities, the material record, human/ landscape relationships.
Email: map746@nyu.edu
Research Interests: U.S. carceral state, prison abolition, histories of capitalism, digital media studies.
Email: matthew.perry@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: Peacemaking and Peacebuilding; Urban violence; interdisciplinarity; social and community psychology; Human Rights.
Email: gs3448@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: journalism, transformative justice, gender identity, LGBTQIA rights, international human rights, family systems, storytelling, queer theory, unsettling colonialism, non-fiction narrative, southern identity, poetry, communal archival practices and documentation, the effects of bereavement
Email: bvs252@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: avant-garde, ecopoetics, confessional poetry, Dadaism, fluxus, Futurism, Bauhaus, abjection and bothering in cinema, gender/sexuality/queer/feminist theory, questions of authority, international relations, Judaic studies, the womxn’s/mothering body as a narrative, multimedia
Research Interests: Critical Race Theory, Black Studies, Antiracism, Anticapitalism, Social Justice, Socioeconomic Equity, Reproductive Justice, Obstetric Racism, Birth Justice, Contemporary Literature, Feminist Studies.
Emails: sarahvaldez4444@gmail.com, smv9062@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: Comparative literature, poetry, creative writing, feminism, body politics, journalism, social inequality and stigma
Email: hdv211@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: Feminism, Race, Gender, LGBTQ, Human Rights, Digital humanities, Foreign Language studies
Email: anw366@nyu.edu
Research Interests: Media Studies, Digital Humanities, Cross-Cultural Research, Popular Culture, Sociology of Culture
Email: wangbingyansq@163.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