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: 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: 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: 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: 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