Each year XE admits a diverse and talented group of students. Here is a sampling of our student body:
Students

Research Interests: Philosophy, bioethics, creative writing, literary theory, poetry, poetics, narrative ethics, memory, mythology, the (collective) unconscious
Email: rma9494@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: 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: storytelling, postcolonialism. literary studies, art as resistance, critical theory & pedagogy, diasporic communities & questions of belonging
Email: slb607@nyu.edu
Research Interests: critical theory, storytelling, literature, fragments, language and gender, theories of truth
Email: tzb205@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

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: Visual culture, postcolonial historiography, contemporary art, archival theory and documentation, human rights, and popular culture
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Research Interests: Natural history, experimentation in the arts and sciences of the early modern period, mimesis, cultural exchange, counter-narratives, archival silences, failure.
Email: adc631@nyu.edu

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: 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: 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: 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: Creative writing, literary studies, language acquisition, language equity, gender studies
Email: 97emilyhope@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

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: 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: Critical theory, masculinity, gender and sexuality, class politics, diaspora, cultural production, self-mythologisation, the unconscious, Essex
Email: djl9861@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: Gender and sexuality, critical feminist theories, media studies, beauty and social identity, race and class
Email: emilymasuda@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: comedy, live art, drama therapy, playwriting, the business of art and art of business
Email: kar343@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: 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: 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

Research Interests: Peacemaking and Peacebuilding; Urban violence; interdisciplinarity; social and community psychology; Human Rights.
Email: gs3448@nyu.edu

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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: 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: 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: 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: 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

Research Interests: poetics, modernism, comparative literature, aesthetics, visual culture, religion, place, drama, philology, and philosophy
Email: annwu@nyu.edu
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